Videos
Watch short explainers, study updates, and full webinar recordings from the Workers’ Voice project.
What is the Workers’ Voice study?
Why did we create the Workers’ Voice study?
Return to Work Matters webinar (June 2025)
This presentation will provide an overview of the project, summary of findings and progress to date, and identify emerging implications for scheme design and administration.
Phase 1 – Listening to Injured Workers’
Phase 2 – Computational Modelling used in the Workers’ Voice project
Phase 3 – Testing Soutions
December 2024 – Mid-Study Update
We’re halfway through the study. In this video Professor Alex Collie explains what we’ve achieved so far and what’s ahead for 2025.
This video presents information about the study, what it is, why we are doing it, and what are the phases within it.
What is computer modelling?
This video presents a brief, easy to understand overview, of what computer modeling is and how it can help us.
Webinar: ‘Empowering Voices – Lived Experience in Health and Safety Research Design’
Embedding lived experience into research is increasingly recognised as a crucial element in producing meaningful, impactful, and ethically sound policy outcomes. This ISCRR Learning Series webinar delves into the invaluable insights that lived experience advisors bring to the field.
This event featured an in-depth interview with Grainne Cruickshank, a seasoned Lived Experience Advisor from the Workers’ Voice study, who shared her motivations for dedicating her time and expertise to this vital role, as well as insights from Professor Alex Collie and Dr Elizabeth Pritchard from the Healthy Working Lives Research Group.
Turning Point Addiction Treatment, Research and Education Webinar
Presented by Professor Alex Collie on 10th June 2026
This session provides an overview of the rationale, methods and findings of the ARC funded Workers’ Voice Project. This project aims to re-imagine the design and operation of workers’ compensation in Australia, from a lived experience perspective. The study is motivated by decades of research showing that engagement with workers’ compensation systems has adverse mental health consequences for many injured workers.
The study has developed extensive insights into injured persons experiences of workers’ compensation, participant informed solutions for policy and practice reform, and developed computational models of workers compensation systems in which to test policy and practice reform.
Professor Collie reviews the evidence supporting the assertion that Australian workers’ compensation systems cause harm to injured workers. Professor Collie describes solutions for policy and practice reform proposals designed by injured workers to improve system outcomes and minimise harm.
Re-imagining workers’ compensation from a lived experience perspective