GROCER-HP Study

Publications and Conferences

• Canadian Association of Geographers: Essential Work in Policy: Understanding National and Provincial Legislation’s Effect on Canadian Grocery Store Workers throughout COVID-19 (May 2025, Ottawa, Canada)
• American Association of Geographers: Essential Work in the News: Understanding News Media Coverage of Canadian Grocery Store Workers throughout COVID-19 (March 2025, Detroit, USA) 
• Overvelde, A., McEachern, L., & Gilliland, J. (2024). Investigating food retail workers’ experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case of effort-reward imbalance. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 21(8), 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/15459624.2024.2358169
• Overvelde, A. (2023). Investigating the Effects of Pandemic Related Workplace Changes on the Wellbeing of Ontario’s Food Hospitality and Food Retail Employees. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/9435/
• Overvelde, A., McEachern, L., Wray, A., & Gilliland, J. (2023). The workplace as a therapeutic landscape: Understanding the effects of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of food hospitality employees. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100334
• International Medical Geography Symposium: COVID-19, and Food Hospitality Workplaces: A Therapeutic Landscape Interrupted (June 2022, Edinburgh, Scotland) 
• Canadian Association of Geographers: COVID-19 as a Transformative Force on Employee Wellbeing in Food Hospitality Workplaces  (May 2022, Virtual)
• Canadian Association of Food Studies: COVID-19 as an Inequitable Transformative Force in Food Hospitality Workplaces  (May 2022, Virtual)

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