Profile

Alessia Negrini has been a researcher in the field of occupational health psychology at the IRSST since 2012. She is also an associate professor at the School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Université de Sherbrooke, and an  associate researcher at the Centre de recherche CSSS Champlain—Charles-Le Moyne and, since 2019, at the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (CR-IUSMM). Ms. Negrini has research expertise on the return to work and employment retention of workers in vulnerable situations due to age and health status. She has in-depth knowledge of quantitative methodology. The results of her studies, which are conducted following the Positive Psychology approach, make it possible to evaluate psychosocial factors in order to prevent work disabilities and maintain OHS conditions that promote worker health.

• Team: Research Department
• Research field: Occupational Rehabilitation, OSH and Sustainable Prevention Work Environment

Expertise

• Occupational health psychology
• Return to work and employment retention of older workers
• Return to work and employment retention of workers with a psychological or physical health problem
• Multivariate statistical analyses
• Validation of measurement instruments (translation, adaptation and cross-cultural and cross-population validation)

Professional orders and other affiliations

• Associate Professor at École de réadaptation de la Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé de l’Université de Sherbrooke
• Research Associate of the Centre de recherche CSSS Champlain—Charles-Le Moyne
• Research Associate of the Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (CR-IUSMM)
• International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
• Société québécoise de psychologie du travail et des organisations (SQPTO)
• Association Internationale de Psychologie du Travail de Langue Française (AIPTLF)
• European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP)
• European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP)
• Réseau provincial de recherche en adaptation-réadaptation (REPAR)
• Réseau pour la Réintégration au travail des personnes avec un trouble mental (RETRAME)
• Member of the scientific board of the PhD Program "Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience" of the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)