JOHN JONES SCHOLAR IN
WORKERS’ COMPENSATION RESEARCH

Applications are currently being accepted for the John Jones Scholar in Workers’ Compensation Research. The goal of the award is to stimulate interest in workers’ compensation research among researchers. The John Jones Scholar will receive a grant of $10,000. The application deadline is February 1, 2005. The award is expected to be made by April 1, 2005, for the 12 months beginning September 1, 2005.

BACKGROUND:

This award was created by the Workers Compensation Research Institute’s (WCRI) Board of Directors to recognize the many important contributions of John Jones, one of the founders of WCRI. As Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Wausau Insurance Companies, John was a WCRI Board member from 1983 through 1998. He served in numerous leadership positions at WCRI, including Chairman of the Board of Directors, and helped to shape the success of the Institute in many ways. Throughout his service to WCRI, which continues today, he has embodied the Institute’s core values: the importance of unbiased, credible, practical and useful public policy research.

ABOUT WCRI:

The Workers Compensation Research Institute is an independent, not for profit research organization providing high quality, objective information about public policy issues involving workers’ compensation systems. The reports and testimony of WCRI act as a catalyst for constructive change in improving workers’ compensation systems throughout the U.S. and internationally. In the twenty years since the Institute was organized, WCRI has published over 125 books on a wide variety of important workers’ compensation issues. As the Institute’s reputation for objectivity has grown, more policy makers are looking to the Institute as a source of information to help them make informed decisions about legislation and administrative change.

OBJECTIVE:

To stimulate interest in workers’ compensation research and facilitate creation of important, new, publishable research.

REQUIREMENTS:

• No experience with workers’ compensation research  necessary.

• Discipline in economics, law, statistics, public health, public policy or other social sciences.

• Available to university faculty or graduate students, researchers in government or research organizations, and researchers in private companies or labor organizations.

• May be used for new research projects, to expand the scope of a current research project, for doctoral dissertation support or for a Scholar-in-Residence at WCRI in Cambridge, MA .

TOPICS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST INCLUDE:

• Medical treatment guidelines

• Return to work

• Benefit adequacy and equity

• Reducing litigation

• Evaluating the design of PPD systems

DATA:

Scholar-in-Residence may access WCRI’s extensive database for his or her research.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

• Policy significance of the proposed work.

• Feasibility of conducting proposed research within stated timeframes and resources.

• Contribution to knowledge base.

• Likelihood of publication.

• Synergy with other WCRI work.

Applicants proposing to spend time at WCRI offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts or intending to publish research results as a WCRI report will be given preference. However, this is not a requirement.

QUESTIONS:

Contact Linda Carrubba at WCRI by telephone( 617-661-9274, ext. 245) or email (lcarrubba@wcrinet.org).

TO APPLY:

Send completed application to:
Linda Carrubba
Workers Compensation Research Institute
955 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA   02139