Multiple sclerosis and academic work: Socio‐spatial strategies adopted to maintain employment

Enabling University Teaching for Canadian Academics with Multiple Sclerosis through Problem-Focused Coping

“…It serves as an important contribution to identifying therapeutic interventions that can be developed to assist people with MS with remaining in the workplace. The findings also demonstrate the value of considering the specific workplace environment and employment context when offering therapeutic interventions to chronically ill workers (see also Crooks, Stone, & Owen, 2009). …”

A systematic review of research undertaken in vocational rehabilitation for people with multiple sclerosis

“…These include reducing hours/part-time working/flexible working/working at home [8,17,21,29,87,92,96,97,102], changes to occupational environment [8,19,37,71,102] including job modification and technological support and access to resources [102].…”

Challenging conceptualisations of work: Revisiting contemporary experiences of return to work and unemployment

“…Conceptualisations of return-to-work and unemployment have received less attention in occupational science and occupational therapy literature than the topic of work. Literature concerning return-to-work has primarily focused on a poor fit between employee abilities and the demands of work (Jakobsen, 2004(Jakobsen, , 2009, difficulties adapting to a (new) worker role (Soeker, 2011), expectations and conditions for return to work (Bergmark et al, 2011;Holmlund, Guidetti et al, 2018;Holmlund, Hultling, & Asaba, 2018), struggles adapting to (new) routines and travel to maintain employment (Crooks et al, 2009;Soeker, 2011), and intervention studies (Öst-Nilsson et al, 2017(Öst-Nilsson et al, , 2019. Studies concerned with unemployment have largely focused on its negative consequences for people's sense of identity, well-being, and belonging (Crooks et al, 2009;Jakobsen, 2004;Stone, 2003) and the ways in which it presents a significant disruption to opportunities for achieving health through occupation (Wright Vos et al, 2019).…”