We are proud to share that faculty at the International Executive School have collaborated with researchers at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and Sharda University, India, on a new study published in Culture & Psychology.
The study explores how sugarcane workers in Guyana experience occupational health and safety governance, and what those experiences reveal about the relationship between culture, working conditions, and psychological wellbeing. It finds that inadequate protection, suppressed worker voice, and unrecognised psychological distress are not just policy failures but are shaped by the cultural worlds in which these workers live and labour.
The research makes a strong case that culturally grounded approaches to occupational health are not supplementary considerations but preconditions of meaningful worker protection.
We congratulate the research team and are proud to see the International Executive School represented in scholarship that takes seriously the voices of workers who are too rarely heard.
