About
Kathryn Woodcock is Associate Professor in the School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University, teaching and researching in the area of safety and ergonomics. She previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses in industrial engineering and ergonomics at Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf and the University of Waterloo. Outside the academic world, she managed the Performance Benchmarks and Analysis Section of the Best Practices Branch at the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) of Ontario, and prior to PhD studies, she was a hospital vice-president and active in the Ontario health care sector (1980–1990).
Dr. Woodcock studies occupational safety from a
macroergonomic perspective, investigating the measurement
of safety and accident prevention interventions. Her
areas of research interest are dissemination of health
and safety knowledge, health and safety
problem-solving/reasoning, and safety measurement and
evaluation. She also applies ergonomics to access issues
for deaf and hard of hearing people. She is also an adjunct adjunct scientist of the Institute for Work and
Health, adjunct professor of Systems Design
Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and a member
of the Board of Governors of Centennial College in
Toronto. Dr. Woodcock is a registered Professional
Engineer, and member of Association of Canadian
Ergonomists, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and
the International Society for Industrial Ergonomics and
Safety Research. She has served on the HFAC (ACE)
Executive Council and other professional committees and
has presented many papers in the field. She was the first
deaf president of The Canadian Hearing Society, and has
been active on a variety of boards and councils including
the Association of Late-Deafened Adults (ALDA), the Human
Factors Association of Canada, the Ontario Council of
Regents for Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, and
the National Captioning Institute. Dr.
Woodcock has received awards for community service,
advocacy, and voluntarism, including the Ontario Medal
for Good Citizenship, the Citizenship Award from the
Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the
Outstanding Alumni Medal from the University of Waterloo
Faculty of Engineering. She has also been recognized by
the Association of Late-Deafened Adults, the Ontario
Association of the Deaf, and the International Alumnae of
Delta Epsilon (Gallaudet University). She
became the first deaf woman to receive a doctorate in
engineering in 1996. She earned her PhD from the
University of Toronto; she previously received
bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Systems
Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Me on TV: Behind the scenes at the “famous” commercial
Last revised: December 21, 2005.
Photo credit: Larry Miller,
Toronto.
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