Mois : septembre 2009

York’s Special Research Edition of YorkU Magazine Looks Back on KM as We Look Forward to More

Publié le par Connie Tang

Last week York published its special Research Edition of York U, the magazine of York University. This edition of YorkU features many stories of only a few of the great researchers we have at York but KM was up front and personal. KM was featured in the welcome from VP Research & Innovation, Stan Shapson […]

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It’s KM in the AM Season – the hunt for collaboration

Publié le par Connie Tang

Wow, hard to imagine we are entering the fourth academic year for York’s popular, flagship program, KM in the AM.  September 25, bright and early, saw the launch of the first event of this year on Chronic Disease Management (CDM).  Key collaborators who led this event are Dr. Sherry Grace (Faculty of Health and Research […]

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What’s old is new again – test your knowledge about knowledge systems

Publié le par Connie Tang

Many of us think that KM (KT/KE/KTE/KI/KMb… whatever) is an emerging discipline.  It may be an emerging academic discipline but the practice isn’t new.  Jonathan Lomas [Brit Med J (2007) 334:129] reports that KM-like networks of industry and academics were active in the German dye industry in the late 1800s (side bar, this might have […]

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One Giant (Annual) Leap for York’s KM Unit

Publié le par Connie Tang

The following is a guest blog from Jason Guriel. A Research Assistant in the Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University, Jason works to summarize and communicate the results of York research. He is also a PhD Candidate in English at York and has published two collections of poems. Working with the Knowledge Mobilization (KM) Unit […]

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New Grad Course at UVic “goes social” with Local NGO Content

Publié le par Connie Tang

The UVic KM Unit is excited to announce that UVic Graduate Studies will be offering a new Interdisciplinary Research Practicum course for graduate students that will give students an opportunity to work with NGO’s in Victoria, BC on research questions identified by front-line social service providers. Modeled after the very successful GS 500 Interdisciplinary Graduate […]

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ResearchImpact presents at Living Knowledge 2009, Queen’s University, Belfast

Publié le par Connie Tang

On August 28, I had the chance to present on behalf of ResearchImpact at the poster session of the 4th Living Knowledge Conference held at Queen’s University in Belfast. The conference brought together academics, funders, staff and students engaged in community based research, knowledge mobilization and Science Shops from 17 countries. Our poster addressed the one […]

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KM into My Future

Publié le par Connie Tang

The following is a guest blog posting from YorkU 4th year undergraduate student Andrei Sedoff. Andrei has worked in the YorkU KM Unit for the past 2 summers and throughout the academic year and has worked on the development of our clear language research summaries, which can be found on our web site here. Being […]

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Social Innovation – What Does this Mean?

Publié le par Connie Tang

A week or so ago we sent out a request for alternatives to « Social Innovation » as the output of knowledge mobilization. Faculty, knowledge brokers and community partners responded.  Since knowledge mobilization supports relationships between researchers and non-academic research stakeholders (community, voluntary, government and private sectors) the term “social innovation” failed to embrace some of the […]

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