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Lakehead University

Lakehead University is a comprehensive, research-intensive university with an enrollment of over 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students across its two campuses, located in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario. Over the last 20 years, it has seen a 138% increase in external research funding, and in 2022, was the highest-ranked university with fewer than 10,000 students […]

Membership

Membership in Research Impact Canada (RIC) helps your institution become successful in the emerging field of mobilization and creates opportunities for collaboration and leadership. Learn more about our members, who each have unique specialties such as: institutional strategy, rural and remote community engagement, certification programs, local community partnerships, and more. Benefits for Organizations Benefits for […]

RIC Award

The Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students (RIC Award) recognizes graduate students that conduct research projects following engaged scholarship principles. These principles lead to increased awareness of audiences beyond academia or changes in stakeholder actions, practices, guidelines or policies. This award recognizes engaged scholarship (“making research with the people who benefit from […]

Congratulations to our very first cohort of RIC Engaged Scholarship Award winners!

The Research Impact Canada (RIC) Engaged Scholarship Award for Graduate Students recognizes graduate students that conduct research projects following engaged scholarship principles that lead to increased awareness of audiences beyond academia or changes in stakeholder actions, practices, guidelines, or policies. We’re thrilled that this year’s winners of the RIC award will be presenting their […]

Fostering Research Collaborations Training Toolkit

On February 26, 2020, the UBC Knowledge Exchange Unit offered a workshop entitled Fostering Research Collaborations at the Graduate and Postgraduate Levels to UBC graduate students and postdocs to help develop their skills in knowledge exchange. The workshop was provided in partnership with the UBC Public Scholars Initiative, a program that supports graduate students to […]

Impact Literacy Workbook

This workbook helps those understand how impact works and how to connect research work in meaningful ways. This focuses on integrating impact at any stage of the research process, and may be most applicable for scientists, applied researchers, graduate students, or non-academic partners. The section on identifying stakeholders and beneficiaries on page 8 was found […]

Mobilize YU

The Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University is pleased to announce a new 8-week course focused on knowledge mobilization called Mobilize YU. Participants will learn about knowledge mobilization planning, effective ways to share academic research with society and how to measure and communicate the impacts of their research. Knowledge Mobilization Unit staff, along with guest […]

RIC and NABI in Dialogue to Strengthen International Cooperation

In times when political and economic international cooperation are increasingly important, the scientific community, universities, and support networks such as NABI (National Alliance for Broader Impacts, in USA) and RIC (Research Impact Canada- Réseau Impact Recherche Canada) based in Canada), have expressed our continuous interest to collaborate, partner, learn, and share best practices across borders. […]

Sick Kids Learning Institute

Sick Kids Learning Institute: A well-developed knowledge translation (KT) plan is often a proposal requirement for health research funding agencies in Canada and abroad. In addition, various sectors are demonstrating greater attention to the utilization and impact of research. The Scientist Knowledge Translation Training (SKTT™) workshop was developed on the premise that scientists, and increasingly, […]

Knowledge Mobilization Panel in Washington, D.C. : March 14, 2018

This week’s guest post comes from Jennifer Rhodes, Program Manager of Knowledge Mobilization Initiatives at Arizona State University. The Arizona State University Graduate College, in partnership with the Council of Graduate Schools, invite you to attend a unique Knowledge Mobilization event in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, March 14th, from 8-10 a.m., for the grand opening […]