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Week One of Youth Diabetes Camp – Interview with Dr. Michael Riddell

Posted on July 28, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The first week of the Youth Type 1 Diabetes Sports Camp, York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit interviewed Prof. Michael Riddell, asking him about some of his reasons and motivations for starting this camp. We also began to learn more about what the camp is all about. Dr. Riddell was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of […]

Clear Language Revolution

Posted on July 13, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Well maybe not a revolution but certainly an evolution. An evolution towards making research accessible to a variety of extra-academic decision makers through the use of clear language. We thought we were being oh so clever 2 years ago when we “piloted” clear language research summaries see our blog from May 2009. We are proud […]

Way to go Environment Canada – who knew?

Posted on July 5, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Remember when we told you how surprised we were to learn about the body of KMb related literature arising from the field of environmental policy? No? My how you forget! What were you doing on July 13, 2009 (almost one year ago)? Like other faithful readers of Mobilize This! You were likely reading our story […]

Reflections on the G20: KMb, open access and your top KMb-20

Posted on June 23, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

I live in Toronto. The G20 starts in 4 days so today I became a G20 security tourist. I wanted to see for myself what we had been seeing on the news for the last couple of weeks. I saw police. I saw wire fences and concrete girders. I saw, from a distance, some of […]

Reflections on our National KMb Network

Posted on June 16, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

I have been very fortunate to work in York’s KMb Unit since February 2006. While we had worked hard over the first four years to build a credible service unit at York, and support the infrastructure for a national knowledge mobilization network, it is the past two months that demonstrate to me that ResearchImpact (Réseau […]

Postcards from Congress: Day 1 – ResearchImpact is Number 1 at Congress!

Posted on May 30, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

What Happened: ResearchImpact-Réseau Impact Recherche (RI-RIR) is exhibiting for the 4th year at Congress at the Bookfair. Among the 53 exhibitors that are located throughout Concordia, we have been assigned booth #1, and enjoy a premium location adjacent to the participant registration desk. Why is it important: Exhibiting at Congress is extremely important to the […]

York responds to the knowledge mobilization evaluation

Posted on May 28, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Like most service units York’s Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit counts lots of stuff. We count every presentation we make according to the audience, we count numbers of requests for service, we count students, web hits, tweets, students engaged with non-academic research stakeholders and, of course, we count money. What has this shown? We’ve brokered over […]

United Way? United Wow!

Posted on May 6, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

On April 26 and 27 the United Way of York Region (UWYR) and York University hosted their counterparts from St. John’s, Montreal (UQAM), Guelph, Saskatoon and Victoria. This represented the first time the ResearchImpact universities met and was an ideal opportunity to invite our UW partners. Some of us (York, Victoria, Guelph) have established strong […]

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