Membership

October 2024: Research Impact Canada is currently pausing accepting new member applications.

Stay tuned for new guidelines in 2025.

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

  • Visibility among leaders serving as a national advocacy voice for knowledge mobilization practice
  • Participation in our inclusive community of practice that includes 20+ university institutions and several national non-academic organizations
  • Access to knowledge mobilization centres of expertise for regional and/or provincial collaboration
  • Cooperative knowledge sharing of best practices, tools, and resources
  • Opportunity for graduate students to apply for RIC scholarship programs
  • Involvement in national initiatives that raise the profile of knowledge mobilization
  • Enhanced ability to maximize research impact at your organization with your local communities

Benefits for Individuals

  • Access to tools for public engagement, grant applications, research partnerships, and more
  • Participating in collaborative research opportunities from national organizations
  • Connections with research impact practitioners in your field or work function to support your work
  • Invitations to member-only events, training, webinars, and programs
  • Invitation to RIC´s Annual Meeting
  • Enhanced ability to serve the knowledge mobilization needs of faculty members and students

Not Your Typical Annual Meeting

Research Impact Canada hosts an annual meeting for our members as an opportunity to connect, exchange ideas and resources, and imagine initiatives and priorities for Research Impact Canada’s future. It’s become one of our most well-received activities. 

We plan a robust agenda, with workshops, guest speakers, and opportunities for network members to showcase and share their work within their own institutions. See an example here. 

Curious about what our members think? Check out the Evaluation Reports about our Annual Meetings.

Learn more

Read the Reports:

RIC Annual Meeting 2024
RIC Annual Meeting 2022
RIC Annual Meeting 2021
RIC Annual Meeting 2020

Agendas:

RIC Annual Meeting 2024
RIC Annual Meeting 2023
RIC Annual Meeting 2022
RIC Annual Meeting 2021

Member Welcome Kit

Are you a new member to RIC? Take a look at our Welcome Kit!

View Welcome Kit

Current members

Click on a member below to view their profile.

  • Athabasca University Logo
  • Bishop's University logo
  • LSBU Logo
  • Ontario Shores Logo
  • Simon Fraser University Logo
  • U of Alberta logo
  • U of Brighton logo
  • University Of Calgary Logo
  • University of Ottawa Logo
  • University of Regina Logo
  • U of Saskatchewan logo
  • University of Waterloo Logo
  • U of Winnipeg logo

Interested in being a member?

First, contact David Phipps, York University’s Assistant Vice-President of Research Strategy and Impact and RIC Network Director, at dphipps@yorku.ca for a meeting. Then complete the New Member Application Package.

What our members are saying

RIC provides useful tools, webinars, blog posts, newsletters that help to stay abreast of the burgeoning field of knowledge mobilization. In addition to the quality of its activities, what hooks me to this network is the community behind it. The network is a safe and dynamic platform for testing ideas, discussing mistakes, seeking advice from other members. It’s like having access to a brain trust of knowledge mobilization advisors!
There is more Knowledge Mobilization activity at the University of Winnipeg, which is directly related to our membership in Research Impact Canada. It makes me better at my job when I can get out and share what I have learned with people here on campus.
RIC has been great for finding different pathways for all of us across campus to work together, and we’ve also certainly, in the last year, pioneered some shared training opportunities on campus.