Connie Tang, Author at Research Impact Canada

There Are No New Ideas Part 1: Scholarship and Social Agitation

Posted on July 27, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

In this blog series I visit some old (and I mean old) literature to illustrate how ideas of knowledge mobilization and research impact have very deep roots. Part 1 looks at a paper from 1896 (yes, 120 years ago) making the case that social science scholars have an obligation to create impacts beyond the academy. […]

Mobilising Knowledge to Improve UK Health Care: Learning From Other Countries and Other Sectors

Posted on July 24, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

Davies, H. T. O., Powell, A. E. & Nutley, S. M. (2015). Mobilising knowledge to improve UK health care: Learning from other countries and other sectors – a multimethod mapping study. Health Services and Delivery Research, 3(27). www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/146766/FullReport-hsdr03270.pdf Abstract Background: The past two decades have seen rich conceptual development and a wide variety of practical […]

ResearchImpact-Réseau Impact Recherche Journal Club

Posted on July 20, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

Welcome to the Knowledge Mobilization Journal Club! The journal club presents a summary of KMb related academic journal articles in a standard format. This space is designed to make KMb research more accessible to KMb practitioners. Please let us know what you think of the review by leaving us a comment. If you are reading […]

Knowledge Mobilization Summer School – August 15-17, Carleton University, Ottawa

Posted on July 20, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

This post first appeared on the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization website and is reposted here with permission. For full details about the KMb Summer School, click here. Knowledge Mobilization Summer School – 2nd Annual, Carleton University, Ottawa August 15 @ 8:00 am – August 17 @ 5:00 pm EDT | $452 Please save the dates […]

Knowledge Mobilization Journal Club Evaluation – Results

Posted on July 15, 2016 (October 3, 2025)

“Please keep it going, even if we have to clone David” In 2011, we published our first knowledge mobilization journal club post to help make knowledge mobilization research more accessible to knowledge mobilization practitioners. Since then we have published 55 journal club posts, approximately one each month. The evaluation was conducted using an on line […]

York Leads Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum to a New Level of Excellence

Posted on July 14, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

This post originally appeared in YFile on July 6, 2016 and is reposted here with permission. York University hosted the fifth annual Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum (CKF16) on June 28 and 29. By all standards this was the largest and most comprehensive gathering of knowledge mobilization scholars, students and practitioners in the world, said David […]

What I Thought Knowledge Mobilization Would Look Like 5 Years Ago

Posted on July 7, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

At the 1st Annual Knowledge Mobilization Forum I looked into my crystal ball and predicted what the field would look like in five years. Now, five years later, it’s time to check in and see if my predictions bore any similarity to reality. At the first Knowledge Mobilization Forum held in Ottawa in 2012, I […]

Strengthening impact through people. Or ‘Why REF is like your mother in law’ / Augmenter l’impact grâce aux personnes, ou Pourquoi le Research Excellence Framework (REF, organisme d’évaluation de la recherche universitaire au R.-U.) ressemble un peu à une belle-mère

Posted on June 23, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

Julie Bayley (Coventry University, UK) is collaborating with David Phipps (RIR-York) under a Fellowship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities. They are working on competencies for knowledge brokers and the new concept of “impact literacy”. This first appeared on Julie’s blog on June 22, 2016. Julie Bayley (Coventry University, R.-U.) et David Phipps (RIR-York) sont […]

What is the Role of Scholarly Publishing in Research Impact? / Comment les publications savantes contribuent-elles à l’impact de la recherche ?

Posted on June 16, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

This was the question posed at the Society for Scholarly Publishing in a session on knowledge mobilization. Panelists spoke about the use of social media, videos and other forms of “creative dissemination” such as apps. David Phipps spoke about impacts of research beyond the academy derived from engaged methods of knowledge mobilization. C’est la question […]

Reflections of CARA 2016 / Réflexions sur l’ACAAR 2016

Posted on June 9, 2016 (November 23, 2021)

The ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche (RIR) network has begun our annual spring road show exhibiting to stakeholders to listen to their needs and raise awareness of institutional supports for knowledge mobilization. We kicked off the road show with the Canadian Association of Research Administrators in Vancouver. Le RéseauImpactRecherche–ResearchImpact (RIR) a entamé sa tournée printanière annuelle, qui nous permet […]

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