Connie Tang, Author at Research Impact Canada

Knowledge Mobilization Specialist – Research Impact Canada

Posted on October 23, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

Broadly focused on dissemination and capacity building for knowledge mobilization, the Knowledge Mobilization Specialists (we are hiring two, both located at York University) will collaborate with Research Impact Canada (RIC) member institutions as well as the Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) to operationalize RIC’s commitments to knowledge mobilization for the Future Skills Centre (FSC). Under […]

Planning for an institutional research impact office

Posted on October 15, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

Recently some members of the US network Advancing Research Impact in Society were asking about resources for starting an institutional Broader Impacts office. Since Research Impact Canada is focused on institutional aspects of research impact I took the opportunity to respond highlighting some RIC members’ experiences planning for their own research impact office. Below is […]

From Research Impact to Critical Community Engagement: CESI’s work toward social justice

Posted on October 2, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

This guest post was first published on the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute website and is reposted here with permission. Posted on Monday, September 9th, 2019 Written by Caroline Duvieusart-Déry This blog post is based on a presentation offered at the National Alliance for Broader Impacts Summit 2019, on April 30, 2019. Over the past two […]

Research Impact Canada Annual Meeting

Posted on September 30, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

Toronto, September 17-20, 2019: 30 brokers from 15 RIC member universities. Six people from partner organizations. Three dinners. One amazing knowledge mobilization experience. Every year RIC member institutions come together to assess progress against goals and to look to the forthcoming year. This coming year will be the last year in the current 2017-2020 strategic […]

Research Impact Canada at Congress 2019

Posted on July 4, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

Research Impact Canada (RIC) member, University of British Columbia, hosted the 2019 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). On June 6, 2019 David Phipps (RIC York) participated on a panel about impact of SSH hosted by SAGE publishing. These were his opening remarks. Today there is an emerging global dialogue on impact with […]

Research with reach

Posted on June 21, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

This guest post was first published on the University of Ottawa website and is reposted here with permission. By Monique Roy-Sole Medical science has long proven the benefits of taking folic acid for a healthy pregnancy. However, many prenatal supplements sold in Canada contain more than twice the recommended dose of folic acid. Professor Bénédicte Fontaine-Bisson […]

Developing the Research Impact Canada (RIC) Logic Model and Evaluation Framework: A Case Study Example

Posted on June 18, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

Anne Bergen (https://knowledgetoaction.ca/) is a community based evaluator and an alum from Research Impact Canada when she worked at RIC member, University of Guelph. She helped the RIC Evaluation Committee develop a logic model and evaluation framework. She describes her work in a case study that is introduced below. Do you want to evaluate a […]

From IKT To Strategic Partnerships

Posted on May 27, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

This guest post was first published on the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research website and is reposted here with permission. Research knowledge is most likely to be used when it is informed by those who will use it. To support this, our team of knowledge translation (KT) specialists work to advance both […]

Impacts, “Grimpacts”, and “Himpacts”

Posted on April 8, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

I was in Bilbao, Spain recently teaching in a course titled “Implementing a National Health Research Strategy” and one session raised ethical considerations of research impacts. Grimpacts were mentioned and I invented a new term, “himpact”: the impact of research that excludes women and trans people. Disponible en français I think we are all comfortable […]

Association of Commonwealth Universities Supports Impact / L’Association des universités du Commonwealth soutient l’impact

Posted on March 22, 2019 (November 25, 2021)

The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) released their new strategic plan “The Road to 3030” on March 15, 2019. Launching the strategic plan, ACU states “The ACU believes that universities make a critical contribution to sustainable development across the Commonwealth and beyond.” Three of the five goals in this strategic plan link to knowledge mobilization […]

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