Connie Tang, Author at Research Impact Canada

David Yetman of the Harris Centre, MUN at YorkU – May 12

Posted on May 14, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

The KM Unit at York hosted a talk on Tuesday May 12 as part of our KM Speaker Series. David Yetman is the Manager of Knowledge Mobilization at the Leslie Harris Centre with Memorial University in St. Johns, NL and spoke about Memorial’s experiences with KM. He also demonstrated Yaffle a new research search engine […]

UVic Summer Interns 2009

Posted on May 11, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

The interns for UVic’s KM/CBR Sumer Internship program have been selected! Through the ResearchImpact initiative, the UVic Office of Community Based Research is sponsoring ten graduate students to work hands on with a local Community Organizations on a piece of research relating to social policy. The UVic KM Coordinator received 27 outstanding proposals, and an […]

Not Business as Usual: A Forum on Infrastructure Climate Change Adaptation – April 30

Posted on May 8, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

On April 30, the Toronto Urban Climate Change Network (TUCCN) hosted a full day event focusing on infrastructure and climate change adaptation held at the historic St. Lawrence Hall in downtown Toronto. TUCCN member YorkU was one of the sponsors for the event and ResearchImpact was there along with several other YorkU faculty members and […]

Social Inclusion for Health and Well Being in Program Evaluation – Thursday, April 30

Posted on May 8, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

The York Institute of Health Research led a dynamic and participatory conference that drew a capacity audience of almost 100 registrants. Supported by the Ministry of Research and Innvoaiton and York University, YIHR is home to an emerging Evaluation Unit that will be offering evaluation services and capacity building. The KM Unit at York was […]

YorkU KM in the AM – Immigration and Human Services – Tuesday April 28

Posted on May 4, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

Stephen Lam Director of Immigrant Services and Community Programs with Catholic Community Services of York Region and Dr. Valerie Preston a Professor with the Department of Geography at York University were the speakers at York’s most recent KM in the AM event, held at the Police Headquarters Community Room in Vaughn. Twenty people were present […]

KM, KMb, KT, the other KT, KTE… now consider KI

Posted on May 1, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

OK, so we didn’t see it when it came out last year but Sandra Nutley and her team (including Huw Davies and Isabel Walter) associated with the University of Edinburgh’s Research Unit for Research Utilization published another excellent article on KM. They published “Why ‘knowledge transfer’ is misconceived for applied social research” in the Journal […]

YorkU to host David Yetman of the Harris Centre, MUN on May 12

Posted on April 22, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

The KM Unit at York is hosting a talk on Tuesday May 12 and all are invited. David Yetman is the Manager of Knowledge Mobilization at the Leslie Harris Centre with Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. Johns. David will speak about Memorial’s experiences with KM and will demonstrate a new research search engine designed […]

ResearchImpact Funds Homelessness Research and Knowledge Mobilization

Posted on April 20, 2009 (November 23, 2021)

“At this time, there is a dearth of information on the effectiveness of our responses to homelessness and our service models, including housing programs. That is, there is very little evaluation research of programs in Canada…In an era of increasing solutions to homelessness, it is increasingly important to know what works, why it works and […]

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