David Phipps, Author at Research Impact Canada

And three more make a total of seven new members in 2023

Posted on July 13, 2023 (November 29, 2023)

Earlier this year, we announced four new members, including Brain Canada, University of York (UK), University of Windsor and Lakehead University. That tied a previous year for total new members and that was in January 2023. Now it is July 2023 and we are pleased to announce three new members. The following is taken from […]

Podcast featuring David Phipps – on Knowledge Mobilization

Posted on February 27, 2023 (March 8, 2023)

Marco Campana from Marcopolis (https://marcopolis.org/) interviewed David Phipps for episode 41 of his Technology in Human Services podcast. In this episode, Marco speaks about Knowledge Mobilization with David Phipps, Assistant Vice President of Research Strategy & Impact at York University and Director of Research Impact Canada (RIC). The podcast is 51 minutes so grab a mug of […]

Switching from stakeholder

Posted on December 5, 2022 (December 5, 2022)

The word stakeholder is becoming increasingly contested due to its colonial connotations. Has this hit your radar and are you trying out other words? In November, Mark Reed posted a thought piece on the use of the word stakeholder concluding “ultimately that means re-thinking our use of the word “stakeholder”.” The issue with the word […]

New book from Julie Bayley helps us all develop an impact literate mindset

Posted on November 14, 2022 (December 2, 2022)

My colleague and co-author, Julie Bayley from the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute (UK) has published “Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset”. She describes the book in her blog post that she has given us permission to repost in Mobilize This! As all things Julie, this book has serious content presented with humour […]

Transform your impact

Posted on September 27, 2022 (December 2, 2022)

Knowledge translation, mobilization and research impact is flooding the globe and bringing research benefits to society. Let’s explore where it all started – and how you can now transform your impact from anywhere in the world with the Research Impact Summit. Tracing research impact’s evolution Terms like knowledge translation and research impact, and others that […]

17 years from research to impact – is this true?

Posted on September 9, 2022 (September 12, 2022)

By David Phipps (York University; @mobilemobilizer) We often say that it takes on average 17 years for health research to turn into a new or improved clinical practice. Is this true? And what about in other disciplines? Morris, Wooding and Grant[1] reviewed the literature on time lags between research and its use in clinical practice […]

Two new awards recognizing Peter Levesque

Posted on June 24, 2022 (August 4, 2022)

By David Phipps, from remarks made on June 17, 2022. During the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2022, Research Impact Canada created two new awards recognizing the contributions Peter Levesque has made to knowledge mobilization in Canada. While Peter was unable to join the awards ceremony in person we did receive videos from him acknowledging the […]

Supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact strategies in grant applications

Posted on June 20, 2022 (June 20, 2022)

The Network for Advancing and Evaluating the Societal Impact of Science (AESIS Network) published their first newsletter of June with a focus on ‘Impact in Funding Applications’. David Phipps, PhD., MBA, Assistant VP Research Strategy & Impact, York University and Network Director, Research Impact Canada, contributed an article for their newsletter. York University (Toronto, Canada) […]

Speech From the Throne calls for more knowledge mobilization for Canada

Posted on January 17, 2022 (March 8, 2023)

“The Speech from the Throne opens every new session of Parliament. The Speech introduces the government’s direction and goals, and outlines how it will work to achieve them. On November 23, 2021, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, delivered the Speech from the Throne to open the first session of the 44th Parliament […]

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