Sandy Chan, Author at Research Impact Canada

The conflict of impact for early career researchers planning for a future in the academy

Posted on July 29, 2024 (July 29, 2024)

Wróblewska, M.N., Balaban, C., Derrick, G., Benneworth, P. (2023) The conflict of impact for early career researchers planning for a future in the academy, Research Evaluation, rvad024, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvad024 Abstract It has been argued that due to the growing importance attributed to research impact and forms of its evaluation, an academic ‘culture of impact’ is emerging. […]

2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Bincy Baby

Posted on July 26, 2024 (May 21, 2025)

Bincy Baby was awarded the 2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, User Experience with Medication Adherence Technologies: Determining Usability by Capabilities in Older Adults. About Project According to Statistics Canada 2023 report, the proportion of people aged 65 and older will increase from 18.9% in 2023 to between 21.9%-32.3% by 2073. […]

2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award Winner (Master’s Category): Ronessa Dass

Posted on July 26, 2024 (May 21, 2025)

Ronessa Dass was awarded the 2024 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award for her project, Defining the impacts of brain fog in Veterans with chronic pain. About Project What did we study? Canadian Veterans are twice as likely than civilians to experience chronic pain. Despite a higher likelihood of experiencing chronic pain and comorbid conditions […]

Celebrating Leadership in Knowledge Mobilization: Announcing the Winners of the Peter Levesque Award!

Posted on July 26, 2024 (October 24, 2024)

Research Impact Canada is excited to announce the winners of the Peter Levesque Award for Knowledge Mobilization Leadership. This award recognizes individuals and teams who have made significant contributions to advancing knowledge mobilization and building capacity for impactful research. The award was presented at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2024, held at the Grande Bibliothèque […]

Carnegie’s Elective Community Engagement Classification

Posted on July 22, 2024 (July 22, 2024)

Greetings Everyone, We are pleased to advise that today (July 17, 2024), the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education have announced a partnership with a joint venture of Canadian post-secondary institutions to establish the Canadian Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement (CCCCE). See the full announcement here: https://carnegieclassifications.acenet.edu/news/canadian-carnegie-community-engagement/. The process of considering the Classification […]

2024 Annual Meeting

Posted on July 19, 2024 (September 23, 2024)

We are excited to convene for our 2024 annual meeting this year on September 18-20 in Ottawa! Thank you to the University of Ottawa and Carleton University for hosting us this year! […]

Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum (CKF) 2024 Opening Address

Posted on July 3, 2024 (July 4, 2024)

On June 19, 2024 in Le grand Bibliotheque de Montréal, Peter Levesque gave the opening address to the conference. Peter founded CKF in 2012 as a place where scholars and practitioners of knowledge mobilization in all disciplines can come together to share experiences, network and make new connections. The drivers for CKF were two fold: […]

Do Research–Practice Partnerships Offer a Promising Approach to Producing Research that Improves Social Care Practice and Outcomes?

Posted on June 27, 2024 (June 27, 2024)

Boaz, A, Fitzsimons, B, Meakin, B, Muirhead, S, Williams, C, Weatherley, M, Knapp, M, Smith, L, Langley, J, Kendrick, H, Malley, J and Bauer, A. 2023. Do Research–Practice Partnerships Offer a Promising Approach to Producing Research that Improves Social Care Practice and Outcomes? Journal of Long-Term Care, (2023), pp. 241–248. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.31389/jltc.190 Abstract There […]

RIC welcomes three new members, bringing institutional membership to 36

Posted on June 13, 2024 (September 23, 2024)

May was another banner month for RIC membership growth. In 2023, RIC welcomed a record eight new members. With the three new members welcomed in June, RIC has been pleased to welcome a total of six new members already in 2024. Earlier this year, we welcomed Université Laval, The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre and […]

Facing the challenges of research-informed knowledge mobilization: ‘Practising what we preach’?

Posted on May 28, 2024 (May 28, 2024)

Powell, A., Davies, H. and Nutley, S. (2017) Facing the challenges of research-informed knowledge mobilization: ‘Practising what we preach’? Public Administration. 96(1): 36-52.https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12365 Full text available: https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/18595/Public_Admin_submitted_final_version.pdf?sequence=1 Abstract The political imperative to make public services more evidence based has contributed to the growth in the past two decades of both research and practice in the […]

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