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Week 2 of the Youth Diabetes Camp – Overall Youth Experience

Posted on August 3, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

By the end of the second week of the Youth Diabetes Sports Camp, the kids have made new friendships and greatly improved their skills in sports. York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit interviewed kids with diabetes about some of their impressions and experiences at camp. The children with Type 1 greatly appreciate the opportunities that they are […]

University of Victoria Job Opening

Posted on July 30, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

We are excited to share the following job opening at the University of Victoria for the position of Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator. Here is a brief summary of the position: Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator Office of Research Services $45,359.00 – $51,053.00 per annum plus performance range The KM activities include the creation, coordination and delivery of services […]

Week One of Youth Diabetes Camp – Interview with Dr. Michael Riddell

Posted on July 28, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

The first week of the Youth Type 1 Diabetes Sports Camp, York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit interviewed Prof. Michael Riddell, asking him about some of his reasons and motivations for starting this camp. We also began to learn more about what the camp is all about. Dr. Riddell was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of […]

Week One of Youth Diabetes Camp – Active Living with Diabetes

Posted on July 21, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Monday, July 19 was the launch of the 3rd Annual Type 1 Diabetes Youth Sports Camp at York University. Dr. Michael Riddell started the Diabetes Camp in 2007 for active children and adolescents, ages 8-16, with type 1 diabetes and the numbers have grown from just 10 kids in 2007 to about 30 this year. […]

Clear Language Revolution

Posted on July 13, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Well maybe not a revolution but certainly an evolution. An evolution towards making research accessible to a variety of extra-academic decision makers through the use of clear language. We thought we were being oh so clever 2 years ago when we “piloted” clear language research summaries see our blog from May 2009. We are proud […]

Way to go Environment Canada – who knew?

Posted on July 5, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Remember when we told you how surprised we were to learn about the body of KMb related literature arising from the field of environmental policy? No? My how you forget! What were you doing on July 13, 2009 (almost one year ago)? Like other faithful readers of Mobilize This! You were likely reading our story […]

Liftoff – ‘Knowledge Mobilization for Climate Change’ project gets underway

Posted on June 28, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

On June 17th, policymakers from municipal Environment offices and community organizations met with colleagues from York University’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit to launch the ‘Knowledge Mobilization for Climate Change’ project. The meeting took place in the York Research Tower at York University’s Keele Campus. The goal of this project is to make York climate change research […]

Reflections on the G20: KMb, open access and your top KMb-20

Posted on June 23, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

I live in Toronto. The G20 starts in 4 days so today I became a G20 security tourist. I wanted to see for myself what we had been seeing on the news for the last couple of weeks. I saw police. I saw wire fences and concrete girders. I saw, from a distance, some of […]

York’s KMb Interns….then and now

Posted on June 21, 2010 (November 23, 2021) by Connie Tang

Picture this…York University, 2007. First summer of our SSHRC Knowledge Impact in Society grant and we run a KMb internship competition. We had 6 to hand out but the incredible demand made us find funding for an additional 6 allowing us to fund 12 interns. Tammy Lowe (she was Tammy Miller back then) was one […]

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