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Reviewing the use and effectiveness of arts-based approaches for public engagement with research

Posted on January 27, 2021 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

The following summary is reposted with permission from Sarah Ball (RAND Corporation). It is a summary of extensive work that they have completed on arts based methods for public engagement. On the summary page there is a link to the free e book (111 pages) and additional appendices are also available (in English only). […]

Tenure and promotion is an issue for engaged scholars but maybe not for the reason you think

Posted on January 20, 2021 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

David Phipps thinks tenure/promotion policies are probably just fine. It is the tenure/promotion committees that are challenging for engaged scholars. Tenure and promotion (T&P) has long been an issue for engaged scholars. Engaged scholarship takes longer than solo research. Processes of engagement must contend with issues related to power and the time it takes to […]

Reporting KT activities in the academic CV: How can we show the impact of our research?

Posted on August 14, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

Written by Julia Levin Researchers are being asked more and more to demonstrate the impact of their work. If you are a researcher who has been able to show the real-life application of your research, how do you show for it on your curriculum vitae (CV)? Members of the Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network […]

Virtual and Remote Knowledge Brokering

Posted on May 19, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

With COVID-19 and the push for working from home (if possible), we’re “Zooming” into more video-conferencing meetings more than ever. Reaching out to our RIC Network of 60+ members from ~20 universities across Canada, we heard that sharing and facilitating knowledge virtually and remotely has its own share of challenges. In response, we wanted to […]

Research Summaries From Local to Global

Posted on April 29, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

Writing a peer reviewed article is nice but it doesn’t mobilize knowledge to anyone except other scholars. Making research evidence accessible is a necessary first step to enable use of that evidence. A clear language research summary is one way to make evidence accessible. Picture this: 2008. David Phipps at York University receives a small SSHRC grant to develop a […]

Building Ethical and Sustainable Long-Term Community Partnerships Across Short-term Course Structures

Posted on April 3, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

This guest post was first published on the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute website and is reposted here with permission. Posted on Monday, March 30th, 2020 Written by Lindsey Thomson *This blog post is based on a conference presentation first offered at the 2019 Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference at the University of Guelph by Lindsey Thomson […]

Mobilizer but no longer mobile

Posted on March 23, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

By David Phipps, York University David Phipps tweets as @mobilemobilizer reflecting on his use of social media on the go and more recently his international networking on research impact. But in a world shut down due to COVID-19 this mobilizer is less mobile but no less active because the need to move research into action […]

Where the Pathway ends: taking impact off-road

Posted on February 27, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

Julie Bayley, Director of Research Impact Development, University of Lincoln UK, published a response to the leaked internal memo from UK Research & Innovation that was published by Research Professional News, indicating that the UK government is set to remove “pathways to impact. In her blog post, Julie discusses that these changes do not signify a […]

Not a Requiem for Impact

Posted on January 27, 2020 (November 25, 2021) by Connie Tang

Late last week a leaked internal memo from UK Research & Innovation was published by Research Professional News that indicated the UK government is set to remove “pathways to impact” from all UK grant forms to reduce the administrative burden for grant seekers, reviewers and funders. This has introduced a seismic shock to the UK […]

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