Auteur/autrice : Connie Tang

Articles par Connie Tang

The Retreat of the State and the Future of Social Science

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Baars, S. (2014). The retreat of the state and the future of social science. Management in Education, 28(1) 6-11. http://mie.sagepub.com/content/28/1/6.full.pdf Abstract Amidst deep cuts to public spending, the UK Coalition government announced in 2010 that it would be substantially reducing its subsidy of social science within higher education. As part of the same deficit reduction strategy, the […]

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Reflections From Our Wonderful Knowledge Mobilization Students – Christina Ransom / Quelques réflexions des merveilleux étudiants de l’équipe de mobilisation des connaissances – Christina Ransom

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On August 28, 2014 we bid farewell to some of the students who have been instrumental in helping York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit deliver expert knowledge mobilization services. We are pleased to post the reflections of our students on their time with us. Le 28 août dernier, nous disions au revoir à quelques-uns des étudiants qui […]

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At the Intersection of Community Engagement and Entrepreneurship / À l’intersection de l’engagement communautaire et de l’entrepreneuriat

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We recently had the chance to present communityBUILD, York Region’s approach to supporting social ventures addressing food security and youth employment. There are a number of features that makes communityBUILD unique. Nous avons eu récemment l’occasion de présenter BATIRensemble, l’approche adoptée par la région de York pour appuyer les projets sociaux qui favorisent la sécurité […]

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Reflections on My Time As NeuroDevNet’s KT Coordinator

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This week’s post comes from Elle Seymour who reflects on her time as KT Coordinator of the NeuroDevNet KT Core, which is housed in York University’s KMb Unit.  It first appeared on the NeuroDevNet KT Blog on September 11, 2014.  I will always think back on my time with NeuroDevNet with fondness and a great […]

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Understanding K* and What It Means for Knowledge Exchange in Scotland

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This week’s guest post comes from the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. This post first appeared on the CRFR blog on August 28, 2014 and is reposted here with permission. The CRFR KE reading group focus in August 2014 was to explore ideas of knowledge exchange through reading Expanding our understanding of K* […]

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Changing a 600 Year Old Business

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This week’s post by David Phipps, RIR-York, arose out of his participation at Social Frontiers II, a social innovation day held in Vancouver  on May 30, 2014 that was sponsored by York University, SFU Public Square and Nesta. A shorter version of this post first appeared on the Nesta blog on August 22, 2014 and […]

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Whose Incentives and Whose Rewards?

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This post by David Phipps, RIR-York, was first published on the Community Knowledge Exchange blog on August 6, 2014 and is reposted here with permission. I recently posted a Linked In discussion titled “It’s time to stop complaining about tenure and promotion and do something about it”. That post was based on the often cited barrier […]

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Research Impact: Income for Outcome

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Morgan, B. (2014). Research impact: Income for outcome. Nature, 5 (11), S72-S75. doi:10.1038/511S72a. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v511/n7510_supp/pdf/511S72a.pdf. No abstract, article attached below Thanks to @KMbeing for finding and sharing this paper with me. This short paper provides a snapshot of some efforts to measure (or at least monitor) the extra academic impacts of research in New Zealand and Australia. The […]

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Dates for 2015 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum – May 14 & 15, 2015

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The following guest blog about the 2015 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum first appeared on the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization blog and is reposted here with permission. Good afternoon KMbers, The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum is usually the first week of June. However, with the 2015 Forum in Montreal, QC, we have learned that our original dates […]

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Step by Step Knowledge Brokering / Le courtage des connaissances pas à pas

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For eight years York’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit has been connecting university researchers to public and non-profit sector organizations in order to support research collaborations. In this blog post they describe the process they undertake to broker these relationships. Depuis huit années, l’unité de mobilisation des connaissances de York met en lien des chercheurs universitaires avec […]

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