Knowledge Mobilization as a Tool of Institutional Governance: Exploring Academics’ Perceptions of “Going Public”

Cain, K., Shore, K., Weston, C., & Sanders, C. B. (2018). Knowledge mobilization as a tool of institutional governance: Exploring academics’ perceptions of “going public”. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 48(2), 39-54. http://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/article/view/188072/pdf Abstract In Canada there are growing discussions concerning the role of publicly funded universities and the impact of academic research. The integration […]

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Program Announcement: People, Place, and Public Engagement Conference, October 2018 in St. John’s, NL, Canada

We are just over a month from welcoming visitors from across Canada and the world to People, Place, and Public Engagement, a conference about community-university collaboration, at our incredible new site on Signal Hill. So now, without further ado, we’d like to announce our featured speakers… Natan Obed, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, is our […]

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Impact Strategy Checklist / Une liste de vérification pour la stratégie d’impact

Most grant applications now require the applicant to describe what the impacts of the research will be and how the applicant (and partners) will create those impacts. We have developed a checklist to assess the completeness of the grant application impact strategy. La plupart des formulaires de demande de subvention exigent maintenant que les candidats […]

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Emploi d’agente de support à la recherche responsable de la mobilisation des connaissances et des communications – UQÀM – Montréal, QC

Emploi d’agente de support à la recherche Responsable de la mobilisation des connaissances et des communications Département de sexologie Période d’emploi : 24 septembre 2019 pour une année, avec fortes probabilités de prolongation jusqu’en 2023 Madame Line Chamberland, professeure au département de sexologie de l’UQAM et directrice du projet de recherche « Savoirs sur l’inclusion […]

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Making an Impact: A Shared Framework for Assessing the Impact of Health Services and Policy Research on Decision-Making

Canadian Health Services and Policy Research Alliance (2018). Making an impact: A shared framework for assessing the impact of health services and policy research on decision-making. https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/5adc92_3ae941eaedb04ab4a66b6f83f98a479d.pdf?platform=hootsuite&mc_cid=47f94af269&mc_eid=ffbad33983 No Abstract. There is a ton in this report all directed towards assessing the impacts of health services and policy research (HSPR). It builds on the impact assessment framework of […]

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Call for Presentations – Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI)

Call for Presentations Does your community organization work in collaboration with an academic institution? Does your work at an academic organization include active collaboration with community members? The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (CESI) wants to know: How do you and your collaborators work together in creative ways? How do you collaborate in ways that address […]

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RIC and NABI in Dialogue to Strengthen International Cooperation

In times when political and economic international cooperation are increasingly important, the scientific community, universities, and support networks such as NABI (National Alliance for Broader Impacts, in USA) and RIC (Research Impact Canada- Réseau Impact Recherche Canada) based in Canada), have expressed our continuous interest to collaborate, partner, learn, and share best practices across borders. […]

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Call for Papers – Engaged Scholar Journal Special Issue on Engagement in the Anthropologies of Health and Wellbeing

CALL FOR PAPERS For Special Issue in Issue 11 (Volume 6, Issue 1, Spring 2020) Community Engagement and the Anthropologies of Health and Wellbeing Guest Editors: Sylvia Abonyi and Pamela Downe Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Learning is Canada’s online, open-access, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal committed to profiling best practices in ‘engaged scholarship’ informed by community-academic partnerships in research, teaching […]

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Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization: Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for the second iteration of the Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization! This online professional development certificate builds capacity to turn knowledge into action and support the development of evidence-based policy and practice. This fall, join other knowledge professionals in Inform: Processes of knowledge translation and dissemination (October 1 to November 25, 2018). […]

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A Better Measure of Research From the Global South

Lebel, J. & McLean, R. (2018). A better measure of research from the global south. Nature, 559, 23-26. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05581-4 Abstract Funders Jean Lebel and Robert McLean describe a new tool for judging the value and validity of science that attempts to improve lives. This is a good article for anyone interested in assessing the research […]

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