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

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

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

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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Deliberative Dialogues as a Strategy for System-Level Knowledge Translation and Exchange

I am pleased to welcome this guest journal club from Dr. Anneliese Poetz, Manager, KT Core for NeuroDevNet. She is writing on the following article: Boyko, J. A., Lavis, J. N., & Dobbins, M. (2014). Deliberative dialogues as a strategy for system-level knowledge translation and exchange. Healthcare Policy, 9(4),122-131. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24973488 Abstract We undertook a case study in order […]

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Changing a 600 Year Old Business

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?

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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A Lot Can Happen in a Year – Report on NeuroDevNet’s KT Core

The NeuroDevNet KT Core celebrates it’s first year of being housed in the Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University in this week’s guest post. This post first appeared on the NeuroDevNet blog on August 1, 2014 and is reposted here with permission.  It’s hard to believe that on August 6, 2014 it will be one year […]

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Research Impact: Income for Outcome

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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Harnessing Social Network Analysis in Knowledge and Ignorance Mobilization Research and Evaluation / Intégrer l’analyse de réseau dans la recherche et l’évaluation de la mobilisation de la connaissance et de l’ignorance

In this guest post Joanne Gaudet (UOttawa) explores the application of social network analysis (SNA) to knowledge mobilization. While this is not new per se, her use of SNA as mapping the relationship between knowledge mobilization people and knowledge mobilization products is new. This use of SNA captures a more realistic view of a knowledge […]

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A Visit to York University May Save Time / Une visite à York peut faire gagner du temps

In the past two years, two staff members within the KMb Unit at York, David Phipps and Christina Ransom, have received awards from the Governor General of Canada. This post celebrates their achievements. David Phipps et Christina Ransom de l’unité de mobilisation des connaissances de York, ont été honorés par des prix du Gouverneur général […]

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