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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Research Connection to Community is Vital

This week’s guest post was first posted on the University of Calgary’s UToday on July 3, 2018 and is reposted here with permission.  Conference explores knowledge mobilization benefits and best practices By Clayton MacGillivray, Werklund School of Education Ensuring the research taking place at the University of Calgary makes an impact in the community was […]

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Knowledge Mobilization Practices of Researchers

Cooper, A., Rodway, J. and Read R. (2018) Knowledge mobilization practices of researchers. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 48(1), 1 – 21. http://journals.sfu.ca/cjhe/index.php/cjhe/article/view/187983 Abstract Researchers are under increasing pressure to disseminate research more widely with non-academic audiences (efforts we call knowledge mobilization, KMb) and to articulate the value of their research beyond academia to broader […]

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Planning for Impact / Impact prévu – et planifié !

Research Impact Canada recently approved its Strategic and Operational Plan. Sure we’re 1/3 of the way through our 2017-2020 three year planning period. But the next two years are going to fly by. Le Réseau Impact Recherche Canada vient d’adopter son Plan stratégique et opérationnel. C’est vrai que le tiers de notre calendrier triennal 2017-2020 est […]

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Real Impact at INORMS 2018

David Phipps was recently at INORMS 2018 presenting on impact literacy with Julie Bayley (University of Lincoln). Emerald Publishing wrote about their presence at INORMS as they launched their new brand, “Real World Impact”. They also wrote about two new Impact tools, the Impact Literacy Handbook and the Institutional Healthcheck. See below for links to […]

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Knowledge Mobilization is a Human Right / Le droit à la mobilisation des connaissances

This was one of the closing thoughts in my plenary address to INORMS, the biannual international research administration conference. After reflecting on the relationship between public trust and public engagement in research it was clear that creating public benefit from research is a human right. C’était l’une des remarques de conclusion de ma conférence en […]

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