Blogue

Knowledge Mobilization Symposium on Research Impacts / Symposium sur la Mobilisation des connaissances et les retombées de la recherche

Oct 6, 2016

David Phipps is the KT Lead for NeuroDevNet and was chair of the NCE Knowledge Mobilization Symposium on June 27, 2016. This report provides a…

Incorporating Community Engagement Language into Promotion and Tenure Policies: One University’s Journey

Oct 2, 2016

Pelco, L.E. & Howard, C. (2016). Incorporating community engagement language into promotion and tenure policies: One university’s journey. Metropolitan Universities, 27(2), 87-98, DOI: 10.18060/21129 https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/article/view/21234…

Knowledge into Practice Learning Network Launch Webinar

Sep 26, 2016

“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go with others.” (African Proverb) Across the globe, in diverse professional…

York U Champions Research Mobilization Through Graduate Experiential Education Program

Sep 22, 2016

The following article appeared in York University’s YFile on April 24, 2012 and is reposted here with permission. York U welcomed 22 graduate students and…

What Are Universities Doing for Social R&D? / Que font les universités pour la RD dans le domaine social?

Sep 7, 2016

David Phipps was invited to participate in a retreat to explore ways of introducing social research & development into Canada’s innovation policies. He reflected on…

Recommendations for Universities Seeking More Effective Collaborations / Recommandations aux universités en quête de collaborations efficaces

Sep 1, 2016

The CarnegieUK Trust recently released InterAction, a report that examined how universities and non-profit organizations can collaborate to influence public policy. Much of it reflects…

Reinventing the Civic University

Août 31, 2016

Goddard, J. (2009). Reinventing the civic university. http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/reinventing_the_civic_university.pdf From the summary of this report done for Nesta, a U.K. innovation charity: In this provocation I…

There Are No New Ideas Part 3: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Août 18, 2016

In this blog series I visit some old (and I mean old) literature to illustrate how ideas of knowledge mobilization and research impact have very…

There Are No New Ideas Part 2: Politics and the English Language

Août 9, 2016

In this blog series, I visit some old (and I mean old) literature to illustrate how ideas of knowledge mobilization and research impact have very…

La Trajectoire D’impact Codéterminée

Août 4, 2016

L’Unité de mobilisation des connaissances de York produit régulièrement des articles scientifiques sur différents aspects de la mise en application du savoir universitaire. Sa publication…

There Are No New Ideas Part 1: Scholarship and Social Agitation

Juil 27, 2016