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Summer 2011 Internships Announcement

Déc 13, 2010

The Knowledge Mobilization Unit is excited to announce an upcoming graduate student internship competition as part of the ‘Knowledge Mobilization for Climate Change’ Project. The…

ResearchImpact puts the « social » in « innovation »

Déc 10, 2010

York KMb Unit recently presented at a national conference of university-industry knowledge brokers. Unique to the conference agenda York presented new thinking on gaps in…

If a picture is worth a thousand words….

Déc 3, 2010

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth? Recent videos show that this format is useful for telling our…

numbers, numbers, numbers

Nov 26, 2010

In a world consumed with quantitative evaluation, don’t forget the power of words and stories to demonstrate impact. In his book, The Power of Social…

A Comparison Of Knowledge Broker Websites

Nov 19, 2010

ResearchImpact is pleased to welcome a guest blogger, Gary Myers. You can follow Gary on his blog and on twitter (@kmbeing). Gary has written about…

Playing in the KMb Climate Change Sandbox

Nov 15, 2010

Here are some fresh updates about the ‘KMb for Climate Change’ project. We have discovered that, when you build a sandbox for researchers and policymakers…

Knowledge Translation and Transfer at U Guelph and OMAFRA

Nov 12, 2010

ResearchImpact is pleased to welcome this contribution from our KMb colleagues at OMAFRA and University of Guelph. UGeulph and OMAFRA are collaborating on a program…

Mobilizing Minds Community Partnership Forum

Nov 8, 2010

What happens when community groups learn about young adult engagement and about research and knowledge mobilization? Mobilizing Minds: pathways to young adult mental health engaged…

ResearchImpact as Agents for Change!

Nov 1, 2010

Capping off a busy week (October 18-22) for York University’s KMb Unit, Michael Johnny was an exhibitor and presenter at the Ontario Literacy Coalition’s (OLC)…

Reflections of a knowledge broker at KTKB2010: Part II

Oct 29, 2010

The irony of our growing knowledge mobilization profession is that we do not practice what we preach.  But we can have a good time while…

Youth Engagement Using the Arts- KM in the PM

Oct 29, 2010

The YorkU KMb Unit will be hosting a KM of the PM event on Wednesday, December 8. The topic of the afternoon will focus on…

Reflections from a knowledge broker at KTKB2010: Part I

Oct 28, 2010

York University and ResearchImpact had the chance to be partner with Environment Canada and the Canadian Water Network to host the Knowledge Translation and Brokering Workshop…