{"id":12066,"date":"2016-05-27T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/sshrc-strategic-plan-sets-the-stage-for-kmb\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T21:59:29","slug":"sshrc-strategic-plan-sets-the-stage-for-kmb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/sshrc-strategic-plan-sets-the-stage-for-kmb\/","title":{"rendered":"SSHRC Strategic Plan Sets the Stage for Knowledge Mobilization \/ Le Plan strat\u00e9gique du CRSH met la table pour la mobilisation des connaissances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations SSHRC on a new strategic plan. Implementing this plan will help social sciences and humanities research have an impact on the lives of Canadians.<\/em>
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\nToutes nos f\u00e9licitations pour ce nouveau plan strat\u00e9gique\u2009! Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 lui, la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales aura encore plus d\u2019impact sur la vie des Canadiens et des Canadiennes. <\/em>
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\nSSHRC recently released its new strategic plan<\/a> to guide its investments and impact from 2016-2020. The plan is organized around the three pillars of SSHRC\u2019s funding: research (=insight); training (=talent) and knowledge mobilization (=connections). All three underpin SSHRC\u2019s traditional impacts on scholarship and training; however, the strategic plan also provides direction on how the social sciences and humanities can have an impact on Canadians outside of the academy. For more information on the potential impacts of the social sciences and humanities please see the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a> who launched a project in late 2014 to explore how to measure these impacts.
\nSSHRC\u2019s desire to create impacts is evident right from the opening page:<\/p>\n

It [social sciences and humanities research] enhances our ability to understand and creatively respond to complex individual, social, cultural and economic issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right to the very last sentence:<\/p>\n

SSHRC will advance opportunities for the results of its funding – new ideas and trained people – to be more accessible to Canadian organizations in all sectors, to contribute to decision-making and innovation, and to address the challenges of today and tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ted Hewitt, in his introduction to the Strategic Plan, points out that, \u00ab\u00a0Findings from [social sciences and humanities] research are used by – and often, developed with – stakeholders across all sectors, to improve our quality of life, enrich cultural expression, and drive prosperity, equity and sustainability through innovation.\u00a0\u00bb
\nWhat SSHRC is committing to is not new for researchers. Canadian researchers, students and their research institutions have a long tradition of working in collaboration with partners from all sectors to create new knowledge, train the next generation and mobilize knowledge into social, economic and environmental impacts. For more than ten years The Harris Centre (Memorial University) and York University\u2019s Knowledge Mobilization Unit have been leading local knowledge mobilization efforts that connect researchers and students to non-academic partners. The Community Engaged Scholarship Institute (U. Guelph) has been supporting the Research Shop and community based research since 2009. These three are among twelve universities working together as ResearchImpact-R\u00e9seauImpactRecherche<\/a> (RIR). Our knowledge mobilization network has a vision to \u201cmaximize the impact of university research for the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and health benefits across local and global communities.\u201d \u00a0RIR will accomplish this by \u201cdeveloping and sharing best practices, services and tools, and by demonstrating to relevant stakeholders and the public the positive impacts of mobilizing knowledge\u00a0\u00bb (RIR Strategic Plan, 2014).
\nThe commitments in SSHRC\u2019s Strategic Plan and those of the RIR Strategic Plan are mutually reinforcing. Both will support the work of researchers and their partners seeking to make an impact on Canadians. SSHRC makes a commitment to \u201cadvance opportunities for the results of its funding–new ideas and trained people\u2014to be more accessible to Canadian organizations in all sectors, to contribute to decision-making and innovation, and to help identify and address the challenges of today and tomorrow. In pursuit of this objective SSHRC will:<\/em><\/p>\n