{"id":12234,"date":"2013-09-25T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/knowledge-mobilization-for-new-graduate-students\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T16:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T21:45:26","slug":"knowledge-mobilization-for-new-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/knowledge-mobilization-for-new-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Mobilization for New Graduate Students \/ La mobilisation des connaissances et les \u00e9tudiants des cycles sup\u00e9rieurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shawna Reibling, RIR – Laurier
\nEducating new graduate students about knowledge mobilization is a good way to educate the next generation of professors about knowledge mobilization principles and ensure that graduate students are prepared to make a difference in the world.\u00a0<\/em>
\nEn faisant conna\u00eetre la mobilisation des connaissances \u00e0 ceux et celles qui commencent leurs \u00e9tudes sup\u00e9rieures, on se trouve \u00e0 former la prochaine g\u00e9n\u00e9ration de professeurs aux principes de la MdC, tout en pr\u00e9parant ces \u00e9tudiants \u00e0 agir concr\u00e8tement dans le monde.\u00a0<\/em>
\n\"Photo<\/a>This year Wilfrid Laurier University<\/a> has taken knowledge mobilization education to a new generation of graduate students – those just beginning their programs. At Laurier there are many programs that have direct community based work embedded in the curriculum: community psychology, social work, music therapy, entrepreneurship, etc. These programs have outreach, community involvement, community based research and social innovation all incorporated into their programs and course work.
\nBut beyond this, the hunger for making research relevant to people in the community extends beyond such focused, applied programs. When offering skills to these new graduate students, I collaborated with my colleague in the library Michael Steeleworthy, on a presentation entitled: \u201cYour digital footprint: what does the internet know about digital (professional) you?<\/a>\u201d
\nThis workshop was meant to get new graduate students to think about their identities online, how they wanted to incorporate knowledge mobilization into their program of study through social media.
\nWe are also extending this training to our faculty, offering a workshop \u201cHow to organize your online identity\u201d in October. Please visit http:\/\/bit.ly\/15yaBES<\/a> to register and see our workshops.
\nAs part of these presentations we also equipped students with some guidelines around \u201cbuilding your research-related skills to drive your success<\/a>\u201d
\nThese skills include knowledge mobilization tools and techniques including reaching out to communities, engaging and listening to audiences for your research, writing clear language summaries, etc. To prepare for this workshop we asked Twitter for advice: \u201cWhat advice do you have for graduate students just beginning to do knowledge mobilization?\u201d Here are the answers:<\/p>\n