{"id":12375,"date":"2011-11-24T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/learning-from-international-knowledge-intermediaries\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:55:49","slug":"learning-from-international-knowledge-intermediaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/learning-from-international-knowledge-intermediaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from International Knowledge Intermediaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The follow blog post by David Phipps, RIR-York, was originally posted on Research into Action’s KTExhange Knowledge Translation Weblog<\/a> on November 17, 2011. It is reposted here with permission.<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a>On October 6, 2011<\/a> I wrote about knowledge intermediary organizations in Canada, US and UK:\u00a0 York University\u2019s Knowledge Mobilization Unit<\/a> (KMb Unit, Canada), The Research Into Action<\/a> project of the Institute for Health Policy at The University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, Texas (US), Community University Partnership Program<\/a> at the University of Brighton (UK) and Centre for Research in Families and Relationships<\/a> at the University of Edinburgh (UK). These four are examples of universities investing in a capacity to link academic research to non-academic organizations so that research can inform professional practice and public policy. Each employs a number of professional staff engaged in a variety of knowledge brokering\/knowledge intermediary functions. After some very quick and dirty analysis (don\u2019t kick at the table in the blog<\/a> too hard) we see that although each has some similarities there are some differences.\u00a0 The four organizations fall into two groups as follows:
\nCupp and KMb Unit<\/span>: university wide; primarily hard money from the university; high degree of social, exchange based, interactive strategies for knowledge brokering; focus on engagement with the community sector.
\n\u00a0RIA and CRFR<\/span>: located within research units but reaching out within the university; primarily project (soft money) based; engage in contract research on behalf of partners; some social and exchange based strategies (CRFR>RIA) but knowledge transfer\/translation more prevalent; focus on engagement with policy makers and professional practitioners.
\nThis gives us a basis for comparison.
\nI have had the pleasure of meeting and interacting, and sometimes working, with all of them.\u00a0 Unfortunately they don\u2019t know each other but hopefully I can act like KMb crazy glue.
\nIf I had the pleasure of sitting down with the lead staff from each of these units, Rick Austin (RIA), Dave Wolff (Cupp) and Sarah Morton (CRFR) this is what I would ask them:<\/p>\n