{"id":12396,"date":"2011-09-07T10:13:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/researchimpact.ydsinc.ca\/getting-back-to-basics\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:55:39","slug":"getting-back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/researchimpact.ca\/fr\/archive\/getting-back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back to Basics \/ Retour aux fondements"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Phipps (RIR-York)<\/span>
\nInspired by a campfire and a few beers, David Phipps (RIR-York) reflects on Using Evidence and looks back to the future of knowledge mobilization.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Inspir\u00e9 par un feu de camp et par quelques bi\u00e8res, David Phipps (RIR-York) r\u00e9fl\u00e9chit \u00e0 l’utilisation des donn\u00e9es probantes et jette un regard sur l’avenir de la mobilisation des connaissances.\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I was camping this weekend. I have been camping with this same group of friends on this same weekend for years so rain or shine we go and have a great time.\u00a0 We have a great time doing almost nothing for three days.\u00a0 We sit around a fire.\u00a0 We play games.\u00a0 We get caught up with friends we don’t see too often. We read. And we have a couple of beers (okay, more than a couple). \u00a0This year it rained. Our tents were damp but nothing could dampen our spirits (thank you Bud Light Lime). Because it was raining, I took some time out to work on a book chapter we have been invited to write for an open access book titled Social Sciences and Humanities – Applications and Theories<\/a>. Part of the chapter is, of course, a lit review so I have been revisiting some foundational KMb literature. \u00a0<\/span>
\nAfter a lovely time with Sarah Morton and Sandra Nutley this summer (thank you Gary Myers, @kmbeing for your blog<\/a>), I took some time this weekend and returned to Using Evidence<\/a> that Sandra Nutley published in 2007 with her colleagues Isabel Walter and Huw Davies. I got back to KMb basics while getting back to the basics of living in a tent and cooking over a camp fire.<\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a>When I first read Using Evidence in 2007 York’s KMb Unit had been operating for one year.\u00a0 We had just hired our second full time staff person and we had more KMb enthusiasm than KMb talent. In 2011, York is leading ResearchImpact-R\u00e9seauImpactRecherche, we have published on our work, spoken internationally and I have met Sandra twice and look forward to seeing her again as we both speak at the CRFR 10th<\/sup> Anniversary National Conference<\/a> in Edinburgh in November. It is interesting to revisit foundational literature like Using Evidence and see the literature through a lens of experience. I can now synthesize key messages and see the KMb forest where before I saw only a collection of KMb trees.<\/span>
\nThere are lots of key messages arising from Sandra’s book.\u00a0 The three I take home after reflecting on our five years of KMb service are:<\/span><\/p>\n