On June 19, 2024 in Le grand Bibliotheque de Montréal, Peter Levesque gave the opening address to the conference. Peter founded CKF in 2012 as a place where scholars and practitioners of knowledge mobilization in all disciplines can come together to share experiences, network and make new connections. The drivers for CKF were two fold:
- We lacked an interdisciplinary conference. Nursing researchers and KT practitioners went to nursing conference. Same for social work and educators. CKF is a space for different people thinking about the same thing.
- We lacked a conference where scholars and practitioners could co-exist and collaborate (or at least connect) to address the critique as reviewed in the KMb Journal Club that “the (somewhat ironic) research-practice gaps exposed and dissected in this study are not of course unique to the knowledge mobilization field but they do remain a significant challenge.”
Peter’s opening remarks were delivered in front of a slide show of pictures from CKF past. He reminisced about the origins of knowledge mobilization, where we are and where we are going and included a poem and a reflection on his personal life. All from the perspective of “same yet more”. You can read Peter’s remarks here, shared with permission.