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Reflections from the 2010 KMb Retreat

August 30, the entire KMb team at York University spent the day at Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation planning for the coming academic year. This has become an annual exercise; the team heads offsite for some unstructured planning and development discussion. A special shoutout to Elizabeth Monier Williams, Research Communications Officer for York’s Office of […]

Reflections from Paris: old (tech transfer) and new (knowledge mobilization)

Recently I was in Paris (France, not Ontario) for 26 hours. Because we were there for such a short time, all we did was walk and walk and walk and walk for 8 hours and saw as much of tourist Paris as anyone could in that time. On the way we saw gardens, statues, towers […]

University of Victoria Job Opening

We are excited to share the following job opening at the University of Victoria for the position of Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator. Here is a brief summary of the position: Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator Office of Research Services $45,359.00 – $51,053.00 per annum plus performance range The KM activities include the creation, coordination and delivery of services […]

Clear Language Revolution

Well maybe not a revolution but certainly an evolution. An evolution towards making research accessible to a variety of extra-academic decision makers through the use of clear language. We thought we were being oh so clever 2 years ago when we “piloted” clear language research summaries see our blog from May 2009. We are proud […]

Liftoff – ‘Knowledge Mobilization for Climate Change’ project gets underway

On June 17th, policymakers from municipal Environment offices and community organizations met with colleagues from York University’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit to launch the ‘Knowledge Mobilization for Climate Change’ project. The meeting took place in the York Research Tower at York University’s Keele Campus. The goal of this project is to make York climate change research […]

Postcards from Congress Day 3: Connected Understanding… Disconnected Book Fair

What Happened: The Congress Book Fair is the agora of Congress. It usually holds the registration desk so is accessible to every one of the thousands of Congress delegates. It holds all the book sellers and publishers. It is the Congress home to SSHRC, CIHR, Canada Research Chairs and to ResearchImpact (and even to the […]

York responds to the knowledge mobilization evaluation

Like most service units York’s Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit counts lots of stuff. We count every presentation we make according to the audience, we count numbers of requests for service, we count students, web hits, tweets, students engaged with non-academic research stakeholders and, of course, we count money. What has this shown? We’ve brokered over […]

GET (Green Economy Transition) Ahead

As reported by the Bradford West Gwillimbury Times, on March 26, 2010 at the lovely Club at Bond Head (which didn’t look this good in March). South Simcoe launched their Green Economy Transition Centre. The South Simcoe Green Economy Transition Centre will be a centre of excellence for local businesses and a model for communities […]