What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘Impact’? Knowledge mobilization (KMb) is a term that is often used when we talk about impact. It describes all the things that we do to get knowledge into the hands of the right people to create solutions to society’s most pressing problems. It helps us take the […]
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Before starting to even plan your knowledge mobilization activities, it is important to develop clear goals to help guide the direction of your activities. Research Impact Canada has developed an introductory guide to help you start developing your knowledge mobilization goals. […]
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This Knowledge Mobilization Needs Assessment Planner is meant to assist organizations by helping them assess the knowledge mobilization skills and needs of employees. Organizations can use the information gathered to develop knowledge mobilization training, support services and skills development to better equip employees and improve their ability to contribute to the knowledge mobilization agenda. Click […]
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This is a comprehensive, modifiable PDF-format toolkit that uses a “question and answer” format and checklists to elicit key components for wide-ranging knowledge mobilization (KMb) plans. It includes a handy printable KMb plan outline in its appendix that is useful for develping more complete KMb plans with multiple audiences. What our reviewers had to say […]
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This rubric helps with assessing the quality of knowledge translation or research impact planning in grant proposals. While this tool is geared towards grant reviewers to evaluate quality, it is extremely useful for grant writers to make sure they have addressed all of the elements of a good proposal. What our reviewers had to say […]
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This guide to impact planning details various tools for research in the field of social science and humanities, most applicable at the beginning stage of the research process. Social science and humanities researchers and policymakers may find this especially useful with easy-to-understand explanations and a broad range of actionable tools. The impact planning action plan […]
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This is a guide to help provide consistency in the way review panels evaluate and rate broader impact plans. Researchers, NSF program managers, proposal reviewers, and review panels would find this tool useful, especially the guiding questions under each of the main questions. What our reviewers had to say “I think it’s a great tool […]
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This knowledge translation planning primer is a tool designed to support active forms of knowledge sharing and would be useful for anyone interested in communicating knowledge to various audiences. The information found on page 12 on sticky ideas was found to be especially useful. What our reviewers had to say “I liked it. It is […]
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On February 12, 2019, Dr. David Phipps presented this webinar related to his research and practice on research impact planning. […]
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