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Presenting and conversing bilingually

Making your presentations accessible is important for effective knowledge mobilization. In Canada, French and English often coexist, but it is frequent that an audience contains listeners that are not only English-speaking! These guides offer a step-by-step procedure to active translated subtitles in PowerPoint, enabling to speak one language and display a live script in another […]

Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit

The University of Calgary’s Knowledge Engagement team developed a Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment toolkit that equips researchers with tools, and training to support them in assessing, generating data, and reporting on the impact of their knowledge engagement work. Steps to use the Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment toolkit in your knowledge engagement work: The training video […]

Knowledge Mobilization Needs Assessment Planner

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 […]

KM in the AM

This checklist helps with the planning of a small event of 20-30 people. It contains a comprehensive timeline of things to accomplish weeks out from the event, items to consider, and a post-event survey for evaluation. Click here for the KM in the AM checklist What our reviewers had to say This is a great […]

Guide to Impact Planning

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 […]

Disseminating Findings Checklist and Guide

This checklist and guide will help when creating dissemination products for review findings, both in preparing content or developing/improving product templates. Authors, editors, and those working in communications, dissemination, and digital media may find this helpful for communication methods with non-experts in review findings. The dissemination checklist on page 6 was found to be useful. […]

Guide to Conducting Accessible Meetings

This guide is for organizing and running accessible meetings, from planning, conducting the meeting, to evaluation. Workshop facilitators, event planners, conference organizers, meeting planners may find this guide helpful to build accessibility in all aspects of a meeting. The tips on page 11 for accessible presentations was found to be especially useful. Click here for […]

Broader Impacts Wizard

This interactive platform will help when developing a broader impact statement. Researchers, science communicators, and grant facilitators may find this tool helpful, with an easy five-step process to produce an outlline of important points and help frame discussions. What our reviewers had to say This is a very easy to use platform which has been […]

Guiding Principles for Broader Impact Plans

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. Click here to access the guide What our reviewers had to say […]

Knowledge Translation Planning Primer

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 […]

Type: Tools

Presenting and conversing bilingually

Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit

Knowledge Mobilization Needs Assessment Planner

KM in the AM

Guide to Impact Planning

Disseminating Findings Checklist and Guide

Guide to Conducting Accessible Meetings

Broader Impacts Wizard

Guiding Principles for Broader Impact Plans

Knowledge Translation Planning Primer

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