Resources

Welcome to our resources repository! The following tools are intended to help you with your knowledge mobilization activities!

Knowledge mobilization is about getting the “right information” to the “right people” in the “right format” at the “right time”.

It consists of activities and outputs that build awareness, disseminate findings, and enable use of research. The goal is to maximize the impact of research and communicate these impacts as widely as possible. 

The term knowledge mobilization can be used interchangeably with other terms such as knowledge exchange, knowledge translation, implementation science, and K*.

This page provides tools for planning, learning about efforts within academic, not-for-profit, corporate and government environments, and fine-tuning your knowledge mobilization skills.

You can search by topic and resource type below.

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Research SNAPS, McMaster University

Research SNAPS are short, readable summaries of McMaster research projects that showcase the variety of research conducted across the University and emphasize why research matters. Each short, readable “snap” profiles a unique research publication or project. The series was named the 2017 recipient of the SSHRC Award of Excellence for Communications at the Canadian Public [...]

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Type: Research Summaries

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Research Snapshots, Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (GREO)

Research Snapshots are plain language summaries of gambling and problem gambling literature. Monthly scans of gambling journals are conducted to find the most relevant knowledge. Peer-reviewed articles are then summarized to turn knowledge into action. GREO has partnered with Research Impact Canada to produce and validate the Research Snapshot template. The Snapshot format highlights the [...]

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Type: Research Summaries

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Research Summary, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness

The Homeless Hub, developed by the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) [http://homelesshub.ca/COH], houses nearly 30,000 resources on homelessness. Among these resources are a number of plain-language reports, E-books, tool kits, lesson plans, infographics and more, designed to be accessible and useful to anyone working, researching or legislating on homelessness. The Homeless Hub also produces clear language research [...]

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Type: Research Summaries

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Research Snapshots, Evidence Exchange Network for Mental Health and Addictions (EENet)

Evidence Exchange Network (EENet) [http://eenet.ca/] has partnered with the Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University to produce Research Snapshots in the field of mental health and addictions in Ontario. EENet actively promotes the use of research evidence in decision-making by supporting engagement and connections between researchers and mental health and addictions stakeholders across Ontario. EENet works to develop [...]

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Type: Research Summaries

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Clear Language Communications and Knowledge Mobilization

Animé conjointement par Bojan Furst (Memorial) et Michael Johnny (York) le 7 novembre 2017, ce webinaire d’une heure fait connaitre les principes et les idées qui émergent de la pratique, dans ces deux universités, des communications en langage clair et de la mobilisation des connaissances. S’adressant aux spécialistes du courtage de connaissances, de la recherche et de la [...]

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Type: Webinars
Topics: Dissemination, Writing

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Successful Practices in Knowledge Brokering

Brokers from Memorial University, University of Guelph, McMaster University and Western University share their insights on knowledge brokering practices on May 17, 2018. [...]

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Type: Webinars
Topic: Engagement

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Supporting Research Impact in Grant Applications

On February 12, 2019, Dr. David Phipps presented this webinar related to his research and practice on research impact planning. [...]

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Type: Webinars
Topic: Planning

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Social Media Strategies for Research

On January 16, 2020 , Krista Jensen, Knowledge Mobilization Officer at York University, shared her practice on helping researchers use social media to mobilize their research and build partnerships. Topics included how to create a social media strategy, effective ways of using social media and how to measure and evaluate social media activities. [...]

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Type: Webinars
Topics: Engagement, Strategy

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Institutional Healthcheck Workbook

This workbook helps organizations assess how they currently support and generate impact from research. It also identifies ways to improve how they showcase the changes the organization’s research may have in societies and communities. It’s aimed primarily those leading impact, overseeing research delivery, or driving organizational change. Click here for the Workbook [...]

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Type: Tools
Topic: Impact Assessment and Evaluation

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Impact Literacy Workbook

This workbook helps those understand how impact works and how to connect research work in meaningful ways. This focuses on integrating impact at any stage of the research process, and may be most applicable for scientists, applied researchers, graduate students, or non-academic partners. The section on identifying stakeholders and beneficiaries on page 8 was found [...]

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Types: Featured, Tools
Topics: Engagement, Impact

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Five Levels of Professional Development Evaluation

This tool will help with the evaluation of KMb/BI projects. Anyone who does any knowledge mobilization or broader impact work would find this tool useful. What our reviewers had to say “This is a very nice rubric for evaluation and it could be used for a variety of topics, not just professional development. The examples [...]

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Type: Tools
Topic: Impact Assessment and Evaluation

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Broadening Perspectives on Broadening Participation in STEM

This is a suite of professional development tools to help informal STEM education and science communication groups reflect on and strengthen their efforts to broaden participation in STEM. Any researchers in the STEM fields would find this tool helpful especially the summary for stakeholders guide. Click here to access the Tool What our reviewers had [...]

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Type: Tools
Topics: Dissemination, Engagement

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