Gazing into the KMb Crustal Ball

Gazing into the KMb Crystal Ball

David Phipps, PhD, MBA

Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange

http://www.youtube.com/researchimpact#p/a/u/0/J15_lBz5mYU

Green Economy Centre

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

http://www.thestar.com/article/462613

York’s KMb Unit February 2006- December 2011

# Faculty Involved 240# Graduate Students Involved 142# Information sessions for faculty and students 166# Information sessions for community 185# collaborations brokered 246# agencies involved in KMb partnerships 205Community Partner funding raised $1.1MResearch Contract funding raised $1.2MTotal KMb associated grant funding raised $17.6M# web hits +4M# Research Summaries 173# tweets 5447#twitter followers 1845# delicious bookmarks 244# blog postings (+70,000 views) 294

Knowledge Mobilization - Lessons Learning

Combination of producer push & user pull = exchange & co-productionKnowledge broker is core to institutional capacityIs NOT SSH technology transferIs MORE than a website or a brochureKMb enables social innovationImpact takes time

“I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for meOr am I even in it's mind at allPerhaps I'll get a chance to look ahead and seeSoon as I find myself a crystal ballSoon as I find myself a crystal ball”

Crystal Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b-i0XknSnM

My Crystal Ball

Knowledge Brokering as a Profession?

My Crystal Ball Says?

My Crystal Ball Says…

YES

Training for Knowledge Brokering?



SORT OF

Social Media?



5-10 years

Systems & networked knowledge mobilization?



YES

A rose by any other name….



NO

Evaluation?



NO

Evidence informed KMb practice & vice versa?

research practice



YES

Your turn

Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum?



YES

David [email protected]://www.researchimpact.ca

Gazing into the KMb Crustal Ball

Technology

crystal ball sayssort

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knowledge brokering

total kmb

kmb partnerships

research contract funding

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