Impact on impact CARA 161014

Are you having an impact on impact?

David Phipps (York University, Canada) @researchimpact

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No, not THAT type of impact

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Knowledge Mobilization

community

campus

campus

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Impact HOW WHAT

Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged scholarship from inception to impact

Oh, you mean THAT type of impact

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Oh, you mean THAT type of impact

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pathway for knowledge mobilization and impact

Activity Output Outcome

Impact

Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production

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co produced pathway to impact

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Question

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York University KMb Unit Services

• Knowledge brokering

• Event planning

• Capacity building

• Support for grant applications

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co produced pathway to impact

13 –http://www.kmbtoolkit.ca/

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KMb Plan Element Description Partners / Engagement Before a Principal Investigators think about what they want to do they

need to start with the partnerships/receptors and forms of engagement with identified audiences. Involve them in the KMb planning

Goal Frame the project in terms what you want to achieve and how you plan to achieve it. • Overall Objective: high level, long horizon • Specific Goals: more granular, measurable; achieving goals by

undertaking activities (below) at each stage of the impact pathway Activities Activities need to be mapped to specific audiences and correlates to

goals and objective. Activities need to speak to academic and non-academic audiences and are designed to move the project along the impact pathway

Evaluation A longitudinal look at the results of the knowledge mobilization plan, specific indicators at each stage of the impact pathway. Impacts are measured at level of end user/receptor/partner.

Budget Not a 10 hour/week student

Elements of a Knowledge Mobilization Plan

16 Phipps, D.J., Jensen, K.E., Johnny, M., Poetz, A. (2016) Supporting knowledge mobilization and research impact strategies in grant applications. Journal of Research Administration. In press

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Faculty Engaged in Knowledge Mobilization 331 Graduate Students Engaged in Knowledge Mobilization 186

Information Sessions 683

Brokering Opportunities 484

Knowledge Mobilization Projects / Activities 177 / 118

Partnership Organizations 306

Community Funding $1.14 M

Contract Funding $1.24 M

External Research Funding $47.50 M

KMb York 2006-2016

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KMb tools

KT Planning template:

• http://melaniebarwick.com/training.php

KMb Tool Kit:

• http://www.kmbtoolkit.ca/

Clear Language Research Summaries:

• http://srconline.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/44/119

Knowledge brokering

• http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/29459/Phipps%20Johnny%20Wedlock%20Engaged%20Scholar%20J%202015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Social Media:

• http://bit.ly/SUGzYu

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ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche

Group of 12 Canadian universities actively developing programming for knowledge mobilization to transfer research into social and economic benefits for local and global communities

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Structure/Function

Central Research Services

Research Partnership Office

Community Based Research

Economic Development

Public Engagement

Living Lab

Decentralized

Policy focus

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