K mb overview osgoode grads 150929 final

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knowledge mobilization

maximizes impacts of

research

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Youth Emergency Shelter - Peterborough

http://bit.ly/KrFN2N

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Youth Emergency Shelter - Peterborough

Challenges

• Structural

budget deficit

• Revolving door

Impacts

• Social work students get

better training experience

• YES gets better trained

employees

• Clients reduce length of stay

• Generate revenue stream

• MTCU funding $60K

• 4 publications, PhD prize

book in progress

Social enterprise

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Mb

Un

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maximize the impacts of university research beyond the academy

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Knowledge Mobilization

community

campus

campus

community

collaboration Social Innovation HOW WHAT

Knowledge mobilization helps make

research useful to society by

supporting engaged scholarship from

inception to impact

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Framework for knowledge mobilization

Activity Output Outcome

Impact

Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production

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Co-produced pathway to impact

Phipps, D.J., Cummings, J. Pepler, D., Craig, W. and Cardinal, S.

(2015) The Co-Produced Pathway to Impact describes Knowledge

Mobilization Processes. J. Community Engagement and Scholarship,

In press.

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

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

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

Impact Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production

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Portugal Cove, NL

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Acknowledgements

Adapted by research and development from:

Dr. Melanie Barwick

The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

and

Dr. Donna Lockett

KT Consultant

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–http://www.melaniebarwick.com/training.php

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KMb Planning Template – 13 steps

1. Identify Partners

2. Partner Engagement

3. Partner Roles

4. KT Expertise

5. Knowledge Users

6. Main Messages

7. KT Goals

8. KT Strategies

9. KT Process

10. KT Impact & Evaluation

11. Resources Required

12. Related Budget Items

13. Implementation

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KMb Research Planning Template – 13 steps

13 Steps into 4 Main Headings

Engagement (steps 1-5)

• Who are your audience(s)/collaborators

Goal (steps 6,7)

• What are you going to accomplish (objectives)

Activity (steps 8,9,11,12)

• How are you planning to do this (activities)

Impact and Accountability (steps 10,13)

• What will result from this work, and how will you demonstrate it.

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Step 7 – KT Goals

Are you seeking to:

Generate

• Awareness

• Interest

• Practice change

• Behaviour change

• Policy Action

Impart

• Knowledge

• Tools

Inform

• Research

• Policy

• Practice

Brokers Bits

Always consider the

ethical and legal

principles in your KMb

efforts.

Consider goals for

each audience group

you’re engaging.

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Step 10 – KT Impact – behaviour, practice, policy, research

How will you evaluate impact?

• Reach Indicators

• Copies Distributed

• Copies Requested

• # downloads, hits, visits

• Media Exposure

• Usefulness Indicators

• Satisfied With

• Usefulness of

• Changed Views

• Gained Knowledge

• Use Indicators

• # intend to use

• # adapting the information

• # using to inform policy/practice

• Partnership Indicators (#’s)

• Others

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KMb Research Planning Template – 13 steps

now what – case study

13 Steps into 4 Main Headings

Engagement (steps 1-5)

• Who are your audience(s)/collaborators

Goal (steps 6,7)

• What are you going to accomplish (objectives)

Activity (steps 8,9,11,12)

• How are you planning to do this (activities)

Impact and Accountability (steps 10,13)

• What will result from this work, and how will you demonstrate it.

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Portugal Cove, NL

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Brokering research partnerships

Supporting events

Capacity building

Grant support

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KMb 101

KMb Planning

KMb Evaluation

Clear language writing

Community

engagement

Social media 101

Social Media Planning

Twitter for research &

learning

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KMb Unit at York 2006-2014 Faculty Engaged in KMb

323

Graduate Students Engaged in KMb 167

Information Sessions 636

Brokering Opportunities 422

KMb Projects / Activities 160 / 99

Partnership Organizations 260

Community Funding $1.14 M

Contract Funding $1.24 M

Federal Research Funding $42.94 M

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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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KMb Unit at York 2006-2016…stay tuned!

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Knowledge mobilization in their own words…

http://bit.ly/KrGY26

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