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Transcript of NCCPE 130711
Knowledge Mobilization as an Institutional Priority
David Phipps, Executive DirectorResearch & Innovation ServicesYork University, Toronto, Canada
@researchimpact
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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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Knowledge Mobilization – what is it?
• Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) is a suite of services that supports collaborations between non-commercial research and expertise and the public, private and non-profit sectors.
• KMb (the process) can enable enhanced social innovation (the outcome).
• KMb is the university’s contribution to social innovation and allows partners from the public, private and non-profit sectors to leverage investments in university research.
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How and What?
Knowledge Mobilization
community
campus
campus
community
collaboration Social InnovationHOW WHAT
Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society
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Institutional knowledge mobilization services
Research Summaries
Research Translation Help Desk
Research Translation Help Desk
Research ForumsKM in AM
Research PartnershipsKMb InternsSocial Media
Exchange(KE)
Knowledge Mobilization
partnerships CBR
co-production
Community Based Besearch
Producer
Push
(KT)
User
Pull
(KT)
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York’s KMb Unit February 2006- June 2013
# Faculty Involved 289# Graduate Students Involved 153# Information sessions for faculty and students 201# Information sessions for community 222# collaboration opportunities 392#KMb projects 155# agencies involved in KMb partnerships 231#KMb Internships 41Community Partner funding raised $1.1MResearch Contract funding raised $1.2MTotal KMb associated grant funding raised $33.6M
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University Drivers
Internal ExternalProgram Mix External Funding Environment
Academic Planning: Provost’s WhitePaper
REF 2014
Strategic Research Plan (note1) Public Return on Investment
Tenure & Promotion (note 2) Community Demand
Community Engagement
1. York University's 2013 SRP: Scholarship of Socially Engaged Research: Building on existing leadership in the practice of socially engaged research across all disciplines by working to enhance York’s expertise on the scholarship on engagement. A commitment to work to increase the critical mass of scholarship at York that is focused on socially-engaged research and on maximizing the benefits derived therefrom; Knowledge Mobilization; Support for the Social Entrepreneur
2. www.engagedscholarship.ca
Which are the right ones?
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Knowledge Mobilization…
Evaluation
ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche
Social Innovation/Enterprise
Community Campus Collaboration Initiative
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Is knowledge mobilization logical?
Activity Output Outcome
Impact
Dissemination Uptake ImplementationCo-production
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National Vision for Knowledge Mobilization
KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION
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Social Innovation
ventureLAB:Provincially funded Regional Innovation Centre
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Community Campus Collaborations Initiative
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So what? KMb in their own words…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmIWbsMO93w&list=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4aZPoWAheQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video
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Discussion…
Your questions….and if none….
Tools and Tool Kits: why bother and what would you do with them even if you had them?
Networks: for what purpose if not to share practices (see above)?
Social Innovation/Enterprise: how do we avoid the shiny object?
David [email protected]://www.researchimpact.ca@researchimpact