ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche

Canada’s knowledge mobilization network

David Phipps, PhD, MBA

Director, Research Services & Knowledge Exchange

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

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KMb – 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.

KMb for researchers – why?

• Connect to make research matter

• Connect to create opportunities for graduate students

• Connect for access to more research funding

• Because funders are asking them to connect.

KMb for universities – why?

• Your researchers are doing it and need help

• SSHRC, CIHR, health charities, IDRC etc. require it

• We already do it for NSERC I2I, CIHR PoP

• External reputation

• University engagement

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Appui à la mise sur pied et au développement du Régime de retraite par financement salarial des groupes communautaires et de femmes

The Pension Planning project has resulted in a pension plan for people who work in community-based organizations. Since 2008, the plan has grown from zero to ten million dollars. It now has 2300 members, and has received two prestigious awards – one from Benefits Canada and another from the Committee of Labour and Social Economy Community Action.

Saskatoon Motherhood & Maternal Health in the Context of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis-C: Programmatic Implications

AIDS Saskatoon, Indian & Metis Friendship Centre Saskatoon, Our Circle Saskatoon, Our Circle Prince Albert, Saskatoon Health Region, West Side Clinic, Youth Co-Op, Nine Circles (Winnipeg), YWCA (Saskatoon), All Nations Hope (Regina), The 601 North(Prince Albert); Univ. Saskatchewan Archaeology & Anthropology

(1) A Program Inventory of all AIDS Service Organizations in Canada; (2) A Program Assessment of services offered by AIDS Saskatoon; (3) 40 narrative interviews; (4) A Photovoice component: 13 interviews, 235 images, 1 public exhibit; (5) 26 program access interviews; (6) Media analysis

New program initiatives at AIDS Saskatoon (in development Aug 2011).

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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

ResearchImpact-RéseauImpactRecherche (RIR)

Mandate

maximize the impact of university research on society by supporting knowledge (?) brokers

We will accomplish this mandate by delivering on the following goals:

• Building on excellence and experience to become a distributed network of expertise in knowledge mobilization practice

• Developing and sharing knowledge mobilization tools

• Providing a platform for knowledge brokering across RIR institutions

• Being recognized as knowledge mobilization leaders nationally and in our regions

• Serving as a national advocacy voice for knowledge mobilization

• Engaging with other universities seeking to build capacity in knowledge mobilization

RIR Goals

RIR Growth – why now?

Funding agencies are focusing on these activities:

Demand from other universities

Global awareness

Create a national forum for sharing and connecting across institutions

Become excellent by partnering with excellence

You have…

• Established an institutional commitment to KMb and related activities

• Dedicated at least one FTE-equivalent knowledge broker for institutional KMb

• Dedicated a Director with KMb in his/her portfolio

• Developed KMb tools and/or services to complement those developed by existing ResearchImpact universities

• An interest in developing your own expertise

• Identify one Director and at least one knowledge broker as main points of ResearchImpact contact as well as identify an executive academic authority for oversight of knowledge mobilization

• Participate in monthly knowledge brokers’ teleconference

• Director and Broker(s) will attend annual ResearchImpact meeting

• Contribute to ResearchImpact communications including blog and twitter

• Participate in and/or support joint presentations (for example at CAURA, Congress, CUExpo)

• Provide $5,000 annually to ResearchImpact operations (web site, social media, communications, translation and evaluation) and approx. $5,000 travel

You will…

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What can you do if you don’t have a KMb Unit?

Process

• Summer 2012: Information sessions (=consultations)

• RIR meeting June 21, 2012: clarify call for new members

• Fall 2012: Issue call for new members

• January 2013: Results

• 2013: Capacity Building Sessions

David Phippsdphipps@yorku.cahttp://www.researchimpact.ca