This is the deck from the "Knowledge mobilization 101" seminar offered at Wilfrid Laurier University on October 19, 2012. It is tailored to a social science and humanities audience, as there were no physical science researchers in the audience.
To find out more about this workshop, visit, http://LaurierKnowledgeMobilization101.eventbrite.ca/
2. Agenda
Definitions
What is knowledge mobilization
Why it matters to you
Laurier knowledge mobilization
Examples
Cultural Theory Communication
Geography Music
Skills
Clear language summaries
Google profiles (if time)
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3. Agenda
Definitions
What is knowledge mobilization
Why it matters to you
Laurier knowledge mobilization
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4. What is “kmb”?
KM or KMb (SSHRC)
Knowledge translation (CIHR),
Knowledge exchange (CHSRF)
Knowledge transfer partnerships (UK)
Knowledge dissemination (MSFHR)
„Tech transfer‟(S.T.E.M. disciplines)
Extension (agriculture)
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5. Types of “kmb”
“End of Grant” KMb: (curiosity-driven research):
The researcher develops and implements a plan for making
knowledge users aware of the knowledge generated.
“Integrated” KMb (problem-based research):
The researcher engages potential knowledge users as
partners in the research process. Requires a colaborative
or participatory approach to research that is action oriented
and is solutions and impact focused.
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6. What is “kmb”?
“…knowledge mobilization…[is] a circulation of multiple
meanings and responsibilities, in multiple directions - not just
for diverse users, but also for the knowledge producers.”
Fenwick, T. (2008). Considering ‘Knowledge Mobilization’ in Educational Research: What knowledge, what mobilizes, what responsibilities? Educational
Insights, 12(2). www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v12n02/articles/fenwick/index.html
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7. What is “kmb”?
The process of “moving knowledge into active service for
the broadest possible common good”
People
Research
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8. Where did kmb come from?
• Community based research (CBR)
• Community engaged scholarship (CES)
• Action research/Practioner research
• University commercialization
• Relationship building
• little “c” communications and Big “C” communications
• Return on investment (ROI) for tax dollars
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9. It is a contested area
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/rspe/KM_Products/Terminology/index.html
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10. Why kmb matters
• $$$
• Shared desire to solve problems
• Publish research results more widely
• Promotion/demonstrating its value
• Strengthening scholarship
• Establishing relationships before grant opportunities
• Innovation
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11. Why kmb matters
People
Research
Values: relationships, processes, open access, mutual
benefit, full-cycle involvement
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12. KMb products
• Face-to-Face Meetings • Dinner
• Reports • Presentation
• Focus groups • Panel presentation
• Toolkits • Opinion piece
• Models • Interview (tv, radio, written)
• Procedures • One pager
• Website content • Clear language summary
• Online tool • Journal publication, book, chapter
• Policy brief • Open access publication
• Meeting • Conference presentation, keynote
• Video • Professional organization publication
• Audio lecture • Textbook
• Community work • Testifying as an expert
• Advisory committee • Lay presentation
• Networking event • Webinar
• Tweets, blog • Etc.
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13. Open Access
Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access
via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles.
• Green: authors publish in any journal and then self-archive a
version of the article for free public use in their institutional
repository.
• Gold: authors publish in an open access journal that provides
immediate OA to all of its articles on the publisher's website.
• Hybrid: provide Gold OA only for those individual articles for
which their authors (or their author's institution or funder) pay
an OA publishing fee
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14. Open Access
Tri-Council Resources: Tools for faculty:
• Tri-Council Guiding • Using the SPARC Canadian Author
Principles Addendum to secure your author
• Research Data Archiving rights.
Policy • Greater Reach for Your Research :
• SSHRC: Open Access Expanding Readership through
• CIHR: Access to Digital Repositories
Research Outputs • What is a journal’s copyright
policy? Here or here
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15. Laurier services
• Dissemination of faculty research to the broader public,
through materials, events and social media
• Brokering research partnerships between community
members and university researchers
• Assisting faculty with knowledge mobilization strategies
for grants and research programs
• Clear language assistance
• Faculty consulting
• Social media and other capacity building
• More….
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17. Research Facilitators
Barry Ries, Social Sciences and Humanities
Ph:519.884.0710 x3479 E:bries@wlu.ca
Charity Parr-Vasquez, Natural Sciences
Ph:519.884.1970 x4662 E:cparrvasquez@wlu.ca
Susan Dimitry, Laurier Brantford
Ph:519.884.0710 x5564 E:sdimitry@wlu.ca
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18. Agenda
Examples
Cultural Theory Communication
Geography Music
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19. Cultural Analysis
& Social Theory: Ironstone
• Evolving content, but project listing is static
• Ability to post links for students
• Blend of images and text
• An online CV, with navigable text
• YouTube channel to be launched soon
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20. Research communication,
media and culture: Pimlott
• Blog post, about "authoritarian language", was picked up by 404
System Error website, a blog run by some social activists (including
a well-known Canadian activist, Min Reyes)
• my response about the action of page Brigitte de Pape (the "Stop
Harper" sign in June 2011), got the most hits in one day because it
was a reflection (drawing upon my experience and expertise about
democracy and political communication via protest actions, such as
de Pape's). I had 131 hits, normally the site averages 5-15 hits/day.
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21. Geography:
Robert McLeman
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22. Geography:
Robert McLeman
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23. Geography:
Robert McLeman
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24. Music: Guy Few
• Highlight
information
important to the
viewer
• Easy to find
• Information in one
place for ease of
updating
• Concert listing
coming soon
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25. How to plan kmb
Research outcome
What is your research outcome(s)?
Audience
Who? Why them? How do you reach them?
(barriers, existing relationships)
Short & long term ways to reach them.
Evaluation
Evaluate impact (past & going forward)
Adapted from www.stickyideas.org
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26. Research outcome
What is your research outcome(s)?
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28. Audience reach
How do you reach them? (barriers, existing relationships)
Short & long term
• Leverage what
you already
have
• Describe use
of time,
money,
people
resources.
Source: http://affirmyourlife.blogspot.com/
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29. Evaluation
Evaluate impact (past & going forward)
Don’t wait till the end to evaluate
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30. Evaluation
Evaluate impact (past & going forward)
Don’t wait till the end to evaluate
Source: Barwick, M (2008), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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31. Agenda
Skills
Clear language
Google profiles
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32. What is Clear Language
and Design?
• Uses words that your audience knows
• Gives readers information they need
• Combines what you write with how you write
• Uses design to help reader understand content
• Repurposes your content for a different
audience
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33. Clear language
BEFORE
“Understanding the Economic Integration of
Immigrants: A Wage Decomposition of the
Earnings Disparities Between Native-Born
Canadians and Immigrants of Recent Cohorts”
AFTER:
“Language use affects how much an immigrant
earns”
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39. Section titles
• What is this research about?
• What did the researchers do?
• What you need to know?
• What did the researchers find?
• How can you use this research?
• About the researcher
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41. 2012 Nobel: Roth of Harvard Bus. School &
Shapley, UCLA. Market design & economic
engineering.
• Roth: blog, website &
CV, Google Scholar
profile, consultancy
services , institutional
promotion,
interviews. 24 paper
downloads.
• Shapley: retired, last
website update in
1997. 10 paper
downloads
Source: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
2012/10/18/mann-using-google-impact-nobel/
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42. Google Scholar Profile
create a public Scholar profile
Google analyzes your articles (as identified in your Scholar profile), scan the entire web
looking for new articles relevant to your research, and then show you the most
relevant articles when you visit Scholar.
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43. Follow Up
Evaluation (using fluidsurveys.com): http://bit.ly/T3ki4k
Next offering:
http://laurierknowledgemobilization101.eventbrite.ca/
Contact:
Email: sreibling@wlu.ca
Twitter:@MobilizeShawna
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44. How would you mobilize your work?
People
Research
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Editor's Notes
Websitewith project summaries and links for students
Twitter and blogAt present, I teach and research communication, media and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My research and teaching interests cover such areas as alternative media, union communications, journalism and dissent, media coverage of economic, labour and poverty issues, and political communication, particularly in Canada and the UK, as well as the USA.My interest in these areas is not strictly speaking, ‘academic’ (if you pardon the pun), but also practical. I have experience as a media professional in radio and TV (during the reign of ‘analogue’), as well as more recent experience running media relations workshops and providing communications advice for various social, environmental and economic justice organisations. I have also worked as a media relations officer and communications advisor to a faculty union and political riding association.I believe that there is much to be learned from bringing the two areas together.Of course, I am also interested in all aspects of post-secondary/higher education, from the conditions for faculty, both contract/contingent and permanent, students (quality and costs of their education), and support staff (who ensure faculty and students can do what they do best).Clearly, the views that I express are my own and do not reflect in any way the university (or the management of the university) which employs me (and which presumes to speak for the university, which is really a community of teachers, students, managers and support staff, but that is another issue).Please feel free to follow me, if you are so inclined, on twitter: @Herbert_Pimlott .Ps. If you are interested in a slightly longer or more detailed statement about my research and teaching interests, you can visit my official university webpage at: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=612&f_id=35.
Twitter and blogAt present, I teach and research communication, media and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My research and teaching interests cover such areas as alternative media, union communications, journalism and dissent, media coverage of economic, labour and poverty issues, and political communication, particularly in Canada and the UK, as well as the USA.My interest in these areas is not strictly speaking, ‘academic’ (if you pardon the pun), but also practical. I have experience as a media professional in radio and TV (during the reign of ‘analogue’), as well as more recent experience running media relations workshops and providing communications advice for various social, environmental and economic justice organisations. I have also worked as a media relations officer and communications advisor to a faculty union and political riding association.I believe that there is much to be learned from bringing the two areas together.Of course, I am also interested in all aspects of post-secondary/higher education, from the conditions for faculty, both contract/contingent and permanent, students (quality and costs of their education), and support staff (who ensure faculty and students can do what they do best).Clearly, the views that I express are my own and do not reflect in any way the university (or the management of the university) which employs me (and which presumes to speak for the university, which is really a community of teachers, students, managers and support staff, but that is another issue).Please feel free to follow me, if you are so inclined, on twitter: @Herbert_Pimlott .Ps. If you are interested in a slightly longer or more detailed statement about my research and teaching interests, you can visit my official university webpage at: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=612&f_id=35.
Twitter and blogAt present, I teach and research communication, media and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My research and teaching interests cover such areas as alternative media, union communications, journalism and dissent, media coverage of economic, labour and poverty issues, and political communication, particularly in Canada and the UK, as well as the USA.My interest in these areas is not strictly speaking, ‘academic’ (if you pardon the pun), but also practical. I have experience as a media professional in radio and TV (during the reign of ‘analogue’), as well as more recent experience running media relations workshops and providing communications advice for various social, environmental and economic justice organisations. I have also worked as a media relations officer and communications advisor to a faculty union and political riding association.I believe that there is much to be learned from bringing the two areas together.Of course, I am also interested in all aspects of post-secondary/higher education, from the conditions for faculty, both contract/contingent and permanent, students (quality and costs of their education), and support staff (who ensure faculty and students can do what they do best).Clearly, the views that I express are my own and do not reflect in any way the university (or the management of the university) which employs me (and which presumes to speak for the university, which is really a community of teachers, students, managers and support staff, but that is another issue).Please feel free to follow me, if you are so inclined, on twitter: @Herbert_Pimlott .Ps. If you are interested in a slightly longer or more detailed statement about my research and teaching interests, you can visit my official university webpage at: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=612&f_id=35.
Twitter and blogAt present, I teach and research communication, media and culture at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. My research and teaching interests cover such areas as alternative media, union communications, journalism and dissent, media coverage of economic, labour and poverty issues, and political communication, particularly in Canada and the UK, as well as the USA.My interest in these areas is not strictly speaking, ‘academic’ (if you pardon the pun), but also practical. I have experience as a media professional in radio and TV (during the reign of ‘analogue’), as well as more recent experience running media relations workshops and providing communications advice for various social, environmental and economic justice organisations. I have also worked as a media relations officer and communications advisor to a faculty union and political riding association.I believe that there is much to be learned from bringing the two areas together.Of course, I am also interested in all aspects of post-secondary/higher education, from the conditions for faculty, both contract/contingent and permanent, students (quality and costs of their education), and support staff (who ensure faculty and students can do what they do best).Clearly, the views that I express are my own and do not reflect in any way the university (or the management of the university) which employs me (and which presumes to speak for the university, which is really a community of teachers, students, managers and support staff, but that is another issue).Please feel free to follow me, if you are so inclined, on twitter: @Herbert_Pimlott .Ps. If you are interested in a slightly longer or more detailed statement about my research and teaching interests, you can visit my official university webpage at: http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=612&f_id=35.
Website with links to reviews
Roth: higher public and academic ‘visibility’ of each academic prior to the prize
Roth: higher public and academic ‘visibility’ of each academic prior to the prize