Presentation made to the National Coordinating Centre on Public Engagement July 11, 2013

1. Knowledge Mobilization as an
Institutional Priority
David Phipps, Executive Director
Research & Innovation Services
York 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 Forums
KM in AM
Research Partnerships
KMb Interns
Social 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 41
Community Partner funding raised $1.1M
Research Contract funding raised $1.2M
Total KMb associated grant funding raised $33.6M

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University Drivers
Internal External
Program Mix External Funding Environment
Academic Planning: Provost’s White
Paper
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=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4a
ZPoWAheQ&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?

16. David Phipps
dphipps@yorku.ca
http://www.researchimpact.ca
@researchimpact