presentation on supporting research impact strategies in grant applications, for Canadian Assoc. Research Administrators October 14, 2016

1. Are you having an impact on impact?
David Phipps (York University, Canada)
@researchimpact

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Question

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No, not THAT type of impact

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Knowledge Mobilization
community
campus
campus
community
ImpactHOW WHAT
Knowledge mobilization helps make
research useful to society by supporting
engaged scholarship from inception to
impact
Oh, you mean THAT type of impact

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Oh, you mean THAT type of impact

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pathway for knowledge mobilization and impact
Activity Output Outcome
Impact
Dissemination Uptake ImplementationCo-production

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co produced pathway to impact

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Question

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York University KMb Unit Services
• Knowledge brokering
• Event planning
• Capacity building
• Support for grant applications

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co produced pathway to impact

13. 13–http://www.kmbtoolkit.ca/

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KMb Plan Element Description
Partners / Engagement Before a Principal Investigators think about what they want to do they
need to start with the partnerships/receptors and forms of engagement
with identified audiences. Involve them in the KMb planning
Goal Frame the project in terms what you want to achieve and how you plan
to achieve it.
• Overall Objective: high level, long horizon
• Specific Goals: more granular, measurable; achieving goals by
undertaking activities (below) at each stage of the impact pathway
Activities Activities need to be mapped to specific audiences and correlates to
goals and objective. Activities need to speak to academic and non-
academic audiences and are designed to move the project along the
impact pathway
Evaluation A longitudinal look at the results of the knowledge mobilization plan,
specific indicators at each stage of the impact pathway. Impacts are
measured at level of end user/receptor/partner.
Budget Not a 10 hour/week student
Elements of a Knowledge Mobilization Plan

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Phipps, D.J., Jensen, K.E., Johnny, M., Poetz, A. (2016) Supporting knowledge
mobilization and research impact strategies in grant applications. Journal of
Research Administration. In press

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Faculty Engaged in Knowledge Mobilization
331
Graduate Students Engaged in Knowledge Mobilization 186
Information Sessions 683
Brokering Opportunities 484
Knowledge Mobilization Projects / Activities 177 / 118
Partnership Organizations 306
Community Funding $1.14 M
Contract Funding $1.24 M
External Research Funding $47.50 M
KMb York 2006-2016

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KMb tools
KT Planning template:
• http://melaniebarwick.com/training.php
KMb Tool Kit:
• http://www.kmbtoolkit.ca/
Clear Language Research Summaries:
• http://srconline.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/44/119
Knowledge brokering
• http://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10315/29459/Phipps%20J
ohnny%20Wedlock%20Engaged%20Scholar%20J%202015.pdf?sequence=1&is
Allowed=y
Social Media:
• http://bit.ly/SUGzYu

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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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Structure/Function
Central Research Services
Research Partnership
Office
Community Based
Research
Economic Development
Public Engagement
Living Lab
Decentralized
Policy focus

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