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Knowledge Mobilization as an Institutional P riority. David Phipps, Executive Director Research & Innovation Services York University, Toronto, Canada @researchimpact. Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan. +. http:// www.thestar.com/article/462613. Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan.
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Knowledge Mobilization as an Institutional Priority David Phipps, Executive Director Research & Innovation Services York University, Toronto, Canada @researchimpact
Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan + http://www.thestar.com/article/462613
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.
How and What? community community Knowledge Mobilization HOW WHAT collaboration Social Innovation campus campus Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society
Institutional knowledge mobilization services Knowledge Mobilization Research Summaries Research Translation Help Desk Producer Push (KT) User Pull (KT) Research Translation Help Desk Exchange (KE) co-production partnerships CBR Research Partnerships KMb Interns Social Media Research Forums KM in AM Community Based Besearch
Institutional Support for Knowledge Mobilization Executive Director Director, Innovation York Assoc. Dir.Res. Grants Director, SIRI Mgr. KMb ORS Asst ISR Specialist SSH(H) Res. Ag Officer KMb Officer Info Officer Awards Coord. Student Tech. Info Officer ISR Specialist STE(H) Student Mgr. Ind Liaison Student KMb Officer Student MI TT Officer Appl. Coord. Grants Admin. Research Directors Student Research Officers Res. Employee YUSA CPM
University Drivers 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?
So what? KMb in their own words… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmIWbsMO93w&list=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4aZPoWAheQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video
David Phipps dphipps@yorku.ca http://www.researchimpact.ca @researchimpact