Knowledge Mobilization as an Institutional Priority

David Phipps, Executive DirectorResearch & Innovation ServicesYork University, Toronto, Canada

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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 ForumsKM in AM

Research PartnershipsKMb InternsSocial Media

Exchange(KE)

Knowledge Mobilization

partnerships CBR

co-production

Community Based Besearch

Producer

Push

(KT)

User

Pull

(KT)

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KMb Tools: ResearchSnapshot

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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 41Community Partner funding raised $1.1MResearch Contract funding raised $1.2MTotal KMb associated grant funding raised $33.6M

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Executive Director

Director, Innovation York Assoc. Dir.Res. GrantsDirector, SIRIMgr. KMb

KMb Officer

Student

Res. Ag Officer

Awards Coord.

ORS Asst

Info Officer

Tech. Info Officer

Appl. Coord.

Grants Admin.

Student

Student

CPM YUSARes. Employee

KMb Officer

Research Officers

MI TT Officer

Mgr. IndLiaison

Student

ISR Specialist SSH(H)

ISR Specialist STE(H)

Student

Research Directors

Institutional Support for Knowledge Mobilization

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University Drivers

Internal ExternalProgram Mix External Funding Environment

Academic Planning: Provost’s WhitePaper

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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So what? KMb in their own words…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmIWbsMO93w&list=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4aZPoWAheQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video

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