Knowledge Mobilization as an Institutional Priority

David Phipps, Executive DirectorResearch & Innovation ServicesYork 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 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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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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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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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=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4aZPoWAheQ&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?

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