description of York KMb Unit as well as KMb tools

1. What’s all the fuss about
knowledge mobilization?
David Phipps, PhD, MBA
Executive Director, Research & Innovation Services
York University

2. “We must translate our
research findings in the
human sciences into public
policy and social programs”
“Knowledge Transfer in the
human sciences – the
transfer of findings into
policy and programs – is as
important as technology
transfer in the engineering
and natural sciences.”
Maximize the Impact of Research: Martha Piper (2002)

3. KMb – 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.

4. KMb Stories

5. http://www.youtube.com/researchimpact#p/a/u/0/J15_lBz5mYU
Green Economy Centre

6. South Simcoe: Green Economy Centre
The Green Economy Centre:
an innovative research and
education program that
initiates, supports and
facilitates green economic best
practices, ensuring that the
rural South Simcoe economy is
healthy and sustainable.
http://www.nottawasaga.com/get

7. South Simcoe: Green Economy Centre
Launched: April 2010
Funded: Summer 2010
September 2011:
•604 business contacted
•507 individual visits
•39% interest in Green Economy
programs
•8 loans (total +$1M), 0% interest
approved for green projects creating
18 jobs and maintaining 221 jobs

8. +
Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan
http://www.thestar.com/article/462613

9. Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan

10. Youth Emergency Shelter - Peterborough
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKW8SJOylnw

11. Youth Emergency Shelter - Peterborough
Challenges
• Structural
budget deficit
• Revolving door
Impacts
• Social work students get
better training experience
• YES gets better trained
employees
• Clients reduce length of stay
• Generate revenue stream
• MTCU funding $60K
• 4 publications, PhD prize
book in progress
Social enterprise
YorkKMbUnit

12. KMb Tools: ResearchSnapshot

13. 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

14. What can you do if you don’t have a KMb Unit?

15. Partnerships for KM throughout the Research Cycle
Evaluate
Plan
ExecuteDisseminate
Consultation
Partnerships
Research forum
Populations
Clinical practice
Intervention
studies
Internships
Researcher
exchange
Surveys, case studies, expert panelists
Wikis, blogs
Web site
Town hall
Theatre
Posters
Policy brief
PSA
Practice
guideline
Popular press
Social
Marketing
public policy
professional practice

16. KMb tools
Integrated Knowledge Mobilization: how to support collaborations for co-
production
http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/bitstream/handle/10315/10236/Phipps%20SRC%20
Field%20Note%202011.pdf?sequence=1
End of project knowledge mobilization: dissemination for non-academic
audiences
KT Planning template:
• http://melaniebarwick.com/document/Scientist_Knowledge_Translation_Plan_Tem
plate_Sept%2020_2011_Fillable_Form.doc
Clear Language Research Summaries:
• http://srconline.ca/index.php/src/article/viewFile/44/119
Social Media:
• http://bit.ly/SUGzYu
• A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2011/09/29/twitter-guide/

17. KMb for SSHRC Insight Grants
Dissemination Integrated
Academic
Audience
 Traditional scholarly publication and
creative production
 End of grant workshop or conference
 Academic conference presentation
 Web posting of research outputs, posting
video of choreography
ROs can support the development of
traditional scholarly dissemination strategies.
 Academic collaborators on grant
 Scholarly workshops throughout the grant
 Hosting a wiki or blog to create two-way
conversation with other academics to discuss
emerging findings
 Workshop with peers to reflect on emerging
research findings
ROs can support the integration of academic
audiences throughout the research project.
Non-
academic
Audience
 Clear language research summary (see
service offered by KMb Unit)
 Theatre and other non-traditional forms
of research dissemination
 Social media
York’s KMb Unit has distributed a worksheet
to for ROs to use to help faculty disseminate
to non-academic audiences at the end of the
grant.
 Non-academic collaborators or co-applicants
on grant application
 Workshop, town hall, open house
 Hosting a wiki or blog to create 2 way
conversation with non-academics to discuss
emerging findings
 Audit and feedback using panel of non-
academic stakeholders within the grant period
 Participatory action/community based
research
Please contact Michael Johnny
(mjohnny@yorku.ca) for support developing
integrated KMb strategies Note 1.

18. Note 1: Integrated KMb takes time.
“Requests to broker relationships with new collaborators will need 4-6
months to find potential partners, develop trust, mutually develop a
statement of work and develop an appropriate budget. If non-academic
audiences, partners and collaborators are already known, please
contact Michael Johnny for support to develop integrated KMb with non-
academic audiences by September 15 at the latest. Support for non-
academic integrated KMb will be available from the KMb Unit
throughout the funded grant period and Michael Johnny will develop an
in kind costing for that support.”
Oh yeah…

19. Training for KMb
SickKids Hospital: Scientist Knowledge Translation Training
• http://www.sickkids.ca/Learning/AbouttheInstitute/Programs/Knowle
dge-Translation/Scientist-Knowledge-Translation-Training-
Workshop/Scientist-Knowledge-Tranlation-Training-Workshop.html
SickKids Hospital: Knowledge Transfer Professional Certificate
• http://www.sickkids.ca/Learning/AbouttheInstitute/Programs/Knowle
dge-Translation/Knowledge-Translation-Professional-
Certificate/Knowledge-Translation-Professional-Certificate.html
Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum, June 19-20, Ottawa
• http://www.kmbforum2012.org/

20. Knowledge Mobilization - Lessons Learning
Combination of producer
push & user pull =
exchange & co-production
Knowledge broker is core
to institutional capacity
KMb enables social
innovation
Impact takes time
It’s not rocket science (or
is it?)

21. So what? KMb in their own words…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmIWbsMO93w&list=FLkz8O0mnDbgER4a
ZPoWAheQ&index=1&feature=plpp_video

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