research mobilizing impact
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RESEARCH MOBILIZING IMPACT David Phipps, PhD. MBA, Executive Director, Research & Innovation Services @researchimpact
RESEARCH MOBILIZING IMPACT
A little about theory (what)
A little about practice (how)
A little about practitioners (who)
IMPACT LITERACY
Using Evidence
Knowledge Mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged research from inception to impact.
Knowledge Mobilization
“community”
campus
campus
“community”
Impact HOW WHAT
Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged scholarship from inception to impact
Activity Output Outcome
Impact
Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production
+ Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan
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Toronto Hot Weather Response Plan
Activity Output Outcome Impact (?)
Dissemination Uptake Implementation Co-production
Co-produced pathway to impact
Knowledge Mobilization
Communications
WHAT (theory) Anyone have a partnership story to share?
How do you get to impact?
WHAT’S MISSING?
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
York
KM
b U
nit
Characteristics mutuality equity / power humility
Determinants of Success Understand social/economic context Build capacity Build trust Mixed methods Peer* supports
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
HOW (practice) Anyone have a story to share about power?
Thank you Juley Bayley (Coventry University)
1. Identification and selection of frameworks
Melanie Barwick
Ed Stevens
Megan Harris Anne Wales
2. Collation and qualitative synthesis
94 → 80 competencies → 11 categories
• Wording modified to produce discrete, action based
statements • Ongoing iteration within team to:
− Agree categorisation − Agree competency wording
3. Final competency set 80 competencies in 11 categories 1. Change management 2. Communication 3. Creating, sourcing and synthesising (research)
knowledge 4. Evaluating impact of KT 5. Facilitating and negotiating 6. Leading, managing and driving KT 7. Managing legal issues and IP 8. Managing partnerships/relationships 9. Networking and engaging stakeholders 10. Training and capacity building 11. Understanding, creating and using KT tools, products
and practices
Sample
1. Internal communication skills 2. Developing and maintaining professional
relationships 3. Working in teams, communities and
networks 4. Managing multiple conversations 5. External communication skills 6. Active listening 7. Organizational link: acting as a connection
point to your organisation 8. Facilitating sharing of knowledge 9. Partnership and relationship management
skills and processes 10. Reporting and presenting knowledge
1. Intellectual property skills and management
2. Commercialization techniques: skills and knowledge in commercializing research
3. Managing legal issues related to knowledge translation
4. Licensing and patents 5. Conducting deals and decision
making in legal and commercial activities
6. Conducting valuations of technologies/business/IP
7. Setting up or supporting spin off / start-up businesses
1. Broad partnership and communication skills crucial
2. Commercial and legal skills are niche; highly relevant only for those whose role focuses on this.
3. Very broad range of organisations, job types, job functions, job titles: ‘One size does not fit all’
4. Internationally relevant 5. Competencies appear to split
between: 1) Core [needed by all working in KMb space]; 2) Specialised [highly focused expertise in specific areas]
6. Can inform self assessment tool
WHO (practitioners) What skills do you practice daily?
IMPACT LITERACY
Any final questions/comments?