KTECOP Survey: Help us plan our 2010/2011 meetings and workshops
Dear Community,
We are delighted to tell you that the KTECOP has received funding from CIHR to support our meetings and workshops in 2010/2011. In late November 2009, we submitted a grant application entitled “Knowledge Translation Community of Practice Linkages and Meetings” to the CIHR Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Program. Our application was approved for $7,950. Out of 37 applications submitted, ours was ranked tenth!
Given that we had a very short deadline to meet, the KTECOP organizing committee took the lead and very quickly drafted and submitted a proposal request. We regret that the timelines simply did not allow for consultation with the membership. That is why we are writing to you today, because we now have a chance to ask you for your input and to fine tune the program to best meet the needs of our members.
Our stated purpose in the proposal was to create a network of interested KTE practitioners and researchers that incorporates the principles of community of practice theory. We listed the following purposes:
- Share KTE practices and experience
- Build peer relationships for information exchange and support
- Build KTE capacity, including understanding of best practices and new evidence, for practitioners and researchers
- Advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness
- KTE events, job opportunities and other related KTE activities
We proposed a series of seven meetings to take place in 2010/2011 and identified topics, presenters and persons responsible for their organization. Included in this were sessions with Dr. Carole Estabrooks, University of Alberta, on research in knowledge translation; Dwayne van Eerd, Institute for Work and Health, on the results of a systematic review examining the quality and types of performance measures used to assess KT implementation, effectiveness and impact; and Jacqueline Tetroe, CIHR, on when to utilize integrated KT or end-of grant KT. There were four other sessions relating to knowledge brokering, KT certification, KT 2.0 and social media, and the annual Winter Solstice meeting. The first three of these are being confirmed with the presenters, the others are open to your input.
Please give us your ideas and we will do our best to craft a program that will both meet the objectives we have set for ourselves, and the needs of our growing and diverse membership. We have created a brief online survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ktecop2010
In advance, thank you for your interest and feedback. If you can respond by Monday, February 22, at 5 pm, that would be most helpful. We will share the results of the survey with you and once again thank you for getting back to us.
Best regards,
Desre Kramer and the organizing committee
This is a fabulous website. So nice to look at and to negotiate through. Would love to get in touch with the webmaster to give him/her some work!
Dee Kramer
Dee,
Good luck with this event. I hope to read some interesting results from your conversations. Unfortunately, Unfortunately, I am not able to join you as I am in Phoenix from Oct 13 to 17th.
Peter
Great idea – I’d be happy to participate! Glad you are feeling better.
Hello Community –
It looks like we will create a terrific series of stories about being a knowledge broker.
So far, I have positive interest from:
Josee Duquette
David Phipps
Melanie Barwick
Daryl Rock
Angie Hart
Kirsten Sears
Heather Bullock
David Yetman
Hal de Lair
(I hope I haven’t forgotten anybody, I was away last week and have still not finished the email pile.)
Let me know if others are interested in contributing something.
As I mentioned above, the content is quite open – conversational, key lessons, 400-800 words about your experience as a knowledge broker/catalyst/leader.
The stories will be posted at both
http://www.knowledgemobilization.net
http://knowledgemobilizationworks.blogspot.com
David – are you able to share the slides or notes from these sessions?
Thanks.
Peter
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I do apologize, but we are now fully booked for Carole Estabrooks’ workshop. We will bring her back next year for those who were not lucky enough to hear her this year. Thanks for all who put in their names so quickly. with best wishes, Desre Kramer
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Hi Sarah,
I am trying to do exactly the same thing – start a network of people who are conducting research on KT. My mandate is the province of Ontario (in Canada), in particular scientists conducting cancer control health services research associated with the OICR (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research). I’m just in the process of conducting a needs assessment to get a better idea of what kinds of tools, etc. they would like to use to start the network. I will definitely be starting a mailing list and a web site. The nature of the site will vary depending on the results of the needs assessment and may as simple as a few pages explaining what we do or be full fledged social networking type of environment.
What group are you working with? What are your plans? Would you like me to send you a copy of my needs assessment? Thanks.
Laura
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Laura O’Grady, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Knowledge Translation Research Network
Scientific Associate
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
263 McCaul Street, Room 323
Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1W7
Telephone: +1 416-978-7994
Fax: +1 416-978-4717
laura.ogrady@utoronto.ca
laura@lauraogrady.ca
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So, I’m in…
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