Ontario Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice

Hello,
I am looking forward to the June 17th event. (If the weather holds, I’ll drive my Vespa to Toronto.)
After a hectic period from January to May working for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, I am back and busy with the growth of Knowledge Mobilization Works.
Last week, at the Congress of the Social Sciences and [...]

Hello KTECOP Community,
It is my privilege to bring you a new story by Alex Bielak called: From Science to Science Communication to Knowledge Brokering. Alex is the Director, S&T Liaison, S&T Strategies Directorate at Environment Canada. He brings a great personal story of his travels from grad student to knowledge broker.  I recognize some of [...]

Description de Poste: Courtier du savoir
Le Centre canadien de lutte contre l’alcoolisme et les toxicomanies (CCLAT) a pour mandat législatif d’assurer un leadership à l’échelle nationale et de fournir des analyses et des conseils factuels afin de mobiliser les efforts de collaboration visant à réduire les méfaits liés à l’alcool et aux autres drogues. Le [...]

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Position Profile: Knowledge Broker
The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) has a legislated mandate to provide national leadership and evidence-informed analysis and advice to mobilize collaborative efforts to reduce alcohol and other drug-related harms. CCSA is looking for a Knowledge Broker, reporting to the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange. The [...]

Good Evening,
I have published two stories about knowledge brokering that are focused on focusing on the user/consumer/demand side of the equation.
Hal De Lair has written about an example of the tool he told us about in story one – He emphasizing putting the consumer in the middle of the process.
Daryl Rock brings us his key [...]

Good Afternoon,
The ninth knowledge broker story comes to us from Jonathan Green at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.  He brings us some great concepts.  I really like the concept of “carewords”.  I like the imagery of a tool belt of skills that are forever being sharpened or traded out. Jonathan brings experience [...]

Good Evening,
I hope the dinner went really well. Would have loved to join you.
It is my privilege to bring you a new knowledge broker story from Daryl Rock.  Although he is now based in Vancouver, Daryl was the Director of Strategic Programs at SSHRC in Ottawa and sought to “operationalize” knowledge mobilization in the social [...]

Good Friday,
I hope you all had a productive week.  It is my pleasure to announce that the 7th Knowledge Broker Story – Lasting Interpersonal Relationships – comes to us via Dr. Ben Levin, Canada Research Chair in Leadership and Educational Change at OISE, and former Deputy Minister of Education in both Manitoba and Ontario.  There [...]

Good Afternoon,
Our friend and colleague, Michael Johnny at York University has contributed the latest Knowledge Broker Story.
In “From Cleaning Streetlights to KMb!”, he tells us about the journey to working in knowledge mobilization.
I really liked this quote: With no clear blueprint on how to develop an institutional knowledge mobilization unit, I was led by values [...]

Good Morning,
This has been a good week for interesting stories from knowledge brokers.  Angie Hart at the University of Brighton has contributed the latest story: Knowledge brokering through partnership work.  I love how she is using Resilient Therapy Communities of Practice’ (RT CoPs) set up on the south coast of England to help children with [...]