Ottawa Chapter: Ontario KTECoP

On February 3, 2011, the coordinating committee of the Ontario KTECoP decided to launch an Ottawa Chapter.  This means that there is now an opportunity for Ottawa-based (including Eastern Ontario) members of this community to meet face-to-face locally – as well as  joining into the Toronto meetings by teleconference.

Peter Levesque has volunteered to lead the [...]

Watch KTE in action at the Canadian Water Network’s national conference (Feb 28 – Mar 3, 2011)

Knowledge mobilization professionals who are interested in seeing firsthand the nature of discussions between members of the knowledge user and researcher communities are encouraged to attend the Canadian Water Network’s national conference, “Connecting Water Resorces,” in Ottawa ON from February 28 – March 3, 2011. More information about the conference is available at http://www.cwn-rce.ca/news-and-events/cwr2011/ [...]

Translating Research into Policy and Practice Workshops at the University of Ottawa

Knowledge Mobilization Works Director, Peter Levesque will be leading two workshops at the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Ottawa.

Translating Research into Policy and Practice is a two day workshop addressing these topics:

Identifying and establishing relationships with potential partners who can put your research to best use Creating a research-use strategy Developing [...]

Evidence in Uncertain Times: Meeting the Challenge

Registration is now open for the Canadian Cochrane Centre’s 8th annual symposium, “Evidence in Uncertain Times: Meeting the Challenge,” taking place May 19-20, 2010, in Ottawa. The symposium is open to researchers, health policy makers and managers, health professionals, and patients.

Conference themes include “Health planning – there’s nothing constant but change,” “Shared evidence, [...]