Comments for Ontario Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice

Comment on Looking for KT training in the area of clinical research. by Melanie Barwick

Melanie Barwick — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:43:54 +0000

Hi Scott,
Just sent you a direct email re: Scientist Knowledge Translation Training course.
Regards,
Melanie Barwick

Comment on KB & Communications roles in KTE by Dave Walker

Dave Walker — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:05:46 +0000

Hi Paula,

We’re struggling with the same thing at the Mental Health Commission, and it’s worse in my position on the web team – I’m officially assigned to our KE group but work very closely with Comms (I joke about having two managers).

Basically, we have a KE person and a Comms person on every project. KE handles the webinars/CoPs/report dissemination/etc., and liaison with the project team, while the Comms team handles media relations, press releases, news events and so on. It’s not a perfect split, but it’s not bad.

I come from a corporate marketing background, and approach KE with much more of a marketing view than a traditional KE view. Some of my solutions are more Comms/Marketing than pure KE, especially online. This creates some raised eyebrows among the KE folk, but Comms understands what I’m doing. I’m not sure what the appropriate split is – it’s a Venn diagram with more overlap than discrete circles.

I think the KBs and the Comms people have a lot to teach each other. We’ve forced a lot of overlap at the Commission, and things are working out pretty well.

Comment on Assessing the Impact of Research and Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Activities: What, Why, When and How? by Assessing Research Impact « KMbeing

Assessing Research Impact « KMbeing — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:03:27 +0000

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Comment on What really makes an impact? Understanding research use in different contexts. by Renee Charbonneau Smith

Renee Charbonneau Smith — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:57:42 +0000

I would like to attend this event, but would like some clarification, June 6th is a Monday, June 7th is a Tuesday. What day is the event on?

Renee

Comment on New podcast featuring Jane Gibson of IWH by Featuring A Knowledge Mobilizer: Jane Brenneman Gibson « KMbeing

Featuring A Knowledge Mobilizer: Jane Brenneman Gibson « KMbeing — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:05:41 +0000

[...] the podcast is only available to registered members on the websites of the KTExhange or the Ontario KTE CoP. (For a brief overview about Research Into Action see one of my previous blogs comparing RIA with [...]

Comment on Research-Based Dance as Knowledge Translation by The art of going beyond peer review / L’art de dépasser la revue par les pairs « Mobilize This!

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:36:45 +0000

[...] Community Arts Practice Certificate Program. The KTE Community of Practice presented a seminar on Research-Based Dance as Knowledge Translation. PREVNet, which has an explicit KMb mandate, consulted on the libretto of an opera about bullying, [...]

Comment on What KTE Journals do you read? by Peter Levesque

Peter Levesque — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:33:30 +0000

Thank you for this David.

I was wondering how people assess the relative importance of one journal over another.

Impact factor is something I often hear from others, however I am not sure if they really know what the ratio means. The wikipedia article is a useful start: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor) to understanding impact factors.

How do you determine the relative importance of a journal to your work in knowledge mobilization?

Comment on What KTE Journals do you read? by David Phipps

David Phipps — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:58:18 +0000

I read Evidence & Policy

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ep

Comment on KT Supplement Funding Opportunity – CIHR by Sue Cragg

Sue Cragg — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:37:32 +0000

I’ve heard that this initiative is getting a LOT of inquiries. So… the bad news is it will be highly competitive. The good news is that perhaps this one-off funding initiative will have sufficient support to become a regular funding initiative. Not that any of us have a crystal ball, especially when it comes to government funding programs.

Comment on Dumbing down the audience by Melanie Barwick

Melanie Barwick — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:30:04 +0000

At our June meeting for KTE CoP, we asked members to identify topics they’d like to discuss at future meetings of the community. Research utilization in policy was one nominated topic.
I have posted this blog entry above to stimulate discussion, although it is not entirely on topic, but rather focused on how we communicate with policy makers.
Feel free to comment in this space.
We will keep you posted on future meetings very shortly.