Thank you to everybody who attended last week’s introductory webinar on how to communicate science in the fact of disinformation or when nobody’s listening. We are now accepting registrations to the full workshop (1-2-hour online sessions on June 22, 23, 24). Find out more here: https://researchimpactacademy.com/workshop-communication-in-post-truth-world/
In collaboration with Australia’s Research Impact Academy, OpenTheBox Ltd is offering a free introductory webinar to communicating science in the disinformation age. Please join us on June 1 (evening for North America) for this short, interactive learning event. Sign up: https://researchimpactacademy.com/webinar-sylviane-duval/
It’s not much fun communicating science these days, is it? Opinion seems to count more than facts. Everybody’s got their back up about something. And every subject seems to be a target for polarization—starting with covid-19 and running all the way from climate change, agricultural technology (eg: gene editing, glyphosate), food (eg: gluten, fad diets) …
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Join us and Dr. Sarah Munro (2016 Trainee, 2019 Scholar) on May 29 for a special KT Connects webinar on doing knowledge translation in a pandemic. KT Connects is a series of knowledge translation training webinars featuring BC-based experts. Join us this month as 2016 Trainee and 2019 Scholar Dr. Sarah Munro discusses “How to do knowledge …
Change is hard. Learning about implementation science can help. Inspiring Change, a free mini-course, provides easy-to-follow guidance on how to use best practices from implementation science to improve outcomes. Implementation science looks at how to move ideas and innovations into action. It can help you break down the process of explaining and enacting change into …
Register today for the next KT Connects – a series of knowledge translation training webinars featuring BC-based experts! Join us this month as Dr. Clayon Hamilton talks about “Measuring the quality of patient engagement as partners on research projects” “Partnerships between researchers and patients to work together on projects is becoming increasingly central to health research in …
Register today for the next KT Connects – a series of knowledge translation training webinars featuring BC-based experts! This month, Dr. Heather McKay (Professor, Faculty of Medicine at UBC) will join us to present on “Shining a light on the implementation to scale-up continuum – how does it apply to health promoting innovations?” “Health interventions are important …
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Do you communicate science or knowledge to stakeholders, the public, patients, parents? Do you have to debunk myths or celebrity-driven nonsense? Is your message getting through? Thanks to a growing distrust of science, the establishment, authority and expertise (not to mention the growing footprint of celebrities, social media, narcissism-related behaviours, fake news and plain old …
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KT Connects, a series of beginner-level training webinars for researchers and trainees, returns to the airwaves in 2020. Kicking off the new year will be Karine Souffez, associate director of knowledge exchange at UBC. Karine will present the exciting work of UBC’s new Knowledge Exchange (Kx) Unit and how they are working to engage the academic community. She …
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Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2020 The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum was created in 2012 as a professional development forum for practitioners and professionals working in knowledge mobilization across fields and sectors. The theme for 2020 is: Welcoming New Talent, Skills, and Perspectives The welcoming theme honours the history of Pier 21 and new talent, skills, …
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