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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 …
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 …
The Centre for Effective Practice announces an upcoming Clinical Practice Guidelines Institute (CPGI), scheduled to take place at the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, on April 24–25, 2010. The CPGI is intended for those individuals and organizations currently engaged in developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines in Canada who wish to expand their knowledge …
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 …
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. …
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 …
http://www.workopolis.com/EN/job/11119344?RSS=Y Knowledge Mobilization Program Managers (2 positions) Office of Associate Vice-President (Research) Agri-Food and Partnerships Temporary full time from November 2009 to April 2013 The Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) initiative established under the enhanced OMAFRA-University of Guelph partnership agreement renewed in 2008 is designed to accelerate the transformation of knowledge into use. This new …
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 …
Good Afternoon, It is my pleasure to announce that Linda Hawkins has contributed the 4th story in the Knowledge Broker Story Series. I really like that she pushes us outside the “normal” guidelines – “My starting point in working with community organizations or individuals is not to produce documents that follow social marketing guidelines.” She …