CFICE’s Knowledge Mobilization Hub

Community Co-LeadGeri Briggs, Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning

Academic Co-lead
Elizabeth Whitmore, Professor Emeritus at 杏吧原创 University

Knowledge Mobilization encompasses all of the activities and tools created to help research be used practically.

The Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) hub provided knowledge mobilization services to the CFICE project as a whole. This hub also lead聽 focused on explaining the role of knowledge mobilization within a variety of community-campus partnerships.

The KMb hub worked from the position that knowledge mobilization is:

  • An expanding field
  • Has an underlying goal of increasing the real-world application of research.

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Knowledge Mobilization聽News, Resources, and Research

Check out the KMb聽Hub’s news, resources, and research below.

Friday, April 5, 2019

Join the CCEC Steering Committee — Apply by April 22, 2019

Call for Applications -聽Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) Steering Committee The mission of Community Campus Engage Canada (CCEC) is to contribute to thriving, just, and sustainable societies by growing connections, capacity, and infrastructure for community-driven collaboration with post-secondary institutions across Canada. CCEC emerges... More

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

A conversation about disability in the workplace

Conversations about disability in the workplace are long overdue. In this lively podcast, CFICE team members Kristina Reed, Kawsar Mohamed, and Nicole Bedford have a frank conversation about the challenges and rewards of being open to sharing, listening, and working together to make workplaces more accessible to all. Access a PDF version of the... More

Friday, November 23, 2018

Make your research matter (in the real world): 5 simple steps

by Barbara Szijarto, member of CFICE's Evaluation and Analysis Working Group As researchers, we overcome countless hurdles to answer important questions. We care 鈥� passionately 鈥� about our methods, our data and our findings. We do it because we want to contribute to a better world. We don鈥檛 do it just to talk with... More

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

What is Community-Campus Engagement?

by Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA Taking a community first approach to community-campus engagement (CCE) is a cornerstone to the work CFICE does, but it鈥檚 impossible to be community first without the input and participation of community organizations. Community-based organizations (CBOs) such as non-profit, non-governmental, or charitable... More

Thursday, May 17, 2018

The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Power

By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part three of a three-part series on the ABC鈥檚 of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we鈥檝e identified some strategies for sharing power. This article draws from interviews and focus... More

Friday, May 11, 2018

The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Resources

By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part two of a three-part series on the ABC鈥檚 of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we鈥檝e identified some strategies for sharing resources in a way that empowers the community... More

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

The ABCs of CCE: Sharing Responsibilities

By Chelsea Nash, CFICE Communications RA This is part one of a three-part series on the ABC鈥檚 of CCE Partnerships, where we share some of the most important things to keep in mind when engaging in a CCE Partnership. Here, we鈥檝e identified some of the main things we鈥檝e found important to consider when taking... More

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Impact Strategy Assessment Checklist for Grant Applications

In January 2018, York University and the KT Core of Kids Brain Health Network partnered to assemble a checklist for assessing the completeness of knowledge mobilization strategies for research projects and grant applications. This checklist can be used聽by individual researchers, project teams, and/or impact practitioners.This checklist can... More

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Call for Content: 2018 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum — Deadline March 30, 2018

The Institute for Knowledge Mobilization is inviting practitioners, researchers, academics, activists, social innovators, research funders, science educators and communicators, citizen scientists, policy-makers, non-governmental organizations, artists, interested community groups, and citizens to share their views and experience on innovative... More

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Humans of CFICE: Erin Martel

by Erin Martel, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) is a project that aims to foster existing community-campus partnerships and identify new ways that post-secondary institutions and community organizations can better work together. Sharing information between these stakeholders is an... More

Friday, July 21, 2017

Target Audiences: A lesson on fitting the message to the reader

by Magda Goemans, CFICE Evaluation and Analysis Research Assistant As the Evaluation and Analysis Working Group continues to consider lessons learned from Phase I hub demonstration projects, we are assembling recommendations for effective community-campus engagement (CCE) that have come out of these experiences. In thinking about how best to... More

Friday, June 30, 2017

5 tips for sharing your research on social media

By Kate Wetterstrand, CFICE Secretariat Research Assistant In an age where social media is one of the most prominent and efficient ways of sharing information, it is important that, as researchers, we 鈥渞ecognize our social and digital media efforts as part of the research process.鈥� In a project like CFICE, we aim to be... More

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Radio Documentary: Partnering for Change

The Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project has accomplished alot in the first four years of the project. In Partnering for Change, a radio documentary created by CFICE volunteer Julie Bourassa, CFICE partners reflect on the personal and community impacts the CFICE project has had in Phase I. Download a PDF copy... More

Friday, April 21, 2017

Job Opportunity: Fanshawe College seeks Research Facilitator

Fanshawe College is searching for a Research Facilitator to work with聽the Chair, Community and Industry Research, Centre for Research and Innovation. The Research Facilitator will be tasked to research, identify, analyze, and communicate funding opportunities for research and innovation opportunities. 聽The Research assistant will also coordinate... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Job Opportunity: University of Saskatchewan seeks Knowledge Mobilization Specialist – Apply by 4:30pm, April 18, 2017

The University of Saskatchewan is searching for a Knowledge Mobilization (KM) specialist to assist with a $77.8-million grant entitled Global Water Futures (GWF). GWF is intended to transform the way communities, governments and industries in Canada, and other cold regions of the world, prepare for and manage increasing water-related threats. A... More

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Journal Article and Plain Language Podcast: Information into knowledge – Navigating complexity in the CCE context

In this paper, titled Information into knowledge: navigating the complexity in the campus community engagement context,聽the authors聽draw on two case studies from a current research project investigating the impact of campus-community engagement (CCE) to examine how the fundamental functions for effective knowledge mobilization were used. The K*... More

Friday, March 10, 2017

Video: Building a Better Webinar – Webinar Recording

On Thursday, March 9, 2017 CFICE presented its first webinar in its new webinar series. Titled,聽Building a better webinar: A view through experience and research into best practices, the webinar presenters, Jeannie An and Jill Bedford, walked attendees through聽key tips and pointers for creating the best possible webinar to聽reach your target... More

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Report and Plain Language Podcast: Webinar Best Practices – A Summary of Existing Recommendations

Despite what the name and definition of 鈥榳ebinar鈥� might have you believe (i.e. 鈥渨eb-based seminar鈥�), webinars aren鈥檛 just seminars presented in an online environment. Of course, many have jumped on the webinar bandwagon with the idea that they can easily translate an in-person presentation to a webinar platform. But the major difference... More

Monday, February 27, 2017

A Webinar on Webinars! Why you should attend!

by Carly Foubert, CFICE Communications RA We鈥檝e all attended webinars before. They鈥檙e interesting in theory and have so much potential, but in practice, it's often difficult to stay engaged in the topic. That鈥檚 why we're doing a webinar on webinars! On Thursday, March 9, from 2-3pm EST, join us for Building a better webinar:... More

Monday, November 21, 2016

Social Innovation and Universities

by Omar Elsharkawy, CFICE Admin RA Social innovation has become a trendy word that gets thrown around a lot and for good reason. Social innovation is becoming increasingly popular in the community development, and community-campus engagement sectors. To understand what social innovation is and why it鈥檚 important for community-campus engagement,... More

Monday, November 14, 2016

How Community-Campus Partnerships for Health uses Community Based Participatory Research

by Carly Foubert, CFICE Communications RA Traditional research follows a top-down approach with specific roles in the process: there is a researcher and there is a subject of study. 聽Although the study may follow an empiricist or an interpretivist approach, the researcher has rule over the direction of the study, method selected (mainly... More

Friday, October 21, 2016

Presentation: Sharing CCE Insights with Second Year Social Work Students

On October 3, CFICE's Bessa Whitmore was a guest speaker for聽a second year undergrad course on Research Methods at Dalhousie University's School of Social Work. During this talk, Bessa shared some of her own experiences with community-campus engagement (CCE) work, including some of the opportunities and challenges she's encountered. The goal was... More

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Have No Fear, its Crystal Clear: What Successful Science Publications can teach us about Knowledge Mobilization

by Carly Foubert, CFICE Communications RA Science can be scary. It can be complex, overwhelming, and difficult to understand at times鈥攆rustrating even. But it doesn鈥檛 have to be that way. Movies and television may have propagated the image of the crazed and frenzied scientist for years, but its time to ditch that stereotype! And... More

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

5 Trends for Mobilizing Research in 2016

by Carly Foubert, CFICE Communications RA Within the realm of academia, knowledge mobilization is considered an essential aspect of research, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Universities tap into many knowledge mobilization tips and tricks to access a broader audience and make information regarding programs, events, and the... More

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Humans of CFICE: Elizabeth Whitmore

by Amy Richardson, CFICE Communications RA Since the beginning of the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project in 2012, Elizabeth (Bessa) Whitmore has held聽a lead role on the team. Whitmore was the co-lead of the Knowledge Mobilization Hub in the first phase of CFICE, and now is transitioning to the CCE Brokering... More

Friday, July 1, 2016

Uniting Canada’s Vision with the Campfire Project

by Amy Richardson, CFICE Communications RA Today, for Canada鈥檚 149th birthday, we celebrate all the things that make us proud to be Canadian. We do that in different ways 鈥� from sporting the maple leaf, to eating a Beavertail, watching fireworks or sharing a story around a campfire. Together, we unite for one day... More

Friday, June 24, 2016

Knowledge Mobilization Planning Toolkit

Does your organization need to convey a message but you keep hitting road bumps? Stuck trying to figure out who exactly your audience is and how to engage them? Or maybe you're struggling to decide how to bring partners to the table or what resources you'll need? Fret no more! This interactive knowledge mobilization... More

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Social Sciences and Knowledge Mobilization

by聽Mitchell White-Richard, CFICE volunteer While it may appear simple, mobilizing knowledge is something quite complex. There are many factors that tie into how knowledge is shared and accessed, which is where a lot of the complexities lie. Social sciences are able to shed light onto what knowledge mobilization is and how we share and... More

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Writing for the Web: 5 Easy Tips

  by Julie Bourassa, CFICE Volunteer Writing blog posts and articles can be daunting 鈥� especially if聽you're used to writing academically! But CFICE does a lot of interesting and important work, and we want to share this information. To help with this effort, CFICE members聽are encouraged to write and contribute content for CFICE鈥檚... More

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Catching up with past CFICE students – Christine Ackerley

by Amy Richardson, CFICE Communications聽RA What started as a part time job during university, turned into a passion. Christine Ackerley worked with the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project during her undergraduate degree in Journalism at 杏吧原创 University. From September 2014 to May 2015, Ackerley assisted the... More

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Plain Language Podcast: Transformative Research as Knowledge Mobilization

This plain language podcast is based on an article titled Transformative Research as Knowledge Mobilization: Transmedia, bridges, and layers聽by聽Colin R. Anderson and St茅phane M. McLachlan. In their article,聽they discuss several different strategies for making academic research more accessible. Download a copy of the podcast transcript. Podcast... More

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Report: Closing the Loop – Community Engaged Pedagogy in Business Courses

Closing the Loop: Community Engaged Pedagogy in Business Courses is a CACSL and 杏吧原创 Raven's Den-funded CFICE evaluation project that looks at聽the impact on Sprott School of Business's聽community partners of adopting a community service learning approach to pedagogy. Over a number of years and across a variety of courses, Sprott has... More

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Partners in Action: University of Victoria’s Office of Community-Based Research

by Carly Foubert, CFICE Volunteer The Office of Community-Based Research at the University of Victoria is a partner of CFICE鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) hub. For the past three and a half years they have been working in conjunction with local community organizations, university students, and faculty on a project titled 鈥淓mbracing community... More

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Presentation: KMb Partner Shares ‘Embracing Community Outcomes’ Learnings

On February 3, 2016, partners of the Knowledge Mobilization hub聽research project,聽Embracing community outcomes: Using student engagement as knowledge mobilization, came together over breakfast to share and discuss the themes emerging as part of their聽project findings. The project聽examined student experiences of community-campus engagement, and... More

Friday, April 1, 2016

Tool: Knowledge Mobilization Outline

Have you ever wished you had a basic outline that would take you through the various questions you need to answer in order to formulate a knowledge mobilization plan for your organization? If so, look no further! The Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Hub of Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) has you covered. Download... More

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