Past Events

Join us for the second installment of our six-part Skills for Research Impact workshop series! Engaging your audiences meaningfully is a critical aspect of an effective knowledge mobilization strategy. Reflect on how to connect with relevant stakeholders and support knowledge exchange throughout your research process to achieve your impact goals. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Wondering how anti-oppression can inform knowledge mobilization (KMb)? You’re not alone! Hilda Smith spent their whole PhD wondering how to avoid issues with sharing knowledge related to social oppression. Join the Waterloo Wellington Knowledge Mobilization Community on January 21 to learn a few ways to bring anti-oppression into your KMb work.

Join us for the first installment of our six-part Skills for Research Impact workshop series! This first session is knowledge mobilization 101. Become familiar with how to plan for research impact and conceptualize strategies adapted to your goals and audiences

The knowledge translation (KT) cycle doesn’t end after the production of tools or implementation of strategies. Taking your work a step further with thoughtful evaluation is imperative to ensuring your project has hit its mark. This presentation will discuss how you can use anchors, anvils, and maybe other forms of alliteration, to help you measure the impact of your KT strategies.

Community engaged teaching and learning (CETL) offers a wide range of creative and engaging possibilities for assessing and documenting student learning and driving progress toward achieving meaningful community priorities. These possibilities are exciting but can also illuminate complexities among institutional and community goals for learning, engagement processes, and outputs.

Evaluating KTT Activities When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your knowledge mobilization efforts. Speaker: Anne Bergen, Knowledge to Action Consulting By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

The first session of the CETL & Critical Pedagogy Learning Circle will feature a presentation from Samantha Blostein, a staff member and former course instructor who will discuss her approaches to course-based community partnerships which facilitate meaningful learning for students while enacting social change from a justice lens. We will begin with a facilitated conversation with Samantha who will highlight various dimensions of CETL partnerships created through a 3rd-year International Development course entitled "Engaging in Development Practice".

This brief workshop will introduce participants to the practice of Digital Storytelling for research communication. Our experienced facilitators will take a deep dive into the components, elements, and benefits of Digital Storytelling, and will also lead activities to demonstrate the application of these principles. This introductory workshop will prompt participants to begin conceptualizing an idea for communicating their own research through Digital Storytelling methods.

Are you a graduate student or early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences?

How do you share your research with non-academic audiences? Learn about a number of potential mechanisms you can use for knowledge mobilization, discover how to choose a mechanism that’s appropriate for your audience, and take a deep dive into several popular mechanisms for dissemination, including social media, research summaries, infographics, and media.  Speaker: Elizabeth Shantz, Knowledge Mobilization Manager, Research Innovation Office By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to: