Katrina Hitchman

Manager of Knowledge Mobilization and Training, Canadian Water Network. Katrina joined CWN in February 2009 to help manage and develop CWN’s partnership-based programs, particularly the evolving research consortia. While completing her master’s and PhD degrees in industrial and organizational psychology at the University of Waterloo, Katrina managed numerous research and organizational consulting projects and was responsible for survey design and advanced analyses on quantitative and qualitative survey data. At CWN, Katrina is applying her expertise in organizational research and data analysis by conducting and managing projects that will inform future directions for CWN programming. Recently, she completed a comparative organizational analysis examining the organizational structure and functions of Canadian and international organizations that share CWN’s mandate of using research to inform practice and policy. As CWN continues to explore consortia-based models for putting its research to work, she will focus on the development of knowledge translation tools for researchers and research users, evaluating the success of CWN programs, and pursing opportunities to enhance CWN’s profile as a leading knowledge translation and brokering organization.