KTE News

“Bring a Friend to the CoP”: Presentations and Networking

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Bring a Friend to the CoP, June 17, 2010 Two presentations and a networking reception are planned for Thursday, June 17, 4:30-7:30pm, at the Faculty Club, University of Toronto, 41 Wilcocks Street, Toronto. Dr. Melanie Barwick (SickKids/U Toronto) will present on “Results of the KT Professionals Survey: Building a Competency Framework and Professional Certification Program” …

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Knowledge Broker Stories: From Science to Science Communication to Knowledge Brokering

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Hello KTECOP Community, It is my privilege to bring you a new story by Alex Bielak called: From Science to Science Communication to Knowledge Brokering. Alex is the Director, S&T Liaison, S&T Strategies Directorate at Environment Canada. He brings a great personal story of his travels from grad student to knowledge broker.  I recognize some …

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KTE vs Communications vs Communications about KTE

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Some may have seen some e mail traffic between me and Desre.  A web based dialogue is facilitated by using the comment feature below this post to share your ideas. My idea for a KTE CoP session is to discuss the communication messages we use about our services so that our stakeholders (researchers, decision makers, …

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New Centres of Excellence of Canada in Brain Development Seeking KT Officer

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Now recruiting a Knowledge Translation Officer for a new Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada in Brain Development. The position will be located in either Saskatoon or Vancouver. This staff member will direct knowledge transfer and exchange activities, developing plain language documents (in print and online) to disseminate knowledge and findings from NeuroDevNet, and …

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Interested in research on Knowledge Exchange?

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I am trying to set up a network of people who are currently researching knowledge exchange/research use and related issues. We hope to at least have some virtual discussion, and possibly even a couple of workshops (but as an international group that might be a little trickier). If you are interested, or know someone who …

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ResearchImpact Blog: Carole Eastabrooks

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http://researchimpact.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/guru-great-university-based-research-utilization Feel free to comment on the comment feature on the ResearchImpact blog. Thanks for setting up the session with Carole Estabrooks. David

Knowledge Translation Professionals Survey – Please participate

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Dear Colleague,

This decade marks an important time in the development of the Knowledge Translation profession. Many public sector organizations are developing positions in the KT field, while at the same time, there is an absence of formalized training, educational programs, competency standards, or remuneration benchmarks.

The Learning Institute at The Hospital for Sick Children, is working to develop a Professional KT Certification Program that will be certified/accredited by the Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development (CEPD) at the University of Toronto. The survey linked to this email (see bottom of page) marks one of the first steps to achieving this goal.

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Introductory O3 Social Networking Webinars

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2 webinars to introduce you to O3, ORION’s social networking platform that is free to Otario research and education institutions. http://www.othree.ca/webinars February 4 and February 11, 130pm York uses O3 for it’s KM social networking (http://researchimpact.othree.ca/) and we featured this platform at the KTE CoP workshop “What’s the point of 2.0?”

Knowledge Translation Award and Betty Havens Award

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Nominations are invited for the 2010 Knowledge Translation Award and Betty Havens Award. These awards honour and support the exemplary knowledge translation efforts and activities of an individual, team or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to increasing the application of research findings, improving the health of individuals, health services and products, or strengthening the health-care system. Nominations will be assessed on significant achievements in knowledge translation activities relevant to any area of health research (e.g., biomedical, clinical, health services and policy, and population and public health).

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