This video is brought to you by the Partnership for Public Education in this series, from research to impact. The partnership hopes to help UD researchers have a positive impact on students, families, schools, and communities. In this video, Samantha chef two shares how to use PPE is knowledge mobilization guide for researchers. I knowledge mobilization planning tool, which you can use at the beginning, middle, or end stages of your project planning. The graphic on the right of the screen shows each stage of the knowledge mobilization planning process. As shown in the graphic, researchers developing can be plants, will start by considering the expected knowledge outputs. And we'll then move on to consider and key stakeholders and knowledge mobilization activities. After which, researchers we will consider how to implement, evaluate, and budget for their knowledge mobilization initiatives. We argue that by going through each of these stages and purposefully planning for knowledge mobilization, the likelihood of uptake, application and use of research both inside and outside of academia is greatly increased, therefore, maximizing the potential impact of research findings. First, outputs are the deliverables that we see from research projects. Outputs may be tangible, like research articles or intangible, like new knowledge or increase capacity. Partners are the relationships you have with other individuals, groups, organizations that are key to the work of the research project. There are many potential partners that you can engage with, including researchers, practitioners are service providers, including program developers, are consultants, members of the public, media, decision makers and policy makers. When thinking about who to partner with researchers will want to consider who has the power to influence change as these groups will be important to include. Researchers want to drive any improvement or change. In addition, researchers will want to consider when they engage partners and the necessary level of engagement from partners during each stage of the project. Moreover, researchers will want to consider the misa partners and what rules partners will play in the project. And users are the people who will ultimately use the research findings. As shown on the left-hand side of the screen, the grease for potential and users mirror those partners. Researchers will want to determine what end-users they will target. And a knowledge mobilization goals for each audience. Goals can include generating awareness, interests, practice change, behavior change, or policy action. Will it can also include imparting knowledge or tools. And finally, goals could include informing research, policy, or practice. Knowledge mobilization activities are the ways in which researchers will disseminate knowledge generated from the research project. Researchers will want to consider what knowledge mobilization activities will be involved. For example, in order to mobilize research findings, researchers can develop products targeted towards researchers, practitioners, or policymakers. They can, they can build the capacity of individuals involved in the research, hosts or attend events, leverage or create networks and utilized media. In addition to determining what knowledge mobilization activities will be involved, researchers will also want to determine what resources and skills are required to engage in their selected activities. And whether these resources and skills are available in house or by an outside source. Researchers will also want to consider any users when determining what knowledge mobilization activities to engage in. Specifically, researcher should consider whether knowledge mobilization activities will meet the needs of end users, along with what contextual factors can influence use or non-use by end-users. Further, researchers should contemplate how they can address these factors to make it so end-users can use the mobilize knowledge. It's important to note that we don't expect researchers to undertake the large and sometimes daunting classroom mobilizing knowledge by themselves. We suggest that researchers take advantage of intermediary organizations as they could play critical roles in knowledge mobilization efforts. These organizations can be grouped into five categories. Governmental organizations, funding organizations, non-profit organizations, for profit organizations, and membership organizations. Researchers can leverage the existing mechanisms of intermediary organizations and many different ways in order to support their knowledge mobilization efforts. The figure on the right hand side of the screen details eight different functions of intermediary organizations. We're only going to speak about to hear for the purposes of this video. First, intermediary organizations to facilitate linkage in partnerships. I helping researchers make connections between diverse stakeholders. In second, some intermediary organizations can help researchers to increase engagement with research findings. I translating research into more accessible formats. Knowledge mobilization plan see a clear through line. In order for implementation to be successful, researchers should ensure that there are clear connections between the tape with knowledge disseminated, targeted stakeholders, knowledge mobilization activities, outcome indicators, and desired impacts. Relatedly, researchers will want to consider how they will measure the outputs an impact of their knowledge mobilization initiatives. As shown on the right-hand side of the screen. Researchers can measure impacts related to scholarship, capacity, economy, policy, practice, society and culture. Were going into specific research. Impact indicators goes beyond the purview of today's video. Those interested in exploring potential metrics to use in their projects can refer to the taxonomy of indicators created by Cooper and Shenshi. We provide links to this resource and many more in the knowledge mobilization planning tool. Last but not least, the activities described in the knowledge mobilization plan must be reflected in the budget. We encourage researchers to include both consumables in-person now, where appropriate. The Partnership for Public Education is available to support your knowledge mobilization activities, including helping you to make connections on and off campus to communicate your research, or to develop grants or other knowledge mobilization plans. Further, there are a number of additional campus resources to help you have a positive impact through your research. Reach out for further questions, or to schedule a consultation.
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