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"Meet your Colleague" presentation by Stephen Gaetz of York University (Canada)
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Making Research Matter
Mobilizing Homelessness Research
2005
2009
2010
Rethinking HomelessnessTheoretical and Methodological Issues
Canadian Homelessness
Research Network
SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant Program
SSHRC Strategic Knowledge Cluster Grant• Seven year funding (we are nearing the end of the third year)
• Focus is on building research capacity
• Funds CANNOT be used for primary research
.
Funding:
The central question that guides our activities is:
“In what ways can research more effectively contribute to solutions to homelessness in
Canada?”
1. Collaboration: Provide opportunities for collaboration among the diversity of groups and researchers involved in homelessness across Canada.
2. Knowledge Mobilization: Make existing research on homelessness more accessible and reduce the geographical, sectoral, and socio-economic divisions that impede knowledge exchange.
3. Public Engagement: ‘Make research matter’ by exploring ways that research can more effectively engage the general public, policy makers and other decision-makers in the homelessness sector.
Our goals:
thehomeless
hubwww.homelesshub.com
PolicyMakers
PolicyMakers
ResearchersResearchersNews
mediaNews media
ServiceProviders
ServiceProviders
General PublicGeneral Public
StudentsStudents
OurAudiences
The Website
Two: New ContentCustom
CURRICULUMUNITS
Blog
Open Access e-books
Three:
Coming this fall:1) Mapping Community
Plans and Resources in Canada
2) New section on “what works”
A New Direction
CanadianObservatory
on Homelessne
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Our model: • Bring best minds together
• Work in collaboration with other initiatives
• Policy outputs: reports, briefs, news releases
• Engagement with all levels of government and the news media.
Goal #1
Development of a Pan-Canadian homelessness research agenda.
Goal #2Engage in research that: a) addresses key policy
concerns, and b) identifies, evaluates and
describes innovative and quality responses to homelessness;
Goal #3
Generate a range of research and policy outputs, including policy reports, briefs, parliamentary committee
submissions, etc
Goal #4
Implement a Knowledge Mobilization Strategy through the development of capacity for dissemination, knowledge exchange, outreach and
engagement.
Questions
Questions