Supporting Knowledge Mobilization at Université du Québec à Montréal

Jérôme Elissalde – Research and Creativity Office

Luc Dancause – Partnership and Innovation Support Office Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2012 Ottawa – June 19-20, 2012

Supporting Knowledge Mobilization at Université du Québec à Montréal

Development and Implementation

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University: An Evolving Model

• Community-university links

• Multidisciplinarity

• Funding

• Beyond technology transfer

• New researchers

=> Knowledge mobilization



The University and Knowledge Mobilization?


Knowledge

•Research

•Experience

•Practice

•Culture

•…

University’s role ?

•(Co)Production?

•Diffusion?

•Transfer?

•Dissemination?

•Translation?

•Mobilization?

•…

Knowledge uses

•Instrumental

•Strategic

•Conceptual

•…


A VERY Brief History of UQAM and KMb

• 1979: Services to the community policy

• Institutional reflection on knowledge

mobilization

Expansion of the support



An Initiative

Two people hired September 2010 • Research and Creativity Office • Partnership and Innovation Support Office

Challenges • To better support researchers • To increase the accessibility of expertise • To develop new ways to interact with

communities

…For 7 faculties and schools



Supporting the mobilization of knowledge

Groupe de recherche médias et santé – UQAM, 2010


http://www.revuecsp.uqam.ca/numero/n3-4/pdf/RICSP_ElissaldeGaudetRenaud_2010.pdf





Strategies

• Complementarity

• Enhance information ‘fluidity’

• Collaboration

From knowledge to action

Promotion of existing knowledge

and expertise

(Co-)Production of new knowledge

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An Institutional Perspective


We work for…

Researchers and Research Units

Partners

Institution


Researchers and research units at UQAM

To advise on strategies for the transfer and

dissemination of research

To support project design (KMb components)

To develop strategies to reach potential

partners and to develop the interaction

To identifiy funding sources

To develop supporting tools


Outil de recherche de financement : www.src.uqam.ca



Researchers Guidebook

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UQAM’s potential partners

To make it easier to identify the expertise

available at UQAM

Research project

Service contract

To directly link with researchers

To organize networking events

Some partners : • Municipalities • Companies • Publics and parapublic organizations • Non-profit organizations • Linking and knowledge transfer centre • Universities • …


Research and Creativity Web Portal: www.recherche.uqam.ca


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For UQAM, we also work towards…

Promoting research done at UQAM

Making sure the institution is represented in networks and creating

new connections

Promoting knowledge mobilization


11 Focus Cards: Units working on topics related to health



Challenges

• Partners’ issues – ultra-specialized research fields

• Mapping (existing expertise – emerging expertise)

• Internal communication - coherence

• Distrust (support vs control)

• To build credibility and to be identified

• Planning and adapting along the way

• To assess the impact

• …

=> Intercultural mediation ?



What’s Next?

• Providing meeting spaces

• Joining research projects

• Adjusting pilot projects

• Creating assessment tools

• …

=> Beyond the silos


Jérôme Elissalde Research and Creativity Office [email protected] 514 987 3000 ext. 3890 Luc Dancause Partnership and Innovation Support Office [email protected] 514 987 3000 ext. 4943 Twitter: @mdc_uqam

Knowledge Mobilization Support Université du Québec à Montréal

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