NeuroDevNet KT Core Services

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, please contact NeuroDevNet’s KT Service Providers to �nd out howthe KT Core can help (please see over for contact information).

The NeuroDevNet KT Core is hosted within York University’s award winning Knowledge Mobilization Unit.

Knowledge Brokering

Support for KT Events

Support for KT Products

KT Capacity Building

KT Evaluation Framework

Is there an organization or individual you’d like to collaborate with but don’t know where to start? Need help scheduling a teleconference/meeting with your partners/collaborators?Are you wondering if there are people/organizations you should be collaborating with, but areunsure how to �nd out who they are?Are you planning a consultation/workshop with stakeholders for the purpose of informing yourresearch to maximize its relevance for policy and practice?Do you need advice/feedback on activities during your event? Do you need someone to set up and sta� a NDN booth at your event?Do you need a tool to help you through the planning stages?Do you need help creating an evaluation form for your event, either paper or web-based?

Are you interested in getting the main messages of your research out there, beyond journals?Are you interested in disseminating your research via social media but don’t know where to start?Are you exploring creative ways to share your �ndings using arts-based dissemination, like:creating a play, an infographic, a video, etc?Do you need individual or group training on any of the items above?Do you need a tool or guide in order to accomplish what you need to do for KT?Would you like to request a KT topic you want to learn more about, for the KT Core blog?Have you noticed or heard of impacts of your research or KT activities that you would like written up as a “success story”?Are you wondering how you can measure the impact of your research?

KT helps to maximize the impact of research and training in neurodevelopmental disorders.

The KT services described below will support NeuroDevNet researchers, trainees and partners with services for: 1) building networks, collaborations and partnerships 2) planning workshops, symposia, conferences, stakeholder consultations 3) producing products such as clear language summaries, videos, infographics and arts based dissemination 4) capacity building in the form of the KT Core blog, workshops, webinars and guides and tools for doing KT

The KT Core will also help to evaluate KT in NeuroDevNet research and training programs.

Knowledge and Technology Exchange and Exploitation (KTEE) is an identi�ed priority in NeuroDevNet’s strategic plan. The NCE Secretariat’s de�nition of KTEE in an NCE is “to generate social and economic bene�ts by ensuring the rapid �ow of ideas and innovations from researchers to Canadian receptors”. The KT Core aims to provide a range of KT services to increase the impact of NeuroDevNet generated knowledge on policy and practice, and enhance KT capacity within the Network’s training programs.

KT Core Services:

Are you working on a grant application and would like a review of your KT strategy?Have you already started your research and realize you need a KT plan?Could you use advice or information on end-of-grant or integrated knowledge translation?

Support KT Planning

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Making introductions, brokering relationshipsfor effective KT

KT Core provides support

Facilitate introductions

Organize meetings

Support networks

Facilitate ongoing collaboration

Knowledge Brokering is a ‘matching serviceʼ for researchers and potential collaborators/partners including: community organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry, government, researchers from other disciplines or any other organization or individual that could enhance the quality of (and ideally benefit from) your research by being involved in it. The KT Coreʼs brokering service aims to bring together people and organizations with mutual interests. This can be either 1) initiated by the KT Core if we recognize a potential match between individuals and organizations, or 2) facilitated by the KT Core upon request. The service usually consists of e-connections first (usually email), followed by a teleconference and eventually a face-to-face meeting. The KT Core will remain involved as needed to facilitate the ongoing relationship.

“The KT Core can help investigators to link with other experts in the field ...our work...related to stem cells for neurodevelopmental disorders including cerebral palsy has been enhanced by our linkages with the KT Core” - Michael Fehlings, Scientific Advisor NeuroDevNet

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Example: Stem Cell Standards GroupIn the summer of 2014, NeuroDevNetʼs Scientific Advisor Dr. Michael Fehlingsexpressed his interest in exploring patient preferences regarding acceptableethical standards for participating in research involving stem cells. The KT Coreorganized and facilitated a series of teleconferences between Dr. Fehlings,NeuroDevNetʼs Neuroethics Core and CellCAN (another NCE focused onregenerative medicine and cell therapy). Through this series of conversationsthis group has been able to refine the scope and goals for a research project to address this issue, and is currently drafting a data collection tool. This ground-breaking project is expected to help establish ethical standards for stem cell research in Canada involving individuals with cerebral palsy.

KT EVENTS

Providing consultation and support forKT Events

Example: Pro-D day FASD curriculum for teachers

Events that can be considered “KT” include conferences, workshops and other meetings that are for: 1) establishing new partnerships/collaborations, 2) obtaining input from stakeholders, and/or 3) dissemination of research findings. The meeting can be face-to-face or online (webinar) format. The KT Core provides consultation (advice) to maximize the KT impact of your event by: reviewing your event flyer, list of attendees (to ensure breadth of participants), meeting agenda, group activities and evaluation forms/questions,and presentations including slides. The KT Core will also attend planning teleconferences, and/or staff a NeuroDevNet booth, and/or provide printedmaterials (such as ResearchSnapshots) for your event upon request. The KT Core can help create a video about your event and secure consent for the use of participant images.

“The KT Core...provided us with some really valuable tools for coordinating and registering participants for our workshop (Eventbrite.ca). We have continued to use these tools for other events...additional support from KT staff in advertising our event really made the difference in reaching interested teachers” - Parker Holman, NeuroDevNet trainee

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Event planning

Stakeholder consultations

Evaluation forms

RedCap

Videos

Feedback on slides

Tamara Bodnar and Parker Holman are NeuroDevNet trainees who designed and facilitated a professional development day for science teachers in BC in order to teach them how to deliver a curriculum they developed for students to learn about FASD. The KT Core provided advice and support by: reviewing their event �yer, suggesting a tool for registering attendees (Eventbrite.ca), and providing feedback on evaluation questions. In addition, the KT Core edited video footage taken at the event to create a youtube video (see: bit.ly/1529OAa).

KT PROD

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Consultation, support for creating KT ProductsThe KT Core provides consultation and support for KT Products such as: clear language summaries (ResearchSnapshots), videos, infographics, sharable key messages and visuals for social media and other arts based dissemination such as theatre. If you are thinking about creating any KT Product for conveying key messages about your research �ndings, we can provide advice and training on how to do it yourself or hands-on support to help create the products. For videos, we can provide information about what to expect if you hire someone (including budgets), and consent form templates. Contact the KT Core if you have published a scienti�c paper on your NeuroDevNet-supported research and would like to create a KT Product todisseminate your results.

“I did review the snapshots and thought they were fantastic! As the head of communications for a Network of FASD services and supports we could absolutely post these on our website and link to Facebook and Twitter. We also produce a monthly newsletter where it would be great to include a current research section! And lastly it would be great to include these as a part of the trainings that I provide to community and social service agencies.” - Lisa Rogozinsky, Fetal Alcohol Network Society, Edmonton, AB Canada

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ResearchSnapshots

Social media strategy

Videos

Infographics

PPT slides

Apps & websites

Example: ResearchSnapshots The KT Core uses a pre-established and tested ResearchSnapshot template for its clear language summaries. We will work with you to translate your scienti�c paper into a ResearchSnapshot and format it. All are readable by a screen-reader for thevisually impaired. ResearchSnapshots make your research more accessible to non-scientists, scientists in di�erent �elds, busy policy and decision-makers (including practitioners) so they can apply your �ndings. ResearchSnapshots are uploaded to the NeuroDevNet website (http://neurodevnet.ca/kt/researchsnapshots) and a di�erent one is featured each week on the neurodevnet.ca homepage. They are also promoted via social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and distributed to stakeholders during relevant conferences and workshops.

KT CAPACITY

Developing KT Capacity for Researchers andTraineesThe KT Core provides both ad-hoc (on demand, as needed) training as wellas planned workshops and conference presentations. The KT Core publishesa new post on its blog “KT Core-ner” every 2 weeks, with the intention of teaching different aspects about KT. Many of the topics are based on feedbackfrom researchers and trainees about things they want to know about KT. The KT Core has demonstrated leadership in the field of KT throughconference presentations about our work, as well as teaching researchers andtrainees what can be done in terms of KT for their own projects. The mostcommon form of capacity building within NeuroDevNet takes place ‘in situʼ on an ongoing basis through provision of services. In other words, whenresearchers and trainees obtain services they inevitably increase theirunderstanding about KT and carry this knowledge forward into their future work.

“We were talking about knowledge translation and the use of social media...and it was actually really interesting and there are definitely areas that we can apply that within our own research” - Kristina Calli, NeuroDevNet trainee, workshop attendee

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Workshops

Webinars

In situ learning throughservice provision

Conference presentations

KT Core-ner Blog

Example: KT & social media trainee workshopOn September 28, 2014 the KT Core provided a workshop to 60 NeuroDevNettrainees in Vancouver BC. This workshop was delivered in collaboration withYork Universityʼs award-winning KMb Unit, on KT Planning and the use of social media for KT. Data from pre- and post- workshop questions about self-rated knowledge and ability with regard to KT were compared. In this way, we were able to measure a 28% average increase in knowledge about KT as a result of this workshop.

EVALU

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Evaluating the impact of Knowledge TranslationNeuroDevNet has adopted the use of Phippsʼ Co-Produced Pathway to Impactfor tracking and evaluating the progression of its activities from researchthrough dissemination, uptake, implementation and impact. The KT Core hasrecently mapped its services onto the framework, and created a suite ofindicators for tracking and evaluating its services in order to be responsiveto the needs of researchers and trainees in the Network. Impact is bestmeasured through conducting one-on-one interviews with researchers, traineesand collaborators/partners. This information is transformed into “SuccessStories” to showcase the impact of NeuroDevNetʼs work. The KT Core alsoprovides services to assist in the creation of event evaluations.

“...this is very helpful, and thank you again for a very impactful webinar!” - NCE Secretariat

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Interviews for evaluationand KT needs assessment

Database and indicators

Evaluations for events

Success story writing

Example: Leadership in creating KT indicatorsThe KT Core developed a set of indicators for KT based on Phippsʼ Co-ProducedPathway to Impact evaluation framework. In this way, the KT Core is providing leadership to advance the field of KT and maximize the provision of services to the Network. After publishing slides from a presentation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Conference in Saskatoon in 2014, the KT Core caught the attention of the NCE Secretariat who requested a one-on-one webinar to explain the process for creating the indicators and associated database to inform their development of indicators for the KM Networks. This led to the KT Core and NCE Secretariat co-presenting a workshop on their respective indicator work at the 2015 NCE Sharing of Best Practices Symposium.

KT PLAN

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Review of KT plans for grant applications

Grant review

End-of-grant KT

Integrated KT

Budgeting for KT

Letters of Support

The KT Core will review the KT sections of your application for funding. We can provide customized feedback and suggestions for planning your KT activities. We can also provide input into the logistics of your proposed activities and how much to budget for each. If you would like helpwriting the KT section of your grant application, please send a draft of yourgrant application draft in its entirety to the KT Core as early as possible priorto the application deadline to allow adequate time for review.

“The NeuroDevNet KT Core worked with me to develop a detailed KT plan for my CIHR application. They helped me identify stakeholders and formulate a plan to involve them throughout my research project - using an initial consultation meeting, ongoing communication, and ways to disseminate our final research findings. The advice and support provided by the KT Core was instrumental to creating this plan, and I believe it was a significant contributor to the success of my application. The KT Core has also committed to supporting me as I execute these plans, which ultimately means my project will have a bigger impact on the populations I hope to help.” - Dr. Catherine Lebel

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Example: $1M CIHR grant successfulDr. Catherine Lebel (FASD Discovery Project) approached the KT Core foradvice on her CIHR application for funding in February 2014. The KT Corereviewed Dr. Lebelʼs application, provided edits and feedback throughoutwith emphasis on the KT section and KT budget. A letter of support was written, outlining services the KT Core could provide in support ofthe proposed KT activities. In the summer of 2014 Dr. Lebel received newsthat her application was successful, and told the KT Core she believed it was largely due to the KT Coreʼs support.