by Cathy Howe, NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow and Forum founder
And so, time has passed since the first UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum at Nesta in London.
Run as a mixed-reality event, 50 delegates joined us in real life (RL), and about 20 in SecondLife (SL). Attendees included people from the UK, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Germany to name but a few.
In the quieter moments SL delegates, which included a large ginger cat and a monkey, put the RL delegates to shame with their coordinated Thriller dancing.
We’re moving our conversations into SL.
In 2015 we’re going to Edinburgh for the Second UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum – more to follow on that.
A report, posters, presentations & storifies (#UKKMbF14) will be available soon. In the meantime here’s some of the blogs, and some of the comments that have come in so far…
Copies of speaker’s slides are available here from Prof Trisha Greenhalgh, Dave Wolff & Paul Bramwell, and Mel Woods.
George Julian’s blog – on attending in SecondLife – as the big Ginger Cat (@GeorgeJulian)
David Phipps’ blog – who attended in both RL and SL – as an Elf Lord (@ResearchImpact)
Gary Myer’s blog – on the success of the forum (@KMBeing) – and you can compare what happened with what Gary had predicted here. Gary has also recorded the delegates answers to the after dinner question from David Phipps “Where will the knowledge mobilisation field be in 5 years time?”
Peter Levesque’s blog – with an overview of the approach to the forum and his time in the UK (@Peterlevesque). I almost agree, but we should be in Wales for 2016 I think.
Charlotte Bozic’s blog – scroll down to ‘Should we be bothering the Gods of Knowledge?’
A storify of the tweets is here – created by the Knowledge Broker Forum (@Kbforum)
Comments left on the day on “One thing that was good about the forum” included…
- The people
- Session on professional development and social media hugely helpful – thanks Roxanne (@commutiny)
- Inspired by Suzanne’s (@Tabitha_McGowan) talk and also by the presence of designers and writers
- Warm ups & Speed Networking. I was not looking forward to it, being quietly spoken & a bit reticent, but actually I really enjoyed it, & it was valuable and got the conference going
- Meeting like minded people
- Sheer diversity of participants, organisations & roles (researchers in minority)
- Meet new ideas
- Collectively problem solve
- Find a home
- Enjoyed meeting the Canadians (and the vegetarian food :-))
- Diversity of opinion in the room
- Not London centric / central government practitioners
- More excited than ever about communities of practice, joint practice development, action research, co-production – fantastic event – thank you
- Using range of methods to interact
- Open friendly supporting community of shared interest
- New connections that I’m confident/ enthusiastic will be maintained & grow
- Connecting with useful people
- My thinking has been challenged + pushed on
- Loved it… Inspired and excited about staying in touch + pushing further on…
- Good mix of big picture questions and examples and experiences from research practice
- SecondLife “The Thriller Dance” (I’m going to try that when I get home)
- Serendipity: an example – I got talking to an SME owner from the incubator next door and had a really useful conversation about universities, the academic culture & intellectual property
And if you haven’t had enough of KMb you can register now for the 2014 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum here.
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