At the HSRN Symposium last week (#HSRN15) I got so wrapped up in a dozen different questions boiling inside me, I ended up asking a long rambling and completely unintelligible question to the final panel discussion. What did I really…
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At the HSRN Symposium last week (#HSRN15) I got so wrapped up in a dozen different questions boiling inside me, I ended up asking a long rambling and completely unintelligible question to the final panel discussion. What did I really…
I was delighted (and rather humbled) to be awarded the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization President’s Award for Innovation at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum 2015 in Montreal last week. Quite an honour, especially as this is a new award and…
Now it’s a couple of weeks since the UK KMb Forum 2015 at the RCPE in Edinburgh. And what a fab time it was too! (even if I do say so myself) The motivation for establishing the forum had a…
Well there’s some interesting things going on at the moment… The Institute for Knowledge Mobilization is having a rethink and a refresh. Did it need one? Maybe, maybe not. First up is the: Leaders Roundtable, 8-9 January 2015, Vancouver From…
This week FellowsConnect brought together 150 fellows, ex-fellows, fellowships organisers and fellowship funders to talk all things Fellow-related. Last session of the day was ‘Open Space-lite’ where anyone could volunteer to run a discussion group. I offered people the opportunity to…
At the recent HSRN Symposium 2014 Nick Black (LSHTM) attempted to annihilate the standardised measures of hospital mortality (HSMR and SHMI). The measures have been criticised for years, and yet are glued into the fabric of our world and, are…
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…
By Gary Myers, Director of Services, KMbeing, Toronto, Canada Why attend the UK Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) Forum 2014? It’s a genuinely important question to ask as there are so many other events or conferences that you may be considering attending this…
By Peter Levesque, CEO Institute for Knowledge Mobilization and Knowledge Mobilization Works It has been my pleasure and privilege to work on issues of knowledge mobilization for more than 15 years. It was not called “knowledge mobilization” at first. It…
Why the UK Knowledge Mobilisation Forum 2014 (3-4 Feb) is a gift for pracademics by Roxanne Persaud, pracademic and doctoral researcher at University of Southampton Research is nothing without an exchange of information and ideas. The joy of research is about…
