Knowledge Mobilization in the Humanities/Knowledge Mobilization Resources, Tools, and Guides

Humanities Specific Resources European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. 2010. Communicating Research for Evidence-Based Policymaking: A Practical Guide for Researchers in Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/9276. This guide outlines best practices for researchers on projects funded through the European Commission’s funding frameworks (e.g., the current one is Horizon 2020), which include objectives related to informing public policy. Noting that high quality research is needed to create evidence-based policy to address the greatest challenges facing the EU, the guide encourages researchers to build policy considerations into their research projects from the beginning. One of the guide’s main recommendations is to create policy briefs that summarize the project’s findings and relevance to key policy issues, and it offers specific advice about the format, structure, and rhetorical strategies researchers should use to communicate their work effectively to policymakers. The guide also suggests that research teams include communicators (such as journalists) and policy makers, and that they use other communication tools such as promotional flyers and brochures, project websites, summary conferences and reports, and media engagements. It concludes by emphasizing that, no matter how significant a project’s findings are, if policymakers cannot understand them, they cannot inform policy development. Hannon, Dewi, Alexis Dewaele, Esther De Smet, and Ann Buysse. 2019. “Guide to Impact Planning.” Accomplissh. Ghent University. https://www.ugent.be/psync/en/projects/impactplanning.pdf. This guide was created as part of the ACCOMPLISSH project (ACcelerate CO-creation by setting up a Multi-actor PLatform for Impact from Social Sciences and Humanities), a collaboration of universities from across Europe for advancing research impact in the social sciences and humanities. It is intended for researchers and policymakers. It focuses on co-creation, which it defines as stakeholders from the “quadruple helix” of academia, civil society, government, and industry (p. 5) working to solve a common problem and achieving individual goals. In addition to offering an overview of the stakeholder mapping process, it also presents summaries of a variety of research impact planning tools, including online toolkits, training programs, apps, workbooks, and research papers available to researchers. Phipps, David, Krista E. Jensen, Michael Johnny, and Anneliese Poetz. 2016. “Supporting Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact Strategies in Grant Applications.” Journal of Research Administration 47 (2): 49–67. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1152268 Most grant applications in Canada, the US, and the UK require knowledge mobilization strategies to support research impact on society, but guidance for researchers in developing these strategies is too general. Therefore, Phipps et al. explore how knowledge brokers can support researchers in drafting strategies to maximize their research impact. They draw on their experiences at York University’s Knowledge Mobilization Unit and the pan-Canadian research network NeuroDevNet to reflect on the different approaches to develop impact strategies depending on the context of the institutions. They found differences in their approaches to training researchers in knowledge mobilization, in the groups they prioritize for outreach, and in the duration of support provided by the units. The authors conclude with a series of recommendations for support professionals and institutions, research administrators, and research funders to improve impact strategies in grant applications. REF2021. 2021. “REF 2021 Impact Case Study Database.” REF2021: Research Excellence Framework. 2021. https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact. Romary, Laurent. 2012. “Data Management in the Humanities.” ERCIM News (April). https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN89/EN89-web.pdf Romary describes several data management tools in the humanities. The first tool described is HAL, a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposition and circulation of scientific research documents, regardless of publication status. The author then shifts focus to the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) project, which aims to create a solid infrastructure to ensure the long-term stability of digital assets and the development of wide range services for the original tools. This project depends on the notion of digital surrogates, which can be metadata records, scanned images, digital photographs, or any kind of extract or transformation of existing data. A unified data landscape for humanities research would stabilize the experience of researchers in circulating their data. Laurent suggests that an adequate licensing policy must be defined to assert the legal conditions under which data assets can be disseminated and researchers involved with initiatives such as the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities project need to converse with data providers on how to create a seamless data landscape. General Resources Assembly of First Nations. n.d. First Nations Ethics Guide on Research and Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge. Accessed November 28, 2022. https://achh.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Guide_Ethics_AFN.pdf “Assessing the Practices of Public Scholarship | Imagining America.” 2019. Imagining America | Artists + Scholars in Public Life. October 11, 2019. https://imaginingamerica.org/what-we-do/collaborative-research/assessing-the-practices-of-publicly-engaged-scholars/. Barwick, Melanie. 2016. “Building Scientist Capacity in Knowledge Translation: Development of the Knowledge Translation Planning Template.” Technology Innovation Management Review 6 (9): 9–15. https://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1015. Barwick, Melanie. 2022. “Knowledge Translation Planning Template (Version Date: December 2022).” The Hospital for Sick Children. https://www.sickkids.ca/contentassets/4ba06697e24946439d1d6187ddcb7def/kt_planning-template_mar2023_fillable.pdf. BC Studies. 2023. An Introduction to Scholarly Publishing. The BC Studies Podcast. https://bcstudies.com/resources/scholarly-podcasts/the-bc-studies-podcast/. “Community-Based Research Canada | Waterloo, Ontario.” n.d. CBRCanada. Accessed July 18, 2022. https://www.communityresearchcanada.ca. Copeland, Stacey, and Hannah McGregor. 2021. A Guide to Academic Podcasting. Waterloo UP. https://scholars.wlu.ca/books/2. De Moura Rocha Lima, Giovanna, and Sarah Bowman. 2022. “Researcher Impact Framework: Building Audience-Focused Evidence-Based Impact Narratives.” https://doi.org/10.25546/98474. “The First Nations Principles of OCAP®.” n.d. The First Nations Information Governance Centre. Accessed November 28, 2022. https://fnigc.ca/ocap-training/. Gaetz, Steve. 2014. “Knowledge Mobilization as Design: The Case of the Canadian Homelessness Research Network.” Scholarly and Research Communication 5 (3). https://doi.org/10.22230/src.2014v5n3a163. Goering, Paula, Suzanne Ross, Nora Jacobson, and Dale Butterill. 2010. “Developing a Guide to Support the Knowledge Translation Component of the Grant Application Process.” Evidence & Policy 6 (1): 91–102. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426410X483024. Hicks, Diana, Paul Wouters, Ludo Waltman, Sarah de Rijcke, and Ismael Rafols. 2015. “Bibliometrics: The Leiden Manifesto for Research Metrics.” Nature 520 (7548): 429–31. https://doi.org/10.1038/520429a. The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). 2022. “Knowledge Translation Training and Resources.” SickKids. 2022. https://www.sickkids.ca/en/learning/continuing-professional-development/knowledge-translation-training/. Knowledge Institute on Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions, Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit: http://www.KMtoolkit.ca/ (Former URL) Knowledge Mobilization Unit York University, dir. 2021. Research Communications Part 1 - KM and Design Thinking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKlyyPEOwBQ. Knowledge Mobilization Unit York University, dir. 2021. Research Communications Part 2 - Communications Strategy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pzARfktoI. Knowledge Mobilization Unit York University, dir. 2021. Research Communications Part 3 - Amplifying Your Research Using Social Media. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvA-7IILHn4. “The Knowledge Translation Toolkit : Bridging the Know–Do Gap: A Resource for Researchers | Canada Commons.” n.d. Accessed December 2, 2022. https://canadacommons.ca/artifacts/1871335/the-knowledge-translation-toolkit/2620263/view/. KT Canada. https://ktcanada.org. Local Contexts. n.d. “TK Labels.” Local Contexts. https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/. Mount Royal University Library. n.d. “MRU Library Website: Spaces & Technology - Teaching & Learning: Podcasting Guide.” Accessed February 23, 2023. https://library.mtroyal.ca/spaces/podcasting. Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres. 2016. “USAI Research Framework: Utility, Self-Voicing, Access, Inter-Relationality.” https://ofifc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/USAI-Research-Framework-Second-Edition.pdf. Open Data Kit-X. https://odk-x.org/ Phipps, David, Debra Pepler, Wendy Craig, Joanne Cummings, and Shelley Cardinal. 2016. “The Co-Produced Pathway to Impact Describes Knowledge Mobilization Processes,” July. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/31600. “Podcasting Resources for Instructors.” n.d. York University Libraries – Digital Scholarship Centre (blog). Accessed February 23, 2023. https://www.library.yorku.ca/ds/home/media-creation-lab/podcasting/. Research Data Alliance International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group. 2019. “CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance.” The Global Indigenous Data Alliance. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d3799de845604000199cd24/t/5da9f4479ecab221ce848fb2/1571419335217/CARE+Principles_One+Pagers+FINAL_Oct_17_2019.pdf. Research Impact Canada Resources: https://researchimpact.ca/resources/ Research Impact. Planning Dissemination Strategies for Knowledge Mobilization. 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ9hiHsbctk. Research Impact Canada. n.d. “A Guide to Setting Your Knowledge Mobilization Goals.” Accessed February 27, 2023. https://researchimpact.ca/wp-content/uploads/KMb-Goal-Setting.pdf. Research Impact Canada, Infographic Design for Knowledge Mobilization, https://researchimpact.ca/KM_resource/infographic-design-for-knowledge-mobilization/ “Research Impact Hub - The Role of Research in Policy and Public Engagement.” n.d. Insights - Taylor & Francis. Accessed December 2, 2022. https://insights.taylorandfrancis.com/research-impact/. “San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment.” n.d. DORA (blog). Accessed December 15, 2022. https://sfdora.org/read/. Smith, Hilda. 2020. “Knowledge Mobilization and Anti-Oppression [Research Summary].” Innovation York, York University. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/38020. UBC Public Humanities. 2021. “Podcasting Toolkit.” UBC Public Humanities. 2021. https://sites.google.com/view/phh-podcast-toolkit. University of Calgary. n.d. “Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit.” Research at UCalgary. Accessed February 27, 2023. https://research.ucalgary.ca/engage-research/knowledge-engagement/ke-toolkit. Vandael, Kristof, Alexis Dewaele, and Ann Buysse. 2018. “Guide to Co-Creation.” Accomplissh. Ghent University; Ministry of Makers. https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8653735 Wilkinson, Mark D., Michel Dumontier, IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg, Gabrielle Appleton, Myles Axton, Arie Baak, Niklas Blomberg, et al. 2016. “The FAIR Guiding Principles for Scientific Data Management and Stewardship.” Scientific Data 3 (1): 160018. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18. York University, Checklist for Assessing KM strategies for grant applications: https://carleton.ca/communityfirst/wp-content/uploads/Impact-Strategy-Assessment-checklist-FINAL-180131.pdf Knowledge Mobilization in the Humanities in Practice