Past Events

Knowledge mobilization 101! Become familiar with knowledge mobilization plans and conceptualize strategies adapted to your goals and audiences. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

See videos and additional soil health resources to accompany this event. The Promoting Behaviour Change for Soil Health: Insights From Recent Social Science Research event will:

The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance has partnered with Food from Thought, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) program, to support the Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Scholarship Program. The partnership will host a recognition event on December 3, 2020, from 12:30 to 2 p.m.: Cultivating Business, Innovation, & Leadership in Agri-food Research: A virtual event to recognize HQP Scholars.

Explore research at Ontario’s Agricultural Research Stations in this four-part webinar series hosted by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance. These webinars are developed to demonstrate how Ontario’s agri-food research stations provide a platform for innovative research and collaboration that benefit Ontario’s agri-food sector.

Join Elizabeth Jackson, director at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute for an advanced session focused on understanding arts-based research methods and storytelling as powerful tools for research and knowledge mobilization. Learn about a range of arts-based and storytelling approaches and gain key insights from case studies that demonstrate the unique impacts of creative methods. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

When all is said and done, how do you know it worked? Go beyond the anecdote and learn to use evaluation techniques to assess the impact of your knowledge mobilization efforts. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

How do you share your research with non-academic audiences? Learn about a number of potential mechanisms you can use for knowledge mobilization, discover how to choose a mechanism that’s appropriate for your audience, and take a deep dive into several popular mechanisms for dissemination, including social media, research summaries, infographics, and media.  By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Thank you to all who joined us for the live event on Oct. 28. Watch the event recording here Join us for a two-hour event aimed at advancing the science of KTT in the agri-food sector through theory and practice.

Hone your clear communications skills! Get tips on how to structure and write clear language summaries of your research for dissemination to lay audiences. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

A town hall information session will be held on Thursday, October 15 at 1:30 pm. This session will provide information about: