Impact MythBusters

David Phipps, Executive DirectorResearch & Innovation Services, York University

Network Director, Research Impact Canada@researchimpact

Impact SnapshotPulse Crops

Professor Al Slinkard collaborated with Agriculture Canada and local farmers to develop Pulse Crops (lentils, peas for crop rotation during Canada’s wheat glut). His research resulted in a 6-fold increase in the value of crop yields and made Saskatchewan the world’s leading exporter of chickpeas and lentils with an export market of $4.2B

THIS IS IMPACT

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IS THIS IMPACT?

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IS THIS IMPACT?

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February 17-21, 2020

February 20, 2020

Place

Community

Education

Discovery

Global

Place

Community

Education

Discovery

Global

RESEARCH IMPACT

IMPACT MYTH #1: DISSEMINATION = IMPACT

IMPACT MYTH #2: ENGAGEMENT = IMPACT

So all we could do was to sit, sit, sit. And we did not like it, not one little bit. Then something went bump. How that bump made us jump.

IMPACT MYTH #3: TRANSLATION = IMPACT

IMPACT MYTH #4: ASSESSMENT = IMPACT

IMPACT > E&IIF IMPACT HAPPENS AND NO ONE IS THERE TO ASSESS IT…

engagement

dissemination translation

assessment

impact

Knowledge Mobilization

“community”

campus

campus

“community”

Impact

Knowledge mobilization helps make research useful to society by supporting engaged scholarship from inception to impact.

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Knowledge Mobilization

“community”

campus

campus

“community”

ImpactImpact Planning (= KMb strategy)

Impact Assessment (= evaluation)

WHATHOW

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Knowledge mobilization strategyPathway to impactImpact strategy

Outcomes statementImpact assessment

Evaluation

Activity Output Outcome

Impact

Dissemination Uptake ImplementationCo-production

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Co-produced pathway to impact

Phipps, D. J., Cummings, J., Pepler, D., Craig, W., & Cardinal, S. (2016). The co-produced pathway to impact describes knowledge mobilization processes. Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 9(1), 31–40.

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Funders

ResearchersStudentsLibraries

Communicators Event Planners

EvaluatorsCommunicators

Partners• Government• Industry• Non-profit• Advocacy

Event Planners

Public/Gov’t Relations

knowledge mobilization/translation/brokering

IMPACT IS EVERYONE’S BUSINESS

February 17-21, 2020

Dissemination• Press release• Public presentation• Podcasts• Social media

necessary but not sufficient

Impact Literacy• Collaborations• Public engagement• Impact assessment• Knowledge

mobilization

• Recruit faculty• Recruit students• International

reputation

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