Building knowledge democracy

Canadian Federation for the humanities and social sciences March, 2010,

Ottawa

Budd L Hall Office of Community-Based research, University of Victoria

Changing World

Frontier College - 1899

Faculty of extension-University of alberta-1912

Antigonish movement-ST. Francis Xavier-1930s-40s

Services aux collectivitÉs-UQAM- 1970s

Participatory research-OISE, University of Toronto-1970s

Indigenous-centred research methods -70s/80s

A canadian heritage

engagement rediscovered

Community-University Research Alliance-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Canadian institutes for health research-KT

Harris Centre at memorial University, Newfoundland

Office of Community-Based Research, University of Victoria

Engagement today

Faculty of Extension at U of A Leads Engaged Scholarship

Knowledge Mobilization Unit, York University

Community-University expositions-2003, 2005, 2008, 2011-kitchener-waterloo

Community-based research centre-kitchener, ontario

International Expressions

Community-University Partnership Project, University of Brighton

Science Shop of Wales

Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Beacons of Public Engagement, UK

Living knowledge network, europe

Dimensions of Engaged Scholarship

Community-Based Research

Community Service Learning

Continuing Education and Extension

Cooperative Education

Indigenous-Centred Research

Arts-based knowledge creation

Knowledge Mobilisation/translation

Challenges

Getting buy-in across the university

Different knowledge cultures

tenure and promotion

power differentials and Funding patterns

Getting buy-in

Leadership

strategic planning

new structures

Listening to others

changing reward structures

different knowledge cultures

joint community-university leadership

community-university engaged scholarship Institutes

academic support for advocacy issues

partnership agreements

payment to community researchers

recognizing excellence for tenure and promotion

Support for portfolio development

Broadening the concept of peers

Leadership

Visibility for those who succeed

campus wide discussions

Links to evolving practices elsewhere

Funding patternsAdvocacy for research funding to community researchers

creating partnership development grants

multiple funding packages

10 year partnerships

Knowledge commons summit

• June 2, Montreal, UQAM

• Outcome of conversations with cfhss, sshrc, cihr, nce, nserc, idrc, civil society research networks, open access groups and more

• Community-based research canada, canadian alliance for community service learning and social innovation group at university of waterloo

Objectives

• 1. create a new space for a dialogue amongst multiple knowledge partners about the role of knowledge and society

• 2. implement recommendations from relevant reports such as the sshrc study on Community University Research Partnerships

Objectives

• 3. explore digital and interactive architectures to allow inclusive knowledge contributions to complex social, economic, health, cultural and sustainability issues

• 4. Encourage common action projects, which could be funded and moved forward

• 5. Create a multi-year plan for dialogue and story telling

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Draft programme

•The vision-one hour

•The commons-stories and strategies

•The plan-sustaining a new way of working

Getting involved

• Seeking ideas and representation from all sectors- academic, policy makers, community groups, information commons, economic groups, local government, etc

• www.knowledgecommons.ning

• Katherine graham, carleton and jean-marc fontan, co-chairs