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Presentation at 2014 Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, June 9-10, 2014: The Next Generation: Students and Young Professionals in Knowledge Mobilization by Elizabeth Shantz Knowledge Mobilization Officer Canadian Water Network
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The Next Generation:The Next Generation:
Students and Young Professionals
in Knowledge Mobilization
Elizabeth Shantz
Knowledge Mobilization Officer
What do students and young professionals want to learn?
#1: “Soft skills” training - knowledge mobilization, communications, social media
1. How do we build capacity for KMb?
2. What lessons have we learned?
3. What has the impact been?
Research Project
Involvement“It’s been part of our philosophy to get students, in the course of their research projects, to be actively involved with the end users or the public, instead of the professor doing all the contact work and the student working away in the lab.”– Graham Daborn, CWN-funded researcher
Week-long Workshops
Focus on watersheds
and water issues- Ottawa: Water policy-making
- Iqaluit: Northern challenges
- Northumberland Strait: Estuaries
and watershed management
- Okanagan Basin: Managing
resources for water sustainability
Regional Workshops
2-day workshops,
focus on soft skills- Communications and
media training
- Leadership skills
- Community outreach
“Through CWN workshops I have been able to broaden my network of water-related science professionals that I have been able to call upon in times of research needs [and] research translation for public consumption.”
Lessons Learned
• Energy and enthusiasm to learn KMb• Opportunities to meet and learn from end users is very valuable
• Networking opportunities with a broad group• Networking opportunities with a broad group•Student directed activity
“SYP taught me how to talk science to professionals,
policy analysts and non-scientists; how to facilitate
science-policy liaison.”
“[The workshops] have helped further my sense of
the need to acquire the best and most complete
science and information… in such a way as to effect science and information… in such a way as to effect
informed debate and decision making.”
“I think that CWN... piqued my interest in being
involved in the bigger picture of water-related
decision making.”
“It really helped me learn how to work with people
from other disciplines. We don’t always speak the
same language and we don’t always approach a
problem in the same ways... I [also] think it helped me
learn... to work with end users, trying to understand
what their needs are.” – Sarah Dorner
“[CWN] gave us exposure to so many different aspects
of not just research and working in the lab, but how to
write a research proposal, how to prepare a scientific
resume, how to deal with the media... to gain those
soft skills that otherwise I wouldn’t have. And I’m
using those very much in my job.” – Annie Locas
1. How do you build capacity for KMb?
2. What lessons have you learned?
3. What has the impact of your training been?
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