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The Next Generation: The Next Generation: Students and Young Professionals in Knowledge Mobilization Elizabeth Shantz Knowledge Mobilization Officer

The Next Generation: Students and Young Professionals in Knowledge Mobilization

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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

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What do students and young professionals want to learn?

#1: “Soft skills” training - knowledge mobilization, communications, social media

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1. How do we build capacity for KMb?

2. What lessons have we learned?

3. What has the impact been?

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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

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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

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Regional Workshops

2-day workshops,

focus on soft skills- Communications and

media training

- Leadership skills

- Community outreach

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“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.”

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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

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“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.”

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“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

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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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