This resource list has been compiled for graduate students who are interested or currently using community engaged research practices and knowledge mobilization in their work. The list provided is not exhaustive but gives an insight into communities of practice, groups, associations, & societies, articles and presentations, external resource libraries at other institutions, University of Guelph & external dissertations and theses.
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Communities of Practice
| Resource | Description | Link |
| Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) | The Canadian Knowledge Transfer and Exchange Community of Practice (KTECOP) is a network of KTE practictioners and researchers who share practices and experiences, build peer relationships for information exchange and support, build KTE capacity, advance knowledge of KTE effectiveness, and share job opportunities and other related events. | https://www.ktecop.ca/ |
| Waterloo Wellington KMb Community |
An informal group of knowledge mobilization practitioners seeking to develop new skills, share best practices, and connnect with peers. |
https://waterloowellingtonkmbcommunity.ca/ |
| The Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance: Knowledge Translation and Transfer Services and Resources |
The Ontario Agri-Food Alliance is committed to "getting science off the shelf" by working with the wider agri-food, rural, and Indigenous communties. |
https://www.uoguelph.ca/alliance/KTT-services-and-resources |
| Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative |
SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transfromation, and knowledge translation to lift and strengthen the capacity of SFU's researchers and students. |
https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/about/about-ceri.html |
| Community-Engaged Initiatives at Concordia | The mandate of the Office of Community Engagement is to establish and maintain fruitful and mutually beneficial relationships between the University and Montreal communities. | https://www.concordia.ca/about/community/initiatives.html |
| Knowledge Mobilization and Research Impact Hub | The Hub's aim is to harness the considerable knowledge that comes from research activities towards strengthening evidence-based decision making in our community |
Groups, Associations, & Societies
| Resource | Description | Link |
| Canadian Evaluation Society | We provide a home for people working in the field of evaluation to connect and grow, so they can have a greater impact on everyone they serve. | https://evaluationcanada.ca/ |
| Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) |
CPHA is the independent national voice and trust advocate for public health. We leverage knowledge, identify and address emerging public health issues, and connect diverse communities of practice. |
https://www.cpha.ca/vision-and-mission |
| Next-Generation Dissertations: New approaches to humanities scholarship |
While long form monographs are still the norm in most humanities fields, students pursuing other structures for their work shouldn’t have to go it alone. This site hopes to make it easier. Here, humanities students and advisors can find a selection of creative scholarly projects to look toward as examples, as well as concrete evaluation guidance and resources. |
https://nextgendiss.hcommons.org/examples/ |
| Simon Fraser University’s Community-Engaged Research Initiative |
SFU's Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) promotes principles of participation, cooperation, social transfromation, and knowledge translation to lift and strengthen the capacity of SFU's researchers and students. |
https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/about/about-ceri.html |
CE, KMb & KTT Articles and Presentations
| Resource | Description | Link |
| Beyond Citations: Knowledge Mobilization, Research Impact, and the Changing Nature of Academic Work |
This study examines and analyzes the Research Impact Network, based on a literature review and key informant interviews. It addresses keys to success and challenges associated with knowledge mobilization in order to inform discussions about how Canadian researchers might employ similar strategies in their own post-secondary institutions and community-based research organizations. |
https://www.conferenceboard.ca/product/beyond-citations-knowledge-mobilization-research-impact-and-the-changing-nature-of-academic-work/ |
| Understanding the theory behind knowledge mobilization |
Presentation on the transfer and exchange of information, research results, and skills from one research institution, organization, or individual, to another to facilitate its uptake and adoption for improvement |
http://hdl.handle.net/10214/10915 |
| Growing Knowledge Translation and Transfer (KTT) in Ontario |
This practical guide provides a collection of best practices in KTT based on research supported by the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance. This manual was developed using the data from a systematic review of project files from 88 KTT projects funded between 2010 and 2018. The document review was supplemented by a survey distributed to research team members and follow-up interviews with a selection of researchers and end users, as well as a scan of the last decade of KTT literature. |
http://hdl.handle.net/10214/15856 |
| Arts-Based Knowledge Mobilization | This poster was presented at an event hosted by CESI in 2012. It explores arts-based research as an approach to creating and sharing knowledge. | http://hdl.handle.net/10214/14584 |
| Decolonizing Community Engagement | Recently, terms like decolonization and community engagement have become buzzwords in popular discourses about Indigenous health research. But what does decolonization actually mean? How can we really try to decolonize community engagement? | https://medium.com/knowledgenudge/decolonizing-community-engagement-85ee3ad5369d |
| Promising practices and constraining factors in mobilizing community-engaged research | This article describes a project involving 13 community focus groups on the topic of anti-racism and belonging where the researchers concluded each group with a robust discussion about how the group would prefer to receive the findings from the project. Analysis of this data, existing literature, and the practical experiences of the researchers revealed that while there are multiple “bridges” researchers can take to connect their research with community-level users, and although it is desirable to offer tailored approaches for specific audiences, there are significant barriers and challenges for truly effective engagement. | https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161221141275 |
| Community Ecosystem Mapping: A Foundational Step for Effective Community Engagement in Research and Knowledge Mobilization | In this article, we focus on a crucial early step of community engagement-understanding the community ecosystem. The community ecosystem refers to its human, social, and cultural makeups. Understanding this ecosystem requires conscious efforts to comprehend the demography, participate in socio-cultural events, identify community spots, reach out to hard-to-access groups, find the community champions and communication channels/organizations, and reaching out to them to establish relationships. Understanding the community ecosystem allows us to identify the pivotal factors, key actors, and pulse of the community that we are engaging with. | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37846067/ |
| Examining TikTok’s Potential for Community-Engaged Digital Knowledge Mobilization With Equity-Seeking Groups | This paper contributes to the growing literature on the use of social media for digital knowledge mobilization, drawing particular attention to TikTok and its unique potential for collaborative knowledge mobilization with underserved communities who experience barriers to health care and health inequities (eg, equity-seeking groups). | https://www.jmir.org/2021/12/e30315/ |
| Inventory of Community-Focused Knowledge Mobilization Practices in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts |
Examines the current state of community-focused SSHA knowledge mobilization, |
https://collaborativessh.humanities.mcmaster.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/SSHA-Scan_Report_v.16-Final-.pdf |
Resource Libraries
| Resource | Description | Link |
| Engagement Resource Repository | Online library of articles, toolkits and videos, regularly updated with new resources related to community engagement | https://leongcentre.utoronto.ca/resources-community-engaged-research |
| Research Impact Canada |
From sharing best practices, co-developing resources, to delivering training in knowledge mobilization skills, we are an open and collaborative network of 20+ universities (and growing!) across Canada. |
https://researchimpact.ca/ |
| University of British Columbia Community-Engaged Scholarship |
Scholarly resources external to UBC. Networks And Organizations, Journals And Publications, Toolkits and Guides |
https://communityengagement4.sites.olt.ubc.ca/scholarly-resources/community-engaged-scholarship/ |
Approaches to Community Engaged PhD
| Resource | Description | Link |
| Reflections on Decolonizing the PhD: A Roundtable | These events critically analyze the entire process that culminates in the dissertation or thesis (including: admissions, coursework, committees, candidacy, ethics, research process, dissemination, and representation). | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94F6NRyA1pQ |
| Reflections on Decolonizing the PhD II: A Roundtable |
This roundtable features four speakers currently completing PhDs who discuss the often-invisible work required of Indigenous scholars, as well as the critical role of mentoring in their graduate student experience. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DimlDH-lNys |
| Advising Graduate Students Doing Community-Engaged Dissertation Research: The Advisor-Advisee Relationship | A critical dimension in the development of emerging community-engaged scholars is the advisor-advisee relationship during the student’s doctoral degree program. | https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ957105.pdf |
| The Formation of Community-Engaged Scholars: A Collaborative Approach to Doctoral Training in Education Research | In this article, the authors explore the training and development of community-engaged scholars in doctoral programs in education | https://doi.org/10.17763/0017-8055.86.2.233 |
| "The Engaged Dissertation—Conducting Community–Based Participatory Research with Rural Indigenous Communities as a Graduate Student." | My research is equal parts academic inquiry, self–discovery, community engagement, and adventure. As a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies at the University of Michigan, I study access to health information in rural, remote communities and implications for health equity, as well as effective health message design. | https://doi.org/10.1353/nib.2017.0012. |
University of Guelph Dissertations & Theses
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Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer + (2SLGBTQ+) Community and Life During a Global Pandemic: A Resistance Based Photovoice Collective Wildman, Christine (2022) |
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/ba242c59-a44f-4ae1-a31b-2f853c75aa26 |
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Using a Knowledge Mobilization Approach to Develop Family-Based Nutrition Education Strategies to Increase the Dairy and Fortified Plant-Based Dairy Alternative Intake of Preschoolers Intake of Preschoolers Harris, Mackenzie (2021) |
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/7359ae2d-042a-42ec-b753-7c2251b4a8aa |
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Reconciling How We Live With Water: The Development and Use of a Collaborative Podcasting Methodology to Explore and Share Diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Perspectives Day, Lindsay (2017) |
http://hdl.handle.net/10214/10479 |
External Dissertations and Theses
| Resource | Link |
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Blindness in V Acts: Disability Studies as Critical Creative Inquiry Healey, Devon Kathryn (2019) |
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/97479 |
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Auto(decolonizing) ethnography of My Academic Selves and Practices Valencia Mafla, Andrés Fernando (2018) |
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/91708 |
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Beyond the Ivory Tower: A First-Person Exploration of Navigating the Intersections of Academia and Community Barton-Bridges, Rachael (2022) |
http://hdl.handle.net/1828/14133 |
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"(Un)Restricting the Imagination: Community Engaged Research Involving College Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Implications on Scholarship, Postsecondary Programming and Pedagogy in Higher Education." Harrington, Lalenja Giddens (2017) |
https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=21920 |
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"Augmented Fotonovelas: A Visual Methodology for Community Engaged Research." Hidalgo, LeighAnna Grace (2014) |
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bx2z561 |
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"A Tale of Two Community Engaged Research Studies: Addressing Environmental Health Disparities in Washington State." Min, Esther (2020) |
https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/46002 |
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"Artists, Activists, and Therapists Making Meaning of Collective Violence in Lebanon: A Community-Engaged Participatory Research Study." Muradwij, Nawal (2023) |
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/5432/ |
This resource list was last reviewed in 2023.