LINKS

This page contains links for interesting websites involved with knowledge mobilization. The links are organized into two categories -

KM Organizations - whose explicit purpose is knowledge mobilization

Interesting KM Practices - Places doing interesting KM work, but not actually working on KM itself (Ministry websites, school boards, academic institutions).

KM ORGANIZATIONS

Education Evidence Portal (eep)

EEP is a consortium of groups who are interested in evidence from different sources and how this evidence can be made more accessible online. EEP is also involved in developing common standards across the key providers of educational research for presenting their information.

Research Unit for Research Utilization (RURU)

RURU's role is to conduct research on research use and provide a research resource for all those interested in using research to improve public policy and services. In addition to its research activities, RURU also provides training in areas relating to the use of research in policy and practice.

Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE)

CUREE works at the leading edge of research and evidence-informed educational policy and practice. Our mission centres on promoting the use of evidence by building bridges between academic research and professional practice. We support practice-driven action research, develop tools for Continuing Professional Development (CPD), for organisational leadership and for teaching and learning. We believe in modelling good practice in everything we do and our work in consultancy, advice, development and training in the use of research and evidence is consistently informed by the principles underpinning effective coaching and mentoring in education. We work in collaboration with a range of individuals and organisations.

Canadian Health Services Research Foundation

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation promotes and funds management and policy research in health services and nursing to increase the quality, relevance and usefulness of this research for health-system policy makers and managers. In addition, the Foundation works with these health-system decision makers to support and enhance their use of research evidence when addressing health management and policy challenges. Any Foundation project, process or activity always involves both researchers, and managers, policy makers from academia and Canada's health system.

Campbell Collaboration

“The Campbell Collaboration (C2) is an independent, international, non-profit organization that strives to provide decision-makers with evidence-based information to empower them to make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas. C2's vision is to bring about positive social change, and to improve the quality of public and private services across the world, by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews of existing social science evidence.”

Evidence For Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Group (EPPI-Centre)

The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Center (EPPI-Centre) is part of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. This centre is dedicated to making reliable research findings accessible to people who need them, whether they are making policy, practice or personal decisions.

Canadian Council on Learning (CCL)

“The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is an independent, non-profit corporation that promotes and supports research to improve all aspects of learning—across the country and across all walks of life by: Informing Canadians about the state of learning in Canada; Fostering quality research on learning; Facilitating evidence-based decisions about learning through knowledge exchange to ensure that success stories are shared and repeated; and Becoming Canada's authoritative resource on learning issues.”

Joanna Briggs Institute

The goal of the Joanna Briggs Institute is “to identify feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective health care practices and health care outcomes by facilitating international collaboration between collaborating centres, groups and expert researchers, clinicians and members of the institute through: Developing methods to appraise and synthesise evidence, conducting systematic reviews and analyses of the research literature (evidence translation); Globally disseminating information in diverse formats to inform health systems, health professionals and consumers (evidence transfer); Facilitating the effective implementation of evidence and the evaluation of its impact on health care practice (evidence utilisation); Contributing to clinical cost effective health care through the promotion of evidence based health care practice (evidence utilisation).”

What Works Clearinghouse

“The What Works Clearinghouse was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. The WWC aims to promote informed education decision making through a set of easily accessible databases and user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of replicable educational interventions (programs, products, practices, and policies) that intend to improve student outcomes.”

Austrailian Council for Educational Research

“The Australian Council for Educational Research is one of the world's leading educational research centres, committed to creating and distributing research-based knowledge, products and services to improve learning across the lifespan in both formal and informal settings.”

Research in Practice

"'Research in practice' is the largest children and families research implementation project in England and Wales. Our mission is to promote positive outcomes for children and families through the use of research evidence. Our purpose is to identify effective methods of understanding and using research by providing services to a collaborative network of committed agencies. 'Research in practice' achieves its aims in several ways: 1. by working intensively with a small number of ambitious agencies - testing and evaluating new methods of promoting evidence-informed practice which others may adopt and replicate 2. by promoting evidence-informed practice (EIP) across a broad membership using a variety of methods at many organisational levels."

Canadian Educational Association (CEA)

"CEA initiates and sustains dialogue throughout the country influencing public policy issues in education for the ongoing development of a robust, democratic society and a prosperous and sustainable economy. CEA relies on good theory and research evidence as the foundation on which to build shared understanding towards commitment to act. CEA works together with organizations that share our values in building vibrant public education and learning systems fundamental to democratic and civil society."

INTERESTING KM PRACTICES

Simon Fraser University

“The Faculty of Education at SFU is a global education leader engaged in research and scholarly inquiry, committed to advancing knowledge, and dedicated to improving the practice of teaching and the learning experience.”

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is an independent organization that funds research and training in social and economic issues throughout the UK. The ESRC focuses on six research areas: economic affairs, education and human development, environment and planning, government and law, industry and employment, and social affairs. The website is tailored to five types of users: academic, public sector, third sector, press & media, and business. The main headings vary according to user. For the academic user, the site summarizes current ESRC research projects, key research challenges and outlines various funding opportunities. There is also a section of the site for the academic user, devoted to introducing knowledge transfer and outlining opportunities for knowledge transfer.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

“For more than 40 years, the OECD has been one of the world's largest and most reliable sources of comparable statistics, and economic and social data. As well as collecting data, the OECD monitors trends, analyses and forecasts economic developments and researches social change or evolving patterns in trade, environment, agriculture, technology, taxation and more.

The Organisation provides a setting where governments compare policy experiences, seek answers to common problems, identify good practice and coordinate domestic and international policies.”

Ontario Education Research Panel (OERP/CORE)

"OERP/CORE was established in 2006 to facilitate discussion and collaboration amongst Ontario's school boards, faculties of Education, researchers, professional organizations, community agencies, and Ministries relating to: Research priorities for Ontario education; the state of knowledge in specific areas; Opportunities for and impediments to the advancement of research; The potential for future partnerships.

OERP/CORE will contribute to the planning and success of the annual Ministry of Education Research Symposium and its outcomes, and will support the Ministry's research strategy"

E-BEST (Evidence-Based Education and Services Team)

"The Evidence-Based Education and Services Team is the research service for the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. We work together with schools, departments, administrators, and scientific partners to facilitate research activities within the board that enhance school effectiveness and student achievement."