Overcoming five anxieties in population health knowledge translation literature
June 25, 2021
Speaker
Dr. Paul Kershaw
Founder, Generation Squeeze
Associate Professor and Director (MPH), University of British Columbia
During this session, Dr. Kershaw introduces participants to five anxieties commonly found in literature about KT in population health. He features interdisciplinary insights about KT needed to enact change in complex systems that draw from thinking about power, thinking like a movement, and thinking like a marketer.
Learnings from the sessions draw on real world examples from the knowledge mobilization activities of Generation Squeeze and the Human Early Learning Partnership, which aim to create the optimal conditions for families raising young children and reduce inequalities in early child development in BC.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the five anxieties of KT in population health literature.
- Clarify the importance of addressing values, power and motivation in KT.
- Apply these concepts to the challenges and successes of current knowledge mobilization activities in BC.
Resources
Upcoming webinar
Alex Haagaard and Dr. Clare Ardern
Date
April 26, 2024
Breaking barriers: open science tackles wicked problems and reduces research waste
In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more
Webinar summary
Friday, April 26
12 – 1 p.m. PST
“Wicked problems” are challenges that are difficult to solve and identify because of their incomplete, contradictory, and evolving requirements. To tackle wicked problems, collaboration is essential. Open science (sometimes called ‘open scholarship’ or ‘open research’) aims to solve wicked problems by promoting collaboration, transparency, and knowledge and resource sharing. By including people with lived experiences on research teams, open science helps to make research relevant to knowledge users and reduces research waste. In this session, we will explore how open science principles help researchers authentically engage knowledge users in high-quality research to solve wicked problems in health research.
Learning objectives
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Identify knowledge users for specific research projects
- Describe three ways open science practices reduce research waste
- List at least two barriers encountered by patient authors that open science practices can help to overcome.
Speaker bio
Alex Haagaard is a design strategist specialising in digital accessibility, community engagement, disability justice and health equity. Alex has lived with chronic pain since early childhood. This experience informs their interest in designing and advocating for system-level changes to how healthcare services are conceptualized, planned and delivered. Alex is a member of Pain BC’s Putting the Pieces Together conference steering committee, and co-chair of the Chronic Pain Network’s Knowledge Mobilization and Implementation Science Committee.
Dr. Clare Ardern is a physiotherapist and assistant professor in the department of physical therapy at UBC. Her research team brings researchers, patients, clinicians and health policymakers together to design digital health interventions for musculoskeletal problems. Dr Ardern is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) and JOSPT Open. She hosts the popular weekly JOSPT Insights podcast, which reaches over 16,000 regular listeners.