The program, Health Care Access Research in Developmental Disabilities (H-CARDD), aims to enhance the overall health and wellbeing of individuals with developmental disabilities through improved health-care policy and services.

H-CARDD is directed by Yona Lunsky from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and the University of Toronto. Weiss, the Chair in Autism Spectrum Disorders Treatment and Care Research in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health, is a member of the program鈥檚 core team, which includes scientists, clinicians and policymakers from across Ontario.

Jonathan Weiss

Individuals with developmental disabilities are one of the most vulnerable and marginalized populations when it comes to accessing healthcare. The goal of H-CARDD is to reduce disparities in health outcomes of Ontarians with developmental disabilities.

Four vulnerable subgroups will be examined over the next three years. The four subgroups are as follows:

• Aging Adults with co-leads Lynn Martin of Lakehead University and H茅l猫ne Ouellette-Kuntz of Queen's University
• Women with co-leads Virginie Cobigo of the University of Ottawa and Simone Vigod of Women鈥檚 College Hospital.
• Youth Transitioning to Adult Services with Weiss and Barry Isaacs of Surrey Place Centre
• Individuals with 鈥淒ual Diagnosis鈥� with Rob Balogh of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and Elizabeth Lin of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Researchers already know that youth with developmental disabilities visit emergency rooms more often than others and have higher rates of psychiatric hospitalization than youth without disabilities. What is needed is more research at the individual and system level on the factors that lead to these high rates and that is what Weiss and Isaacs will be doing.

Young people with developmental disabilities have difficulty in transitioning into adult health care services. For those who need mental health services, it is even more difficult especially with an already difficult to navigate health-care system. That can lead to a worsening of issues.

鈥淯nderstanding patterns of service use as adolescents with developmental disabilities transition into adulthood can help us to identify barriers and gaps in the health service system,鈥� says Weiss. 鈥淒oing so can lead to improved primary care and addressing problems before they become severe.鈥�

H-CARDD鈥檚 program of research will provide new information that profiles vulnerable developmental disability subgroups and will translate research into action by facilitating the uptake of evidence-based practices in primary and emergency care.

H-CARDD鈥檚 partners include the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Surrey Place Centre, the University of Toronto, the University of Ottawa, Queen鈥檚 University, 91亚色, Lakehead University, Sunnybrook Hospital, and Women鈥檚 College Hospital.

For more information about the H-CARDD program, contact Julie Klein-Geltink, H-CARDD manager, at julie.kleingeltink@camh.ca.

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KEN is an European nonprofit association that acts as a "network of 16 European regions and countries, interested in boosting their knowledge-based competitiveness, exchanging good practice, encouraging collaboration and implementing new knowledge into innovative products in听response to a larger, global need to enhance and support efforts to build knowledge economy, not only at European, but at a truly international level."

In addition to national level awards recognizing innovation in the four domains of education, research & development, innovation, entrepreneurship, plus one media award,听the three Best Practice Awards announced this year went to:

• European Affairs Fund, AP Vojvodina, based in Serbia, which听KEN described as "an example of good practice in multicultural education"
• Knowledge Mobilization Unit听at 91亚色,听which was听cited by the听network as听"an example of good practice of a new scheme run by the University and involving all triple helix [government, community and industry] partners"
• South East European Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, based in Croatia, which KEN highlighted as听"an example of good practice in successful regional cooperation in training and education"

鈥淭his recognition from a European agency is testament to the growing international reputation that 91亚色 is gaining for its work in knowledge mobilization,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research & innovation. 鈥淜nowledge mobilization connects researchers and students with partners, so that their research and expertise can be applied to real-world challenges, in addition to helping to inform decisions about public policy and social services.鈥�

Under the leadership of David Phipps, director of听research services & knowledge exchange in听91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization Unit, the unit has been developing and delivering knowledge mobilization services to faculty, students and their research partners since 2006. The unit has听received funding from the Social Sciences听& Humanities Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Working with 240 faculty, 142 students and 205 partner organizations, the Knowledge Mobilization Unit has brokered more than听250 collaborations between the academy听and non-academic partners. These partnerships have attracted more than $1 million in听sponsored research funding specifically for听91亚色 research, and over $1 million in funding for community partners.

Michael Johnny, manager of the Knowledge Mobilization Unit, supports all large-scale grant applications, which in turn has secured over $17 million in external research support for 91亚色 faculty and their partners. Some of these collaborations are maturing into social innovations that help find new ways to address persistent social and economic challenges.

• In 2009 Nottawasaga Futures, a nonprofit community development agency, called 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit to help a rural business in making green decisions. The collaboration helped launch the .
• 91亚色 supported a collaboration between graduate student Tanya Gulliver and the Parkdale Activity听& Recreation Centre in 2007. Research conducted by this partnership is now helping to inform , which will assist more than 2.5-million people cope in an听increasingly warming world.
• When the Regional Municipality of 91亚色 called the Knowledge Mobilization Unit to seek support in evaluating how they delivered services to immigrants, 91亚色 supported a collaboration between two faculty members and municipal policy-makers. The evaluation undertaken provided evidence to the regional government, which in turn informed the听region's听decision to invest more than $20 million to expand the听Welcome Centre program. The investment created听86 jobs and provided听48,000 services to new Canadians living and working in 91亚色 Region, which is home to Canada鈥檚 fastest-growing newcomer population.

"Knowledge mobilization identifies and supports these collaborations," said Phipps. "The welcome centres, Heat Registry and Green Economy Centre are examples of social innovation."

As a result of these and other stories of the impact of research, Phipps is widely sought as a speaker on 91亚色's model for knowledge mobilization, which is increasingly becoming recognized as a critical component of engaged scholarship and learning.

To watch Phipps鈥� acceptance speech for the Economy Network Best Practice Award,听.

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Robert Hach茅, vice-president research & innovation, and Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, are co-hosting the event, which takes place from 12 to 2pm in Room 1014, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School, Keele campus. Everyone is welcome to attend the free celebration, but an RSVP is requested. You can RSVP or call Lia Cavaliere at ext. 33782. Light refreshments will be provided.

The panel features Osgoode Hall Law Professors Trevor Farrow, Giuseppina D鈥橝gostino, Dayna Scott and Stepan Wood. Each professor will deliver a short presentation on the panel theme 鈥淐elebrating Community Engagement鈥�.

Farrow will discuss the dilemma faced by low income Canadians who find themselves unable to access the justice system. His presentation will discuss the various research initiatives that are designed to look at the complex problems associated with accessing justice and access to legal services, as well as the related problem of not providing meaningful access to legal services in today's complex and pluralistic societies.

Trevor Farrow

听Many low income Canadians find themselves unable to access the justice system, says Farrow. Courtrooms are filled with litigants who struggle to navigate the complex demands of law and procedure 鈥� often without representation by counsel. Early and effective resolution is central to avoiding the clustering and escalation of legal problems.听 However, Farrow posits, a lack of knowledge about how to seek help, coupled with a pervasive sense of powerlessness, limits meaningful action for those who need it most. The most advanced justice system in the world is a failure if it does not ultimately assist in providing justice to the people it is meant to serve, he says. A number of stakeholders have a direct or indirect connection to the issue of access to legal services, including the bench, the bar, the academy, governments, NGOs, the private sector and the public.听

Speaking in her capacity as founder and director of IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School鈥檚 flagship Intellectual Property (IP) and Technology Program, D鈥橝gostino will outline three initiatives she spearheaded through IP Osgoode, along with their promises and challenges, to assist the University in playing a more active role in the complex IP and technology research communities in Canada and around the world. 听

Giuseppina D鈥橝gostino

She will discuss the IP & Technology Intensive Program piloted in the Fall of 2011, which provides students with on-site research opportunities in government, industry and expert organizations in IP and technology; the Ontario Centres of Excellence and IP Osgoode Innovation Clinic, a needs-based innovation-to-market legal clinic staffed by volunteer law students piloted in 2011-2012; and the first blog of its kind, the IPilogue, promoting evidence-based research and showcasing new and unexplored viewpoints to public policy discussions.

Engaged scholarship implies a different set of relationships and expectations as between a community and a university researcher. For legal scholars, these can be even more complicated dynamics. In this short presentation, Scott will share some of the tensions encountered in a four-year research partnership with the Health and Environment Community of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. The project explored questions of environmental justice stemming from the Band's experience of chronic pollution emanating from Sarnia's nearby Chemical Valley. Scott and the research team employed participatory action research techniques and arts-based methods such as PhotoVoice, to learn from and with community members, including youth.

Dayna Scott

Wood will focus on the challenges and opportunities surrounding community-engaged research in relation to various research projects affiliated with 91亚色's Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS). His presentation will look at research on local community empowerment in water governance in developing world megacities, community members' perceptions of international corporate social responsibility standards in Colombia and Canada, and University-community collaboration on sustainable furniture design for the new Centre for Green Change in the Jane-Finch community.

Stepan Wood

Following the presentations, visitors will have an opportunity to engage with the panelists. Osgoode Hall鈥檚 research celebration is part of an ongoing series of events that highlight interesting and innovative research underway at 91亚色. For more information on each of the presenters and other research underway at the law school, visit the website.

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A Canadian icon of humanitarianism urged Glendon students to 鈥済et your boots dirty鈥� by working in a developing country and experiencing what life is like for 80 per cent of humanity, as he delivered Glendon's annual John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture.

Right: Dallaire speaks to a standing-room only crowd in Glendon's lecture hall

Lieutenant-General , former commander of the UN mission to Rwanda between 1993 and 1994 and now a Canadian senator, made the remarks in 91亚色 Hall on Nov. 23, in a wide-ranging talk on the revolutionary changes that have taken place in warfare and international relations, including the tragic use of child soldiers in conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa.

In describing how the use of child soldiers came about, Dallaire talked of this being a revolutionary time where the status quo no longer exists. 鈥淔or the last 20 years we鈥檝e been into a whole new set of parameters in regards to security,鈥� he said, 鈥淲here we used to have classic war for which we were prepared with all our technology and uniforms and structures and so on...that all disappeared and we have nothing to handle it.鈥�

Dallaire said the problem of child soldiers began in Mozambique in the late 1980s and continues because leaders in the Western world are 鈥渞isk averse鈥� and reluctant to become involved in the complex and ambiguous situations that give rise to the conflicts in which they are used. 鈥淲e haven鈥檛 necessarily applied all the laws to stop it,鈥� he said, citing new legal concepts such as humanitarian space and sovereign nations鈥� responsibility to protect their citizens.

Above: Prof. Stanislav Kirchbaum, Appathurai scholarship winner Dona Dunea, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire and Glendon Principal Kenneth McRoberts

Eighty per cent of humanity is living in inhuman conditions, he continued, and that poverty is the essence of it. 鈥淭hese massive abuses of human rights are creating the rage that is initiating the extremism that is bringing terrorism, and it鈥檚 going to continue to generate a security problem,鈥� Dallaire said.

Child soldiers are a 鈥渨eapons system鈥�, he explained, putting the problem into military parlance. 鈥淲hat is the system to render them ineffective, to make them a liability to the adults so they won鈥檛 use them and then don鈥檛 recruit them? That is what we are working on now鈥�.听 What you can do is join an NGO. Join the NGO community. Get involved in the NGOs because they are evolving massively in numbers and they are starting to coalesce more, they are starting to cover all the bases in humanity and they are, for you, an opportunity to get into the field and to see what is happening today with the state of humanity.

鈥淚 believe [they] will be far more the voice of humanity in the future,鈥� Dallaire said. 鈥淭hey will influence public opinion and policy more than the nation states themselves because they鈥檙e without borders.

鈥淭here should be maybe a rite of passage, that what you require is a pair of dirty boots underneath your bed that have been soiled in the earth of a developing country. Where you went to see what happens to the 80 per cent of humanity. You bring that back here, where the 20 per cent are, and you significantly influence the policies and how we actually will be advancing humanity鈥�. So get your boots dirty, get involved.

For more information on what is being done to stop the use of child soldiers, Dallaire recommended the website , the public mobilization campaign of the Child Soldiers Initiative, which he founded in 2010.

As is customary at the annual lecture, the winner of the Edward R. and Caroline Appathurai Scholarship in International Studies was announced. This year's award went to Glendon student Dona Dunea.

More about the John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture at Glendon

The annual John W. Holmes Memorial Lecture at Glendon honours the late John W. Holmes, a Canadian diplomat, writer, administrator and international relations professor at Glendon from 1971 to 1981. Holmes was a tireless promoter of Canada at home and abroad, in political, diplomatic and educational circles. He also participated in the founding of the United Nations and attended its first General Assembly in 1945.

Shortly after his death in 1988, a memorial fund was set up at Glendon under the leadership of Professor Albert Tucker, principal of Glendon from 1970 to 1975 and chair of the Department of History at the time, to create a series of annual lectures honouring Holmes, sponsored by Glendon's International Studies Program. It was launched in 1989 by the late Edward Appathurai, who established international studies at Glendon, Tucker and three Glendon graduates, Jim Dow (BA '75), Marshall Leslie (BA Comb. Hons. '75, MBA '80) and Martin Shadwick (BA '76, MA '78), who had attended Holmes鈥� course on Canadian foreign and defence policy.

By David Fuller, YFile contributing writer

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During a special听event held at 91亚色's Keele campus, President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, chairman of the听Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering.

The announcement was made during a ceremony听in which the Computer Science & Engineering Building, where it was held, was听renamed the听Lassonde Building in honour of the School of Engineering's new听benefactor.听The upbeat event featured the student-constructed Mars Rover unveiling a commemorative plaque showing the building's new name, and the cutting of a giant cake fashioned in the likeness of the Lassonde Building. As part of the celebration, Lassonde was given a leather bomber jacket emblazoned with 91亚色 Engineering by fourth-year space engineering student Shailja Sahani.

Right: Pierre Lassonde shows off his new engineering jacket

鈥�91亚色 is extremely thankful to Pierre Lassonde for his very generous gift,鈥� said Shoukri. 鈥淭his transformative donation will allow us to create a truly unique engineering program that will redefine engineering for the 21st century.鈥�

Based on its traditional strength in humanities, social sciences, business and law, the University is committed to ensuring that听engineering students will be broadly educated to support future economic and social development.

鈥淭he most important natural resource of our country is not its oil or minerals or forests, but our young people,鈥� said Lassonde. 鈥淚t鈥檚 imperative that we give them all the education they need so that they can continue to make Canada one of the best places in the world to live. Through the collaboration of the new engineering program at 91亚色 with one of the most successful business schools in the world, the Schulich School of Business, we know we can make a difference.鈥�

听"Pierre's gift and vision will support a whole new way of thinking about engineering education. His transformational donation will lead to the creation of the Lassonde School of Engineering at 91亚色, with an ambition to graduate a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers with a social conscience," said Janusz Kozinski (left), dean听of the听Faculty of Science & Engineering.

The generous donation from Lassonde, combined with funding from the Government of Ontario and the University, provides an investment enabling 91亚色 to become one of the听top global engineering schools based in Canada.

By embodying 91亚色鈥檚 core values of social responsibility, global citizenship and interdisciplinary education, the new school will provide a unique approach to engineering and entrepreneurship, establishing itself as a destination of choice for top engineering students.

Right:听President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri听

鈥�91亚色 has a rich history of educational innovation, and the broadening of the focus of the engineering school to include business and public policy is a welcome step forward,鈥� said Glen Murray, Ontario鈥檚 minister of training, colleges and universities. 鈥淢r. Lassonde鈥檚 generous gift will accelerate the program and help transform it into a model for next-generation education in engineering.鈥�

More about Pierre Lassonde

Lassonde has a BA from the听University of Montreal (1967), a BSc electrical engineering from Polytechnique, Montreal (1971) and an MBA from the听University of Utah (1973). He received his PEng Ontario designation in 1976 and his CFA, University of Virginia, 1984. He holds honorary听doctorates in engineering from the Universities of Toronto, Montreal and Ryerson, and a doctor of business, University of Utah. 听

In 1982, Lassonde co-founded Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation, the first publicly traded gold royalty company, with his partner and fellow 91亚色 benefactor Seymour Schulich. Over the next 20 years, the company provided shareholders with a 36 per cent annualized rate of return. In February 2002, Franco-Nevada was acquired by Newmont Mining Corp., the world鈥檚 largest gold producer at the time. Lassonde was president of Newmont from 2002 to 2007 and vice-chairman in 2007. He served as chairman of the World Gold Council from 2005 to 2009.

In 2008, he led a group of investors and former executives in bringing back Franco-Nevada to the public market and became its chairman. The $1.2-billion IPO of Franco-Nevada was the largest mining company initial public offering ever done on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The success story continues today as the market capitalization of the company is now over $5 billion.

Left: Celebrating听a sweet moment in 91亚色's history

Lassonde鈥檚 philanthropic activities have had a significant impact on education and the arts. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Centre at the University of Utah was ranked number one in the US in 2010 for its creation of a public company from the University research labs. Other universities that have benefited from Lassonde鈥檚 philanthropy include Polytechnique Montr茅al, and the universities of Toronto, Western Ontario, Ryerson and 91亚色.听

He 听has been chairman of the Quebec National Art Museum since 2005 and has led a $100-million campaign to build a new wing to double the museum exhibition surface. He was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 2002 and an officer of the Order of Quebec in 2008.听听听

Lassonde is also the author of The Gold Book: The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals.

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The first conversation, 鈥淭he Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining,鈥� will take place Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 12:30 to 2pm, 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat Kaneff Building, Keele campus.

Left: Steven Barrett

of Sack, Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, (LLB 鈥�94) of the School of Management at Ryerson University and of McGill University will discuss the issue of collective bargaining, a topic on many听Canadians' minds right now.

Barrett, managing partner of the firm since 2006, practises in the areas of labour law, the听Charter of Rights and听constitutional litigation, as well as public interest litigation. An alumnus of Osgoode Hall Law School, Bartkiw鈥檚 research interests include industrial relations, labour and employment law, labour policy, public policy and political economy. Hebdon, a professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, worked for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union for 24 years and his research interests include public sector labor relations and restructuring, collective bargaining, dispute resolution and industrial conflict.

Right: Timothy Bartkiw

The second conversation will feature , a professor of economic security at the University of Bath, talking about his new book, The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class (Bloomsbury Academic). The event will take place Tuesday, Nov. 15, from 12:30 to 2:30pm, at 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat Kaneff Building, Keele campus.

Left: Robert Hebdon

鈥�91亚色 had traditionally been the go to place for media and government policymakers for pressing and hot labour issues of the day, as well as long-term labour-relations issues,鈥� says social science Professor Carla Lipsig-Mumm茅 of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) and co-convener of the series with law Professor Sara Slinn. 鈥淥ne of the reasons for this kind of a speaker series is to bring that role back to 91亚色 as the leading university in research and community-based action-research in labour relations and get people talking about labour issues both internally and externally.鈥�

Standing, a former research director of the International Labour Organization and an internationally acclaimed scholar, will argue that the long-term work-based precarisation of increasing numbers of people worldwide is leading to the crystallization of a new class. The volatility and political potential of this new class is just starting to be recognized, he says. Neoliberal policies and institutional changes have produced a huge and growing number of people with sufficiently common experiences to be called an emerging class. This conversation is co-organized with 91亚色 Professor Peer Zumbansen and the Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy Network.

Right: Guy Standing

There will be six conversations throughout the academic year, featuring nationally and internationally influential speakers from Canada, the United States, the European Union, international organizations and 91亚色.听

These conversations will foster more internal dialogue with students and academics, as well as law and social science collaborative research at 91亚色, and will help bring people external to the University into the dialogue, said Lipsig-Mumm茅. It will allow collaboration with labour and labour law practitioners that will benefit students, researcher and the wider public.

A will allow those conversations to continue and deepen long after the panel discussions are finished. More disciplines than ever are now concerned with labour issues, which makes this speakers series highly relevant, she says.

As Slinn of 91亚色鈥檚 Osgoode Hall Law School points out, 鈥�91亚色 has a lot of expertise and interest in labour and employment issues. This speaker series takes advantage of expertise and provides a nexus for a multi-dimensional discussion on timely and important issues.鈥�

Right: Sara Slinn and Carla Lipsig-Mumm茅

The conversations will encompass a variety of different viewpoints and ideologies regarding the topic at hand and will include union leaders, academics, lawyers and academics. 鈥淭hey are meant to be fulsome conversations. We hope the panels will be enlightening and interesting and will examine crucial questions at the heart of each topic,鈥� says Slinn. 鈥淭here aren鈥檛 many spaces in existence for those kinds of conversations anywhere right now.鈥�

The Conversations on Work and Labour Speakers' Series is a joint project of Osgoode Hall Law School and LA&PS. A number of departments, programs and associations are also sponsoring the conversations.

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The Canadian Knowledge Mobilization 100, a survey run by , asked respondents to rank the biggest influences of their knowledge mobilization practice. Phipps, who leads 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit and , Canada鈥檚 knowledge mobilization network, topped the list.

Left: David Phipps

Also mentioned among the top influencers in Canada were Peter Levesque (Knowledge Mobilization Works), Melanie Barwick (Hospital for Sick Children), Ben Levin (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education) and Gary Myers (KMbeing.com). 听The survey collected responses from Jan. 5 to June 15, and results were released by Knowledge Mobilization Works on Monday.

鈥淜nowledge mobilization is a key element of 91亚色鈥檚 research outreach strategy,鈥� said Robert Hach茅, 91亚色鈥檚 vice-president research & innovation. 鈥淭hrough David鈥檚 efforts and leadership, 91亚色鈥檚 excellent reputation as a leading knowledge mobilization university in Canada continues to be strengthened.听This recognition by his peers is well deserved.鈥�

91亚色 piloted institutional knowledge mobilization in 2005 under a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.听Since then, 91亚色 has grown its knowledge mobilization collaboration with the University of Victoria to include the other four 搁别蝉别补谤肠丑滨尘辫补肠迟-搁茅蝉别补耻滨尘辫补肠迟搁别肠丑别谤肠丑别 universities: Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al, University of Guelph and University of Saskatchewan.听91亚色 also works closely with the United Way of 91亚色 Region to deliver knowledge mobilization services to the 91亚色 Region community, municipal and regional agencies.

Knowledge mobilization is a suite of services that connect university research and expertise to government and community agencies so that research can help these organizations make better informed decisions about public policy and social services. Knowledge mobilization is a process that results in social innovation.

鈥淜nowledge mobilization has become very important for Canada,鈥� said Steven Gaetz, professor in the Faculty of Education who leads both the and the . 鈥淒avid鈥檚 work and that of the knowledge mobilization unit is very helpful to those of us seeking to make research accessible to policy makers.鈥�

Levesque, president and CEO of Knowledge Mobilization Works, undertook the survey to obtain a snapshot of who people see as influential in their knowledge mobilization practice in Canada.

鈥淲e think that knowledge mobilization as a concept and as a practice is growing. We think that we have barely scratched the surface of understanding what influences knowledge mobilization practice,鈥� said Levesque.

Founded in January 2007, Knowledge Mobilization Works听supports听individuals and organizations to create incentives and infrastructure for knowledge mobilization.

For more information on 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit contact , manager, Knowledge Mobilization at ext.听88876.

To view the results of the survey, visit .

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The project, Youth and Community Development in Canada and Jamaica: A Transnational Approach to Youth Violence, popularly known as 鈥淧roject Groundings鈥�, opened with two youth forums in Kingston and St. Mary, Jamaica on July 28 and 31. At both of these events, black youth from Jamaica and Canada confronted the systemic violence that marks their lives and initiated a conversation about how they might interrupt these complex patterns of violence.

Right: 91亚色 Professor Andrea Davis addressing a youth forum in Jamaica

Andrea Davis, deputy director of CERLAC and the project鈥檚 principal investigator, says, 鈥淢any youth lack the language and cultural awareness necessary to respond to their environment in a critical and transformative way, and often end up perpetuating forms of social violence themselves.鈥� By bringing Jamaican youth into a conversation with Canadian youth, Project Groundings 鈥渟eeks to facilitate critical national and transnational dialogue that can open up avenues of collaboration among youth across their shared cultural boundaries,鈥� says Davis. This transformative dialogue seeks not only to change the behaviour and action of youth, but also to increase public awareness, affect public policy and contribute to the ongoing body of research on youth violence.听

In the project鈥檚 opening National Youth Forum in Kingston, Jamaican youth grappled with the unique challenges they face, including sexual violence against women, victimization based on sexual orientation, access to education, unemployment, socio-economic disparities in the administration of justice and the absence of effective platforms from which to voice their concerns.

Above: New research听uses art forms, such as drama, to explore the effects of violence on black youth in Canada and Jamaica听

The second youth forum in Woodside, St. Mary, examined the specific concerns faced by rural youth.听Here, youth identified a lack of facilities and resources, including poor roads and inadequate transportation, as their greatest challenges. While they recognized the necessity of agricultural pursuits, they also pointed to the lack of crop diversification and financial compensation as major deterrents leading them off the land.

The question of violence was also central to the Woodside forum, which closed with an impromptu commemoration of the life of Shauna Kaye Shaw, a community youth leader murdered earlier this year. In defiance of the fear brought on by her death, Woodside youth committed to resume youth activities.

Right: Jamaica Youth Theatre performing The Pickney Dem a Dry

As Peter Cumming, coordinator of 91亚色鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Studies Program and president of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, says, 鈥淭he most exciting development in the research team鈥檚 first sessions in Jamaica was the moving demonstration of Jamaican youths鈥� eager and serious engagement with issues of violence through their sharing of their own experiences, their animated discussion about possible solutions for societal violence, and their strategic use of the arts, particularly theatre, to represent and confront the enormous pain caused by violence.鈥�

One example of the use of the arts was Jamaica Youth Theatre鈥檚 (YRT) performance of the skit The Pickney Dem a Dry. The skit explores the grief of a mother who learns of the death of her daughter on the streets. While it begins as a personal mourning, it quickly mounts into collective suffering, a disturbing yet inspiring memorial to young people who have died violently. This performance powerfully deployed a poem, a clothesline on which the names of murdered youth were hung and chants based on street graffiti to acknowledge a shared humanity among youth 鈥� 鈥淲e all bleed red鈥�. It also challenged everyone as individuals and nations to 鈥淟ive up! Live up!鈥�

Left: Toronto youth Ebthihal Nabag (left) and Nabi Shash from Nia Centre for the Arts participate in a youth exchange

鈥淚 was humbled by the honesty and courage of these young people,鈥� says Davis. 鈥淏eing able to see the transformative elements of the research and the way young people from both countries embraced and empowered each other was enormously fulfilling.鈥�

This innovative approach to youth violence is funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada and brings together researchers from 91亚色, McMaster University, the universities of Guelph, Ottawa and Waterloo, as well as the University of the West Indies (Mona campus). It also includes three community partners 鈥� JYT in Kingston, the Woodside Development Action Group in St. Mary and Nia Centre for the Arts in Toronto,

The project will host a second youth forum, workshop and photo exhibit in Toronto Oct. 28 and 29.

For more information, visit the CERLAC website or e-mail Andrea Davis at aadavis@yorku.ca.

By 91亚色 graduate student Jan Anderson

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If you鈥檙e working in 3D film or aerospace engineering, what impact do the latest developments in brain and vision research have on your industry鈥檚 practices? What if you鈥檙e drafting government policy on air quality control and need expertise in how the latest atmospheric chemistry and physics findings translate into plans and policy?

Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at 91亚色 have new options to pursue the research and applied dimensions of these and other questions, thanks to $3.3 million in funding from the (NSERC).

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The funding, provided through NSERC鈥檚 $29.6听million investment over six years in the Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Grants program, will support two new training programs in the Faculty of Science & Engineering, each valued at $1.65 million over the period.

Students and fellows enrolled in each program will gain experience in basic and applied research, along with the practical and professional skills needed to successfully transition to research careers in the academic, industry or government sectors.

Professor Hugh Wilson in the Faculty of Science & Engineering鈥檚 Department of Biology will lead the Vision Science and Applications program. Based in the internationally-recognized (CVR), the program focuses on vision-based information technologies that require optimal information displays to ensure accurate human interpretation of data are playing an increasingly important role in many economic sectors.

Key applications include:

• 3D digital media (e.g., 3D film, geographical databases, autocad systems)
• Aerospace (e.g., cockpit technologies, search-and-rescue)
• Face and scene analysis technologies (e.g., facial biometrics)
• Visual health and assessment technologies (e.g., functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), perimetry)

The Vision Science and Applications team includes 25 researchers at seven international universities and 10 partner organizations, including , the and . At 91亚色, a total of 10 professors affiliated with CVR will lend their expertise to the project. The program will enrol four students in its first year and 16 students in each successive year.

Professors and in the Faculty of Science & Engineering鈥檚 Department of Chemistry will lead the Training Program for Integrating Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics from Earth to Space (IACPES) program. Jointly based in 91亚色鈥檚 (CAC) and the Centre for Research in Earth & Space Science (CRESS), the program鈥檚 interdisciplinary focus will give students an integrated understanding of atmospheric chemistry and physics from earth into space.

Key applications include:

• measuring and modelling atmospheric change
• examining air quality and health issues
• monitoring changes in the arctic atmosphere
• detecting sources of greenhouse gases
• measuring Earth鈥檚 changing atmosphere from space
• exploring and understanding other planets鈥� atmospheres
• developing the policy implications of atmospheric science

The IACPES team includes 11 applicants at six universities and 23 collaborators at 10 partner organizations, including , the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, the (NOAA) in Boulder, Colo., several industries and two premier research institutes in Germany.听The program will create 21 places for undergraduate students, master鈥檚 students, PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in its first year, with over 200 places created over the successive five years.

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鈥淏y securing two of only 18 projects awarded to universities across Canada, 91亚色 builds on its strong track record in leading large-scale, interdisciplinary collaborative research projects,鈥� said Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation. 鈥�The programs will provide our innovative research centres 鈥� CVR, CRESS and CAC听鈥� with a competitive advantage in attracting excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who wish to pursue careers in the applications of vision science or atmospheric chemistry and physics. NSERC鈥檚 CREATE program strengthens the role of universities in training the highly-qualified people needed in today鈥檚 scientific knowledge economy.鈥�

鈥淣SERC鈥檚 CREATE Program helps graduating students become highly sought-after professional researchers in the natural sciences and engineering, both in Canada and abroad,鈥� said Suzanne听Fortier, president of NSERC. 鈥淭he program not only helps improve the skill set of Canada鈥檚 next-generation of research talent, but it also helps to support their retention in the workforce.鈥�

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer

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The forum, which focuses on industrial relations, workplace discrimination and human rights issues, will be held today and tomorrow at the Beijing Conference Centre.听YCPPL was awarded a听major grant of $100,000 from the of (HRSDC) to organize the forum, which will bring together some of Canada's top thinkers in industrial and labour rights with听key policy-makers and thinkers听in China.

Right: Lesley Jacobs

"The Canada-China Forum is the first of its kind and reflects a new initiative of the Government of Canada in the realm of recalibrating their relationship with China involving university-led research units," says political science Professor Lesley Jacobs, director of YCPPL.

"Working with government officials in Canada and the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, this event will bring together a 17-person Canadian delegation, including academics, senior government officials, representatives from human rights commissioners, and delegates from business, labour and NGOs, to provide a dynamic platform for an important comparative discussion of industrial relations and workplace rights with a view to relating these issues to international labour standards," says Jacobs.

In addition to Jacobs,听91亚色 Professor Lorne Foster, director of the听Master in Public Policy, Administration & Law program,听will also be a principal investigator on this project. Jacobs and Foster, along with political science Professor Daniel Drache and Patrick Monahan, 91亚色's vice-president academic & provost, are in Beijing for the forum. Monahan will make the welcoming remarks to the delegates gathered in Beijing.

Canada鈥檚 ambassador to China, David Mulroney, along with a representative from the United Nations听International Labour Organization and various Chinese dignitaries, will also deliver speeches to forum delegates.

"Being asked to lead such an event is a tremendous achievement for YCPPL and 91亚色," says Jacobs. "It offers an opportunity to听demonstrate the dynamism and excellence of 91亚色 researchers and their research."

YCPPL听encourages research on the role and impact of law in the formation and expression of public policy. More specifically, the听centre focuses on constitutional, institutional and legal aspects of the public policy, as well as the international and transnational dimensions of law and public policy.

For more information, visit the website.

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