Using peer-reviewed 91亚色 research, students working within the KMb Unit developed 28 new summaries over the summer. This brings the existing searchable of ResearchSnapshots to over 120 summaries.

The KMb Unit focused on three priorities identified by one of 91亚色鈥檚 leading partners, the United Way of 91亚色 Region (UWYR).

The are:

• Helping youth grow up strong.
• Enabling individuals and families to achieve economic independence.
• Improving the well-being of individuals and communities.

These research summaries provide the United Way and its network of member agencies with an important foundation for decision making and policy setting.

鈥淗aving access to relevant research strengthens UWYR鈥檚 capacity to make evidence-based decisions, and informs the planning and delivery of our strategic investments in communities of rapid growth,鈥� says Daniele Zanotti, CEO of the UWYR.

This is the third year that the KMb Unit has developed ResearchSnapshots based on 91亚色 research, and the project has attracted notice and enthusiasm among the wider community.

鈥淚 was able to include the research summary of the 91亚色 Region Infrastructure project in my PowerPoint presentation,鈥� says Joanna French, a researcher for the . 鈥淚t provided a succinct, pertinent and accessible way to introduce academic research into my presentation.鈥�

Visit Knowledge Mobilization鈥檚 website for more information about how the unit works with 91亚色 researchers, community agencies, government and the private sector.

Submitted by Michael Johnny, manager of 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit

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91亚色's Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit produces clear-language research summaries that concisely communicate聽research results to non-academic audiences.

These summaries support research dissemination, allowing research findings to have a broader impact on decision-making, policy development and professional practice. This unique institutional capacity was recently featured in The Globe and Mail and was聽the subject of a聽presentation聽at the 2009 Congress of the Humanities & Social Sciences. There is a template of the research summary series, titled , available on the KMb Unit鈥檚 Web site.

The KMb Unit is currently creating a new batch of summaries for 2010. While summaries can be written to support any 91亚色 research findings, the unit is focusing on research related to the priorities of the United Way of 91亚色 Region, one of its major partners, for 2010.

These priorities include:

• helping youth to grow up strong;
• enabling individuals and families to achieve economic independence;
• improving the well-being of individuals and communities.

To be eligible for the research summary process,聽research must:

• be finished research, not projects in progress;
• be developed based upon a written output, such as a report, book or thesis;
• meet some form of peer review, such as a book or chapter in an edited book, peer-reviewed publication, such as a journal, publication, or thesis.
• have findings that can help inform public policy or professional practice.

Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation, invites聽interested researchers to participate in this project.聽Those interested should contact the KMb Unit at kmunit@yorku.ca with materials describing聽their research, such as a journal article, book chapter, poster or conference presentation.

A research assistant in the KMb Unit will use these materials and in some cases will conduct an interview to develop a brief, clear-language summary of聽the research project, which will be submitted for review and聽sign-off. The researcher聽will also be asked to give聽consent to having聽the summary shared on the Web site.

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

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