New Course Receives SGS Approval
The following course has recently received approval by the School of Graduate Studies:
HAD5727H - Knowledge Transfer and Exchange:
A New Approach to Academic and Applied Research
Instructor: P. Goering
Managers, policy makers, and other decision makers in Canadian health care routinely identify and solve problems. Increasingly, there is pressure for them to apply the latest knowledge to these problems. Researchers, recognizing that their work is not easily accessible and that their findings are not informing practice and policy to the extent desirable, are exploring new ways to transfer and translate their work.
Knowledge translation is "the exchange, synthesis and ethically-sound application of knowledge within a complex system of relationships among researchers and users." The burgeoning field of knowledge transfer research examines the contexts and conditions in which knowledge is effectively translated (that is, accessed, understood and utilized) and those in which transfer fails to occur. Knowledge transfer and exchange is a two-way pathway. For the process to be successful, knowledge must not only be translated and disseminated by the producer of the knowledge to the user, but it must be received, attended to, and implemented by the user.
The overarching aims of the course are to:
- Introduce students to knowledge transfer and exchange concepts, models and methods
- Understand the uses of knowledge transfer and exchange in research, policy making, management and consulting.
- Learn how to apply knowledge transfer theory and practice in research.
- Understand the measurement and evaluation of knowledge transfer.
Particular attention will be given to an exploration of the "interactive model
of knowledge transfer and exchange, which emphasizes the reciprocal
relationships between knowledge producers (researchers, consultants)
and knowledge users (decision makers, practitioners).
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