UPEN is pleased to invite colleagues from universities, policy organisations and beyond, to join a new Community of Practice on knowledge mobilisation in academic-policy engagement. The Community of Practice will focus on exploring approaches towards knowledge mobilisation and understanding its impact on the use of academic evidence by policy organisations.
The Community of Practice has the following core aims:
- To develop peer-learning, networks, and innovation within the public policy knowledge mobilisation community
- To develop collective knowledge of knowledge mobilisation approaches and impacts and effectively communicate it beyond the immediate knowledge mobilisation community
- To strengthen cross-sector relationships that contribute to sustainable research-policy interactions.
In this, our inaugural meeting, we will focus on beginning to shape overall activities and topics of the Community, as well as providing an opportunity to try out some peer learning activities.
We will explore such questions as;
- what does good knowledge mobilisation look like?
- what challenges get in the way of it?
- and how could this peer learning community help to address them?
We welcome anyone who is a ‘knowledge mobiliser’ or ‘knowledge broker’ in academic-policy engagement or has an interest in the research or practice of knowledge mobilisation in the same context from the UK or beyond.
Over the next three years, the Community of Practice will meet at least quarterly. Differing levels of involvement are welcome and expected - you might want to show up once, run a session yourself, or take on a leading role.
