#knowledge translation

Conference Season Here Again: What Have We Learned?

The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is different is that we are now in hybrid modes and questions remain about what we’ve learned about learning in a pandemic-affected world. Looking at my calendar I see a number of large events coming up that would be called, in ‘beforetimes’ (pre-2020, COVID-19 pandemic), conference season.…

Knowledge translation: beyond the peer reviewed papers

Oh the risks and pitfalls of trying to get research into clinical practice! There’s an often-cited figure estimating it takes around 17 years for a new practice to enter routine clinical care (Dilling, Swensen, Hoover, Dankbar, Donahoe-Anshus, Murad & Mueller, 2013) – that’s a long time!

There are many reasons for this delay:

Inertia – change is hard!

Systems – often support the status quo,…

Presenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator. Some ideas on how to make your next presentation better for your audience and you.

The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better.

Today we share some recent tips included in the latest Censemaking Innovation Newsletter on a big topic: presenting. Presentations are not just about informing people, they are a gift: a chance to teach others and inspire them. These powerful moments are when the attention is on…

Learning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals

Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things?

It’s back to school time in many parts of the world and with it a return to a different pace of life.

Throughout history we’ve not had many models of structured, intentional learning. Until the latter part of the 20th century our formalized learning…

The know-do gap: does social media help change things?

This post is prompted by a Facebook post from Connor Gleadhill asking “in what way is SoMe contributing to knowledge translation (KT)? I’m interested in the experience of those tagged and if anyone is aware if it has been rigorously tested. As far as I’m aware it hasn’t. Is it simply a confirmation bias arena? We are humans after all, and we curate our experience on SoMe.”

Oh such a great…

Knowledge translation: A home for occupational therapy?

Modern occupational therapy is involved with helping people participate in daily life in the real world. Indeed, occupational therapy has always been about “doing” – see here for a brief history of occupational therapy – but it has been difficult, in a strongly reductionist and biomedical context, to articulate the unique and particular contribution occupational therapy makes within healthcare.

The quest for excellence within social programs relies on knowing what excellence means and how programs compare against others. Benchmarks can enable us to compare one program to another if we have quality comparators and an evaluation culture to generate them – something we currently lack. 

A benchmark is something used by surveyors to provide a means of holding a levelling rod to determine…