Knowledge Broker Panel

Ever wonder what Knowledge Brokers do?
Does the idea of disseminating research and other types of knowledge into the hands of clinicians, policy makers and others to effect positive change interest you?
Come to this panel to learn more about this fascinating career from people in the field and the training available to you.

Speakers

Liz Wigfull

Manager, Knowledge Exchange / Gestionnaire, Échange des connaissances
Mental Health Commission of Canada / Commission de la santé mentale du Canada

Peter Norman Levesque, KSJ, MA

President, Institute for Knowledge Mobilization

Lecturer, Professional Development, University of Ottawa

Strategy Consultant, PNLC

Monica Anne Batac, Vanier Scholar and PhD student (School of Social Work, McGill University)

Inbal Itzhak PhD

Scientific Liaison / Knowledge Translation Specialist 

Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music

Bios

Monica Anne Batac is a Vanier Scholar and doctoral student at McGill's School of Social Work. A teacher by training, Monica's research and practice focuses on capacity-building and community collaborations in the immigrant-serving sector

Monica is committed to improving the wellbeing of Filipinos in Canada through community-based research and practice with an explicit interest in addressing knowledge to action gaps.

Monica’s recent work focuses on improving local, provincial, and national community-based interventions for Filipinos across the life course, including newcomer youth, Philippine trained teachers, front-line workers in the social services sector, and seniors. In addition to her social work research, Monica also studies knowledge mobilization practitioners, brokers, and researchers, and social media and technology integration in higher education.

Registration required through myFuture. Keyword search "Knowledge Broker Panel" in Workshops.