Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Time: 9:00AM - 12:00PM ET
Facilitator: Dr. Kate Grantham, FemDev Consulting
Cost: $250 CAD + HST
Learn how to communicate feminist research for maximum impact, uptake, and use by target audiences!
Knowledge translation is a core part of being an effective feminist researcher and advocate. It helps ensure that the information produced by feminist research is used to support evidence-based decision making, policy making, influencing, and social change. The ability to describe your knowledge translation strategy is also increasingly a requirement of research funding agencies, including the Social Science and Humanities Research Council.
In this 3-hour online workshop, graduate students will learn about the practice of feminist knowledge translation and explore strategies to communicate research for maximum impact, uptake, and use by target audiences. A key aspect of feminist knowledge translation is returning knowledge generated back to the communities that we work with, and ensuring its applicability and use for those who helped create it.
By the end of the workshop, participants will understand how to:
- design a feminist knowledge translation strategy for their research
- promote the uptake and use of their work by communities and target audiences
- think through practical and ethical issues in knowledge production and dissemination (e.g. impact, ownership, accessibility, power relations)
- produce different types of knowledge products and leverage them effectively
- evaluate the reach and impact of their work
Workshop Design
This workshop is designed for graduate students in feminist studies, women’s/gender studies, international development studies, and related social science programs. It is based on a training program developed for International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Research Awardees that has been run annually since 2019. It is designed using a curated and interactive approach, and includes the following components:
- an intake survey on participants’ backgrounds and learning objectives
- a targeted workshop curriculum based on the results of the intake survey
- access to curated workshop readings, templates, and resources
- virtual facilitation over Zoom and the use of collaborative tools like Jamboard
- a practice component using a real world example or participants’ own research
- a workshop certificate of completion
About the Facilitator
Dr. Kate Grantham is a researcher, educator, and consultant specializing in gender equality and women’s rights. She is the Executive Director and Founder of FemDev Consulting, a global development consulting firm passionate about feminist approaches to research, evaluation, and analysis. Through her research and consulting work, Kate has produced a significant body of leading-edge feminist research that has informed advocacy, programming, and policy for more than thirty governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, private foundations, and civil society groups.
Kate obtained her PhD in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research from The University of Western Ontario in 2016, where she also received training in feminist pedagogy and facilitation methods. She has experience developing and facilitating many different types of learning events, including small workshops and training seminars, large in-person and online conferences, and university course instruction. For the past three years, Kate has run a version of this workshop for IDRC Research Awardees, and it has been received positively by participants who attended both in-person and virtual formats.
This workshop will be held in English. Registration will be capped at 15 participants. For questions or more information you can email [email protected].
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