**This presentation is part of the RIC 2023 Annual Meeting.**
This session was presented by David Phipps, Assistant Vice-President of Research Strategy and Impact at York University and Network Director of Research Impact Canada (RIC), on the state of the RIC network in 2023.
My name is David I am a settler born to White parents in England and we moved to these lands that some people call Canada when I was two years old I live in Toronto with my husband and that’s on the traditional territories of the annic nation the hodon Confederacy the huran
Wendat and the current treaty holders of the Mrs SS of the credit I am by day the um assistant vice president for research strategy and impact which means I run the research office for York University and do anything else the vice president tells me to do and uh by by my fun job
Is being the network director of research impact Canada so thank you so much B atus Calgary um I would like to thank Stephanie and Sandy for all the work that you guys never see um and also thank the rip staff who’ve also the research and P Kanda staff who’ve also been absolutely
Instrumental for bringing us here today we got 25 people in the room we’ve got 15 people online that makes us 40 people which is the largest by far annual meeting that we’ve had with research impact Canada um I see Lauren is on screen from the University of Winnipeg
She hosted last year so thank you very much Lauren um it’s nice to see some folks that I know very well and have seen before some um new people who have joined existing members some new people and new members um some people like Julie who’s come back after taking some
Time off where did you travel or where didn’t you travel Argentina South Africa before the pandemic did you come was it you who came back with an extra baby or is that else yes she went away with one child and came back with two which is an indication of how long she was
Away pregnant yes indeed pregnant while traveling she says and um Steve McGregor’s in the house who um has been with us as a graduate student evaluating research impact Canada since 20 17 something like that and is now um straight out of his PhD into a very
Short post do because he got hired by the uh University of Calgary in the Department of Education so yay Steve is here um and Steve’s B students with him I don’t think we’ve ever had students at research impact Canada meeting hi and so we’ll see more of um steveen his
Students um certainly in the evaluation committee um and uh just um it’s just such a pleasure to be here I’m going to not be the only one speaking I’m going to invite vissy to come up and Julie to come up so we get to get to meet them as
Well but we do start off with the state of the network um and state that’s you okay are we here are we good yeah okay excellent the slides on oh it’s one of these it’s like a PDF I have to scroll down gotcha we talk
About our new members this year um we so welcome um if you’re online from the Weston Family Foundation anyone from Nate is um anyone in the team from Nate Lakehead University of Windsor know we’ve got Windsor folks here brain Canada analy poets will be joining us um later today chronic pain center vacin
For Canadian veterans yay you guys are here and the University of York anyone for University of York online not to be confused with York University the University of York is in the UK um that’s two three four five six seven new members we have had maybe three new
Members a year this is amazing and um on the next slide we have interest from these folks um and um Nadine is here from um university of watero so yeah who is not quite a member but we have received her package and her application and that will be reviewed by
The implementation committee which will be meeting tomorrow so welcome Nadine uh Dy wants to come back Western wants to come back they were members they coming back you tal might be online we’ve invited them to um attend online um and Bristol in the UK um University of Toronto Scarboro campus not the big
Mothership but Scarboro campus and um um uh health research BC the provincial health research funding organization with a very very strong tradition of knowledge translation are all interested in joining that’s amazing and be careful what you wish for because um we we’ve um Christ has really helped us think
Through um what what can we do um because becoming a new member for research impact Canada takes a while to figure it out it’s often experiential as a new person at an existing member or a new member it takes a while to understand what are these these Waters
We’re swimming in with research impact Canada and um and so with have that many new members we we’re doing a little bit of specific Outreach to new members and um I just as I say this Sandy um maybe we might want to also make that group available to new individuals who are
Existing members um and just to facilitate the onboarding we used to give every new member one phone call and say good luck right and now we give everyone two phone calls we give a phone call and three or four months later we’ll give you a second phone call but
Now we’re trying to supplement that with um new member activities just because it does take a while um and but you know had an interesting convers ation with the vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University uh he was in Toronto a couple of months ago and they’re really
Interested in looking under the hood in research impact Canada um some universities in Australia and he said oh okay I get it like we’re not a professional association we’re not like Cara the Canadian Association of research administrators we’re very different than that he said okay I get
It how many members I said 30 he went huh can you do what you do with a 100 and I went oh that’s a good question so that’s a question that we’ll be engaging members in I want you to think about that about the models for research
Impact Canada um we don’t want it to change but we want it to be able to grow and and and the model grow and accept new members as they come along uh we are interested in world domination but that’s not on the agenda yet so we’ve
Had a bunch of new members um what we what have we done um this year through the pandemic uh we realized um I was talking with Michael and CHR Michael and Christ and I have been traveling with as research impact Canada since we started research impact Canada in 2006 and um we
Would always call it the spring travel the spring tour right because that’s when all the conferences were on and this year we’ve been to St John’s which was the Canadian Association of research administrators conference in Toronto we had the um we were actually in Thunder
Bay for um the CTU Expo in Toronto for Congress and then we’re in Halifax for the Asis impact of science conference and um just reflecting with Michael and Chris to like oh so good to be back because we did all that um remotely and oh boy is it tiring right just we forgot
How amazingly energetic it is and and how um it is tiring to be at that booth and again again come back to the Rick staff because they traveled with the booth um we got the new branding which is very cool those of you online might will see the new branding on the slides
As well so thanks to the Rick staff who um who kept us going for the tour the spring tour 23 um what have we done um oh that’s right sorry read in French scroll a little bit further there we go okay so some of the things that we’ve um
We focused on is with these these networks on the bottom we we we are engaging internationally networks that are focused on a particular discipline maternal Health antimicrobial resistance those are ubiquitous though you know researchers and partners working together to create impact but those networks like ours which are not
Specific to any discipline which cut across disciplines partner across sectors we’re really the the infrastructure for the University there’s not many of us and research impact Canada has ended up um sort of coordinating with these other networks vinula in the bottom left is a network of 13 Chilean universities who have come
Together to interface uh the with uh the policy interface with their um their national government and there they come together about a year ago uh the um advancing research impact for society our American colleagues they’ve been around since about 2014 as the National Alliance for broader impacts they
Renamed about five years ago and we’ve had a lot of relationships with um with AIS Aaron is the Africa research and impact Network they are um a network of individuals so not institutions uh and they are have many individuals in about 26 countries in the African continent uh the University policy engagement network
Is in the United Kingdom and again focusing on the um the policy the policy engagement between uh University researchers and mainly their National governments and then ipen is the impact practice and evaluation network of the seven Crown research institutes in New Zealand and so not New Zealand universities but the federally funded
New Zealand big labs and they’re very interested in Impact uh we’ve never been able to get New Zealand on a call with the others because somebody’s got to be up at midnight when when you’re doing all of that but we uh we are talking about um models of um models of
Governance we’re talking about membership fees so research impact Canada is the only of these networks that has membership fees built in Aris has introduced those now we’re talking about membership models and what do those look like and we’re talking about collaborations collaborations between our networks but how might our
Researchers be able ble to connect on specific activities so you will see um one opportunity that um went round on the Rick list it was funding from the roal society or something like that in the UK and was looking for early career researchers to partner with UK
Researchers and we did get a nibble of that at the University of Saskatchewan and if anyone else has others do respond to that so there are opportunities for our researchers that will be coming out of this um I keep trying to give away the lead for these you for these
Networks keep saying well who would like to Cher the next one and silence partly it’s that we have an amazing staff team that is able to provide the work to bring people together um to schedule to take notes and and the others um are their Staffing models are very very
Different so I think that’s one but but the international engagement is very very cool on this International engagement ju Julie asked me to to mention uh just got back from um Australia on Friday and it was invited down by a group of called the Innovative research universities these are some
Seven universities who kind of look like the not u15 in Canada in Australia the u15 is the G8 there are eight of the air quotes research intensive universities then they have a group called Innovative research universities seven of them very much research um I started describing
Them and and York and many of our universities would be in this network if we were in Australia is that we might look we might have our eyes on International rankings but our feet are firmly in the ground our local communities and so they’re really interested as I said in research impact
Canada and how does it work and they’re musing about what might research impact Australia look like so that would be very cool and we’ll we’ll see um the beginning of global domination uh we do have we have changed our governance model this year some of
You may be um aware of this but I’ll review that we used to have the governance committee which was the big committee and we recognized many a few few years ago about 2019 that that’s not a decision that’s a hard decision-making committee when you’ve got 30 40 people
On a call and so we created the governance steering committee that sat underneath and it was nine members who prepared the agendas and the activities for decisions to be made by the big committee with governance well governance is now so big but what’s wonderful at the governance committee
Meetings is that the members hear about the business of the network and it’s part of what we’re doing here today um or this week at this meeting is this is not a conference this is about where you really get to engage with the activities of the network so we’ve got the big
Committee and the little committee we flipped those so the big committee the little committee is now the decision-making committee and it’s called The implementation committee and I would like to announce the members of the implementation committee we have um got oh me first Stephanie yay Lauren’s online Julia Mam’s in the room McKinley
Darlington I haven’t seen yet Roberto is in the room thank you so much Elizabeth Chek is uh I think online I think I saw her lupin’s in the room hey Lupin and um Chris Houston has said yes um I don’t think he’s online right now he’s from the UN state New York
P oh they were excellent uh univ York and University the York uh is in the UK uh Jordy Stewart from Western Family Foundation and if you’re here from Lakehead someone now an has been away and she got back uh last Monday I think she was um
Away from Lakehead for a while and so an if if you if you get this transcription or anyone can um send a message to and which I haven’t done so yet I F I phoned up Andy her boss the vice president and I said hey Andy um we have a one spot
For a member uh university has been a member less than five years he said we’re in I don’t know who but we’re in so someone from Lakehead um so so um I just thank the these members who have agreed to be part of the implementation committee yay
Um and and then the big committee has been renamed to the member engagement committee and because we really do want to keep the engagement with the members but we want the members to tell the implementation committee what what they need to be working on so the big
Committee is going to meet one month before the little committee and the big committee is going to create the agenda for the little committee work so that the um all the membership has the opportunity to influence and inform the activities of the network and then underneath uh we have the professional
Development committee Michael Johnny yay chair the evaluation committee David me chair bilingualism Comming do we have a chair for that bilingualism beling okay thank you what Julie said um which is why we need a committee and um the the EDI thinking group it’s it’s um we’re thinking
Because we don’t really know what the work is so it’s not a working group but we do bring this group together on an as needed basis and we needed them to come together to think about the Strategic plan for for research impact Canada which we’ll talk about so thank you for
Um stepping forward to offer to be part of the implementation committee mobilize you um Christa or or um Lupin do you want to say anything do about you’ll be talking later so um they’re talking later it’s all is that in a parallel track or a it’s a plenary okay enough
Said they’re going to be doing and Sophie’s here yay so Sophie I just grabbed a picture that said Sophie ason Ashton off Google pic right and so I’m glad it’s you we we’ never met and I just see let’s go with this picture so so it’s excellent
Um really you know they’ll they’ll be talking I I there’s so much good in mobilize you but um I’m not going going to steal their Thunder by by saying all the amazing things the resources page um Sylvia do you want to talk a little bit about the reorg of the resources page
Can you can you press a button and make that work there you go not a whole lot to say on it but we have featured some resources we are doing uh a bit of an update we’ve heard from people that they would like to know which are the resources that are most
Popular most useful most used uh so if you go to our website and sort by featured you will see the selection of those resources uh and we’re always open to feedback on improvements and things that you’d like to see uh but that is the latest feature that we have
Implemented great thank you Sylvia um and you know we’ve become a victim of our own success in that resources page it was an amazing Dumping Ground of wonderful stuff that you couldn’t find right so the so there’s tagging right now it’s keyword searchable but if your keyword isn’t the keyword that’s used by
The document then you’re not going to find it so uh Sylvia has been tagging and working on the on the back end of the system to make things more findable uh so thank you for that syvia for your work on that not done she’s um she’s got
Like you know has to be here to do other work and I’m going to pass this over to bissy to come up and talk about the work we’re doing with the future Skills Center of Canada just a bit of History uh for those of you who are new to the story in
2018 might have been 2017 the conference Board of Canada uh was writing an application to um become the host of the future Skills Center of Canada this was 360 million um for investing in Canada’s skills so not just basic not just Advanced skills um for employment but
Basic skills as well and 50% of the effort needs to be um focused on um on Youth and marginalized populations so uh we were part of the conference Board of Canada’s application it turned out it was shortlisted and then combined with a couple of other proponents and they were
Funded which was great uh the um then Ryerson now Toronto metropolitan University holds the funds they are the host of the uh future Skills Center of Canada and they have asked uh research impact Canada to be a to deliver knowledge mobilization services to their projects and now they’ve engaged us for
Another piece of work which is why we have amazing staff because we have amazing money so so I’m gonna ask bissy to um to byy is byy waro did I proun that wait did thank you is the direct interim director for acting director she’ll tell you Connie back Connie
Connie Tang is off being a mom um her baby is four months three three months speaking with Steve McGregor’s baby is five months so we got a lot of new parents affiliated with the network and we saw Connie a couple weeks ago she joined she yeah and she’s doing she will
Be back um as soon as a child care spot opens up then she will be back it could be March it could be January we’ll see okay H so hi every everyone uh for those of you who haven’t met me I should speak into this uh so again for those of
You who haven’t met me I’m the acting director of operations so Connie is coming back uh but before that I was the manager of evaluation and continuous Improvement so I was working on the future skills uh portfolio which was really really great uh and really quickly before that I was actually
Working in the future skills Consortium so I was at blueprint which is was the or is the evaluation lead uh so I was part of um piloting and testing for a lot of the projects s that FSC was implementing across the country uh and then prior to that was actually a career
Counselor so delivering skills training program so a lot of kind of implementation uh and work in that space uh so as David has says future Skills Center is actually pan Canadian initiative it’s made up of a Consortium of Partners uh so they fund different skills training and Workforce Development programs research and
Initiatives across the country um and sorry they also launched a community practice so initially this was launched in 2020 it was actually a virtual space and it was meant to bring together skills training practitioners researchers policy makers business industry and labor groups to really tackle the question around Canada’s uh
Skills training ecosystem Career Development ecosystem um so FSC realized uh that they needed to try different approaches to peer-to-peer exchange and engagement and actually bringing people together in a community practice and that’s where Rick came in uh so uh Rick was is uh tasked with experimenting uh and doing a
Testing phase to look at um peer-to-peer exchange collaboration and knowledge sharing so for the last year and a half so from April 2022 up until September 30th so next weekish uh we are have been in a piloting and testing phase uh so we tested different um activities um but how we actually got
Here maybe doing two things I want because I’m trying to do French and English I’m sorry folks um so last year between August and November of 2022 our community engagement and marketing team actually did a series of focus groups um in one-on-one interviews and surveys um
Again across Canada so we did in two phases the first was between August and November 2022 which focused on future Skills Center funded projects what did these projects actually want to contribute and actually gain from this community of practice uh and then from December to J December 2022 to February
2023 we focused on the larger or the everyone else everyone else in the skills training the system what would they want from this community of practice what would a skills training practitioner want um to potentially meet with a researcher how could they collaborate on different things uh so
From this and it kind of already was uh our audience but we really realized that we’re focusing on again skills training organizations more particularly Frontline practitioners so those that are actually designing and delivering and upskilling folks uh for the future of work uh researchers business industry and labor groups and policymakers
Government which admittedly has been an area that we’ve been try struggling with but we do know that these are folks that we do want to have in this Community Practice as well so in the first phase we had about 48 interviews and then the second phase uh we did a survey that
Reached about 147 people and then also interviewed another 93 uh and we tried to get a diverse sample across the country um and across these um different audiences so what we heard um from folks overall so from these conversations to connections is what we called them um we
Learned that folks especially if FSC projects they actually wanted to be able to convene and meet with each other to understand what they learn from their pilots or what they learn from their projects so you know a skills training organization in New Finland who’s focused on it training may want to hear
Um from another organization in Alberta doing simil work um so really having that space to actually convene learn from Best Practices learning from evaluation because all projects funded from FSC are expected to do an evaluation so learning how to actually apply that and uh be able to use those
Learnings to apply for more funding and and improve their programs uh networking events curated smaller thematic events uh and also a repository of free resources which are things that we’ve been trying to kind of get out of these activities and a mix of um so synchronous events so Live Events and
Asynchronous or self-based events so recorded webinars for example so in this piloting and testing phase which is coming to an end and has been amazing uh we we we kind of situated this across three different streams of work so Connecting People to People so pure exchange and learning again this aspect around meeting
Collaboration uh and exchange connecting people to knowledge uh so accessing curated products case studies tools FSC funded research that has actional insights and and tools and connecting people to learning so not necessarily professional development professional capacity building meeting with experts who can provide targeted support for their work
And this and then so in this time period between April to September uh we tested and piloted many many things so we had seven peer learning groups uh so these were events where we would bring in experts who would do primer presentation on a particular topic and talk about
Different tools that they’ve used and then break people out into breakout rooms so a lot of this was virtual um and try to create that space for exchange and learning and we would have again the diverse audiences in these pure learning groups uh we tested a cycle of cohortative Engagement so peer
Learning groups would be one-off events which would be 90 minutes a cohortative engagement was actually a over a four-month period and would host a mix of uh Live Events and then asynchronous engagement over LinkedIn groups so this really gave folks more time to actually build connections and and possibly lead
To collaborations we had a couple that came out of it uh one of two participants actually are submitting a proposal to the N ofit government uh to work on a project together so really trying to test like how long does it take and what are some of the inputs
That are needed to kind of build out a Community Practice um and we also did a speed networking event as part of CT Expo I don’t know if anybody in the room was there uh David David uh so we we to test what would be like to do an
Inperson speed networking event is a little bit different from what we did here uh we actually hosted it at a venue we brought in different experts and we had different uh table like different tables and different themes and had folks actually move around the room uh which was really really great and then
Under people to knowledge we kind of chested out different types of infographics and digital products that we could kind of curate and then for professional uh people to learning so professional uh capacity building uh we had some really successful webinars that we tested um and a couple of other things that I’m
Trying to remember in English right now but um so for some of the things that we actually uh learned and some of the key highlights from that phase there’s a comment there so we reached about 840 individuals overall this is through the activities that we did uh through some
Of the focus groups surveys and everything and from our Pure learning groups and our professional toolkit webinars which were some of the um live events that we continue to do we had 77 people actually reattend uh which is really great so at least 77 people that
Had attended two or more events and I think 52 people that had attended uh sorry 77 three or more and 52 two or more um we had some really great turnout whenever when we started our peer leading group Sylvia I don’t know if you remember our first peer leading group
Last summer we had 17 people uh and a webinar that we tested in June of this or this summer had 215 attendees uh so really really growing in popularity uh I think this part of this is like testing bringing in different types of experts with tomorrow events people learned that
That’s something that people really want um for Pure learning groups we when we asked what if folks found the events valuable 89% overall said that they found it viable and for webinars 95% so really really building on some of the learnings that we’ve had uh throughout the year and now we’re moving into
Maturity phase which is going to start October 1st uh which is really really fast for for a pilot around Community engagement uh so we’re going to be sticking to what works for now so we know pure learning groups have shown really really great success uh knowledge products are something that we want to
Continue to do including launching and continuing a newsletter uh and webinars is something that uh we’ll continue to be doing so right now we’re in a I mean David you can kind of speak to this a bit of a flux period but we are moving into the maturity phase and another
Piece of exciting work that we’re going to be doing with the future Skills Center is environmental scans so as they’re going into mury phase and trying to get more funding from the government they’re kind of organizing their work uh around a few different key areas uh so
There are five themes that they’re going to be kind of focusing on David has spoke to a bit of it so skills for sustainable Futures Net Zero economy responsive career Pathways uh EDI Equity diversity inclusion uh with a specific focus on youth black youth indigenous youth and I can’t remember there was uh
Another one skills for smmes and technology in automation so for maturity phase the first area that we’re going to be tackling is actually Tech and automation uh so we’re going to be exploring um looking at how we can um deliver activities for career development practitioners around how to use AI tools for their
Practice that was really that was really long but that’s kind of where we’re at with the future Skill Center portfolio do we have are we giving people question time um yeah we’ll have that at the end okay perfect thank you everyone thanks py so what’s what’s coming up for 2024
That’s that was the future Skills Center um we have as we have been invited to put to to gather together the plan the business plan for the next 20 for the next 24 months there’s no money yet but we’ve been asked in the anticipation that there shall be another check coming
We’ve been asked to put that together so that we hopefully will be able to continue this relationship with the future Skills Center of Canada um for at least another uh 24 months which would be amazing uh that would carry us through 2024 so what are we doing we are
Going to be looking at um building capacity you know our Core Business is helping you build your own capacities and your capacities at your institutions um really thinking about the profession of knowledge mobilization and how do we grow the profession as well as um uh as as individuals as well as in our
Institution and um thinking about um looking at maintaining partnership strategies so strategies with the future Skills Center um exploring others mark your calendars the June 19th to the 21st in Montreal Canadian knowledge mobilization forum is back in person so that will be amazing it’s actually the same place when is the last Montreal
2018 2017 I think it was 2017 we at biotch monreal yeah you’re the only one from Montreal that was there yes but not from Montreal the only Montreal the only Montreal person so um we are looking um at the Montreal University so um right they’re all sitting there uh Concordia
Um uh un state of Quebec monreal state of monreal u um I said Concordia and um Bishops is close by but not quite Montreal um sherb yeah and just to see you know who would um to be involved in helping us plan not the program we’ll be
Taking care of all that but what are the cool things to do in Montreal and and take us to cool restaurants and and so that’ll be fun Steve McGregor is here he’s going to be talking to the evaluation committee he is he and his student team are doing some really cool
Evaluation digging deep into um the stories of how membership and research impact Canada is transforming us as individuals but also our institutions that about right Steve and um and then thinking he’s thinking with me about um what what might be a data set or an indicator set of our institution’s
Investments in this work um the next picture there is Peter LC he founded the um Canadian knowledge mobilization form in 2012 and uh he is now um busy being retired but we’ve created an award in his name the Peter LEC award for contributions to knowledge mobilization as a profession we have the graduate
Student awards um that research impact Canada runs community-based research Canada runs awards for for Community engaged scholarship faculty members have access to Awards through Sherk and CHR there’s no awards for us so that’s what the Peter LEC award is for um people anywhere in Canada we’re still
Working out the the guidelines but um we really want to recognize contributions from professional staff to Growing the profession as knowledge mobilization and then um we are still collaborating with universities Canada trying to get knowledge mobilization and a funding program before for uh before government to get some money in a federal budget
We’ve tried unsuccessfully two years in a row who knows what’s going to happen this year but universities Canada is very very supportive they have put knowledge mobilization in their pre-budget submission and uh we’re working closely to provide feedback into their advocacy things like if you come from a research office you might have
Seen the federal government’s um priorities for for uh science technology and Innovation and these are priorities that guide things like Canada Excellence research chairs the um Canada first research Excellence fund and I went through them um a couple of months ago and there are six highlevel priorities
Then there are 56 areas of focus and fully half of them will never be realized if we only focus on patents and startups that half of this government’s priorities will not will will be realized if they invest in knowledge mobilization but yet the main public policy drivers come out of commercialization and Industry
Engagement and that’s great we need that but fully half of their priorities can come from our work as well so that’s part of the rationale that that universities Canada is taking forward also um events that are coming up we’ve said about the Forum the pbec prize and um
And the um prize for staff so and happy to announce what oh sorry oh this is oh this was Julia live sorry Julia come on up or or press your button if it works is there is there a button anywhere near Julia oh that works okay great so hi
Everyone I’m Julia LaVine oh talk right into it thankfully I’m not that tall um so I’m the man thank you I’m the manager of knowledge mobilization at Rick at of York University um it’s nice to meet everyone in person and virtually so we just wanted to give you a snapshot of
Some of the asks that we’ll have for the the network this year um and so as you can see we will be needing um Network involvement for three really main um activities that we have um so for the first one it’s the Canadian knowledge mobilization Forum which Sylvia is
Leading our team this year on um and we’re going to be looking for Network input for when we do content um contribu s so that’s number one and it’ll probably be around February 2024 when we’ll be looking for Network involvement um the next one is the Peter LEC award um also sometime
Around in the New Year in 2024 we’ll we’ll be looking to to form a Review Committee for applicants um and then lastly our Rick engage scholarship award that we’ve been doing every year um usually around also um February March time we’ll be looking for um a Review Committee um so all the
Coordination and organization of all that is taken care of our by our team but looking for Network involvement um for mostly for review panel um so that’s those are kind of our three main buckets of work G that we’ll be having for this year great thank you
Julia and again I’m proud to announce that we will be this time next year in Ottawa yay so we are speaking both with the University of Ottawa and with Carlon it would be really cool for a co-hosted meeting like that um we don’t know yet
What that will look like but we will be back with you but we know it will be in Ottawa this time um although you know what I’m thinking about I don’t know why I’m looking at Stephanie but uh those of us who work in research offices this is
A difficult time of year right because we’re slammed into the fall break but Sherk last year moved the Insight Grant deadline from October 15 to October 1st so moving this to the week after October 1st might free up some space in I see Heather’s nodding and so might free up
Some space in our re for those of us in research offices to be able to more meaningfully engage in this when you’re not facing you know however many shurik Insight grants you have to review for well it’ll be now October the 3 no October 2nd Monday October second
Pardon other staff doesn’t know so thank you very much um University of Ottawa and Carlton hopefully jointly we will be in Ottawa and I invite you to ask any questions um for myself or Julia or see how much time do we have um we’ve got a few minutes excellent okay
Sylvia oh last slide I thought that was the last slide thank you yeah I think uh proma mentioned this to the online attendees but I’ll also say it to the the folks in uh in the room we are encouraging you to reflect on a few questions uh throughout the
Annual meeting we have a jam board uh we’ll also have some space in the wrap up closing Reflections but we want to know from you how would how do you want to connect with other Rick members over the next few months this can be over specific um specific areas of of
Interest or specific initiatives uh but we want to know like how how do you want to connect with other members how can we help facilitate those connections what events or initiatives would you like to see Rick Implement uh and what is your biggest takeaway from this year either
At this meeting or this year in general success stories Lessons Learned we would really love to hear from you um what your experiences have been so we encourage you to reflect on this throughout the meeting we will have a jam board we’ll share the link uh and
We’ll have some space for this on Friday as well thank you any questions online please raise your hand or stick something in the chat Sandy are you can you see the chat oh prama is doing okay excellent prama any any questions from the virtual group uh no questions so far
But in regards to the in uh ckf 24 um Elizabeth just let us know that she’ll definitely be there in 2024 and share a list of all the greatest things to do in Montreal excellent thank you so much um and uh so this is the kind of review of
What we’ve done and a little bit of the highlights of what’s coming forward the rest of the annual meeting is going to be hearing from members and the work that members are doing the work there will be some dedicated um uh plenary like this um work there’ll also be
Breakout breakout parallel sessions and Sandy do you want to explain how any of that’s going to work thank you thanks everyone