Knowledge Mobilization

Knowledge mobilization is an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of activities relating to the production and use of research results, including knowledge synthesis, dissemination, transfer, exchange, and co-creation or co-production by researchers and knowledge users.

Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) is integrated into each of CapaCITY/É’s core objectives. Specific knowledge users engaged in our research program include city partners, equity-deserving groups, key informants, and national partners.

One of the goals of the KMb Hub is to make research and learnings more accessible internally within the CapaCITY/É team and externally to our knowledge users. We do this through hosting webinars, creating infographics, and coordinating local and annual summits.

All KMb activities are coordinated through the KMb Hub.

In “A Bike Valet for Every Occasion” Rebecca Uhland details Capital Bike’s event-based bike valet services, the Locker, as well as the City of Victoria’s permanent downtown bike valet. Rebecca shares insights, lessons learned, and suggestions on how they’ve grown their bike valet services.

In this webinar, Mindful Streets: Toward more neuro-inclusive transportation futures, University of Waterloo PhD candidate Samantha Leger details how people who are neurodivergent have been overlooked in planning inclusive transportation infrastructure.

Dr Linda Rothman, Dr Emily McCullogh, and Dr Brent Hagel share key findings from the Child Active-Transportation Safety and the Environment (CHASE) research program that evaluated how the environment influences child injury risk.

Can building better infrastructure actually increase physical activity, well-being, and social connectedness? Zoé Poirier Stephens and Dr Yan Kestens share some of the findings from INTERACT – the  INTerventions, Equity, Research, and Action in Cities Team.

This webinar features tools and insights for advancing sustainable transportation with Dr. Chris Pettit from the City Futures Research Centre (UNSW) and Dr. David Wachsmuth and Dr. Kevin Manaugh of McGill University and founders of Curbcut.  

In this webinar, Pedal Poll/Sondo Vélo: Findings from Canada’s national bicycle count, Kate Walker and Samuel Benoit from Vélo Canada Bikes detail this community-driven initiative to count people on bikes, while Dr Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, University of Toronto, digs into the data.