HOW WE CAN BEST BRING AWARENESS TO YOUR RESEARCH
Canadian Educational Documentary Services provides the following services to you and your colleagues, in a professional and reliable manner:
- Assistance with research into appropriate and eligible non-profit partner organization for funding your educational documentary project, if requested.
- Exploration on how best to represent your research findings in your educational documentary.
- Discuss with you which knowledge mobilization, outreach and dissemination strategies are best suited to your educational documentary and how to accomplish them in the most efficient and least amount of time.
- Complete educational documentary production, including:
- Assistance with interviewee selection if required
- Arranging interview schedule, if required
- Pre-interviews, if required
- Filming of faculty lectures/conferences/workshops interviews and location shoots with professional cameraperson and camera assistant/sound recordist
- Script development and writing
- Professional editing of faculty lectures/conferences/workshops and/or on-camera interviews
- Research, acquisition and integration of archival photos and/or footage
- Royalty free and/or original soundtrack
- Closed captioning, if required
- Various other online multimedia formats (OMF’s) , including web-series, podcast, and/or other online concrete deliverables
Canadian Educational Documentary Services also outputs your educational documentary and/or OMF’s to DVD and online media channels, such YouTube and VIMEO through shared or private link, and discusses other ways to disseminate your educational documentary and/or OMF’s.
Expanding Research Findings
Beyond Traditional Communication Modes
Traditional ways of communicating academic research through peer-reviewed journal articles, conference presentation, and workshops are still very much a part of a researcher’s scholarly work. However, this is unlikely to reach a broad-based or non-technical target audience.
Optimum dissemination and outreach are achieved through the production of short, medium, or long-form educational documentaries and/or other multimedia formats, such as web-series, podcast, and/or other online concrete deliverables.
Each educational documentary and/or OMF’s exists as a standalone production, as a DVD and as a You Tube and VIMEO online video through a URL, to be shown and discussed at a conference, stakeholder group, practitioner, community group, and/or strategic cluster organization private or public meeting. Other ways to disseminate your educational documentary and/or OMF’s will also be explored, providing maximum exposure and benefit.
Knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach also promotes the profile of individual academics and associated organizations, strengthening their research capacity, especially involving cluster groups and networks. Often, the impact of research can be potentially wider than the original focus, sometimes leading to social, economic and/or legislative change.
Canadian Educational Documentary Services seeks to become an integral part of your total knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach plan and tailor our services to your project needs.
Academic Community, Government Funding Bodies and Policy Makers
In Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), through various funding programs and its Connections Grant program in particular offers funding for outreach activities, including educational documentaries and/or other multimedia formats to eligible individual academics and collaborative efforts by a group of researchers and university departments who partner with an appropriate non-profit organization.
For detailed information about the Connections Grant please visit:
Canadian Educational Documentary Services seeks to become an integral part of your total knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach plan, and tailor our services to your particular educational documentary and/or other multimedia formats project needs.