HOW WE CAN BEST BRING AWARENESS TO YOUR RESEARCH
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. This can be achieved primarily through the filming, script development, and editing of faculty lectures/conferences/workshops, and on-camera interviews, along with strategic integration of location shots, stock footage and/or photos, and soundtrack.
Dissemination, distribution, and delivery of the final educational documentary production can be made through various online communication channels, including websites, blogs, and interactive social media platforms. Each documentary can also be uploaded to YouTube or VIMEO and shared through a link, making it easy to send the educational documentary to targeted persons and groups in emails. Each educational documentary can also exist as a standalone production, as a DVD, to be shown at a conference or other group meeting, stakeholder groups, practitioners, community groups, strategic cluster organizations, and/or the general public.
Canadian Educational Documentary Services provides all these services to you and your colleagues, in a professional, reliable, and affordable manner. Canadian Educational Documentary Services aims to tailor our services to your particular academic knowledge mobilization, dissemination, and outreach project needs.
Academic Community, Government Funding Bodies and Policy Makers
Knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach activities are now widely acknowledged by the academic community, government funding bodies and policy makers that they are an essential means to maximize the impact of research.
Knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach all provide added value to research. Often, the impact of research can be potentially wider than the original focus, sometimes leading to social, economic and/or legislative change.
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. Canadian Educational Documentary Services seeks to become an integral part of your total knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach plan.
In Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), through its Connections Grant offers funding for outreach activities, including educational documentaries to eligible individual academics and collaborative efforts by a group of researchers and university departments who partner with an appropriate non-profit organization.
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The aim of the Connections Grant is to ensure that people who stand to benefit from academic research, e.g. policymakers, business and community leaders, educators, the media, and the public, as well as academics in various fields have the knowledge they need, when they need it, in useful forms. Again, Canadian Educational Documentary Services seeks to become an integral part of your total knowledge mobilization, dissemination and outreach plan.