How are UCalgary faculty delving into the diverse realms of collaboration to share knowledge and drive positive change?
Transitioning from academic pursuit to mobilizing knowledge into community is a journey. As part of Canadian Innovation Week, hear from three UCalgary researchers as they share their unique approach to disseminating knowledge, lessons learned, and how they drive positive change in their respective fields. Spanning the breadth between scaling clinical trial validation to pioneering approaches in family-centered neonatal care, multi-media educational tools on Indigenous traditions and worldviews, and empowering students to work collaboratively with Indigenous communities, these researchers exemplify the diversity of positive pathways forward.
About the speakers
Dr. Karen Benzies, Director, Social Innovation Initiative, Professor, Faculty of Nursing
Karen’s most satisfying accomplishments come from creating linkages among researchers, clinicians, and policymakers to improve health and well-being of young children and their families. To do this more effectively, she launched Liminality Innovations, to move her clinical trial-validated interventions into practice.
Dr. Craig Ginn, Associate Professor (Teaching), Department of Classics and Religion
Craig serves as the Director of the International Indigenous Studies Program. He is a Metis Nation of Alberta Citizen, receiving the inaugural Excellence in the Arts Award at the 2023 Metis Recognition Awards. Craig’s multi-media projects include the Songs of Justice and Animal Kinship projects.
Dr. Adela Kincaid, Assistant Professor (Teaching) and researcher, International Indigenous Studies Program
Adela’s research interests include parallel Indigenous-qualitative approaches to understand animal-human relations and community-based research models while working with and for Indigenous communities. Adela works closely with students on a variety of Indigenous community-based projects, including Iyaxe-Nakoda led water initiatives and a coloring book featuring regenerative reclamation practices in partnership with University of Regina scholars, Indigenous artists (Blackfoot and Cree) and the Muscowpetung Education Centre, and is a recipient of a SHRF award.
This session is offered in collaboration with the Social Innovation Initiative and cross-posted in the Navigating Partnered Research digital series hosted by the Knowledge Engagement team at the University of Calgary.
Presented by: University of Calgary
