Walking with the Arthritis community on the path forward towards Truth and Reconciliation
July 22, 2022
Speaker
Cheryl Koehn - Founder & President, Arthritis Consumer Experts
Dr. Terri-Lynn Fox - Director, Wellness Programs; Black Tribe Department of Health, Inc
In 2021, Cheryl Koehn and Dr. Terri-Lynn Fox came together as Indigenous Scholar, settler/colonial and persons living with rheumatoid arthritis to walk together on a path forward towards Truth and Reconciliation. Speakers will discuss how an Indigenous-led initiative, the Arthritis Learning Circle, has developed into several community-driven research projects. The webinar will also touch on deliberate and meaningful design that upholds reciprocity, accountability, and transparency throughout different phases of research.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe how an Indigenous-led initiative formed on Turtle Island-Canada is leading community-driven action.
- Discuss approaches to uphold reciprocity, accountability, and transparency at each stage of community-driven action.
Resources
Upcoming webinar
Dr. Alice Fleerackers and Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin
Date
November 06, 2024
Preprints as knowledge translation: Another way of opening science to the public
In 2024, KT Connects is focusing on open science — the practice of making scientific inputs, outputs, and processes freely available to all with minimal restrictions. Learn more.
Webinar summary
Wednesday, November 6
1 – 2 p.m. PST
Preprints are research papers made publicly available before journal peer review and publishing in scientific journals. They allow rapid and free sharing of findings within and beyond academia. Recent research suggests that journalists also report on them. This brings new challenges and opportunities for making research knowledge public.
This session will introduce participants to preprints as one means to make science more open, as well as key points to remember when using them as a knowledge translation method.
Learning objectives
After this webinar, the audience will be able to:
- Understand the unique role preprints play within the open science movement
- Understand how journalists use preprints and the potential benefits and risks of preprint media coverage for the public
- Identify ways to share preprint research that provide journalists and their audiences with the necessary context to interpret research findings accurately.
Speaker bio
Alice Fleerackers is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia, and a researcher at the Scholarly Communications Lab, Simon Fraser University. She studies the intersections of journalism, health and science communication, and scholarly communication. She is also a freelance writer, the vice president of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST), and co-founder and co-chair of PCST’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee.
Juan Pablo Alperin is an associate professor in the publishing program, Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab at Simon Fraser University. He is a multi-disciplinary scholar who uses a combination of computational techniques and traditional qualitative methods. His work focuses on investigating ways of raising the scientific quality, global impact, and public use of scholarly work.