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In this January 2023 Research Impact Canada webinar launched their first webinar presenter Imane Khozam discussed how to plan knowledge sharing for impactful workforce development programs. The session included an introduction to knowledge mobilization, an understanding of knowledge mobilization and its importance in the context of skills and workforce development, tools and practical guides on knowledge dissemination and uptake, and examples of effective knowledge mobilization activities.

This October 18, 2023 Future Skills Centre Community of Practice webinar was a peer learning group event created for professionals to discuss the evolving role of career development practitioners in the age of AI and strategies for effective AI tool integration into services.

Issues of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) have raised in the public's consciousness. In this March 2021 Innovation York webinar two community activists and emerging scholars share their perspectives around redefining the community-campus relationship with perspective to issues around EDI.

The research examines the phenomenon of digital nomadism, a movement where workers, often from developed countries, adopt a mobile lifestyle enabled by technology, allowing them to work remotely from various international locations. The study explores the characteristics, motivations, and implications of digital nomadism, particularly for migration scholars, the future of work, and the social contract between citizens and the nation-state​.

Your audiences are increasingly reading your reports and PDF documents on mobile devices. You should want them to be as readable and accessible as possible on smartphones as they are on devices with larger screens. I've posted a number of publications on my site recently that are not at all mobile-friendly. Don't make that mistake. So here are some tips to keep in mind to ensure that the people you want to read your documents can and will.

In this August 2021 Building Migrant Resilience in Cities webinar researchers presented a project that documents how access to information influenced collective resilience, settlement, and social inclusion among Yazidi refugees and Turkish-speaking refugee claimants in York Region.

The research focused on understanding the needs and gaps in employment support services for skilled Newcomers in Canada. The study identified the needs and gaps in labour market integration supports for Newcomers and to determine which services are most effective in helping them secure employment that matches their skills and qualifications.

This report explores how smartphones, viewed as essential lifeline devices, can be designed to better serve individuals in vulnerable, disadvantaged, or transitional contexts. It emphasizes the critical role smartphones play in providing access to resources, services, and vital communication, especially in precarious situations such as natural disasters, migration, and poverty.

This research explores the integration and trends of technology in social work over three decades (1985-2018). It aims to identify how different technologies have been adopted in various social work domains by analyzing a large sample of scholarly literature. It aims to identify how technology has been adopted across various domains of social work practice and to pinpoint the specific types of technologies that have been utilized.