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The May 2024 Future Skills Centre (FSC) webinar will feature a panel of experts from the FSC’s AI-related projects and research initiatives. The session sought to to foster dialogue on how AI is reshaping work landscapes and what it means for skills development across industries.

This Toronto South Local Immigration Partnership (TSLIP) June 2024 workshop focused on AI literacy for service providers in the newcomer-serving sector. It provides insights into the fundamentals of AI and its impact on employment services for Newcomers to Canada. It explores key areas essential for building AI literacy, including understanding AI basics, exploring its applications in service delivery, and navigating ethical considerations in AI use.

This May 2024 Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration conference brought together an interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral group of researchers and leaders from Canadian and international civil society, business and government to reflect on the implications of the rapid development of advanced digital technologies (ADTs) for migrant integration in Canada and around the world.

Ensuring the long-term health and well-being of immigrants in Canada is vital for human rights, social justice, and the sustainability of Canada's health system and economy. This April 2024 IPAC event explored what affects immigrant health, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of the issue. Panelists identified opportunities for collective action across sectors and geographies to enhance the long-term health outcomes of immigrants in Canada.

This P2P 2023 conference workshop presented preliminary findings of a multi-year evaluation of Together Project’s Welcome Group Program to understand the role technology plays in refugee settlement and integration, by comparing the experiences of Welcome Group matches that interact primarily virtually with those that interact both in-person and remotely. The Welcome Group Program matches volunteers with refugee newcomer households to provide social support over a period of six months.

This is a recording of an in person session that I did recently at the Access Alliance Multicultural Community Health Centre's Immigrant Researchers Support Network event. I focus on Knowledge Mobilization and Community Based Research, providing my take on how important Knowledge Mobilization is in Community Based Research and how newcomer or refugee researchers which what this network is made up of, could contribute to this mission.

This November 2021 webinar presented lessons learned by York University Refugee Research Network related Knowledge Moblization. The workshop covered best practices, tools and templates for achieving research impact through planning an effective Knowledge Mobilization plan.

In this September 2021 Research Impact session, MacKinley Darlington, Knowledge Engagement Manager at the University of Calgary delivered a presentation on the Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit. She discussed Knowledge engagement, the REAP self-assessment framework, the Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit, and next steps you can take with the Knowledge Engagement Impact Assessment Toolkit.

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.