Welcome to episode nineteen of the Knowledge Exchange Podcast. This podcast series is a product supported by the Canadian Council on Learning – Canada’s leading organization committed to improving learning across Canada and in all walks of life.
I want to thank the great staff at CCL for their efforts with this project to advance our understanding of effective knowledge exchange to improve the learning of Canadians.
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The transcript may be downloaded here.
Dr. Kirsten Kramar is one of Canada’s leading criminologists. She explores very difficult issues like infanticide and improper use of power, such as happened with the Ontario Coroner’s fabrication of evidence. She takes her role as a disseminator of knowledge and teacher very seriously, yet she feels that more could be done to support knowledge mobilization. This interview was conduced both in Ottawa and over the phone from Toronto. (Her infant daughter – Evie – was with Kirsten and she decided that her mother should pay more attention to her.) Canada has great infrastructure to produce research information but more can be done to support exchanges between sectors – perhaps via the use of knowledge brokers, perhaps through changes in culture, perhaps through teaching students to be better knowledge consumers. Enjoy this fascinating conversation of one academic’s journey to make her work more available for decision-making.
