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The United Kingdom Knowledge Mobilisation Forum (UK KMb Forum, UKKMbF, or UKF) is an annual event for all those with a passion for ensuring that knowledge makes a positive difference to society. The Forum brings together practitioners, researchers, students, administrators and public representatives who are engaged in the art and science of sharing knowledge and ensuring that it can be used. The Forum is designed as a space for learning and reflection, providing an opportunity for sharing knowledge, experiences and methods and access to some of the most up to date thinking and practice in the field. Expect conversations, creativity and collaborative learning…and if you’re wondering what we mean by ‘knowledge’ – we are as interested in practical know-how, skills and experience as in research findings or evaluation data.

Sister Event:

• Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum (CKF)

Conference History:

10th UK KMb Forum 2025, 28 April – 2 May 2025, Virtual Venue

Conference program TBD

Lunchtime events:
TBD (5)

9th UK KMb Forum 2024, 8-9 May 2024, Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom

Storytelling sessions:
Knowledge mobilisation of rapid evidence reviews to inform health and care policy and practice in Wales: creating impact through teamwork in the Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre
Elevating Health Equity: Transforming Communities through Interactive Learning and Collaboration in Local Care Services
Co-Captaining the Ship: The Evidence to Care approach to creating a guide capturing Holland Bloorview’s transitions-to-adulthood practice
Setting sail or out of my depth? Career change and starting afresh as an Insights North East knowledge broker
What do I know about this boat? Organising and researching Policy to Research Fellowships
Cultural clashes, mistranslations and learning the hard way: what I learnt from conducting research on public health research in local government

Knowledge fayres:
Working with the Contemporary Implementation of Traditional knowledge and Evidence (CITE) framework
The Dementia Inequalities Game
Just a game? Exploring the use of board games to share and reflect on knowledge mobilisation setbacks and successes
Winning hearts and minds: why should council staff care about research? Newcastle’s Health Determinants Research Collaboration journey
Creating the foundations for effective knowledge mobilisation using Outcome Mapping. An example from the Applied Research Collaboration for North West Coast

Knotty problem Idea jams:
Provoking the mobilisation of knowledge: that’s a tricky concept!
Ethics Jam: Developing principles for ethical and equitable knowledge mobilisation practice
How fast can ‘co’ go?
Democratising Areas of Research Interest

Interactive virtual posters:
Community-led monitoring strategies to evaluate the impact of brownfield site redevelopment
Partnership Working – Developing Knowledge and Creating a Community of Practice in Palliative and End of Life Care for Paramedics – Scottish Ambulance Service and Marie Curie
Let’s Talk About Death, Dying and Bereavement; Using Ripple Effects Mapping to evidence the impact from online ECHO sessions within a community
MobilizeU: Creating a pan-Canadian knowledge mobilization training course
Supporting knowledge mobilisation in complex adaptive systems through adopting an embedded researcher approach
Health knowledge and library specialists as knowledge mobilisers

Keynotes:
Creativity in knowledge management practice (practice keynote)
Researching knowledge mobilisation and knowledge use in parliaments (research keynote)

8th UK KMb Forum 2023, 24-28 April 2023, Virtual venue

(Host: —)

Workshops:
Multidisciplinary mindlines
Engaging heads, hearts and hands: using creative methods for inclusive policy engagement
Using stories to reveal the politics of knowledge mobilisation in practice
Understanding and building communities of practice using action cards
Building trusting relationships to support implementation and evidence use

Knowledge Fayres:
Changing our tune: can research be sung?
Centering equity in collaborative design of evidence-informed resources
User feedback, accessibility, and usability as part of developing research measures
Designing for impact: how system intermediaries can leverage storytelling in their work
The art of influence: mobilising evidence for policy change
Performing knowledge for critical awareness: the role of the arts in knowledge mobilisation
Knowledge sharing: what do we mean and what do people think we mean by this term?
The implementation art gallery

Interactive Posters:
The use of social media for disseminating research evidence with health and social care practitioners
Equity, diversity and inclusion strategies for academic-policy engagement
Using Twitter to mobilise knowledge for first contact physiotherapists
Evaluating how commissioners mobilise evidence to inform the planning, purchasing, and monitoring of health services
Optimising the process of knowledge mobilisation in communities of practice
Collaborative stakeholder mapping through knowledge exchange and mobilisation
The development of a training program for knowledge brokers focused on the improvement of educational equity
An evaluation of the Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) programme in Wales
Evaluations of training programs to improve capacity in K*

Keynotes: (2)
TBD

7th UK KMb Forum 2022, 4-5 May, 2022, Liverpool, United Kingdom

(Host: The Florrie – The Florence Institute for Boys)

Workshops: (daily)
Interactive approaches to adopting and adapting Edwards’ and Meagher’s impact evaluation framework
How can we mobilise complexity?
Wikipedia as a knowledge sharing tool
Knowledge equity through mentorship and training

Knowledge Fayres:
Poetry and partnerships
Choosing digital
Mobilising knowledge to support a learning health systems
Knowledge across borders
But what is knowledge mobilisation really?
Whose approach is it anyway?
Learning and growth in KMb

Interactive Posters: (Poster plenary)
Supporting early return to work using a knowledge mobilisation methodology
The “Building Babies Brains Project”
Optimising the process of knowledge mobilisation in Communities of Practice (CANCELLED)
A review of the techniques and mechanisms used for knowledge sharing
in healthcare
Developing the NIHR Outcomes Framework

Keynotes: (2)
TBD

6th UK KMb Forum 2021, 22-26 March, 2021, Virtual venue

Schedule: (Daily 12-2pm GMT)
22nd Mar – Keynote speaker
23rd Mar – interactive poster discussions (posters available Monday & Tuesday morning)
24th Mar – workshops
25th Mar – knowledge fayres
26th Mar – keynote speaker
+ Interactions between delegates at various points during the week

Workshops:
Engaging engagement
Mapping the ‘third space’ between research and practice
Using participatory theatre to portray diverse realities, stimulate debate and galvanise change: an interactive introduction to drama as a medium for knowledge mobilisation
What is the value and impact of embedding a research culture in partnership with local government?
Experiences of co-located researchers and stakeholders in three UK sites
What works in knowledge mobilisation?

Knowledge Fayres:
A cunning plan! Using realist research approaches to mobilise knowledge within organisations providing peer support to people with SCI
Access Lab – pairing scientists and journalists in Nigeria for healthcare communication
Bridging between research and policy – knowledge mobilisation and the UK Parliament
Knowledge mobilisation of research; what can funders do?
Puzzling our progress

Interactive Posters:
Development of a toolkit to optimise knowledge mobilisation in primary care for the management of joint pain
Imposter syndrome in knowledge mobilization
Knowledge sharing in healthcare
My first 100 days as a knowledge broker
Preventing negative psychological effects in locomotive engineers and train conductors following a critical incident: dissemination strategies and evaluation
Tapping into the power of collaborative working and collective knowledge mobilisation
The added value of creative practices in knowledge mobilisation: a qualitative study of the ‘translating knowledge into action’ approach

Keynotes:
Working as a knowledge mobilisation practitioner
Insights about knowledge mobilisation research

CANCELLED
6th UK KMb Forum 2020, 17-18 March 2020, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Conference Theme:
(; Organizer: UKKMbF Planning Group)

Workshops:
Altered States: an interactive introduction to drama as a medium for knowledge mobilisation
Mapping the ‘third space’ between research and practice
Hypotheticals: Never work with business!; Open Space
Open Space

Knowledge Fayres:
Our friends the evidence monsters
Wine-ing about knowledge and policy
R u ready? Making sense of NHS data as a community
What works in knowledge mobilisation?
Engaging engagement
Knowledge exchange at the UK Parliament

Fishbowls:
Knowledge mobilisation of research; what can funders do?
“How do we make research useful for practice?” Creative transdisciplinary approaches to
transforming how we think about research use
What is the value and impact of embedding a research culture in partnership with local government?

Interactive posters:
A toolkit to optimise knowledge mobilisation in primary care for the management of joint pain
Creative co-design and knowledge mobilisation in health care: A qualitative study
Seven thousand feet – and just as many steps
A cunning plan! Using realist research approaches to mobilise knowledge within organisations providing peer support to people with SCI
Preventing negative psychological effects in locomotive engineers and train conductors following a critical incident: dissemination strategies and evaluation
Pairing scientists and journalists in Nigeria for healthcare communication
My first 100 days as a knowledge broker
Interactive posters plenary session

Keynotes: (2)
Working as a knowledge mobilisation practitioner
Insights about knowledge mobilisation research

5th UK KMb Forum 2019, 20-21 March 2019, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Crafting Our Knowledge Stories
(Host: Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children’s Books; Organizer: UKKMbF Planning Group)

Workshops:
Collective making, to make things happen
Having critical conversations about knowledge mobilisation
The challenges of training and professional development in universities
We believe in face-toface knowledge sharing

Knowledge Fayres:
Beyond logic models
Bringing evidence to life
Harnessing technology to improve knowledge mobilisation
With the destination in mind
Knowledge mobilisation in action
Using knowledge to improve the population’s health
Developing a community of practice to promote and facilitate knowledge mobilisation
The role that Alzheimer’s Society and the charity sector more broadly can play in knowledge mobilisation

Fish Bowls:
Evidence that connects
Knowledge diplomacy (World Café)
Mobilising knowledge between practitioners and researchers
“Engage to Involve” collaborative working with a public & patient research panel

Interactive Posters:
Healthcare: Knowledge sharing in healthcare
Taking the deliberative dialogue model on the road
Unpacking knowledge mobilization and brokerage
When two become one: learning about embedded research and knowledge co-production
Developing a knowledge mobilisation training offer
Engaging with practicebased research networks
Good Work, good Health: getting all key players onside
Knowledge mobilisation and implementation
What made a top-scoring impact case study in REF2014
Interactive Posters: plenary session

Keynotes:
Stories of knowledge mobilisation
Why knowledge mobilisation is a much more subtle craft than the term ‘implementation science’ suggests

4th UK KMb Forum 2018, 7-8 March 2018, Bristol, United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Growing Knowledge Together
(Host: Creative Youth Network; Organizer: UKKMbF Planning Group)

Workshops:
Capturing multi-level impacts of research co-production: refining a new impact framework
‘Boundary objects’ – what are they and why should I care?
Exploring barriers to translating research into practice: a fishbowl conversation
How can co-production processes help to elicit, share and blend different forms of knowledge?
What next for knowledge mobilisation?
Warts and All: A holistic framework for understanding and improving knowledge mobilisation
Open space #1 & #2

Market stalls:
Building confidence to mobilise knowledge in the health service
Encouraging knowledge sharing in interprofessional teams
Outcome Focus

Interactive posters:
Collaborative measurement: What is it? How is it supposed to work?
The means not the end: stakeholder perspectives on toolkits from healthcare research
‘Sharing treasure’: insights into how care home managers mobilise knowledge
Mobilising Knowledge to Transform Ageing
Getting evidence into practice: Reflections on a stakeholder advisory group
Autism in the Bristol Somali Community: Collaborative mobilisation of co-produced knowledge
Lay Involvement in Knowledge Mobilisation (LINK) Project
The Mystery of Co-production: Tales from a European Dialogue Platform
Using knowledge mobilisation to support the implementation of findings on the acceptability of low dead space syringes for people who inject drugs
Developing and designing resources to support decision making and evidence-informed practice in health and social care
Supporting school knowledge mobilisers through educational blogging

Keynotes:
Barriers and enablers to embedding the effective use of evidence in practice
Archetypes of knowledge mobilisation: understanding diversity in knowledge mobilisation practice (CANCELLED)
Vicky Ward

Short 7 minute presentations:
Can we increase the capacity of policy agencies to use evidence from research? Learnings from SPIRIT
Cat fights or smitten kittens? 5 features of compromise between researchers and external partners (in the medium of cats)
Responsive research as theatre: how moaning, hiding destructive information and playing deviant help to broker academic knowledge to policy and practice. A dramaturgical reflection on four years of AskFuse
Using Academic/Teacher partnerships to mobilize knowledge
Can academics and policy makers speak the same language?
‘What Works’ in mobilising evidence? Stories from higher education
Picturing a system
Telling the Bromley by Bow Story
An example of creating knowledge that is “good enough”
‘Flow’: from individual achievement to community action in knowledge mobilisation
Informing conversations to guide needs-based care and services: Caregivers using infographics as a tool

CANCELLED
4th UK KMb Forum 2017

Conference program TBD

3rd UK KMb Forum 2016, 10-11 May 2016, London, United Kingdom

(Host: The Health Foundation; Organizer: UKKMbF Planning Group)

Workshops:
Open Space

Professional Development Hour (Interactive roundtable sessions):
Evaluating intermediary organisations
Cards-based activity to help conversation about common barriers to KMb
Local/regional/national contexts for Kmb
A ‘write-shop’ to unbundle jargon and using plain language
Thinking together – a ‘community of enquiry’ approach to reflecting on KMb

Posters (Chaired Poster Walks; Winning Posters: Oral Presentations):
Knowledge to Action in a time of Austerity” Sarah Morton
Web-based toolkit to maximizing the visibility and impact of published research” Melinda Kenneway
Assessing outcomes: exploring the work of knowledge brokers using nominal group method” Emma Barnes
…

Optional Sessions:
Knowledge Mobilisation – An Introduction

Plenary sessions & discussions:
Knowledge to Create a Better Future for Aboriginal Youth
How organisational collaboration between researchers and practitioners can enable implementation
Learning from doing: Reflecting on eight years of knowledge mobilization
What have we achieved since last year? (Knowledge Mobilisation Competencies; Global Community of Practice; Language of Care; Leadership, Networks & Stories)
After Dinner ‘debate’: Canadians vs the Brits
Knowledge Exchange & Mobilisation through academic, community and student partnership
What have we done and What next?

Pre-conference Interest Groups’ calls: Knowledge Mobilisation Tools; Language of Care for Knowledge Mobilisation; Knowledge Mobilisation Networks; Leadership for Knowledge Mobilisation; Global Knowledge Mobilisation Community of Practice; Who’s Who in Knowledge Mobilisation; Knowledge Mobilisation Bathroom Reader; Knowledge Broker Competencies

2nd UK KMb Forum 2015, 13-14 April 2015, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Conference Theme: Together – we make connections matter
(Host: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Organizer: Imperial College London, Department of Medicine, Centre for Healthcare Improvement and Research)

Workshops:
Open Space – Agenda creation, First discussion, Moving forwards, Next steps

Professional Development Hour (Interactive roundtable sessions):
Defining & developing knowledge broker roles
Developing a knowledge hub
Developing partnerships
Do you want to get published?
Entrepreneurship
Imagine your KMb future
Maximise your Impact clinic – Action learning format
Thinking about impact measures

Posters (Chaired Poster Walks; Winning Posters: Oral Presentations):
…

Optional Sessions:
Knowledge Mobilisation – An Introduction
KMb skills – filmmaking

Plenary sessions:
Who Cares? Influencing policy and practice – ensuring lived experience knowledge is embedded across the organisation and the sector
Frameworks for impact – how we measure and monitor impact in a KMb system or a single KMb interventio
IRISS knowledge brokerage organisation focused on social services
After Dinner ‘speech’ (+ announcement of poster winners for oral presentation on day 2)
The Canadian perspective
Latest work and views from one of the gurus in the academic field of KMb theory
Taking it to the next level

1st UK KMb Forum 2014, 3-4 February, 2014, London, United Kingdom / Virtual venue

Conference Theme: Making Connections Matter
(Host: Imperial College London, Department of Medicine, Centre for Healthcare Improvement and Research)

Workshops:
Open Space; Speed networking session

Professional development hour (Interactive roundtable sessions):
Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb) careers
Social networking surgery
Networks for Knowledge Mobilisation (KMb)
Dealing with the media and monitoring
Measuring and evaluating research impact

Knowledge in Motion’ presentations with Q&A:
How to design spaces for knowledge mobilisation
Experience and opportunities for mobilising knowledge through coproduction
Narrative and identity
Heroes of Knowledge Mobilisation
Back to the Rough Ground: new theoretical approaches to knowledge translation

Posters walks/presentations (3/18)