Finding ways to make applied scholarship in health services count
Most universities esteem applied scholarship, understand how its complementary activities, such as Knowledge Exchange, enhance the impact of research, and would like to recognize and reward these activities. Often the will is there but the tools for getting it done are missing. The Recognition series addresses this need by highlighting tools, tips and promising practices for recognizing and rewarding applied work in universities.
Has your university found a way to recognize applied scholarly work? Please share your experiences or suggestions for future issues of Recognition at recognition@chsrf.ca.
Issue 2, October 2006
Develop a scholarship framework for your field, faculty, or department
KEY MESSAGES
- A scholarship framework provides the rationale for recognizing applied academic work and the Foundation for methods of documentation and evaluation.
- The categories of scholarship are not pre-determined. They just need to match the different aspects of academic work you wish to recognize. Many different approaches have been tried and written about.
- Detail is important. The categories are a first step that should be followed up with criteria, examples of eligible activities or products, guidelines for documentation, and suggestions for applying the framework.
Issue 1, June 2006
The Creative Professional Activity Dossier – How one university department weighs Knowledge Exchange activities in its promotion decisions
Has your university found a way to recognize applied scholarly work
One of the aims of Recognition is to uncover how Canadian universities already make applied work count in the tenure and promotion review process. Those universities that have tried a new way of doing things deserve to be recognized for their efforts; those looking to make a change should benefit from hearing the new ideas and lessons learned. Please let us know what your university has done to appropriately assess and reward applied scholarship. The most innovative and instructive cases will be featured in upcoming issues of Recognition.
Submissions should be no more than 500 words. In addition to a brief description of your innovation, please include some reflection on how well it has worked. E-mail your innovation to recognition@chsrf.ca.
