By Bojan Fürst

Quick: explain your research in one sentence! Hard, isn’t it?

While it’s true that a couple of words can’t always encompass years of hard work, if collaborating or sharing with the public is part of what you’re aiming to achieve, the way that you communicate matters.

The Harris Centre and our partners at Research Impact Canada Network (including members across the country) have been thinking about, and often developing, tools for clear research writing for the past 14 years. As Canada's network of universities that take knowledge mobilization and knowledge brokering seriously – it’s a core element of our job.

Our colleagues at SickKids Learning Institute in Toronto developed one of the best clear language writing kits we've seen (so good that we’ve worked with them to include it in our Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit!) It offers to-the-point tips and has good examples that are relevant to the situations many encounter in their academic lives.

While this resource is focused on healthcare, the principles are universal and will help ensure that your research findings can reach and help the people and organizations who could use them.

Check it out here, and stay tuned for another installment of the Knowledge Mobilization Toolkit next time.

Download template here.

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Bojan Fürst is the Knowledge Mobilization Manager with the Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development at Memorial University of Newfoundland. It’s a complicated way of saying that his job is to match community needs with university resources. He also hosts Rural Routes, a podcast that explores what it means to be "rural" in the 21st century.