Student Work

Student Work (20 minutes)

Step 1 – Silent Structural Review (10 minutes)

Exchange documents with your partner.

Write:

• One structural strength

• One translational vulnerability

• One feasibility concern

• One misalignment between KT goal and strategy
  
  

Focus on structure — not writing.

Step 2 – Response (10 minutes)

Please upload the draft of a critique that you received from your partner.

LastName_FirstName_Day3_KT_strategy and response draft 1 and change it to LastName_FirstName_Day3_KT_strategy and response

Response to Critique:

Comment / Response / Changes Made

Export: 

LastName_FirstName_Day3_KT_strategy and response

KT Reflection

Purpose: Many research projects are designed primarily around technical or theoretical questions. In these cases, the potential users of the knowledge and the decisions that research might influence are often considered only much later.

KT invites researchers to think differently. It asks us to consider:

• Who might use the knowledge produced by this research?

• What decisions might this knowledge support?

• How might research design change if those users were considered earlier?

For many researchers, this perspective can shift how they think about research questions, methods, and impact.

This reflection asks you to look back at your own research trajectory and consider whether thinking about knowledge users earlier might have influenced the way your work developed.

Instructions

Write a short reflection (maximum 1 page) addressing the following questions:

• If you had considered knowledge users earlier in your research (for example at the beginning of your PhD), would your research trajectory have been different? Why or why not?

• Would your research questions, methods, or evaluation criteria have changed if knowledge translation had been part of your thinking from the start? Explain briefly.

• Does thinking about knowledge translation change how you define the impact of your research?

Submission Format

Maximum 1 page

Clear paragraphs (no bullet points required)

File name: LastName_FirstName_KTReflection

Total, for Day 3 you need to upload 3 separate documents: