Get ready for KNOWvember!
Throughout the month of November, the Knowledge Management (KM) team will be showcasing the many ways that evidence and knowledge are managed and mobilised within UKHSA.
Whether it’s having a conversation to make the work go further, reflecting on what’s happened and what could happen next, taking stock of information, deriving key insights, making content available for people who weren’t present, establishing contacts, sharing tips and tricks and thinking about how you can be more effective…that’s KM!
Watch out for our blog, sign up to one of our events, and why not complete our KM survey? https://forms.office.com/e/f2qgdT36MY (Opens in a new tab)
This will help us identify target areas and topics for providing KM support across the organisation, and give us to opportunity to share good practice with others.
Completed surveys are anonymous, unless you enter identifying details within a free text response.
You can also check out our toolbox of knowledge sharing tools and techniques.
Event links will be published on this page as soon as they are available; in the meantime, please email libraries@kls.ukhsa.gov.uk to sign up.
Knowledge Bursts
Speakers will take five minutes to showcase a tool or technique or way of working that has helped them to better collaborate and share knowledge.
We have two events, each showcasing four speakers and techniques:
Tuesday 12th November, 11.00 – 11.40
https://intranet.ukhsa.gov.uk/sites/access-knowledge-and-library-services/events/63999/knowledge-bursts-knowvember-part-1-12-november
(Opens in a new tab; internal access only)
During this session, our speakers will showcase:
- Empowering innovation through building a community of practice
- Using a forum as a centrally co-ordinated approach to delivering education
- Learning from experience: lessons from After Action Reviews
- Regional networks
For further information on our speakers and their topics, and to download the calendar invitation, please visit the link above.
Wednesday 27th November, 11.00 – 11.40
https://intranet.ukhsa.gov.uk/sites/access-knowledge-and-library-services/events/64001/knowledge-bursts-knowvember-part-2-27-november
(Opens in a new tab; internal access only)
During this session, our speakers will showcase:
- Sharing learning using a Peer Assist tool
- The theory of change
- Do once and share: Knowledge Management in a UKHSA programme
- Translating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) into practice
For further information on our speakers and their topics, and to download the calendar invitation, please visit the link above.
Coffee Connect
Wednesday 20th November, 10.00 – 10.30
https://intranet.ukhsa.gov.uk/events/63680/20-nov-coffee-connect
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Take part in this brilliantly simple way to connect with someone you might not normally encounter in your day-to-day work.
In this online session you will be randomly connected with another member of UKHSA staff and will have the opportunity to take your discussion in any direction you wish (with some ‘talking points’ provided by us to use if you’d like to).
So if you are missing those water-cooler chats, join us for Coffee Connect!
Knowledge Café
Thursday 28th November, 2.00 – 3.00
(Theme TBC, Link to follow)
During this session, we will have a short introduction to the topic, followed by two rounds of breakout rooms, where you will have the opportunity to share your own views and experience, and listen to those of other attendees.
You will be invited to share your feedback, but this is optional; the true value of a Knowledge Café is in the conversation itself and the learning that each individual takes away.
Other events:
The following events are not run by the KM team, but we would like to highlight them as being relevant to KNOWvember.
What is research impact and how can it be assessed?
Wednesday 13th November, 10.00 – 11.00
https://intranet.ukhsa.gov.uk/events/63237/what-is-research-impact-and-how-can-it-be-assessed
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Dr Sarah Morton from Matter of Focus (Opens in a new tab) will give a webinar on “What is Research Impact and how can it be assessed?”.
There will be opportunity after the presentation for a Q and A.
Searching for Grey Literature
Thursday 7th November, 9.30 – 11.30
https://ukhsalibrary.koha-ptfs.co.uk/event/searching-for-grey-literature-17/
Join this session to find out ways of connecting with the right evidence to do your job, when it might not be so easy to find, and when the right knowledge for the task at hand is sometimes overlooked in the scientific setting.
Learn how to search grey literature, and see how it could help you close the knowledge gap.
