Get ready for KNOWvember!
Throughout the month of November, the Knowledge Management (KM) team is organising a series of events and activities to celebrate, showcase and learn from the many ways that evidence and knowledge are shared 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!
How to get involved:
Watch out for our blog, Powering innovation through knowledge exchange (opens in a new tab; internal access only), which reflects on how sharing knowledge is at the heart of innovation, explaining why and how colleagues can do more of it as we transform together.
Complete our short survey, Making the most of our collective knowledge: KM in UKHSA (opens in a new tab), in which we ask just a few short questions to help take a ‘temperature check’ across the organisation and identify areas of good practice as well as opportunities to improve how we seek, share and use knowledge.
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.
Join one or more of our KNOWvember events:
Knowledge Bursts
Colleagues from across UKHSA will take five minutes each to showcase a tool or technique or way of working that has helped them to better collaborate and share knowledge.
There are 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
(Download the invitation from Pulse: opens in a new tab; internal access only)
- Empowering innovation through building a community of practice
- Using a forum as a centrally co-ordinated approach to delivering health protection education
- Learning from experience: lessons from After Action Reviews
- Harnessing dispersed expertise through managed 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
(Download the invitation from Pulse: opens in a new tab; internal access only)
- Sharing tacit knowledge and learning using a Peer Assist tool
- The theory of change model in mobilising knowledge and evidence
- Do once and share: Knowledge Management in a UKHSA programme
- Finding the wood among the trees: simplifying and translating a standard operating procedure (SOP) 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
(Opens in a new tab; internal access only)
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 UKHSA colleague and will have the opportunity to chat about anything you like (a few optional ‘talking points’ provided).
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.
Knowledge Cafés encourage productive conversations to help people learn from each other. They can help people to solve problems, break down silos, drive innovation and build a community. The value of the Café is in the conversation itself and the learning that each individual takes away.
Other events:
The following events, relevant to KNOWvember, are run by colleagues in the Research, Evidence and Knowledge Division.
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
(Opens in a new tab; internal access only)
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.
KM Advocates Community of Practice
And finally, if you’d like to continue the conversation about how we better seek, share, mobilise and apply knowledge within UKHSA join our KM Advocates Community of Practice. This community offers a space for people to share experience and resources, ask questions, pose solutions and support each other to facilitate and improve KM within their teams and across the organisation. Membership is open to all those with an interest in KM. The community uses MS Teams as its platform. To join the community of practice, email victoria.richardson@ukhsa.gov.uk.
