Shaping Academia for the Public Good

Louise Potvin is Canada Research Chair in Community Approaches and Health Inequality and a professor in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at l’UniversitÉ de MontrÉal. Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

• Preface Jonathan Lomas (Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)Part 1: Overview of the Book and the ExperimentChapter 1: Book Introduction: Reflections on an Experiment in Research FundingLouise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)Chapter 2: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: Experimenting with a Non-traditional Research Chair ModelErin Morrison (McMaster University, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research) and Patricia Conrad (Nova Scotia Department of Health)Part 2: Innovations in Research PracticesChapter 3: From Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Management, and to Value CreationRÉjean Landry (UniversitÉ Laval, Knowledge Transfer and Innovation) with the collaboration of Nabil Amara (UniversitÉ Laval, Administrative Sciences)Chapter 4: Evidence-Informed Public Policy Decision MakingPeter Coyte (Chair in Health Services Research from the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation)Chapter 5: The Mediating Role of Research in the Socio Health SpaceLouise Potvin (University of Montreal, Social and Preventive Medicine)Chapter 6: The Back Roads that Go from a Framework to PolicyLinda O’Brien-Pallas (University of Toronto, Nursing and Medicine) with the collaboration of Laureen Hayes (University of Toronto, Research Officer)Part 3: Novel Ways of Structuring LearningChapter 7: Scaling Up for Systems’ ChangesNancy Edwards (University of Ottawa, School of Nursing and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine)Chapter 8: Service Learning Within a Multi Stakeholder Pharmaceutical Program and Policy ArenaIngrid S. Sketris (Dalhousie University, College of Pharmacy)Chapter 9: Engaged Scholarship: Building Capacity in Advanced Practice Nursing ResearchAlba DiCenso (McMaster University, Nursing)Part 4: Organisational Transformations and the Academic CareerChapter 10: Managing to Manage: The Daily Practices of a ChairPat Armstrong (York University, Sociology)Chapter 11: Promoting Evidence-Informed Management in Health Care Organizations: An Experience in Academic RenewalJean-Louis Denis (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) with the collaboration of Lise Lamothe (University of Montreal, Health Adminstration) and Anne McManus Chapter 12: A Home Away from Home: The Influence of Organizational Setting upon a Chair’s ProgramPaula Goering (University of Toronto, Psychiatry)Part 5: ConclusionChapter 13: Lessons Learned from the Chairs Program: An Inductive, Interpretive AnalysisLesley Degner