Evaluation & Applied Research
Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. (2020-2023; 2024-present) Helped create and implement an organizational Performance Measurement and Evaluation Framework. Evaluation support for Partnership’s work at project, organization, and systems level. Training and capacity building resource development. Impact measurement and
reporting.
Luke’s Place. (2023-present) Creating evaluation framework to showcase impacts and quality of the organization and key funded projects. Developmental, process, and outcome evaluation guided by collaborative and utilization-focused team approach. Supporting quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis, reporting, and knowledge mobilization.
Family Transition Place. (2019-2024) Provided developmental, process, and outcome evaluation support to Rural Response project, pilot testing a service model to improve access, experience, and outcomes for rural GBV survivors. Embedded evaluator role, working collaboratively with team.
Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia. (2022) Data analysis and content creation for the Healthy Watersheds Initiative major outcomes report. (2018-2021) Impact assessment support, including design of stakeholder engagement methods, data collection tools, and report templates. Analysis and reporting on impacts from funded projects.
nCourage hub (2020-2022). Designed and implemented pilot evaluation of Anti-Human Trafficking Integrated Service Hub in the Region of Peel. With Catholic Family Services Peel Dufferin, Our Place Peel, E Fry Hope and Help for Women.
KW Multicultural Centre. (2018-2021). Process and outcome evaluation of the Let’s Talk intervention for newcomer youth.
Start Me Up Niagara. (2018-2021) Process and outcome evaluation of the enhanced entrepreneurship and self-employment training for people living with disabilities.
Family Service Ontario. (2018-2020) Managed FSO Demo Lead on project coordinating psychotherapy outcome measurement across 25+ agencies. Co-designed methods and implementation process. Analysis, results, and reporting.
BC Freshwater Legacy Initiative. (2019-2020) Mid-project formative and summative evaluation. Development of evaluation framework (logic model, indicators, methods).
Research Impact (2017-2018) Led collaborative development of evaluation framework for pan-Canadian network, including logic model and tools. https://researchimpact.ca/featured/developing-the-research-impact-canada-ric-logic-model-and-evaluation-framework/
OMAFRA-University of Guelph Partnership (2017-2018). Identified impacts and leading practices from a decade of funded projects within the KTT program in report KTT Funding Program Summary Insights and Next Steps“
Good Food Brampton and Catholic Family Services Peel Dufferin (2015-2018, 2018-2020). Process and outcome evaluation of the Culinary Training for Youth and Culinary Training for Newcomers interventions.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (2016). Performance measurement strategy and training to the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Office.
Ontario Collaborative Response to Family Violence (2015-2017) This project worked towards consensus on how best to evaluate service hubs for victims of domestic violence and abuse. Participatory design approach to evaluation framework co-creation and implementation across network of practice.
Ontario Arts Council (2016-2017). Developed a logic model and performance measures.
Canadian Water Network (2015). Evaluated and summarized outcomes and impact of the 60+ research projects funded by this Networked Centre of Excellence.
Knowledge Mobilization
Developer, past instructor, and advisory committee member for the Certificate in Knowledge Mobilization at the Community Engaged Scholarship Institute, University of Guelph.
Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance KTT Resources (2019). Growing KTT in Ontario (manual outlining KTT best practices in agri-food and rural context); KTT Plan Checklist and KTT Plan Evaluation Tips (tools to help improve KTT proposals and projects). https://www.uoguelph.ca/alliance/KTT-services-and-resources
Worked with KT Alberta to build a community of practice strategy and communications plan.
Member of the Knowledge Mobilization Steering Committee to the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer.
Created website and knowledge mobilization/ social media strategy for the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems at Laurier University.
Developed tools to help problem gambling researchers with knowledge translation and exchange (KTE) via social media, plain language, and data visualization.
Facilitation, Training, and Workshops
(2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) Evaluating KTT Activities. Webinar and workshops. Part of Skills for Research Impact series, University of Guelph.
(2025) Evaluating knowledge brokering: from activities to impacts. Presentation to SOS4Democracy training program. Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
(2022) Knowledge Translation Workshop. Part of Applied Science Faculty Workshop Series, University of British Columbia.
(2021). SciComm 101 Workshop. Agriculture and Agrifood Canada. Workshop design and facilitation.
(2020). Evaluating KTT Activities. [Webinar and workshops]. Part of Skills for Research Impact series, University of Guelph.
(2020). Implementation Science Collaborative: Working Group Meeting. Facilitated meeting hosted by Alberta SPOR SUPPORT KT Platform.
(2019). The Next Generation of KTT: A Discussion of Best Practices in Agri-food KTT. Keynote presentation to Growing Agri-food KTT in Ontario, hosted by the University of Guelph and OMAFRA.
(2019). Advancing Implementation Science in Alberta (AISA 2.0). Event facilitator. Event hosted by Alberta SPOR SUPPORT KT Platform.
(2018). Supporting Implementation Through Engaged Evaluation. Presentation to Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR)’s 2018 conference.
(2018). Advancing Implementation Science in Alberta. Event facilitator. Event hosted by KT Alberta.
(2018). Core concepts in KTT. Presentation to Agriculture and Agrifood Canada’s Science and Technology Branch.
(2018). Mapping service effectiveness across agencies: working together on process and outcome evaluation. Workshop at the FSO Conference, Toronto, ON.
(2018). Plain language writing for maximum impact. University of Guelph Writers Workshop. February 2015, 2016, 2018.
(2017). Intro to KT Evaluation. [Webinar]. Part of META Workshop series hosted by Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit KT Platform.
(2017). Creating a logic model; KT Evaluation: Indicators and methods. [Workshops]. Part of META Workshop series hosted by Alberta SPOR SUPPORT Unit KT Platform.
(2017). Knowledge outreach webinar. Webinar prepared for CIFAR Global Scholars program.
(2017). Describing your value and defining your needs [workshop]. First Session of the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing Community Hub Accelerator 2017.
(2017). Practicing what we preach: Let’s get better at teaching KMb (Open Space). Discussion at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Ottawa-Gatineau.
(2017). Social Media & Research Unconference: What works? What’s next? Unconference at the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Ottawa-Gatineau, ON.
(2016). Evaluating research impact: From a specific case to general guidelines. Workshop presentation to the Canadian Knowledge Mobilization Forum. Toronto, ON.
(2015, 2106). Focus group facilitation – UTOPIAN Data Safe Haven Stakeholder Consultation Project. University of Toronto. Consultations with health care providers, researchers, regulators, and patients about sharing electronic medical records for health research.
(2015). Sessions on “So you have a KMb Job – Now What?” (KMb career panel) & “We’re mobilizing knowledge but so what?” (KMb evaluation training) at the Knowledge Mobilization Summer Institute, University of Guelph.
(2015). Evaluating KTE activities. Workshop for the Gambling Research Exchange Ontario‘s KTE Student Workshop Series.
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