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...’t make sense in thesworld of community work.… (interview participant)sDiscussion and ConclusionssConsistent with the KMb Unit goals and findings from undergraduate studentsinternship programs (e.g., =-=Astin and Sax, 1998-=-; Rehling, 2000), graduate student internssreported that they learned new skills, maintained partnerships with their communityspartners and built new networks and relationships.sImportantly, they also...

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...(Ostrander, 2004).sThe KMb Unit’ssapproach to student engagement is grounded in the concept of engaged scholarship,swhich focuses on knowledge creation rather than on service provision (Barker, 2004;s=-=Boyer, 1996-=-) and on the idea that practitioners and academic researchers possesssdifferent forms of knowledge and can learn from each other (Van de Ven & Johnson,s2006).sMost student internships in North America...

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...zie, Patten, & Perry, 2007; Phipps & Shapson, 2009).sThis issdistinguished from knowledge translation, in which knowledge creators merely transformstheir findings for transmission to knowledge users (=-=Mitton et al., 2007-=-).sAlthough building connections between research evidence and policy and practice issnot new (Bonnen, 1998), interest in building these connections has increased dramaticallysin the last 30 years (Le...

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...n from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.s2. The York University Knowledge Mobilization UnitsThe KMb Unit at York University, Canada, has developed a knowledge broker modelsfor promoting partnerships (=-=Lomas, 2007-=-; Phipps & Shapson, 2009).sThe role of thesknowledge broker is to bring together researchers in the university with knowledge userssin the government or community, and to help direct them to possible ...

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...y.sThe concept of student engagement emerges from thesbelief that universities the world over should be playing a role in civic engagement and insstrengthening and supporting social responsibilities (=-=Ostrander, 2004-=-).sThe KMb Unit’ssapproach to student engagement is grounded in the concept of engaged scholarship,swhich focuses on knowledge creation rather than on service provision (Barker, 2004;sBoyer, 1996) and...

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...ponsibilities (Ostrander, 2004).sThe KMb Unit’ssapproach to student engagement is grounded in the concept of engaged scholarship,swhich focuses on knowledge creation rather than on service provision (=-=Barker, 2004-=-;sBoyer, 1996) and on the idea that practitioners and academic researchers possesssdifferent forms of knowledge and can learn from each other (Van de Ven & Johnson,s2006).sMost student internships in ...

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...icipating in required work-related activities for academic credit. Thesrelationship is primarily between the community and academic institution, and the worksis assigned to the students (Eyler, 2002; =-=Rehling, 2000-=-).sIn contrast, the York KMbsinternships were voluntary, self-directed and student initiated. Graduate students weresequal partners in developing and carrying out jointly developed community researchs...

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...ty researchsprojects. Students did not get course credit towards their degrees and were not supervisedsby academic faculty. The focus on graduate students and emphasis on partnership issuncommon (cf. =-=Savan & Sider, 2003-=-), and the students’ independence in choosing andsdeveloping their research partnership is, to our knowledge, unique.sThis kind of equal participation in research partnerships should allow all members...

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... is defined in a variety of ways but the core ofsthese definitions includes three elements: the creation of knowledge, the use ofsknowledge, and the processes that connect knowledge creation and use (=-=Levin, 2008-=-;sMitton, Adair, Mckenzie, Patten, & Perry, 2007; Phipps & Shapson, 2009).sThis issdistinguished from knowledge translation, in which knowledge creators merely transformstheir findings for transmissio...

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...t to community engaged scholarship, the KMb unit offers student researchsinternships that provide funding for graduate students to work collaboratively withscommunity partners. As detailed elsewhere (=-=Phipps & Shapson, 2009-=-) these internshipssare but one aspect of the KMb services provided by the KMb Unit. This paper reports ansevaluation of whether these relatively unstructured internships succeeded in meeting theirsgo...