Knowledge Development Workshops

A person in formal attire tending to bees housed in small wooden structures

Photo: Mette Frandsen

Knowledge development workshops are designed for organisations facing new professional challenges and seeking an effective way to improve their expertise and capacity to address complex issues. This might, for example, involve a government agency that has taken on a new area of responsibility. It could also apply to a community organisation that is grappling with changes to workflow due to digital developments and needs to train its staff broadly with specialist competencies.

The workshop takes the form of a series of sessions in which an interdisciplinary group of researchers collaborates with approximately 15–20 key staff members from the organisation to explore a particular issue in depth and in a manner tailored to the organisation’s needs. Between sessions, the organisation continues working on the issue, supported through ongoing consultation with university experts. At the same time, the researchers participating in the workshop gain an in-depth understanding of how their research can be relevant to an organisation facing a concrete challenge, and how to put knowledge into practice to address that challenge.