TY - JOUR T1 - Research on Fire: Lessons Learned in Knowledge Mobilization JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Susan Braedley KW - catalytic validity KW - knowledge mobilization KW - public policy KW - public services KW - research values AB - In this article, I outline knowledge mobilization lessons learned while working on politically “hot button” issues in public policy research related to fire services. These lessons were shaped by the research funding context. Researchers are increasingly required to develop research relationships with government, industry, and community partners to ensure research is relevant to those who can best use it, to embed knowledge mobilization in research processes, to ensure that knowledge has an impact in the world beyond the academy, and to provide research funding. Perhaps not surprisingly, when my findings created challenges for research partners, controversies erupted, potentially imperiling my research program, career, and potential research impact. Drawing from my knowledge-mobilization experiences as well as those of other researchers, I offer some insights gained from mobilizing knowledge on a “hot topic” in public policy. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1020 IS - 9 U1 - Carleton University Susan Braedley is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is co-editor of Neoliberalism and Everyday Life (McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) and Troubling Care (Canadian Press, 2013), and she is the author of many articles on social policy topics. She is a co-investigator on three large-scale comparative studies of long-term care policies and practices (funded by SSHRC and CIHR), as well as principal investigator on the SSHRC funded project “Equity Shifts: Employment Equity in Protective Services”. Her research and teaching focus on social policies and their implications for labour, gender, race, and class, and on research methodologies. ER -