We build Canada's capacity to be a leader in creating value from knowledge by developing and sharing best practices, services and tools, and by demonstrating to relevant stakeholders and the public the positive impacts of mobilising knowledge.

A globally leading network which supports researchers, students and their partners to demonstrate the contribution to and impact of research excellence.

The Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS) released a report (October 2014) titled ‘The Impacts of Social Sciences and Humanities Research’.³ This report acknowledges the challenges but also the importance of demonstrating impacts arising from social sciences and humanities. CFHSS identified five impacts of SSH research including impacts on: scholarship, capacity (training), economy, society and culture, and practice and policy. Similarly the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences developed a health research impact assessment framework that identified how health research can inform decisions in sectors beyond the academy such as in health authorities, industry, government, non-profit organisations and the public.⁴