Events and Updates
Recent News and Member Updates
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Join us for From Research to Impact
Join us on Tuesday, October 7th, for our upcoming webinar: From Research to Impact: Mobilizing Knowledge for an Inclusive Energy Future.
WISER and Canadian Science Publishing invite you to join us for a webinar and panel on knowledge mobilization. Learn how to identify your audience, write clear, plain language summaries, and discover tools that can help amplify your research impact. You’ll also hear from practitioners and researchers about their experiences with knowledge mobilization. This session is designed to give researchers strategies to make their work more impactful—by moving it beyond academia and into the hands of those who can use it to improve policies, practices, and lives.
What: Presentation followed by a panel + Q&A discussion
Where: Register via Zoom HERE
When: October 7th 12pm Eastern (See your time zone here)
Speaker Biographies are attached here
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Meet Wiser's 2024 Steering Committee!
Suzanne Chew, Angela Rojas,Irmak Karakislak,and Bregje van Veelen
We are pleased to welcome our newest Steering Committee members: Suzanne Chew (University of Toronto), Irmak Karakışlak (United Nations University), Angela Rojas (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), and Bregje van Veelen (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies). And we are pleased that Runa Das and Amy Janzwood will remain as Chair and Vice-Chair.
We extend our gratitude to Neelakshi Joshi, Tamara Knittel, Georgia Savvidou and Laura Tozer for their great support and contributions to our network during 2023.
Meet the 2024 Steering Committee
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Join us for a Virtual Coffee
Join us for a virtual coffee! We regularly host virtual coffee dates for WISER members to build relationships and get to know each other. We try to alternate time zones to reach all of our members (though if you have a special request for a time zone, please be in touch
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). For more information about the next coffee date, stay tuned for details via member email. And if you are not a WISER member, consider joining us! -
Meet your 2023 Steering Committee!
Sarah Sharma (left) is stepping down as Chair and Runa Das (centre) is stepping in. New member Tamara Knittel (right) joins Steering Committee.
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Op-Ed: Four steps to jump-start Canadian Climate Policy
Read the full Op-ed by Sarah E. Sharma, Amy Janzwood, and Colleen Kaiser online at Policy Options.
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Blog Post: What we can talk about when we don't talk about profit
Read the full guest Blog Post by Sarah-Anne Thompson online at Smart Prosperity Institute.
https://institute.smartprosperity.ca/TransitioningEnergySystems
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Policy Change, Energy Democracy & Inclusive Energy Policies
The third of three WISER, SPI, & WIRE symposia showcasing the work of a diverse and interdisciplinary group of energy transition scholars.
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Blog Post: The Emancipatory Potential of Decentralizing Power
Read the full guest Blog Post by Eden Luymes online at Environmental Politics Journal.
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Energy Modeling, Urban Transitions, and Energy Poverty
The second of three WISER, SPI, & WIRE symposia showcasing the work of a diverse and interdisciplinary group of energy transition scholars.