Action Learning, Action Research News and Activities - September 2026

On this page:

• Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance
• Action Learning: Research and Practice
• AR - Global Conversations
• ARNA
• AR Podcast
• ARPlus
• CARN
• CEEMAN
• Cornell
• EURAM
• IFAL
• International Sociological Association
• Lowitja Institute
• PAR - Feminist Trailblazers & Good Troublemakers
• PRIA
• Martha Farrell Foundation
• WERA
• World Conference on Qualitative Research
• World Social Forum
• Other Items

Event information is frequently changing. The information available at the time of production has been included. Please check the relevant links, as the situation for each event could change.

ALAR Association

Action Learning, Action Research Association (ALAR Association; ALARA for short) conducts conferences and webinars. The next conference is on 29 and 30 September 2026. See here for details .

ALNAP

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) has several events aimed at putting people at the centre of humanitarian action, such as Harnessing networks for system change: Building a foundation for collective action. See here for details of these offerings.

Action Learning: Research and Practice

The Action Learning: Research and Practice Journal held their conference at the University of Manchester on 7-9 April 2025. See here for more information, or download the short flyer, or detailed flyer with a list of abstracts. Their next conference is due in early 2027.

Action Research: Global Conversations

Linnea Rademaker, the 2020-2022 chair of the action research SIG of AERA, presents podcasts about action research discussing various AR projects with their lead researchers.

ARNA News

ARNA held its 2026 conference in Sobral, Brazil and online on 16 to 20 June 2026. The theme was Dissolving Barriers: Weaving knowledge in the territories of the Americas . . . And Beyond. See here for more details.

AR Podcast

The Action Research Podcast contains many recordings of presentations and discussions with AR practitioners, with a new podcast added about each month.

AR Plus

AR+ conducts its Eco-Relational Meditation coLAB for ARTists weekly, on Tuesdays.

AR+ also has Yes/And Action Research podcast in which Skip Bivens speaks with Joanna Wheeler and Katie Collins.

CARN Conference

CARN will hold its 2026 conference "Towards a Just and Humane Society" on 5-7 November 2026 in Utrecht, Netherlands. See here for more details.

CEEMAN

CEEMAN held its EdTech - The New World of Learning on 9-10 February 2026 in Bled, Slovenia. See here for more details. It also held IMTA - International Management Teachers Academy 2026 - on 14-20 June 2026. Find more details here.

The 34th CEEMAN annual conference will be held on 23-25 September 2026 in Bucharest, Romania - see here for more information.

See other events offered by CEEMEN here.

Cornell University - Action Research Collaborative

The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) at Cornell University hosts the Action Research Collaborative. See here for details.

EURAM 2026 Conference

The 2026 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) was held at the School of Business and Law of the University of Agder, Kristiansand in Norway on 16 - 19 June 2026. See here for more information.

Their next conference will be from June 22-25, 2027, at the School of Business and Economics and the Department of Management & Organisation, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. See here for more information.

IFAL

IFAL's last workshop was on Wednesday 3rd December 2025, entitled IFAL in Conversation - Action Learning and Democracy. See here for more details. There is no news on events for 2026.

International Sociological Association

The ISA held its World Congress in Melbourne Australia on 25 June to 1 July 2023. One of the large number of streams was Action-Research for Participation and Empowerment.

The next World Congress will be in Gwangju, Korea in 2027, while the Forum of Sociology was held in Morocco on 6-11 July 2025.

Lowitja Institute

The Lowitja Institute are holding the 5th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference Garramilla (Darwin) on Larrakia Country on 8-10 June 2027. A wrap-up of the 2025 conference is available here.

Martha Farrell Foundation

The call for nominations for the 2026 Martha Farrell Awards has now closed with an announcement expected late this year.

Participatory Action Research - Feminist Trailblazers & Good Troublemakers

Patricia Maguire has completed a second series of podcasts of in-depth conversations with feminist participatory and action research trailblazers about their successes and struggles bringing feminist values and ways of being to PAR about femist trailblazers.

See (and hear) the full list here.

PRIA

PRIA International Academy has several courses and events including Roots and Horizon - 25 Years of Cohesion and Participatory Training Methodologies.

World Education Research Association

WERA and TERA are conducting the TERA 2026 Conference and WERA Focal Meeting on 15-18 October 2026.

Book: The Practice of Systemic Action Research: Igniting Systemic Change through Participatory Action

Danny Burns and Marina Apgar have co-authored this book (to be released on 22 September 2026).

The book is a detailed account of more than 20 years of learning about how to design and facilitate these larger systemic participatory processes. It explores the way in which multiple and parallel action research groups can work, and how they can be coordinated through meta level action research processes which we have described as participatory adaptive management.

See for more information.

Book: Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy

The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education hosted the launch of Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy, co-edited by the UNESCO Co-Chairs Dr. Budd Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon.

This book shares the experiences of a broadly representative and globally dispersed set of writers on higher education and social responsibility, broadening perspectives on the democratisation of knowledge.

The book is open access, and the free download of the book is available here.

The International Action Research Summer Camp

The 6th international Action Research Summer Camp was held on June 14 to 21, 2026 (preceded by an online preparatory phase from February 2025) in Austria. More information is available here.

Transformative Research and Higher Education

Dr Azril Bacal, a member of the ALARA Global Strategic Publications Editorial Board, edited Transformative Research and Higher Education. More information is available here.

Open Book Publishers: Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South

Open Book Publishers is sharing their Open Access title: Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South by Carmen Martinez-Vargas. More information is available here.

Open Book Publishers: A Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes

Open Book Publishers are also sharing their Open Access title: A Common Good Approach to Development: Collective Dynamics of Development Processes by Mathias Nebel, Oscar Garza-Vázquez and Clemens Sedmak (eds). More information is available here.

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