Action Learning, Action Research News and Activities - July 2023

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.

ALNAP

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance (ALNAP) has released Action Learning for Frontline Humanitarians: a resource pack. The pack is for programme staff who are implementing projects, staff in monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL) roles who are collecting data and evaluating projects, and for team leaders or managers who work with them. Individuals, project teams or cross-organisational and inter-agency groups can all use this approach. See here for details.

Action Learning: Research and Practice

The Action Learning: Research and Practice Journal, in conjunction with International Foundation for Action Learning (IFAL), conducted the 2023 International Action Learning Conference with the theme of Action Learning and Innovation on 17-19 April 2023.

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 holding its 2023 conference will be in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 30 May - 2 June 2023. See here for 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+ is conducting its 2023 Community Gathering Retreat in the Italian Alps in November (9th-12th), with the theme Nourishing ourselves and the soil: Developmental and Transformational!.

AR Journal has a call for papers: Social Innovations, Transformations and Action Research, which closes on 30 November 2023.

CARN Conference

CARN 2023 conference is in Manchester, UK on 26-28 October, 2023. More details - see CARN's website.

CARN Praxis

CARN has launched a publishing opportunity - a rich and collaborative space for voices to be heard more publicly, where we can share and celebrate the rich potential of action research in supporting authentic and relevant practice-learning. See here for more information.

CEEMAN

The 31st CEEMAN Annual Conference is scheduled on 20 - 22 September 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with a theme of Leadership for a Sustainable World.

See other events offered by CEEMEN here.

Cornell University - Action Research Collaborative

The Colleges of Human Ecology (CHE) and Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) have launched the Action Research Collaborative (ARC) that supports the Lewinian tradition of bringing together researchers, practitioners, community members, and policymakers to address pressing issues in society. More information is available here. The leaders of the Action Research Collaborative (ARC), Dr Neil Lewis (CALS) and Dr Tashara M. Leak (CHE), have also released a video.

EURAM 2023 Conference - Transforming Business for Good

The 2023 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be held at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College in Dublin (Ireland) from 14 until 16 June 2023. See here for more information.

IFAL

The next IFAL event is on 15 June 2023, with the topic of Cafe IFAL with Julia Slay.

International Sociological Association

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

Lowitja Institute

The Lowitja Institute is holding the 3rd International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2023 on 14-16 June 2023.

Martha Farrell Foundation

Nominations for the 2023 Martha Farrell Awards have closed, and we wait for the announcement of the winners.

Participatory Action Research - Feminist Trailblazers & Good Troublemakers

Patricia Maguire has assembled a growing number 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.

Patricia has added a podcast with Davydd Greenwood who discusses how his early AR work with the Mondragon Cooperatives shaped him as an action researcher, as well as the linkages between feminism and PAR and feminist influences on the Cornell Participatory Action Research Network (CPARN). He explores masculinity and critical reflexivity, the development of CPARN and its demise, the roles of AR in democratizing research and universities, and the upcoming third edition of the Introduction to Action Research. The episode wraps up a discussion of alternative models to the current university system.

PRIA

PRIA International Academy has announced a six-week course - Community Based Participatory Research in Environmental Health commencing on 17 April 2023.

World Education Research Association

The Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) is planning the 2023 annual focal meeting Forging Ahead: Transforming Education in a Rapidly Changing World, with the call for proposals commenced, and the meeting in Singapore on 22-24 November 2023. More information here.

WERA Mentoring Programme

The WERA Doctoral and Early Career Scholars Network (DEC) provides doctoral and early career scholars with an opportunity to network with and meet each other. As a part of this effort, WERA aims to develop an innovative, online-based Mentorship Programme, that links senior scholars and postdoctoral educational researchers who share a common research interest. Find out more about the Programme here.

Book Launch: 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 3rd international Action Research Summer Camp is scheduled for June 11 to 18, 2023 (preceded by an online preparatory phase) in Innsbruck, Austria. Some places are still available for the Camp. More information is available here.

Transformative Research and Higher Education

Dr Azril Bacal, a member of the ALARA Global Strategic Publications Editorial Board, edited a new book: 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.

Publications' Special Issues

Mapping Global Inequality is a Series of tertiary research that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on different aspects of inequality at both local and global contexts across different societies. The Series encompasses 29+ volumes and calls for contributions will be issued on a rolling basis. If you are interested in collaborating, please see here for information.

Canadian Journal of Action Research (CJAR) and Canadian Association of Action Research in Education (CAARE) have a call for submissions for a special issue: School Community Health and Wellness. Proposals by 15 June 2023 and full manuscripts by 15 December 2023.