Action Learning, Action Research News and Activities - May 2025

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 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.

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 is holding its 2025 conference as a hybrid event in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and online on 16 & 17 May 2025. The theme is An Artful Experience: The use of the arts throughout the Participatory Action Research Process. 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+ conducts its Eco-Relational Meditation coLAB for ARTists weekly, on Tuesdays. The Leadership as Developmental Friendship Transformations coLab commences in April 2025.

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 next conference "Digitalization, social justice and transforming societies" on 13-15 Nov 2025 at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. See here for more details.

CARN has announced a call for papers closing 30 May 2025.

CEEMAN

The 33rd CEEMAN annual conference is on 24-26 September 2025 in Albania - see here for more information.

CEEMAN's next Conversations over Coffee will be with Dr. Nikos Mylonopoulos discussing Artificial Intelligence. It is online on 21 May at 11.00-12.00 (Central Europe Time). See here for more details.

CEEMAN are also promoting the 27th International Leadership Association (ILA) Global Conference, themed Leading Together>/i> scheduled for 15–18 October 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic. See here for details.

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 2025 Conference

The 2025 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be at the University of Florence in Italy on 22 - 25 June 2025, with the theme of Managing with Purpose. See here for more information.

IFAL

IFAL's next workshop is on Wednesday 21st May 2025, entitled International Varieties of Action Learning - Breakthrough Problem Solving with WIAL Action Learning. See here for more information.

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.

Lowitja Institute

The Lowitja Institute is holding the 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference on 16 - 19 June 2025.

Martha Farrell Foundation

The 2024 Martha Farrell Awards recipients were announced at a ceremony on 28 September 2024 in New Delhi.

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 including Doing Research with People - International Perspectives on Participatory Research.

World Education Research Association

WERA has information on events, including the WERA Task Force Global Research in Extended Education Conference 2025 on 25-27 September 2025, as well as various calls for papers.

WERA offerred a free webinar on Pathways to Publication for Doctoral and Early Career Researchers on 31 March.

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 5th international Action Research Summer Camp is scheduled for June 15 to 22, 2025 (preceded by an online preparatory phase from February 2025) in Austria. Applications close 15 November 2024. 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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