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Welcome to ALARA's regular e-News of activities, events and information
for the Action Learning / Action Research Community.
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Your contributions to this fortnightly bulletin are welcome. Please send any items to admin@alarassociation.org
We hope you and those close to you are safe and well. If you are feeling in need of stimulation, please consider renewing a friendship with an AL / AR practitioner, or striking up a new one, by contacting ALARA members on the ALARA members pages. If you need assistance, please email admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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.
In this e-News:
- ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference
- Less than two weeks to go!
- Invitation to Join New Zealand Satellite Group
- Annual General Meeting to Commence
- Social Media Presence
- Journal Site Renewal
- Old ALARA Site
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ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference
- Less than two weeks to go!
- Invitation to Join New Zealand Satellite Group
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The Conference is fast approaching! There are over 25 papers, symposiums and workshops across four days. Industries covered include Secondary and Tertiary Education, Health, Construction (yes!), Social Sciences, Airlines, Heavy Industry (smelting), and Technology. Topics include the Circular Economy, Agile and Scrum, Impact Continence, Data Literacy and Action Research as a Meta-methodology. We will also take a walk with local Aboriginal Elders using a 360-degree camera in lands near Launceston to look "to the Past to Rediscover the Future of Learning." And that is just Monday!
You can see the program here, where you can also view several short videos prepared by presenters.
Members can register for the entire virtual conference for $75.00, while the price for non-members is $95.00. Alternatively, participants can meet in a small group and attend the virtual conference at a group price of $195.
Registrations for a single session are open: single sessions (up to 4 hours) for individuals is just $30, while a group can join for $100.
New Zealand member, Diana Austin has arranged a group in Wellington, New Zealand, and she extends an invitation to those in the general area to join the group for the Conference. Please contact Diana Austin.
More information about the conference is available on the Conference web pages.
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ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference
- Have you liked the Conference on Facebook?
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ALARA has a page and an event for the Conference on Facebook, and three hashtags: #actionlearning, #actionresearch and #ALARABALT2020.
Our assistants are posting updates and information relating to ALARA, BALT and the conference. To gain the maximum coverage, however, we need ALARA members to view and "like" our ALARA page and Conference event. The more "likes" we get, the greater the promotion of the event.
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Annual General Meeting to Commence
The Annual General Meeting will be held as both an electronic meeting between 6 and 19 November and a video conference (via Zoom) on Thursday 19 November 2020. Members may participate in either of these two parts of the meeting.
An announcement commencing the AGM will be made on 6 November 2020.
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Doctoral Workshop and Awards
The Conference includes a Doctoral Workshop on the afternoon of Sunday 8 November at the commencement of the Conference. This Workshop is for Master and Doctorate students to showcase their Action Learning / Action Research theses.
Australian Institute of Business has sponsored two awards - Best Student Action Research Paper Award ($500 award to paid into a research account) and Best Student Action Research Presentation Award (Discount of $500 towards one AIB Masterclass to be used by Dec 2021).
More details are available on the Doctoral Workshop page, as are details for submissions for the Workshop.
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Conference
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Call for Venue for ALARA 2021 Conference
The ALARA Board is seeking a potential venue for next year's event. Preparing for a conference takes a good twelve months (and sometimes more), so a partner for the 2021 Conference must be identified soon. Naturally, potential restrictions to travel across State and international borders and social distancing may continue well into 2021, so an event must be able to cope with face-to-face, virtual or a hybrid arrangements.
If you would like to discuss a possible event, please contact us at admin[at]alarassociation.org.
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Social Media Presence
The increase in online activity arising during this year showed that ALARA was not as well exposed in the social media as was required. The increase presence associated with the ALARA-BALT Conference has helped, but a further step has now been taken, with the creation of an ALARA organisation page on LinkedIn. Associated with that page is an event for the Conference. Further events and activities will also be promoted on LinkedIn.
If you have a LinkedIn account, please connect and follow the ALARA page.
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Journal Site Renewal
The old Journal site is written in very old code, and is highly susceptible to attack. ALARA will be replacing the old Journal site in the next two weeks. There will be a new look and a new address, but it will contain all of the current content (and new issues as they are prepared and published).
More information will be supplied when the transition occurs (and there will be redirects, so the old address will forward to the new address).
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Old ALARA Site
The old ALARA site (alara.net.au) is also written in old code, and has not been updated for several years. ALARA plans to remove that site late this year. People registered on the site are being sent an email, encouraging them to copy anything they wish to keep from the site before it closes.
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New Issue of Action Learning and Action Research Journal published
A Special Issue of the ALAR Journal containing papers from the CARN-ALARA Conference in 2019 has been published.
Members (after logging on) can access individual articles on the Journal website and the whole issue on the latest Journals page.
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Action Learning Facilitator and Action Learning Practitioner Programmes
The alliance between ALARA and the Global Centre for Work-Applied Learning (GCWAL) includes the introduction of new professional certifications as Action Learning Facilitators and Action Learning Practitioners, co-badged by ALARA and GCWAL. Information about the programmes are available on the GCWAL website and the linked brochures.
The alliance also provides support to ALARA to develop research in action learning and action research. A further announcement will be made later this year.
If you would like to know more, please see the GCWAL website or the ALARA website.
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World Conference 2010 Website Re-Launched
The ALARA 2010 World Congress produced a large number of reference materials, articles and papers. For the last ten years, that information has been on the old ALARA site, which is now quite unstable. ALARA has now relaunched the site as a sub-site of the new ALARA site. Please visit it here.
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Ethics Committee Guide
If you would like to assist Pam Carey preparing the Ethics Committee guide that will include information, examples and stories of success in navigating the Ethics Committee process, please contact ALARA at admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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Research into Strategic Direction of Action Learning / Acton Research
Susan Goff would welcome further assistance in her research of publications that contain papers discussing action research methodology, which involves analysing publications that have articles about action research methodology. If you would like to help, please contact ALARA at admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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Exploration of Students or New Researchers' Understanding of Action Research
Diana Austin, a senior lecturer at Victoria University, New Zealand is also seeking people who may be interested in joining her to undertake a study on what shifts in thinking occur, and what facilitated these shifts, as researchers become action researchers. Please contact Diana at diana.austin@vuw.ac.nz.
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ALARA Publications Online
ALARA is now able to offer its publications in a variety of forms, and via several methods
- Previously printed copies of some journals, monographs and other publications for $40.00 for a Journal, $20.00 for a Monograph and $60.00 for a book, with no additional fee for standard postage, which is a saving over purchasing directly from a print-on-demand service. Faster postage is available at an additional cost.
The list of publications and the process for purchasing them can be found on the ALARA website.
- Print-on-demand copies of all Monographs and all issues of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal from Volume 20 (2014) ordered via IngramSpark. If you would like to order a copy, please contact admin [at] alarassociation.org.
- ALARA publications are also available via large online distributors, such as Amazon and Book Depository.
- Electronic copies of the Journal and Monographs are available on the ALARA website. Members can access these copies soon after they are published, while non-members can access them about twelve months later. See here for Monographs, and here for Journals.
- Abstracts of the articles in each volume of the Journal since Volume 17 No 2 (2011) are available to the general public, while members have access to the full content of all articles on the Journal website (we are planning to upgrade this site during this year - more information to come).
- ALARA supplies copies of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal to Informit and EBSCO for loading in their search sites, where the public can access individual articles. Members can access the Informit site free of charge after logging into the ALARA site - more details here.
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Submissions for Publications
Eileen Piggot-Irvine, our Monographs Editor, welcomes submission of Monographs by emailing the editor. For further information please see the Monograph submission guidelines.
ALARA has published the Action Learning and Action Research Journal for 24 years, and you are invited to submit papers for the 2020 issues. Please visit the ALARj on the Journal website or see the submission guidelines on ALARA's website for more information.
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Administation Assistance Requested
Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd is seeking assistance in three roles, which could be performed by one, two or three people. These roles are Minute Secretary, Membership Administrator and Administration Support.
- Minute Secretary: The Minute Secretary may attend meetings of the Board (usually 8 per year), and does attend meetings of the Committees Group (between 6 and 10 per year) and the Annual General Meeting.
- Membership Administrator: The Membership Administrator supports the Membership Co-ordinator, Publications Co-ordinator and Committees Group on all matters related to the management of the ALARA membership.
- Administration Support: The Administration Support supports the Board on all matters related to the general administration of ALARA.
Each role requires between about 2 and 10 hours per month. A full description of the work is available here. ALARA will consider applicants in a volunteer or paid capacity.
ALARA also have a number of important initiatives for which we are seeking assistance. These initiatives include developing a marketing plan, helping to create local networks or conversation events in any location where members wish to meet, approaching organisations that utilise Action Learning / Action Research that may wish to support ALARA and its activities, and developing relationships with organisations that will provide benefits to members and the wider Action Learning / Action Research community. A description of the initiatives is available here.
If you would like to discuss these roles or initiatives, or would like to undertake one or more of them, please contact ALARA (admin@alarassociation.org or president@alarassociation.org).
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Other Events and Information
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ALARA Member Publishes a New Book
New book with a practical, developmental, multi-sectorial, action research model for 1-to-1 leadership support
ALARA member Prof Eileen Piggot-Irvine has co-authored, with Karene Biggs, a new book: Leadership Coaching, Mentoring, Counselling or Supervision? One Way is Not Enough from Cambridge Press.
Book Review from Hilary Quosai, HR Senior Executive, Toronto, Canada:
I was heading down a path of the importance of an integrated approach to developing leaders. Then I read your book and “boom”! It is inspirational! It takes all of the developmental elements of the support role and integrates them beautifully.
This book represents an invaluable step forward for anyone wanting to increase leader effectiveness through one-to-one support as it makes the case for the pressing need for this type of development. This is not a ‘quick fix’ solution but a deep, thoughtful and thorough exploration of the ‘how to’ implement. This is backed up by research and real-world experience to also understand the ‘why to’ implement. This holistic approach, considering the micro and macro levels of leader and organisation, is exactly what is needed to develop and support successful leadership in this ever more complex world.
Also, I do have to comment on the illustrations. They are so simply, perfect. What a talent in Lucy Dyke!
More information here.
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Café IFAL Online Event
IFAL is offering a Café IFAL online event on 2nd December at 14:00 - 15:30 GMT, involving local (to Australia) Action Learning people.
Action Learning and the Circular Economy will be presented by Genevieve Cother, Business Development Manager at the Action Learning Institute (ALI) - more information here.
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Professor Position at Sebanci
Sabanci Business School, AACSB accredited top business school in Turkey, is seeking a dynamic, innovative, practice friendly and qualified scholar for a full-time faculty position at the level of Associate/Full Professor to commence on the 2021-2022 academic year. The candidate will coordinate and grow the newly started Action Research PhD Program. Find out more about the position here.
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CSIRO's Challenges Mission
CSIRO will work with the government, universities, industry and the community, on a new 'Team Australia' missions program to bolster Australia’s COVID-19 recovery and build long term resilience. The program of large scale, major scientific and collaborative research initiatives, will be aimed at solving some of Australia’s greatest challenges, focused on outcomes that lead to positive impact, new jobs and economic growth.
CSIRO is calling for partners to join this 'Team Australia' approach to solving what seem like unsolvable problems. It will direct $100 million annually to the co-creation of missions, working with the brightest minds across the research sector and industry. No mission will be delivered by CSIRO alone – to think big, they need to take a whole of system approach by engaging in true co-design and development with government, industry, research and communities.
Find out more about the Programme here.
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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.
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CEEMAN offer several webinars and other online events about teaching, learning and management education - see their website for more information. These events include the EdTech 2020 on 14, 21 and 28 October - see here for more information.
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PRIA Online Courses
PRIA International Academy is offering several online courses. See their online courses here.
One such course is Measuring Development: Participatory Monitoring, Evaluation and Impact Assessment - details here
PRIA continues to produce its Youth Newsletter. The latest, Issue 10, is available here.
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International Management Teachers Academy
The International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies has rescheduled the International Management Teachers Academy to June 2021 in beautiful Bled, Slovenia. Please see here for more information.
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AR+ Co-Labs
AR+ Foundation is conducting a Relational Action Inquiry Co-lab, which commenced in May 2020 and continues until November 2020. Check here for more information and to join the monthly meetings.
AR+ also has two other co-Labs commencing soon:
AR+ also opened registrations for the ECORetreat, which will be conducted March 5-8, 2021 online. More details here.
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EURAM 2020 Conference - The Business of Now
The 2020 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be held in Dublin Ireland but has been rescheduled to 4-6 December 2020. The theme is The Business of Now: the future starts here. More information is available here.
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WERA Language Education and Multilinguslism Symposium
The World Education Research Association (WERA) invites you to this symposium that will share the design and research results of projects and discuss the implications of their findings for multilingual development - 3-4 December 2020. More information is available here.
WERA 2020+1 Focal Meeting
The World Education Research Association (WERA) invites submissions for papers, symposia, and posters for the WERA Focal Meeting to be held from 7-9 July 2021 at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The final deadline to submit is 12 December 2020; 23:59 Central European Time. More information is available here.
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