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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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In this e-News:
ALARA Events
- Publish Your Research Webinar This Week
Professional Development
- GCWAL-ALARA Certification Programmes
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ALARA Publications
- Action Research Practitioner Paper No. 1
ALARA News
- Visit by Mary Brydon-Miller and ICQI Conference
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Publish Your Research Webinar This Week
The Publish Your Research webinars are on 12 May 2022 (Europe time, so 12 / 13 May for Asia / Australasia). They allow aspiring (and advanced) authors to talk directly with editorial representatives of many of the twelve publications in our group. Members are encouraged to advise anyone considering publishing their action learning / action research work of this opportunity to speak with editorial team members. Full details are available here.
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Climate Action Movement Meetings
The working group behind the proposed climate action webinar are meeting to develop a movement that will aim to define its outcomes and actions required to achieve those outcomes. The visit by Mary Brydon-Miller - see item about Mary's visit below - will create an opportunity to support AR climate action projects in many states (and possibly countries). If you would like to become involved, please email admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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Action Research Practitioner Papers No. 1
The first Action Research Practitioner Paper is scheduled for release later this month. As a series, the Action Research Practitioner Papers describes details of activity across any aspect of an initiative which otherwise may not be open to analysis or learning. These practices may include project management, facilitation, documentation, networking, collaboration, critical thinking and inquiry, systemic transformation, action research and action learning practice education and training, and/or self-reflection, for example.
More information about this new publication, and invitations for further submissions will be available in the coming month. If you would like to prepare a submission for a Practitioner Papers publication, or know someone who has done the type of work that would be interesting reading in a Practitioner Papers publication, please email admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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Call for Papers for ALAR Journal
Dr Yedida Bessemer, Managing Editor, is seeking papers for consideration for the second issue for 2022. Papers can be submitted on the ALARj site - https://alarj.alarassociation.org.
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Thesis Research Notes Video
The Publications team have prepared a video about the ALAR Journal, including a section on the new Thesis Research Notes. You can see the video here. Please give the team some feedback on this video.
The Editorial team is seeking submissions of Thesis Research Notes written by Action Research (or Action Learning) master or doctoral students. The content would mostly focus on the journey they experienced during their studies. The students' supervisors will be invited to provide a response about the paper. Details of this initiative can be found in the latest issue of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal, and on the ALARA site. If you are interested to know more, or know of students who would benefit from submitting a Thesis Research Notes paper, please email admin [at] alarassociation.org.
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Call for Monograph Submissions
ALARA has published seven monographs over the last several years. Monographs are usually 12-16,000 word papers, similar to journal articles, but which, due to their length, are published in a stand-alone booklet. You can view the published monographs here.
Our Monograph Editor, Eileen Piggot-Irvine, would welcome any new submissions. Please email them to admin [at] alarassociation.org. Submission guidelines are available here.
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GCWAL-ALARA Certification Programmes
The alliance between ALARA and the Global Centre for Work-Applied Learning (GCWAL) includes professional certifications as Action Learning Facilitators, Action Learning Practitioners and Work-Applied Learning (WAL) Change Practitioners, co-badged by ALARA and GCWAL.
Discussions with several organisations in three countries continue, and ALARA can expect to see more skilled practitioners joining over coming months and years.
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. More news will come on research initiatives under the alliance.
If you would like to know more, please see the GCWAL website or the ALARA website.
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Upgrade to ALARA Websites
ALARA's web developer is currently preparing the upgraded website for review and checking. The main changes to the site will be invisible - updating the underlying software on which the site sits. We have also asked Andrew to make a small number of improvements to the site (which is where we will want to test them before setting the site loose). More information in coming weeks.
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Visit by Mary Brydon-Miller and ICQI Conference
Mary Brydon-Miller will be arriving in Australia in ten days' time on a Fulbright Scholarship. She will be coming to Australia for three months when she will be visiting schools to discuss action research climate action projects with students and teachers. She is also planning to visit New Zealand with the same aim of working with school children. First stop, however, will be participating remotely in the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), where she will hold discussions with representatives of ALARA, ARAL (the Malaysian AR Network), UTS, the Action Research SIG of the Systems Society and potentially others. That webinar will be on 21 May, at 11.00 am (AEST). Members will receive an email with the Zoom log-in details in the days before the conference. Attendance is free.
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Assistance Request
ALARA is a membership organisation, and volunteers perform almost all of the work required to make the organisation useful to members. ALARA's Board has identified a range of activities that could be done for members, if people are willing to assist in delivering these activities. Examples of these activities include:
- One of the Board and several Committees Group (Co-ordinator) positions remain vacant after the AGM, so members are urged to consider expressing their interest for these positions by emailing as indicated below.
- Proposals and assistance are sought to help plan, prepare and conduct webinars to fill the gap created by social distancing and lack of conferences.
- A small committee is being formed to conduct a conference in Australasia in 2023, and the members of that committee are seeking additional volunteers.
- Several members are involved in research, with at least two other projects on the horizon. The alliance with GCWAL (see above) also supports further research.
- The recognition of Indigenous People and supporting their work in action learning and action research is another exciting opportunity.
If you would like to know more, or want to assist, please contact ALARA.
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Other Events and Information
The full list of these activities
is available here.
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Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA)
ARNA has called for proposals for their 2022 conference in Cedar City, Utah, USA on 28 - 30 June.
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AR+ AMICABLE coLAB
AR+ has commenced, or is commencing, several coLABs over the coming month, with more sessions throughout the year. They also held a webinar with Bill Torbert on 1 April 2022, which kicked off the 2022 participative collogue series. See here for more information.
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CARN Conference 2022
CARN has announced its 2022 conference in Maynooth, Ireland on 9th - 11th September, 2022. See here for more information.
CARN Praxis
CARN has launched a new publishing opportunity - a rich and collaborative space for voices to be heard more publicly.
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Cornell University - Action Research Collaborative
The leaders of the institutional home at Cornell for Action Researchers - the Action Research Collaborative - Dr Neil Lewis (CALS) and Dr Tashara M. Leak (CHE), have also released a video.
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Lowitja Institute
The Lowitja Institute has announced the 2021-2024 Lowitja Institute Research Projects. The Institute has also announced the 3rd International Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Conference 2023, which will be on 14-16 June 2023.
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World Education Research Association
WERA has announced their 2023 Focal Meeting on 22-25 April.
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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. See here for more details about this open access book.
Transformative Research and Higher Education
Dr Azril Bacal, a member of the ALARA Global Strategic Publications Editorial Board, edited a new book, and will be co-participating in an in-person and virtual round table to be held on 19 May.
Democratising Participatory Research
Open Book Publishers is sharing their latest Open Access title: Democratising Participatory Research: Pathways to Social Justice from the South by Carmen Martinez-Vargas. More information is available here.
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.
Mapping Global Inequality
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. If you are interested in collaborating, please see here for information.
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