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Conferences

Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd (ALARA) and its predecessors have conducted twenty-five Conferences in Australasian since 1995. The table below lists the details of those conferences, as well as the co-hosted 2019 conference with Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN).

No. Dates Location Co-Host Title
1 25 September, 1995 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia University of Technology, Sydney Y Not Ask
2 30 November, 1995 Adelaide, Australia Australian Institute of Training and Development, Australian Human Resources Institute, and Australian Quality Council Best Practice: An Action Learning Approach
3 25 - 26 October, 1996   Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore Developing the Learning Organisation through Action Learning and Action Research
4 1997 Brisbane, Australia   Action for a Better World: Practitioner Development Conference
5 1997 Singapore   Building a Learning Organisation through AL & AR
6 12 - 13 July, 1998 Bardon Conference Centre, Brisbane, Australia   Solutions Outside the Square: Action Learning and Action Research for a Better World
7 4 - 5 July, 1999 Bardon Conference Centre, Brisbane, Australia   Success in a Complex and Uncertain World
8 1999 Sydney, Australia   Translations of Action Learning and Action Research
9 2001 Brisbane, Australia   Different Journeys
10 2002 Melbourne, Australia   Research-in-Action Symposium
No. Dates Location Co-Host Title
11 2002 Brisbane, Australia   Confronting the Gaps
12 2003 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia   Surfing the Winds of Change
13 17 - 18 July, 2004 Kormilda College, Darwin, Australia   Action in the Top End - The Power of Story
14 30 September - 2 October, 2005 University of Technology, Sydney, Australia   Telling our Stories
15 24 - 25 September, 2006 Riverglenn, Brisbane, Australia   Invigorating the politics of participation
16 9 - 10 August, 2007 Tauondi College, Adelaide, Australia Team SA, Tauondi College Moving Forward Together; Enhancing the Wellbeing of People and Communities through Action Research and Action Learning
17 11 - 12 September, 2008 Canberra Institute of Technology, Australia Centre of Excellence, Canberra Institute of Technology The Whole Person: Sustainable Futures in Living, Learning and Working
18 18 - 19 September, 2009 Melbourne, Australia Borderlands Cooperative, Oases Learning Living Differently: Action Researching Our Way through the Ecological and Economic Meltdown
19 26 - 27 September, 2011 Riverglenn, Brisbane, Australia   Action & Change: Creative Responses to New Challenges
20 2 - 5 September, 2012 Sebel Hotel, Sydney, Australia   Achieving Sustainable Outcomes through Dialogue and Engagement – The Best from Action Learning and Action Research
No. Dates Location Co-Host Title
21 23 - 24 September, 2013 Riverglenn, Brisbane, Australia   Creating a Better World
22 7 - 12 November, 2014 SilverWattle, Bungendore, NSW, Australia CultureShift Pty Ltd Starting from Here: Self Determination as Functional Reform
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23 7 - 9 November, 2016 Adelaide Hilton, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Global Centre for Work-Applied Learning (GCWAL) Learning for Change and Innovation World Congress
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24 17 - 19 October, 2019 President Hotel, Split, Croatia Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Osijek Imagine Tomorrow: Practitioner Learning for the Future
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25 8 - 11 November, 2020 Virtual, broadcast from Launceston, Tasmania, Australia Business Action Learning Tasmania (BALT) Discovering the Future Together: Action Learning and Action Research at Work
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26 7 - 8 November, 2024 Hybrid: In-person in UTS, Sydney, Australia, and online University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Transdisciplinary Action Learning and Action Research
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