Action Learning, Action Research News and Activities - December 2024

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 will hold their next conference at the University of Manchester on 7-9 April 2025. See here for more information.

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.

CARN Conference

CARN held its conference "Action Research for Citizen Health, Social Sustainability and Education" on 24 - 26 October 2024 at the Malmö University in Malmö, Sweden. More details - see CARN's website or the conference website. Its next conference is on 13-15 Nov 2025 at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. See here for more details.

CEEMAN

CEEMAN held its 32nd Annual Conference on 25 to 27 September 2024 - see here for more information. It also co-hosted the Global Ethics Forum on 2-4 September 2024.

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

See other events offered by CEEMEN here.

Cornell University - Action Research Collaborative

The Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) at Cornell University held the Fuse International Conference - The Promise of Engaging the Public in Public Health on 11-12 June 2024 Details here.

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 Wednesday 18th December as part of the Cafe IFAL Practitioner Workshop Pilot. This workshop is entitled Evaluating Action Learnin. 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 has held several events over the last few months. It is holding the 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference on 16 - 19 June 2025.

The Institute has also announced its 2025 suite of scholarships open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and early career researchers. Scholarship rounds are offered across three categories: Lowitja Institute Health and Wellbeing Scholarships, Lowitja O’Donoghue Foundation Nursing Scholarships, and Public Health Scholarships (GLOWS). See here for more information.

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 commenced 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 which commenced on 9 September 2024.

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 also has a call for proposals to establish an International Research Network (IRN). The purpose of WERA-IRNs is to advance education research worldwide on specific research topics. Submissions are due by 1 February 2025.

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 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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