Action Learning, Action Research News and Activities - December 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 will hold its 2026 conference as a hybrid event in Sobral, Brazil and online on 16 to 20 June 2026. The theme is Dissolving Barriers: Weaving knowledge in the territories of the Americas . . . And Beyond. Final abstract submission deadline is February 15th, 2026. See here for more 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 commenced 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 held the conference "Digitalization, social justice and transforming societies" on 13-15 Nov 2025 at University of Klagenfurt, Austria. See here for more details.

CEEMAN

The next CEEMAN EdTech - The New World of Learning is on 9-10 February 2026 in Bled, Slovenia. a href="https://www.ceeman.org/programs-events/network-events/edtech---the-new-world-of-learning" target="_blank">See here for more details. The next IMTA - International Management Teachers Academy 2026 - will be 14-20 June 2026. Find more details here.

The 33rd CEEMAN annual conference was held 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 hosts the Action Research Collaborative. See here for details.

EURAM 2025 Conference

The 2026 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be at the School of Business and Law of the University of Agder, Kristiansand in Norway on 16 - 19 June 2026, with the theme of Navigating High Waters - Managing in an age of disruption. See here for more information.

IFAL

IFAL's next workshop is on Wednesday 3rd December 2025, entitled IFAL in Conversation - Action Learning and Democracy. See here for more details.

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, while the Forum of Sociology was held in Morocco on 6-11 July 2025.

Lowitja Institute

The Lowitja Institute will be holding the 5th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference Garramilla (Darwin) on Larrakia Country on 8-10 June 2027. A wrap-up of the 2025 conference is available here.

Martha Farrell Foundation

The 2025 Martha Farrell Awards ceremony was on 20 September 2025.

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 conducted an event From the Margins to the Mainstream? Celebratinga nd Challenging Participative Action Research on 11 June 2025.

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 held on 25-27 September 2025, as well as various calls for papers.

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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