ALARA News - January 2026

Hello ALARA member

Action Research Community of Practice

The next meeting of the Auckland CoP will be on on Wednesday 28 January 2026 at 1.00 pm in New Zealand, 11.00 am in Eastern Australia Summer Time (10.00 am in Queensland, 10.30 am in South Australia and 8.00 am in Western Australia), Midnight in London, and 7.00 pm Tuesday January 27th in Eastern USA.

Please join this meeting to support the development of these CoPs - Zoom Meeting ID: 886 2991 7059 Passcode: 65807419.

Action Learning and Action Research Journal

The second issue for 2025 of the ALAR Journal has been published. Members can access the full electronic issue on ALARA website's latest journals page or individual articles on the Journal website (you will need to log in before accessing the full content).

Members are also invited to submit papers for the 2026 issues via the ALARj site.

Webinar Videos

ALARA conducted two webinars last year - one with Dr John Molineux and Dr Sumesh Nair on Action Learning in the Context of Generative Artificial Intelligence, and one with Professor Alfredo Ortiz Aragón on Methodologically speaking, what is the (p)AR the world needs today and in the future, considering our biggest local and global challenges?. Videos of these webinars are now available - see the links on the relevant pages on the ALARA website.

Action Learning / Action Research Calendar

The AL / AR calendar of events has many entries of events over the coming twelve months, supported by the AL / AR Activities page page on the website. Please send any news for us to add to the Calendar so that all can see what is happening in the AL/AR communities. If you have any items, please contact ALARA.

Coming in 2026

There is much in store for 2026. We hope to provide you in coming weeks with more information about the MOOC being developed by Dr Marina Harvey, DOIs on ALARj articles and of course, the 2026 conference, as well as more CoP meetings and webinars.

Colin Bradley
President