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The United Nations' Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has granted special consultative status to Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd.

Consultative status for an organization enables it to engage in a number of ways with ECOSOC and its subsidiary bodies, the Human Rights Council and, under specific conditions, some meetings of the General Assembly and other intergovernmental bodies.

AIB-ALARA Higher Degree Research Awards

Following the success of the HDR Awards conducted as part of the ALARA-BALT Conference 2020, ALARA is pleased to announce that Australian Institute of Business has agreed to sponsor Higher Degree Research Awards for 2022 and 2023. The details of the awards, including conditions and application process will be available during October 2021, with submissions due by the beginning of February 2022.

Dear Member

The 2021 Annual General Meeting of Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd will be conducted as both an electronic meeting and a Zoom meeting. Details and timing are stated below. Vacancies exist on the Board and Committees Group, and members are invited to nominate using the appropriate nomination form (see below).
Note: The Board has decided to add two positions: Indigenous AL / AR Coordinator and Volunteers Co-ordinator to the Committees Group, and nominations are also invited for these positions.

Postponed to later this year...

The workshop aims to commence a series of research projects that will:

• Identify successful projects conducted by or in organisations and communities that have used collaborative action learning or action research to effect climate action;
• Gather and analyse data related to each suitable example, including the steps taken during the project;
• Develop new projects that would be action learning or action research projects in themselves, using the information from the earlier projects to guide the way;
• Publish a report for use in future projects, and / or a paper in an ALAR Association or other publication.

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The workshop aims to:

• Share authentic examples of funded higher education AR projects
• Outline the key concepts of Distributed Leadership (and the six tenets of DL), Action Research and SOTL
• Explore the relationship between DL and AR
• Examine the good practice action statements (to enable DL for SOTL AR) in relation to the practice and context and of participants

See the event details, or the full description and registration.