News and Events

Special Issue title:
Critical issues in socially just action research and practice

Please send expressions of interest with extended abstracts to Duckworv@edgehill.ac.uk and mcateerm@edgehill.ac.uk by 22/04/2019.

The editors would also be very grateful if you could let them know at your earliest convenience whether you will be submitting an abstract, as this will help with their planning.

A Conversation with Ron Passfield, Merit Solutions

Leadership in Organisations in the Digital World of Work

Date: 5:30 - 8:00 pm, 21 March 2019     Location: Yeronga Village, Yeronga Queensland
Cost: Free - sponsored by Yeronga Village Management
R.S.V.P.: Please email Wilma Schouten on wilmaschouten7[at]gmail.com - More Details.

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Next events:

18 April 2019 - Prof. Lesley Wood (South Africa) – Participatory action learning and action research

Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd is pleased to announce its new Fellows - a total of fifteen. These members have extensive histories in the Action Learning / Action Research community and active supporters of ALARA. Congratulations to all new Fellows.

The World Education Research Association (WERA) invites proposals to establish International Research Networks (IRNs). The purpose of WERA-IRNs is to advance education research worldwide on specific scholarly topics. IRNs are collaborative groups of scholars working on a specific research topic primarily through virtual communication or other channels. IRNs synthesize knowledge, examine the state of research, and stimulate collaborations or otherwise identify promising directions in research areas of worldwide significance.

Action research, collaborative research and participatory research - engaged scholarship in projects and innovations
Deadline for submission: 15 January 2019 - 2 pm Belgian time.

Participatory and collaborative research approaches, such as action research, as a form of engaged scholarship, are effective in promoting interdisciplinary research to deliver social and technological innovation. They facilitate close cooperation between practitioners and researchers to link theory and practice. Participatory approaches have a broader perspective as a collaborative form of research to explore the future of management. They offer a grand opportunity to address key challenges in project and innovation management in a novel and constructive way. This track calls for papers that exemplify the use of collaborative and participatory approaches contributing to social and technological innovation by managing