I am very pleased to congratulate Prof Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, ALARA Life Member, who was awarded an AO (Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia) in the Queen's Birthday Honours that were announced on Monday 11 June 2018.

In the Australian honours system, appointments to the Order of Australia confer the highest recognition for outstanding achievement and service, and as one of the initiators of ALARA Inc. (ALARPM Inc. at that time), the Management Committee believes that Ortrun is a very worthy recipient of this award. 

An abbreviated version of the information about Ortrun's background reads:

The Action Research Issues Association (ARIA), a long-time organisational member of ALARA, will celebrate its 30th anniversary on Saturday 28th April 2018 when members gather in the same city venue (Café Yamato) in which ARIA's inaugural incorporation meeting was held on the same date in 1988. 

Call for papers for ALARJ Vol 24, Issue 1, 2018

The Action Learning Action Research Association Inc (ALARA) invites you to submit a paper with a view to publication in our up-and-coming first issue for 2018. The issue will be a general issue (no special theme).

The deadline to upload your paper is 31 March 2018.

How to make a submission:

Please send all contributions in Microsoft Word format to our Open Journal Systems access portal: https://journal.alara.net.au/index.php/alarj

Unless you are an existing contributor, you will need to register as an author on the OJS site to upload your document and work through the four electronic pages of requirements to make your submission (this takes about 5 minutes). You will need to write your biography and abstract as part of this registration process (please do not send a separate biographical file).

The 2018 Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will be held July 22 – 27, 2018 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon USA, on the theme:
“Innovation and Optimization in Nature and Design”
The Action Research SIG invites ISSS members to submit papers for presentation at the conference associated with The 62nd Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Grounded in the methodologies of participatory action learning and action research, and drawing on the established concepts of the ‘Learning Society’ and the‘Learning Organisation’, this book outlines and expands upon the concept of the ‘Learning Conference’.

Read More about this book at https://www.routledge.com/Conferences-as-Sites-of-Learning-and-Development-Using-participatory-action/Zuber-Skerritt/p/book/9780415360241

To get your discount see the attached flyer.