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Welcome to ALARA's regular e-News of activities, events and information
for the Action Learning / Action Research Community.
Your contributions to this fortnightly bulletin are welcome. Please send any items to admin@alarassociation.org
We at ALARA hope that you and those close to you are safe and well. If you are feeling bored and in need of stimulation, please consider renewing a friendship with an AL / AR practitioner, or striking up a new one. The ALARA members pages allow you to contact other ALARA members. You may be surprised by the opportunity to create new projects or new ideas, and the conversation amongst kindred spirits is often uplifting. ALARA can also offer some things to do!
If you would like assistance in contacting ALARA members, please email admin [at] alarassociation.org.
Information about events is frequently changing. Information that is available at the time of production of this e-News has been included, but you may wish to keep checking relevant links, as the situation for each event could change at any time.
In this e-News:
- ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference - First date for Submissions Approaching
- Meeting of Editorial Boards of AL / AR Publications
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ALARA-BALT 2020 Australasian Conference - First date for Submissions Approaching
As announced in the last e-News, the ALARA-BALT Conference will now provide both a face-to-face and a virtual experience. The size of the face-to-face audience in Launceston will be highly dependent on the lifting of travel restrictions, and the desire of action learning and action research practitioners to meet in that lovely city. The addition of the virtual element will make a larger and potentially broader experience for participants who may not be able to travel to Launceston.
The Organising Committee invites submission of proposals for presentations that presenters will deliver either face-to-face or virtually. Both types of presentations should engage the participants. The revised proposal form includes instructions on the presentation scenarios. Proposals received by 31 May will receive a response by 15 June, while the final deadline for submissions is 3 August 2020.
ALARA and BALT hope to greet you, in person or virtually, at this year’s ALARA-BALT Conference - Discovering the Future Together: Action Learning and Action Research at Work. For more information, please see the conference web pages.
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Global Evaluative Study of Action Research Presentation postponed
The ESAR research team are meeting this month when they hope to finalise a revised date for this event. A late October date is possible, but further information will be provided as soon as travel movements can be confirmed.
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Meeting of Editorial Boards of AL / AR Publications
At the CARN_ALARA Conference in Split, Croatia last year, ALARA organised a meeting of representatives of Action Learning / Action Research journals who were at the Conference. About five journals were represented by the eight people who joined us.
A follow-up meeting was held last week, when the number of people increased to ten (with two apologies). The meeting shared a list of about seventeen AL / AR publications that could be included in this group. The group concluded there were many possibilities for collaboration and communication, including extending the reach of action research, working together to undertake a funded project, sharing contributions not well suited to the recipient journal, and supporting other journals that only occasionally receive and publish AL / AR papers.
If you know of an AL / AR publication that should be involved in this group, please contact admin [at] alarassocation.org with details of the appropriate person to contact.
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ALARA Publications Online
ALARA is now able to offer its publications in a variety of forms, and via several methods
- Previously printed copies of some journals, monographs and other publications for $40.00 for a Journal, $20.00 for a Monograph and $60.00 for a book, with no additional fee for standard postage, which is a saving over purchasing directly from a print-on-demand service. Faster postage is available at an additional cost.
The list of publications and the process for purchasing them can be found on the ALARA website.
- Print-on-demand copies of all Monographs and all issues of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal from Volume 20 (2014) ordered via IngramSpark. If you would like to order a copy, please contact admin [at] alarassociation.org.
- ALARA publications are also available via large online distributors, such as Amazon and Book Depository.
- Electronic copies of the Journal and Monographs are available on the ALARA website. Members can access these copies soon after they are published, while non-members can access them about twelve months later. See here for Monographs, and here for Journals.
- Abstracts of the articles in each volume of the Journal since Volume 17 No 2 (2011) are available to the general public, while members have access to the full content of all articles on the Journal website - https://journal.alara.net.au (we are planning to upgrade this site during this year - more information to come).
- ALARA supplies copies of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal to Informit and EBSCO for loading in their search sites, where the public can access individual articles. Members can access the Informit site free of charge after logging into the ALARA site - more details here.
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Submissions for Publications
The latest Monograph is by Eileen Piggot-Irvine, Wendy Rowe and Lesley Ferkins, entitled Thumbs Up for Action Research in Case Studies from the Evaluation Study of Action Research. The latest issue of the Action Learning and Action Research Journal has been published on the Journal website and is available on the ALARA website for members.
Eileen Piggot-Irvine, our Monographs Editor, welcomes submission of Monographs by emailing the editor. For further information please see the Monograph submission guidelines.
ALARA has published the Action Learning and Action Research Journal for 24 years, and you are invited to submit papers for the 2020 issues. Please visit the ALARj on the Journal website or see the submission guidelines on ALARA's website for more information.
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Administation Assistance Requested
Action Learning, Action Research Association Ltd is seeking assistance in three roles, which could be performed by one, two or three people. These roles are Minute Secretary, Membership Administrator and Administration Support.
- Minute Secretary: The Minute Secretary may attend meetings of the Board (usually 11 per year), and does attend meetings of the Committees Group (between 6 and 10 per year) and the Annual General Meeting.
- Membership Administrator: The Membership Administrator supports the Membership Co-ordinator, Publications Co-ordinator and Committees Group on all matters related to the management of the ALARA membership.
- Administration Support: The Administration Support supports the Board on all matters related to the general administration of ALARA.
Each role requires between about 2 and 10 hours per month. A full description of the work is available here. ALARA will consider applicants in a volunteer or paid capacity.
ALARA also have a number of important initiatives for which we are seeking assistance. These initiatives include developing a marketing plan, helping to create local networks or conversation events in any location where members wish to meet, approaching organisations that utilise Action Learning / Action Research that may wish to support ALARA and its activities, and developing relationships with organisations that will provide benefits to members and the wider Action Learning / Action Research community. A description of the initiatives is available here.
If you would like to discuss these roles or initiatives, or would like to undertake one or more of them, please contact ALARA (admin@alarassociation.org or president@alarassociation.org).
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Other Events and Information
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Program Management Seminar - postponed from April to 26-28 August 2020
The CEEMAN Program Management Seminar, will take place in August 2020 in Bled, Slovenia. See here for more information.
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Canadian Journal of Action Research Special Issue
The CJAR has announced a call for submissions for a special theme issue: Action Research and Indigenous Ways of Knowing. Submissions close on 1 October 2020. A flyer about the call is available here.
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28th CEEMAN Annual Conference - September 2021
The conference is now schedule for September 2021 in Trieste, Italy. Its title remains Science and Management: An Alliance to Solve Global Challenges. To find out more about the conference click here.
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PRIA Online Courses
PRIA International Academy is offering several online courses commencing in May and June. See their online courses here.
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International Management Teachers Academy
The International Association for Management Development in Dynamic Societies has also rescheduled the International Management Teachers Academy to June 2021 in beautiful Bled, Slovenia. Please see here for more information.
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AR+ Co-Labs
AR+ Foundation is conducting a Relational Action Inquiry Co-lab, which commenced on 8 May 2020. Check here for more information and to join the monthly meetings.
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EURAM 2020 Conference - The Business of Now
The 2020 conference of EURAM (European Academy of Management) will be held in Dublin Ireland but has been rescheduled to 4-6 December 2020. The theme is The Business of Now: the future starts here. More information is available here.
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WERA Focal Meeting 2020+1 6 - 9 July 2021
The Organising Committee have postponed this event to 6-9 July 2021. See the conference website for more information.
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