A Conference designed:

• to support all voices (not only the dominant discourses),

• to encourage a broad range of researchers and practitioners to be heard,

• to celebrate the insights promoted by collaborative action research.

 

Our starting points will be:

• our multiple ways of understanding, acting, reflecting and reconstructing our communities and societies

• our diverse professions of health, social care, education and community development

• our multiple roles as practitioners, researchers and academics;

• our reflections on the orientations of action research in the contemporary era.

We welcome contributions from those working in and with schools, universities or any other educational institution; in health, nursing and social care; in public services settings as policy making and all other communities committed to improving social justice within our practices through Action Research in order to create a different, more just world.

 

The Conference themes are:​

• Action research and social justice in policy making: the institutionalization of AR.

• Action Research, empowerment and emancipation in different settings.

• Action research in schools: curriculum and school development, networking and system intervention, professional communities of learning and practice.

• Action research in universities: action research studies, teacher education programs, student teachers’ professional development

• Action research in palliative care, in nursing homes and in fields of social work

• Social and community development research: action research and communities of practice

• Action research and other qualitative methodologies: promising combinations