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meeting dilemmas and finding new cultures together with Naia Begiristain.

Naia Begiristain’s helped us kick off the new year in workshopping mode.  Naia led us in exploring how political actors co-create a new culture of shared governance. They do this by facing unresolved dilemmas that emerge, even if it feels like an avalanche. The preparation and facilitation within the workshop was with Hilary Bradbury. After […]

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Elders Action Network – Grady McGonagill

Action researcher Grady McGonagill founded the Massachusetts Chapter of Elders Climate Action. In his 15 mins. interview with Michael Sales who now co-leads the organization, Grady explains why he did what he did. And importantly for ARTists he explains how.  Grady opened to his new identity as climate activist from reading a short piece in […]

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University Empowering Students, Transforming Communities. A PAR journey

Izaro Gorostidi and colleagues Ormazabal & Ahedo, just published their paper with ARJ on University and democratization: A training project in action research with social movements. Izaro explains: “Embarking on the journey toward a fairer, more egalitarian, and democratic world requires universities to take a proactive role. In this context, our study places action and […]

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Big thank you to our ARJ reviewers

At ARJ, the Action Research journal, we, the Editorial Team, strive to facilitate a peer-support approach to our editorial work. We see this as complementary to the independent peer review we develop for all papers. In this peer-support process, we appreciate that reviewing is most often a labour of love! Because we all manage such […]

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YPAR, Mental Health and Social Innovation

A new paper is published in Action Research Journal by Canas, E., Booth, R., Pervez, R., Cook, A., Taylor-Gates, M., Oudshoorn, A., Norman, R., Hunt, R., & MacDougall, A. G. (2023) is out on The experience of youth-participatory action research in a social innovation lab: A methodological and organizational approach. Co-author Renee Hunt describes the contribution […]

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