Social innovations – Special issue 2025
Social innovations – Special issue 2025Editorial articleAction Research Journal Special Issue: Development, Aid and Social TransformationSpecial issue guest editors are Koen Bartels, Julia Wittmayer, Andrea Rodericks, & Hilary Bradbury. Their editorial – entitled Reconfiguring Relationships: Social Innovation, Action Research, and Transformation – is available here.Read moreBlog Special ARJ Issue on Social Innovation and Transformations is […]
Read More...Wayfinding with Dana Carman
Andrea Rodericks and Dana Carman write after our workshopping coLAB on transformative spaces… WHAT TIME IS IT IN YOUR LIFE? WHAT TIME IS IT IN THE WORLD? Our 13th AR+ co-LAB session on Transformative Learning Spaces began …with each of us bringing in an element of nature that held strong meaning for us. We showed […]
Read More...Facilitation as weaving. Actionable reflections by Patricia Canto
Patricia Canto, of Orkestra Institute, led the fifth workshop of our Transformative Learning Spaces coLAB. The session was facilitated by Andrea Rodericks. Patricia writes: “I’m seeing the wisdom in being a weaver as my developmental edge in facilitating action research processes. I’ve been facilitating a learning space for action researchers in Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness […]
Read More...Are we (possibly) white supremacists? Workshopping with Astrid Kunert.
Post by Andrea Rodericks, who facilitated the workshop as part of our designing regenerative spaces coLAB For our third session in the ARTist workshopping series we were led by powerful and personal reflections from Astrid Kunert who is co-founder and director of Qualitative Mind Research in Munich. Astrid shared her work with public participation, peace building […]
Read More...Call for Papers. Social Innovations, Transformations and Action Research
Challenging transformations: action research and social innovation This ARJ Special Issue Call For Papers closes November 30th 2023. We live in a time of global and intersecting crises. We find ourselves amidst growing economic volatility and socio-political polarisation. As societies emerge from the Covid 19 pandemic, Earth herself is moving through climate change tipping points. […]
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