Author Archives: Guest Author
Author Archives: Guest Author
Post by Patricia Maguire, PAR-FEM Podcast host Streaming now – the 12th episode of the podcast Participatory Action Research Feminist Trailblazers and Good Troublemakers. Listen to Caribbean feminists Peggy Antrobus, Norma Shorey, and Chris Ashton. This episode showcases their commitments to feminist and participatory values and processes in the initial Women and Development Unit (WAND), […]
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Post by Carol Gorelick. We’ve seen a lot of writing on theory, but what about practice? David (Dave) Fearon hosts a podcast series Practice? – Conversations probing the Nature of Practice that he began with Peter Vaill and continued after Peter Vaill passed. Peter Vaill calls Practice “the dark matter of the social sciences.” It […]
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Operations Management is regarded as a problem-solving oriented discipline focused on creating new knowledge by interacting with practitioners. Many claim that there is a need to increase the practical relevance of Operations Management research in academia to support practitioners in their real problem-solving efforts. That would mean moving away from the academic Ivory tower syndrome, […]
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Greetings action researchers! Especially those of you interested in a university position. Alfredo Ortiz writes… “We are hiring two assistant to associate level professors in the Dreeben School of Education’s Graduate School at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Requirements include experience with applied research, community-based research and/or other social justice-oriented […]
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Blog by Silvie LeMuzic A group of women doctoral candidates, at various stages of our action research journeys, read Hilary Bradbury and William Torbert´s book Eros/Power – Love in the Spirit of Inquiry together as part of our book club. We see our action research as inspiring efforts to transform what no longer works into […]
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