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We are not third parties: Exploring conflict between action researchers and stakeholders as the engine of transformation
Blog post by Miren Larrea We face the common challenge of letting the next generations have a planet where they can live, and the Action Research Journal has decided to focus on transformations as the concept that can guide us through this endeavour. If you are grappling with your role in action research for transformations, […]
Read More...Encouraging Interiority in Business Action Research
A blog post by David Coghlan and Rami Shani As experienced action researchers in the organization development (OD), we have been reflecting about published action research in the field of business and management. We offer this article to the readers of Action Research as we think it is essential for those who are engaging in action research […]
Read More...ARTists Transforming Action Logic
Adult Development – a constructivist non linear spiral Reflection on experience lies at the heart of action research. And of a life well lived. Being able to make meaning from the experiences of our life enriches us and improves our action taking. There is also practical benefit in understanding the worldview/culture of our context […]
Read More...Gaia’s Graveyards – Bearing witness as first person inquiry
Humanity is overwhelmingly in denial about the ‘biological annihilation’ facing the other species on the planet, heirs to a 13.8 billion year shared history. This paper argues that these questions can be addressed through action research, an ethical research practice, focused on issues of pressing concern to humans and the ecological communities of which they […]
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Uniting action research and citizen science: Examining the opportunities for mutual benefit between two movements through a woodsmoke photovoice study
Blog post by Robin A Evans-Agnew and Chris Eberhardt In this project we found that urban youth were able to cut through the arguments about woodsmoke pollution and “grapple” with scientific knowledge and their opinions for policy action. In a region besieged by winter pollution from household woodstoves, pacific-northwest scientists have had little success in […]
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