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Design and writing co-lab. Starts April.

Could a community of practice help support your action research design, proposal writing, and/or publication development? Do you need a new community of practice to follow through on your New Year’s action researching resolutions? Have you been alone too long with your scholarly-practice conundrums? Could you use a co-lab in which peers understand that every first draft for publication is, to quote Hemingway, shit.

 Sofia Kjellstrom and Hilary Bradbury are convening such a co-lab, starting April 14th 2020.

It’s designed to support action research for transformations which has (unique) features that require something more than conventional scientific design and writing. Some of the issues we think are important include:

How do we design for transformational change? How do researchers write together with stakeholders who are non-academics? How do we share partnership in different steps of the process? How do we upshift from reflection to reflexivity? What does reflexivity mean in the practice of writing?  How do we integrate 1st and 2nd perspectives in our work?

We invite scholar-practitioners who are engaged with these issues on their own journey in action researching – from design to publication – to find community in practicing together. We welcome all like spirited and acknowledge the value of different labels we use, e.g., co-production, PAR, U-theory, Appreciative inquiry, etc.

Each session highlights one participant’s work. Over the course of the co-lab sessions, and in between, we aim to structure the work so we move from early in the design phase to drafting papers for publication.

Be in touch directly with questions or simply register your space as a signal of your new year’s intention!  More information and registration at the co-lab page.