Quality Refreshment for Action Research. Updating our seven choicepoints

The Action Research Journal uses seven choicepoints that constitute a standard for quality in action research. These qualities are critical to ARJ’s editorial team when evaluating and developing papers.

The editorial team reviews and updates the choicepoints on an occasional basis. We have just completed such a review – a form of composting – and now share the updated choicepoints. These will go live on the ARJ website where they shape reviewers’ decisions and comments.

In this episode of Yes/And, ARJ associate editor Felix ‘Skip’ Bivens and ARJ editor-in-chief Hilary Bradbury discuss the choicepoints. After noting all seven, (in a couple of bitesized overviews!), Hilary also highlights the biggest adjustments to the choicepoints since the start of the journal – including a new emphasis on developmental reflexivity and on how work is to be sustained through time and with additional system actors.

• Read the related overview of the seven choicepoints for quality action research.
• Listen in to the podcast here.
• Have a look at Hilary Bradbury’s vlog with its detailed examples by of the quality choicepoints.