Organised by ARGI (Action Research Group Ireland)

Theme:  Using and Generating Theory in Action Research

Location: TU Dublin, Central Quad, Grangegorman Campus (View directions - Getting here)

Date: June 25th & 26th 2024

Registration to attend now open on Eventbrite Register Here

Schedule

Tuesday 25 June - Central Quad

• 09.00 - 09.30: Registration for PhD Workshop (CQ 3rd floor hallway)
• 09.30 - 12.30: PhD Workshop  (CQ-306) (see details below)
• 13.30 - 14.00: Registration for Masterclass (CQ 3rd floor hallway)
• 14.00 - 16.00: Masterclass by Professor David Coghlan (CQ-308) (see details below)

Wednesday 26 June - Central Quad

• 09.00 - 09.30: Registration
• 09.30 – 10.40: Welcome and Keynote Presentation by Professor David Coghlan and Professor Mary Brydon-Miller ‘What do We Need to Learn to do Action Research?’ (CQ-307)
• 11.00 - 12.35: Breakout Sessions
• 12.35 – 13.15: Lunch (CQ-311)
• 13.15 - 15.55: Breakout Sessions
• 16.00 – 17.00: Keynote presentation by Professor Danielle Zandee ‘Developing Theoretical Outcomes through Action Research Practice’ (CQ-307) (see details below)

17.00 - 17.05: Closing

Overview

The theme of this year’s Action Research Group Ireland’s (ARGI) annual colloquium is Using and Generating Theory in Action Research.  Action research offers a mechanism to address organisational, community and social challenges, by drawing on insights from a range of disciplines, with a view to generating theory to improve practice.

Contributions

We invite contributions to stimulate conversation and debate about using action research to generate theory to improve and enhance practice across diverse settings and contexts.

Submission Process

Please submit an abstract or proposal of not more than 300 words. Include names(s) and affiliations of authors beneath the title of the abstract. The following questions may help to structure your 300-word submission proposal, but please do not feel constrained by these:

• What is/was your context?
• What was your role?
• Who else was involved?
• What are/were you enquiring into?
• What were you trying to change?
• How did others shape the action taken?
• Where did power to influence direction lie?
• How did you engage?
• How did others engage?
• What did you do when faced with dilemmas or challenges?

The intention is that contributors will use the opportunity to share the questions, anxieties, joys, tensions, and contradictions that have been provoked for them as they seek to work with action research. Don’t feel you can only present clearly worked out resolutions. Early insights or simply descriptions of the sticky challenges experienced are welcome.

 

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Call for Contributions 2024

Call for Papers is now closed.

Please submit any questions to: ActionResearchColloquium@TUDublin.ie

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Preliminary Summary Schedule of Events: 

All events will be held in the Central Quad, TU Dublin Grangegorman (The Eircode for google maps is D07 ADY7)

Tuesday 25  June

Pre-Colloquium PhD Doctoral Seminar (see details below)

Masterclass by Professor David Coghlan (see details below)

  

Wednesday 26 June 

Keynote presentation by Professor David Coghlan and Professor Mary Brydon-Miller (see details below)

Breakout Sessions 

Keynote presentation by Professor Danielle Zandee (see details below)

 

                                                                                              

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Workshop: Pre-colloquium PhD Doctoral Seminar

Tuesday 25th June

A pre colloquium Doctoral Workshop will be held on Tuesday 25^th June 2022 from 9.30 to 12.30. This seminar is restricted to registered doctoral students. Intending participants need to pre-register for the seminar and submit a structured written account of 300 words on their doctoral work on or before Wednesday June 15^th. Prospective participants must identify in their account(s) a methodological issue or question that they wish to bring to the workshop and on which they will seek help and work on during the workshop.

The seminar will be facilitated by Professor David Coghlan, Emeritus Professor, School of Business, Trinity College Dublin, and Associate Professor Mary Casey, UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems and other experienced faculty.

 

Masterclass: 

Tuesday 25th June 

David Coghlan will deliver a master class on Insider Action Research, that is, on doing action research in one’s own organization, whether it be a business, a school, a health or social care, community organisation …. In the Master Class he will engage participants in exploring insider issues of closeness, relationships, role issues of being a member and a researcher, managing organisational politics, developing knowledge and other topics which emerge.

David has pioneered the notion of insider action research and is author of Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization, a book that has gone through five edition (with a sixth in progress) and is used all over the world.

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Keynote Speakers

David Coghlan (Professor Emeritus at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin)

 

 

David Coghlan is Professor Emeritus at the Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of several books on action research, including, Doing Action Research in Your Own Organization (Sage, 5^th ed 2019) and Conducting Action Research for Business and Management Students (with A.B. Shani, Sage 2018) and is co-editor (with M. Brydon-Miller) of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014).

 

 

 

Mary Brydon-Miller (Professor at the College of Education and Human Development - University of Louisville, US)

 

 

Mary Brydon-Miller, Ph.D. is Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville in the US and is currently serving as Extra-ordinary Professor at North-West University in South Africa and adjunct faculty at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a participatory action researcher who conducts work in school, community, and organizational settings. She is the editor, with David Coghlan, of the SAGE Encyclopedia of Action Research (2014). Her most recent book with Sarah Banks is Ethics in Participatory Research for Health and Social Well-Being: Cases and Commentaries (2019). Her current work focuses on the areas of Climate Change Education and doctoral training in Action Research.  

 

Keynote by Professor David Coghlan and Professor Mary Brydon-Miller

What do We Need to Learn to do Action Research?

Keynote description

 

 

Danielle P Zandee  (Professor of Sustainable Organizational Development at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands and independent consultant) 

 

Danielle P. Zandee is Professor of Sustainable Organizational Development at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands and an independent consultant. As a scholar-practitioner, Danielle facilitates change and conducts action research for social innovation in organizational settings like healthcare, education, municipalities and fire services. She works from a critical appreciative stance with a keen interest in the micro-dynamics of change. Danielle has published about appreciative inquiry as discursive approach to action research, about generative theorizing, and about how organization development and action research can help handle the grand challenges of our time. Danielle is an editor of the Research in Organizational Change and Development book series and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and the Journal of Management Inquiry. She is Past Chair of the Organization Development & Change Division of the Academy of Management.

Keynote

Developing Theoretical Outcomes through Action Research Practice.

Keynote description

In management and organization studies there is a growing call for collaborative, impact-driven and action-oriented methodological approaches. The great news is that this leads to a renewed interest in action research. However, interested scholars may shy away from this methodology, because of its reputation of being cumbersome and lacking in scientific rigor. This is unfortunate, since action research has clear potential to create timely, original, and transferable knowledge. Hence the focus of this keynote is on how to develop robust theoretical outcomes through being attentive to situated practical issues. 

 

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