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Action Research is an international, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, quarterly published refereed journal which is a forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research. The journal publishes quality articles on accounts of action research projects, explorations in the philosophy and methodology of action research, and considerations of the nature of quality in action research practice. View full journal description

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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My Documents, Check Them out: A Game-Based Method to Engage Border-Crossers in the Re-Design of Migration Infrastructures

  • Lorenzo Olivieri
  • Annalisa Pelizza
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Mindsets of Transformation: Consciously Entangled Action and Research With a Responsive World

  • Simon Divecha
  • Hilary Bradbury
  • Bennet Zelner
  • Áine Watkins
  • Jacqueline van Paassen
  • Bruno Pešec
  • Terence Sexton
  • Parneet Kaur
  • Jonathan Reams
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Journeying into Right Relations: Scientists Turn to Psilocybin to Shift Psychological Burdens of Global Environmental Change and Find Transformational Pathways Forward

  • David J. Wrathall
  • Hannah Gosnell
  • Fern Wickson
  • Erika Spanger
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In Memoriam Bill Torbert: Timely Action to the End

  • Hilary Bradbury
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Action research in business and management: A reflective review

  • Abraham B. (Rami) Shani
  • David Coghlan
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Zining as artful method: Facilitating zines as participatory action research within art museums

  • Jade French
  • Emeri Curd
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“Everybody’s talking about doing co-design, but to really truly genuinely authentically do it […] it’s bloody hard”: Radical openness in youth participatory action research

  • Carla Luguetti
  • Juliana Ryan
  • Bill Eckersley
  • Amy Howard
  • Sarah Craig
  • Claire Brown
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‘Taking knowledge on a journey’: Creating conditions for epistemic justice

  • Diana Skelton
  • Brendan Coyne
  • Beatriz Monje Barón
  • Marie-Rose Blunschi Ackermann
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Participatory action research: The woven collective analysis approach to recognize experiential knowledge of poverty

  • Lucie Gélineau
  • Sophie Dupéré
  • Julie Richard
  • VAATAVEC Collective
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