Welcome to ALARA

Welcome to the home of ALARA - the Action Learning, Action Research Association. Action research seeks understanding and change. It works with those who live and work in a situation, supporting their inquiry and action. Current priorities for the ALARA Management Committee are:

1) Getting members connected to our first online version of ALARj (our journal). We're using the magnificent Open Journal System platform, and have the next journal edition sitting ready to go - once we have subscribed financial members as users, which find we have to one by one! If you're a paid up financial member, expect an email from the ALARj site over the next couple of weeks, with your username and password. If you're not a financial member, for our modest membership fee of $145/pa, you can access the latest critical thinking in action research and action learning.

2) A new web presence for ALARA. This existing site runs on drupal 5, which at 5 years of age is getting old and cranky. Time for a transition to something new, but what? Various action research projects are underway to work out what the AR/AL community needs. See your Web Services Coordinator's exploration of how to find colleagues to talk with, share your ideas on what ALARA's website should look like, or comment on our overall approach to developing a web presence. 

About ALARA. ALARA is a strategic network of people interested in using action research and action learning to generate collaborative learning, research and action to transform workplaces, schools, colleges, universities, communities, voluntary organisations, governments and businesses.

ALARA's vision is that action research and action learning will be widely used and publicly shared by individuals and groups creating local and global change for the achievement of a more equitable, just, joyful, productive, peaceful and sustainable society. See "ALARA Flyer" below for more, or keep browsing this website.