Information
- Start
- November 12 2026, 10:00 AM
- End
- November 19 2026, 5:00 PM
- Availability
- There is always a place available for you
- Costs
- € 423,50 (Incl. 21,00 % VAT)
PhD students (and their supervisors) who participate in this Action Research workshop will obtain practical understanding of how to develop meaningful, original, and rigorous knowledge through studying the change processes that they also facilitate.
The two-day workshop will be conducted online. During and in between sessions there is ample opportunity for students to apply learnings to their own action research study and to subsequently reflect on those experiences in plenary conversation.
Click here to download the Action Research leaflet for more information about this event.
Agenda
Day 1: 12 November 2026 (10 am – 5 pm CET)
Getting Acquantined with (your) Action Research
- Introduction to action research and how it is positioned in the social sciences
- Overview of the action research modalities
- Working with action research as a 1st, 2nd and 3rd person practice
- The role of action research in organizational and societal change
- Exploring your research question in its practical and theoretical dimension
Day 2: 19 November 2026 (10 am – 5 pm CET)
Designing and conducting an action research study
- Developing a research design: overall approach, co-researchers, your role, action/reflection cycles, data generation, knowledge development
- Creating conditions for successful action research: entrance, sponsors, coordination, resources, politics
- Action research ethical considerations and quality criteria
- Distinguishing between “action cycles” and your PhD research cycle: reflection, “action cycles” and your PhD research cycle: reflection, analysis, theorizing, publication