AR+ was founded in 2008 by Hilary Bradbury using seed capital provided by royalties for the Handbooks of Action Research. We started out as a grantmaker to those doing change work. In 2010 the Action Research journal needed a webspace for its blog. AR+ provided that…and since then it’s been another channel for making ARJ available as part of our larger mission to share action research resources.
Since 2016 AR+ has expanded with institutionally supported co-stewards, to offer curated resources and community of practice/inquiry.
Our aim is to make global knowledge democracy more available by supporting inter/transdisciplinary dialogue and connectivity for those practicing at the developmental edge of action research worldwide.
We hope especially that more people may benefit from practicing Action-oriented Research for Transformation at this time of social-ecological challenge. At AR+ we believe that learning and development, including our own, provides a key opportunity for co-creating the world we want and need at this time. We believe we can accomplish more together than we can alone, especially if we practice with mutually transforming power.
AR+ supports a global community, online and face to face, so that action-oriented scholar practitioners find community and developmental support in responding to the call of our times.
We believe that our global social-ecological challenges (crises) demand a new context for scholarships of all kinds. In supporting ART Action-oriented Research for Transformation AR+ offers specific resources such as coaching, co-labs, curriculum, workshops, so that fellow (feral?) scholar-practitioners may find what’s next for them in their self- and community developmental evolution.
AR+ is unusual for our emphasis on practice. For example, all our co-lab efforts are designed to encourage new experiments for re-weaving activist, artistic and scientific dimensions of knowledge creation. The value of participating in this loosely knit global community is that we learn, cross-pollinate and amplify innovative efforts.
