~Notícias Convergentes~ Action Research Methodologies - VI ARALIG PhD course Nature-society in transition

Nature-Society Relationships in transition

Action Research methodologies to collectively deal with experience and utopia

VI ARALIG PhD-course, Portugal, 3-7 June 2012

This course focuses on the perspective of sustainability in nature society relations as a continuous process of transition. Transitions are long-term, co-evolutionary and multi-actor processes that require changes both on system and actor level. Action research underlines a connection between theory and practice, between understanding and change, and an active cooperation between researchers and participants, and contributes with methodological approaches that can work within a change perspective.

The course aims to bring together a multidisciplinary group of people interested in action research, in the relation between practice and reflective learning and, broadly, in transition processes, in order to share, discuss, and reflect on their experiences with different methods and activities.

(see attached course programme)

Please send this call to your research network

VENUE:

Instituto Politechnico Beja – Quinta da Saúde, Portugal

COURSE ORGANIZERS:

ARALIG – Action Research Action Learning Interest Group

ICAAM - Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

CENSE-ECOMAN – Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Ecological Economics and Environmental Management Group, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

IP Beja - Instituto Politécnico de Beja

LLL and SST (PhD programs for Life Long Learning and Social, Spatial and Technological studies) at Roskilde University, Denmark

NRML – Natural Resource Management and Livelihoods in International Development & Division of Environmental Communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

REFOLANA, Research School for Forest, Landscape and Planning, Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), Copenhagen University, Denmark

DEADLINES:

The deadline for applications and abstracts is 15^th March

The deadline for extended abstracts and synthesis presentation is 13^th May

SUBMISSION AND CONTACTS: Vanja Karadzic – karadzic.vanja@gmail.com; 

You can also contact Maria Albertina Raposo – albertina@ipbeja.pt

FEE:  250 euros (for course, accommodation, meals and fieldtrip)

CREDITS:  5 ECTS

APPLICATION:

To apply please send:

- An abstract of your work or planned activities (maximum 400 words)

- A filled application form available through the contacts above - and attached belaow)

to  karadzic.vanja@gmail.com

(see the attached program for more details)