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International networking
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Congress: International networking
Members of the International Support Group

Richard Bawden, Visiting Distinguished University Professor at Michigan State University (USA) since December 1999, following his retirement from the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury (Australia) where he had been Professor of Systemic Development, and, for many years, Dean of Agriculture and Rural Development. Email: bawden@mail.rd.msu.edu 

Ben Boog, Senior Lecturer at Groningen University (Netherlands), Department of Adult Education and Social Intervention. Secretary of the Dutch Network Action Research (since 1989, and since 1996 in English). Email: boboogie@hotmail.com or: b.w.m.boog@ppsw.rug.nl 

Bob Dick, Managing Director of Interchange, his consulting practice for about 30 years, and Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University (Australia), supervising action research theses and maintaining an extensive action research web site: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html. Email: bd@bigpond.net.au 

Orlando Fals Borda, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Colombia and Honoris Causa of the University of Venezuela; former Dean and Vice-Minister of Agriculture of Colombia; Research Director of United Nations Institute for Social Development at Geneva; President of Latin American Council for Adult Education;  Deputy of the National Constituent Assembly of Colombia; Visiting Professor in European, Japanese and North American universities;  Guggenheim Award, Hoffman United Nations Prize, Kreisky Award for Human Rights (Austria). Email: ofalsb@bacata.usc.unal.edu.co
 

Davydd Greenwood, Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for European Studies at Cornell University (USA) where he has served as a faculty member since 1970.  He has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.  He served as the John S. Knight Professor and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for 10 years and was President of the Association of International Education Administrators. Email: djg6@cornell.edu

Judith McMorland, Senior Lecturer in Change Management in the Department of Management and Employment Relations, University of Auckland Business School (New Zealand) and Director of her own consulting practice, working mainly with NFP and public sector organizations. Co-ordinator of the NZ Action Research Network and a member of the international ALARPM Management Committee. Email: j.mcmorland@auckland.ac.nz

Tim Pyrch, Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Calgary (Canada) and Director of the Certificate in Adult Learning Program, specialising in community development and work-based learning. Extensive international work experience in Ethiopia, Thailand, the Philippines, Mexico, Ukraine and the UK.  Email pyrch@ucalgary.ca

Peter Reason, Professor and Director of the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice, School of Management, University of Bath (UK), which has pioneered graduate education based on collaborative inquiry. Best known for editing the Handbook of Action Research (2001 with Hilary Bradbury) and the new Action Research journal (starting in 2003). Email: p.w.reason@bath.ac.uk

Yoland Wadsworth, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and President of the Action Learning, Action Research and Process Management (ALARPM) Association. Email: ywadsworth@swin.edu.au

Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, Director of OZI (Ortrun Zuber International P/L, specialising in Action Learning & Action Research, Leadership Programs, Postgraduate Research Training & Supervision, incl. Qualitative Research Methods) and Adjunct Professor at Griffith University (Australia) and Professor of Professional and Organisational Development in the UK-based International Management Centres Association (IMCA). Email: ortrun@bigpond.net.au

 

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