Convenors:
Dr. Gemma Carney, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, NUI Galway
Email: gemma.carney@nuigalway.ie
Ann Lyons, Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway
Email: ann.lyons@nuigalway.ie
MISSION STATEMENT: ARGO is a group that will support, promote and share action research activities by staff, students and community partners, with action research understood as including practices that are participatory, democratic and socially transformative. The group will welcome all those who subscribe to these principles of research - members do not need to be actively involved in research to attend. Those who are actively involved in research will be able to present their research and receive feedback and support in their research activities. We have a number of community partners who are developing a myriad of innovative research projects.ARGO provides a mutually supportive environment within which these projects can be developed. For instance, at our June meeting (June 6 2013), two very different projects were presented. The first presentation was by the coordinator of a Family Resource Centre on his use of poverty statistics to leverage funding for his community. The second was by a teacher who is doing an action research PhD project on inter-culturalism in a gaelscoil got some help in writing up her results.The next meeting of ARGO will be held on Thursday September 26th, 3.30pm - 5.30pm, in Room 207, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway. Watch this space for further details!
Date: Tuesday, 26th February
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: Room SC200A, The Concourse, NUI Galway
Event details: This is a full-day workshop and will address issues regarding the principles and practices of action research, and how it differs from other approaches to research. [view more]
Date: Friday, 22nd MArch
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: Room SC200A, The Concourse, NUI Galway
Event Details: This event is a half-day workshop (morning) and will provide an introduction to a practical Logic Model framework for planning and measuring outcome-focused work, examining what is an outcome-focused approach why it may be useful to work in this way. [view more]
Date: Wednesday, 10th April
Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Venue: Siobhan McKenna Theatre, Arts Millenium Building, NUI Galway
Event Details: This lecture will discuss future possibilities in the area of community-university engagement at NUI Galway, exploring practices associated with community-based research and the opportunities for the co-creation of Knowledge between the university and the wider community. [view more]
Date: Wednesday, 10th April
Time: 10 am t0 1 pm
Venue: The View, Aras na MacLeinn, NUI Galway
Event Details: Oriented towards those involved in community-based arts as well as interested staff and students in the university, this half-day workshop will look at the definitions, potentials and challenges of community-based and socially engaged arts practices. [view more]
Date: Thursday, 11th April
Time: 10 am to 4 pm
Venue: The Moore Institute Seminar Room
Event Details: This day-long workshop will be co-facilitated by Professors Budd Hall and Darlene E. Clover and will look at the practical issues involved in establishing and sustaining community-university research partnerships. [view more]
Date: Wednesday 17th April
Event 1: Meeting with members of academic staff
Event 2: Lunch-time Seminar
Date: Thursday, 18th April
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: The Moore Institute Seminar Room
Event Details: This public talk will introduce and evaluate a variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods which can be used to apply complexity theory to organisational change in different environments. [view more]