CO-PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE FOR ACTION: Developing Practice-Grounded Research
Collaborations With Practitioners
A Professional Development Workshop held at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the
Academy of Management
Sunday, August 13, 2006, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Atlanta, Georgia
Venue: Hilton Atlanta, 255 Courtland Street, NE, Embassy Room - 4th Floor
This workshop aims to provide professional development to researchers and
practitioners who are interested in co-producing knowledge for action
through the use of Narrative Inquiry, Cooperative Inquiry, and Ethnography.
Researchers and practitioners who worked together as co-researchers will
share their experiences of using these methods in the Research and
Documentation (R&D) Component of the Leadership for a Changing World
Program
(LCW) (www.leadershipforchange.org).
The Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) at New York
University's
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
(http://www.wagner.nyu.edu/leadership/) leads LCW's multi-year R&D effort
to
generate new insights about leadership by drawing on lessons of leadership
practice from social change leaders and their organizations and
communities.
The workshop endeavors to open a discussion with researchers and
practitioners about the value of these methods for surfacing new insights
about leadership, and to discuss ways to get the most out of these methods
for all parties involved. Specifically, the panelists will focus their
conversations on research design and implementation, co-researcher
relationships, working effectively in the field, and co-producing
dissemination products.
The workshop will be co-presented by researchers from RCLA and
practitioners
from the LCWprogram who have participated in co-research activities with
RCLA.
In order for this workshop to take place, we will need a critical number of
participants. Please RSVPfor this workshop by July 17, 2006 by phone or
email to Angie Chan, LCW Program Coordinator, at (212) 998-7552 or
angie.chan@nyu.edu. Please also indicate in which research method you are
most interested. For more information, please contact Angie Chan.
Sponsored by the following Academy of Management Division Programs: Public
&
Nonprofit, Operations Management, Organization Development and Change,
Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Business Policy and Strategy,
Management Consulting, and the Practice Theme Committee.