Action Research: Developments

Excellent and challenging news: it looks like, for the last session of the Action Research Project, we will have a Kingston University research student joining us. Thsi will cettainly please the 3 regular students (they all confirmed attendance for the next session) because they identified critical mass as one of the weaknesses of the sessions.

I know the student. She applied for a PhD with us and we rejected her. Last time I met her, she was slightly defiant about that. Apart from having been successful in her application to Kingston University, she got a full AHRB award. Which is another mystery to me, just like the one of James Faure-Walker, in the same institution. I wonder how I will manage that.

Also, what will an external bring to our cosy discussions? We know each other quite well and we all have the same concept of what research should be. AR, the new member, may have a different one. From what I remember, her proposal was linked to practice as research, which is something we try to fight at Wimbledon.

I really welcome this challenge as it will certainly test a) the Reading Group discussions b) my Action Research Assumption and c)our understanding of what research should be.