RCLA staff and partners participate in both national and international academic and leadership conferences to share our work and keep abreast of new trends and research in the field. A list of recent conferences that we have attended and details are provided below.
Los Angeles, CA
Executive Director Bethany Godsoe, Angela Terry and Sandra Hayes presented on the use of co-inquiry in leadership development. Bethany also served on a panel about leadership centers in schools of public policy and public administration.
Programs Manager AiLun Ku presented two poster sessions - one on making strategic investments in staff to deliver on your mission, and another on the lessons of a five-year research project with social change leaders.
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Charleston, South Carolina
Conference chaired by NYU Wagner Dean Ellen Schall
"The Role of Leadership in the Future of NASPAA Schools: Contributions of Leadership Centers"
Presenter and Co-Convener: Sonia M. Ospina, Faculty Director, RCLA, and Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy, NYU Wagner
Presenter: Dennis C. Smith, Associate Professor of Public Policy, NYU Wagner
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Humboldt, CA
Programs Manager AiLun Ku led two Educasting workshops on "Talking Collaborative Leadership: Lessons from the Social Change Field."
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University of Minnesota
"Building Bridges from the Margins: The Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations"
Presenters:
Sonia Ospina, Faculty Director, RCLA, and Associate Professor of Public Management and Policy, NYU Wagner
Erica Foldy, Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management, NYU Wagner
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Co-sponsored by RCLA and the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice
Stroud, England
Scholars and practitioners from around the world discussed varieties of action research practice at a conference in the UK organized by RCLA and the Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice (CARPP) from September 17-19, 2008. The twelfth in a series inaugurated by Judi Marshall and Peter Reason in 1986, this year's conference marks a growing relationship between CARPP and RCLA, both interested in promoting and conducting research that integrates action and reflection.
Action research aspires to create knowledge directly relevant to the issues being studied, and in a participatory way in which there is increased collaboration between academics and practitioners. This joint venture between CARPP and RCLA offered complementary perspectives on action research; on the one hand CARPP has championed its development in a variety of forms, on the other, RCLA has pioneered its integration with more traditional forms of qualitative research in co-producing knowledge about social change leadership in the United States.
The conference featured a variety of interactive workshops through which members of both RCLA and CARPP collaborated in sharing their experience with action research methodologies. The workshops were highly experimental, inviting practitioners to live inquiry over the course of the conference.
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Sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership
National Harbor, Maryland
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"Higher Education: New Challenges & Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development"
Barcelona, Spain
"Cooperative Inquiry for Learning and Connectedness"
Presenter: Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Deputy Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
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Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom
"Cooperative Inquiry for Learning and Connectedness"
Presenter: Waad El-Hadidy, Research Associate, Research Center for Leadership in Action
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"The Global Pursuit of Social Justice: Challenges to Nonprofits and Civil Society"
Atlanta, Georgia
"Can Social Change Organizations Lead the Social Justice Movement?: A Conversation about Their Role in Moving the Nonprofit Sector"
Presenter: Sonia Ospina, Faculty Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
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"Leadership: Impact, Culture, and Sustainability"
Vancouver, Canada
"Intergenerational Leadership in Different Cultural Contexts"
Panelists:
Angie Chan, Former Program Coordinator, Research Center for Leadership in Action
Jaime Grant, Former Program Officer, Institute for Sustainable Communities
Aeryca Steinbauer, Coordinator, CAUSA Oregon Immigrant Rights Coalition
Marcy Westerling, Executive Director, Rural Organizing Project
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New York, NY
Co-sponsored by: New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Research Center for Leadership in Action, and New York Foundation for the Arts
"Using Participatory Research to Learn About Arts and Social Change"
Panelists:
Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, Deputy Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
Rose Miller, Rose Miller Associates
Nobuko Miyamoto, Artistic Director, Great Leap
Lyle Yorks, Teacher's College, Columbia University
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"Doing Well by Doing Good"
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Leading Networks: Managing the Unity/Diversity Paradox"
Presenters:
Sonia Ospina, Faculty Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
Angel Saz, Visiting Fellow, Research Center for Leadership in Action
"Theory Building in Network Leadership: A Proposed Design and Methodology
Panel on Public Leadership"
Presenter: Angel Saz, Visiting Fellow, Research Center for Leadership in Action
"Leadership and Discursive Practice: A Narrative Inquiry with Nonprofits in the Environmental Field"
Presenter: Jennifer Dodge, Research Associate, Research Center for Leadership in Action
"Public Leadership"
Symposium conveners:
Sonia Ospina, Faculty Director, Research Center for Leadership in Action
Jennifer Dodge, Research Associate, Research Center for Leadership in Action
Angel Saz, Visiting Fellow, Research Center for Leadership in Action
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"Political Science and Beyond"
Chicago, Illinois
"Discursive Practice and Environmental Politics: Enacting Democracy in Social Change Nonprofits"
Presenter: Jennifer Dodge, Research Associate, Research Center for Leadership in Action
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