Fourteen years of activity

In 1989 with funds from three private trusts and the Victorian Government, the Action Research Issues Association established the Action Research Issues Centre (ARIC) in Ross House in the central city. As a not-for-profit project, ARIC has worked for the past fourteen years assisting human services, community and self help groups to carry out their own everyday research and evaluation. Located in the city of Melbourne, the ‘small centre with a big agenda’ has now become known throughout Australia and internationally.

Now spreading our wings

We firstly had a new partnership with the Department of Social Inquiry & Community Studies at St Albans (which includes Social Work and Community Development) at Victoria University betwwen 1999 and 2001, and are now establishing a new association with the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology through the appointment of Yoland Wadsworth as Adjunct Professor, and the beginning of an Action Research Programme in association with the Action Research Issues Association and its Action Research Issues Centre.

See Swinburne Institute for Social Research Newsletter:

• Issue 11 Dec 2001 - Action Research Under the spotlight by Yoland Wadsworth
• Issue 10 July 2001 - Yoland Wadsworth