Events

SPF Board President Dr. Lonnie Rowell received the Lifetime Achievement Award in School Counseling Leadership from the San Diego County Office of Education on Friday, May 12, 2023. The  award was given as a part of the County Office’s annual Honoring Excellence in School Counseling Leadership gathering. The award was presented by Tanya Bulette, Counseling [...]

In June of 2017 more than 300 people gathered at the Convention Center in Cartagena, Colombia, for a social experiment in “Knowledge Democracy.” The daylong event – the 1st Global Assembly for Knowledge Democracy (GAKD) – was organized by the Action Research Network of the Americas (ARNA) in partnership with the global Pedagogy, Education, and [...]

Social Publishers Foundation is pleased to announce a grant for practitioner-research in school counseling. Due to the generosity of board member Andres Martin, the Foundation is now accepting proposals from school counselors engaged in social justice initiatives in public schools. The practitioner-research should include close collaboration between students in the school and at least one [...]

SPF President Lonnie Rowell has authored an article in the Sri Lankan journal Gaveshana, which is the journal of the country’s Institute for Research and Development (IRD). Academic members of IRD include epidemiologists, psychiatrists, physicians, geneticists, veterinarians, public health specialists and people from many other disciplines. The IRD mandate is “to promote an overarching research [...]

Nancy Murphy has devoted herself to healthcare as a Nurse Practitioner and Action Researcher in hospital and clinical practice settings. She has been teaching courses in Nursing as associate professor at Rutgers University and as assistant professor in the graduate nursing program at Howard University.  Nancy is the Chair of the Action Research Network of [...]

On July 1, 2021, SPF launched a new feature on its platform for practitioner research. The SPF Blog, https://www.socialpublishersfoundation.org/blog/, is a space in which issues of policy-making, practitioner research, research in general, and larger contexts of strengthening democratic societies will converge. As SPF Board President Lonnie Rowell puts it, “Blog posts will draw on the [...]

SPF announces the addition of a new option for publishing with Social Publishers Foundation. Authors may now submit Essays for consideration as SPF publications. This new publishing feature in the SPF Knowledge Base is intended to broaden and deepen the discussion of issues and topics relevant to practitioner research and to the topic of knowledge [...]

SPF has received the endorsement of the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education (CBR & SP in HE). Here is the information on UNESCO in CBR & SP in HE: UNESCO Chair in CBR & SP in HE is based at the University of Victoria (UVic) and the Society for Participatory Research [...]