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ARJsparjAction Research1476-75031741-2617SAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England10.1177/147675031244832610.1177_1476750312448326EditorialEditorialBradbury-HuangHilaryEditor-in-Chief, Action Research, Portland, OR, USA62012102111114© The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav2012SAGE PublicationsWelcome to another wonderful issue, the editorial for which is more of a product for and by the associate editors than is usual. Immediately below, ARJ Associate Editor Dr Patricia Gayá introduces two articles which she shepherded through the review process. And then Dr Mary Brydon-Miller has crafted an obituary for our recently deceased editorial board colleague Professor Kurt Aagaard Nielsen. Thanks Patch, thanks Mary. Kurt, may you rest in peace.Hilary Bradbury-Huang, Editor-in-Chief, Action ResearchPortland, OR, USADr Gayá writes:Alongside the other articles published in this issue, we are delighted to introduce two which succeed in posing some very significant challenges and thought-provoking questions to us all as action researchers, and specifically to those members of the action research community who are located within Higher Education systems across the world. Taken together, these two articles build on a special issue of Action Research published in 2007 (Volume 5, Issue 3), which focused on the processes of training and educating action research in university settings – a subject area which remains relatively underdeveloped in the literature. The germ of the idea for