Common Ground Research Networks

Organizations no longer operate within clear boundaries. People, technologies, institutions, and cultures increasingly overlap—creating new possibilities for collaboration, but also new tensions around power, knowledge, and responsibility.

The Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations invites proposals addressing “Entangling Worlds: Connection, Coordination, Collaboration in Organization Research and Practice.”

Join the Knowledge Experience in Berlin or online, 31 May–1 June 2027.

Learn more and submit through the link in bio.

🚨 Final Call: Register Now 🚨 This is your last chance to join the Sixteenth International Conference on Health, Wellness & Society in Guadalajara. Don’t miss out on a transformative knowledge experience!

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/mvpd4zm6

🎓 Introducing our Plenary Speaker, Charlotte Barker.

Charlotte Barker is the Chief Executive of the Institute of Designers in Ireland, the trade association for commercial designers on the island of Ireland. Charlotte sits on the Government Forum for Digital Creative Industries and supports the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to progress the action plan for Designing Better Public Services. She is a member of An Bord for the National College of Art and Design.

After 20 years of agency life Charlotte took the reins of the IDI in 2020, leading the IDI into a new era, embracing new programmes and partnerships to raise the profile and impact of Irish design. This includes instigating the sustainability platform Design Declares in collaboration with the 100 Archive, and leading a programme of work under the Roadmap for Digital Creative Industries.

Charlotte recently led Design 2035, a research project to create a vision of where Irish design will be in 10 years’ time. It provokes how, as a design community, we fully embrace the opportunities that are available to designers and ready ourselves for the future.

https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2027-conference

✅ Registration Now Open

Registration is now open for the Twelfth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies, hosted by Federal Fluminense University.

Participants are invited to join scholars and practitioners from around the world for presentations, discussion, and research exchange.

🔗 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/52eu9d8w

📢 Proposal Submissions Now Open

Proposal submissions are now open for the Seventeenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society, an international conference hosted by the Université Grenoble Alpes.

The conference invites scholars and practitioners to submit proposals presenting current research and ideas for discussion with an international, interdisciplinary audience.

🗓 Early Submission deadline: 23 November 2026
🔗 Submit your proposal: https://tinyurl.com/4ekmu8ta

🌟 The 2027 Special Focus is "Spatial Representation as Research: Producing, Interpreting, and Circulating Knowledge".

🔗 Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ys2haed2

What kinds of worlds are images helping us imagine—and who gets to shape them?

We are pleased to welcome Yu Jin Seng, Director and Senior Curator at National Gallery Singapore, as a Plenary Speaker at the Eleventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies.

His plenary, “Reworlding Images: Towards Planetary Futurisms in the Age of A.I.,” will consider the changing place of images in a world transformed by artificial intelligence. The session will explore how images, technologies, and cultural institutions might open alternative ways of seeing—and help us imagine more plural and shared planetary futures.

Learn more and register: https://oncommunicationmedia.com/2026-conference

"Global Game, Local Meanings: Sport, Cultures and Communities in a Changing World," Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos, Sam Duncan and Tom F F Heenan.

Global Game, Local Meanings explores the dynamic relationship between global sporting systems and the diverse local cultures in which they are embedded. This edited collection brings together interdisciplinary research that examines how sport, physical activity and informal play – whether as practice, institution, spectacle, or industry – both shape and are shaped by local identities, political priorities, and cultural values.

Sport is a global phenomenon, governed by powerful transnational organisations and consumed across borders through mass media and digital platforms. Yet its impact is deeply local. In communities across the world, sport and physical activity can foster belonging, build identity, and reflect complex histories of inclusion and exclusion, and resistance and pride. This volume brings together scholars working across sociology, politics, education, management, and cultural and environmental studies to investigate how global logics of sport intersect with the distinct social, cultural, and ecological contexts in which sport and physical activity are played, taught, governed and experienced.

Order here: https://doi.org/10.18848/SPRTBI/B35

📢 Proposal Submissions Now Open

Proposal submissions are now open for the Twenty-Second International Conference on the Arts in Society, an international conference hosted by the The University of Western Australia.

The conference invites scholars and practitioners to submit proposals presenting current research and ideas for discussion with an international, interdisciplinary audience.

🗓 Early Submission deadline: 8 November 2026
🔗 Submit your proposal: https://tinyurl.com/4326wk5c