The student-centred education project is an action research project conducted by lecturers at an institution of higher education and university researchers over a 2-year period. Valuable experience has been gained about working with lecturers on projects that affect their beliefs about learning and instruction in practice. This article focuses on the use of an action research approach for educational change, discusses the benefits and challenges of such an approach, and the dilemmas facing external facilitators when facilitating action research in a process of educational change. (Contains 2 notes and 1 figure.)