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We’re launching the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network 2026 Webinar Series with:
🎉 Introduction to the Capability Approach
🗓 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 | 08:00 UTC
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/oGKqz
We’re launching the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network 2026 Webinar Series with:
🎉 Introduction to the Capability Approach
🗓 Sat, 24 Jan 2026 | 08:00 UTC
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register: shorturl.at/oGKqz
Applications are open for the HDCA #MentorshipProgram🎓✨
Are you an early-career researcher or practitioner using the #CapabilityApproach? Get paired with advanced scholars for mentorship, guidance, and collaboration.
📝 Apply: https://shorturl.at/cUru6
⏰ Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
Applications are open for the HDCA #MentorshipProgram🎓✨
Are you an early-career researcher or practitioner using the #CapabilityApproach? Get paired with advanced scholars for mentorship, guidance, and collaboration.
📝 Apply: https://shorturl.at/cUru6
⏰ Deadline: 25 Jan 2026
The HDCA Thematic Group on #ParticipatoryMethods launches its first Speaker’s Corner of 2026!
📅 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 | 🕒 15:00–16:15 CET
💻 Online (Zoom)
A global conversation on participatory action research!
The HDCA Thematic Group on #ParticipatoryMethods launches its first Speaker’s Corner of 2026!
📅 Fri, 23 Jan 2026 | 🕒 15:00–16:15 CET
💻 Online (Zoom)
A global conversation on participatory action research!
📚 "Widening University Access and Participation in the Global South" by Edward Mboyonga, PhD offers a fresh, capability-focused lens on #HigherEducation in low-income countries... 1/2
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📚 "Widening University Access and Participation in the Global South" by Edward Mboyonga, PhD offers a fresh, capability-focused lens on #HigherEducation in low-income countries... 1/2
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Neu offers thoughtful critique on core arguments and expands the discussion by proposing alternative framing strategies... 1/2
Neu offers thoughtful critique on core arguments and expands the discussion by proposing alternative framing strategies... 1/2
Why not connect with the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network! A space for collaboration on human development & the #CapabilityApproach across research, policy & practice... 1/2
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Why not connect with the HDCA Asia-Pacific Regional Network! A space for collaboration on human development & the #CapabilityApproach across research, policy & practice... 1/2
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The paper revisits the concept of adaptive preferences—desires shaped by unjust or limiting conditions—and asks the question: how do these preferences actively constrain self-development... 1/2
The paper revisits the concept of adaptive preferences—desires shaped by unjust or limiting conditions—and asks the question: how do these preferences actively constrain self-development... 1/2
Are you passionate about #HumanRights and expanding our understanding of rights-based approaches across disciplines?
This group brings together scholars, policy-makers & educators to collaborate on theory, practice, & action in #HumanDevelopment... 1/2
Are you passionate about #HumanRights and expanding our understanding of rights-based approaches across disciplines?
This group brings together scholars, policy-makers & educators to collaborate on theory, practice, & action in #HumanDevelopment... 1/2
Lecture: Contesting Corporate Responsibility from the Margins — Reflexive Lessons from Co-Produced Research
Prof. Rajiv Maher explores how #CorporateResponsibility is challenged & reshaped through research with communities often on the margins of corporate influence...
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Lecture: Contesting Corporate Responsibility from the Margins — Reflexive Lessons from Co-Produced Research
Prof. Rajiv Maher explores how #CorporateResponsibility is challenged & reshaped through research with communities often on the margins of corporate influence...
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Patience Mukwambo explores how #education can either ENABLE or LIMIT students’ freedom to contribute meaningfully.
Drawing on personal narratives, the paper highlights how race, identity, & institutional norms shape learning & participation in educational spaces...
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Patience Mukwambo explores how #education can either ENABLE or LIMIT students’ freedom to contribute meaningfully.
Drawing on personal narratives, the paper highlights how race, identity, & institutional norms shape learning & participation in educational spaces...
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This article considers AI’s role in human development, & how these systems may transform our freedoms, relationships, & futures... 1/2
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This article considers AI’s role in human development, & how these systems may transform our freedoms, relationships, & futures... 1/2
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#CapabilityApproach #SocialScience
The video of our Health & Disability #webinar is now online!
Organised by the Health & Disability Thematic Group, three researchers presented their current work applying the #CapabilityApproach to health, disability, and well-being.
🚀 Learn about this fascinating #research here ⬇️
The video of our Health & Disability #webinar is now online!
Organised by the Health & Disability Thematic Group, three researchers presented their current work applying the #CapabilityApproach to health, disability, and well-being.
🚀 Learn about this fascinating #research here ⬇️
🌍 The Network brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in the #CapabilityApproach and #HumanDevelopment and who are working on, or in, Europe — supporting communication, connection & dialogue across its membership... 1/2
#AcademicSky
🌍 The Network brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in the #CapabilityApproach and #HumanDevelopment and who are working on, or in, Europe — supporting communication, connection & dialogue across its membership... 1/2
#AcademicSky
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Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures: We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.
🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info: rebrand.ly/ekj2835
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Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures: We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.
🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info: rebrand.ly/ekj2835
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“The world can never be at peace unless people have security in their daily lives. Future conflicts may often be within nations rather than between them,” predicted the UN Human Development Report in 1994.
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“The world can never be at peace unless people have security in their daily lives. Future conflicts may often be within nations rather than between them,” predicted the UN Human Development Report in 1994.
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“Forming an Eco-social Capability in the South African Higher Education Space” by Melanie Walker & Fenella Somerville.
#CapabilityApproach #HigherEd #ClimateJustice
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“Forming an Eco-social Capability in the South African Higher Education Space” by Melanie Walker & Fenella Somerville.
#CapabilityApproach #HigherEd #ClimateJustice
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Join us for an #EarlyCareerResearch webinar on health, disability, and the #CapabilityApproach!
🕑 Dec 11, 2:00–3:30 PM CET | 8:00–9:30 AM EST | 1:00–2:30 PM UTC
💬 15-min talks + 5-min discussion + 10-min Q&A
Don’t miss it!
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Join us for an #EarlyCareerResearch webinar on health, disability, and the #CapabilityApproach!
🕑 Dec 11, 2:00–3:30 PM CET | 8:00–9:30 AM EST | 1:00–2:30 PM UTC
💬 15-min talks + 5-min discussion + 10-min Q&A
Don’t miss it!
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“Education, Sustainability & Social Justice”
This intro sets up our upcoming special issue, focusing on:
• The role of education + humanitarian crises
• Expanding opportunities for global South scholars
• Linking sustainability, capabilities & epistemic justice
“Education, Sustainability & Social Justice”
This intro sets up our upcoming special issue, focusing on:
• The role of education + humanitarian crises
• Expanding opportunities for global South scholars
• Linking sustainability, capabilities & epistemic justice
We explore how #tech + #SocialInnovations shape people’s real freedoms. Some tools empower; others limit or exclude. Understanding these impacts means looking at design, power, values, and context.
We explore how #tech + #SocialInnovations shape people’s real freedoms. Some tools empower; others limit or exclude. Understanding these impacts means looking at design, power, values, and context.
🕚 11:00–12:30 UTC
Featuring Prof. Rajiv Maher (EGADE Business School & Copenhagen Business School), sharing insights from co-produced #research with #Indigenous and #MarginalizedCommunities.
🕚 11:00–12:30 UTC
Featuring Prof. Rajiv Maher (EGADE Business School & Copenhagen Business School), sharing insights from co-produced #research with #Indigenous and #MarginalizedCommunities.
Check out the Capability and Education Network (CAEN), a vibrant HDCA thematic group connecting scholars & practitioners since 2003.
CAEN is open to everyone and is a welcoming space to share ideas and explore new directions in capability-informed education.
Check out the Capability and Education Network (CAEN), a vibrant HDCA thematic group connecting scholars & practitioners since 2003.
CAEN is open to everyone and is a welcoming space to share ideas and explore new directions in capability-informed education.
Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures
We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.
🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info: rebrand.ly/ekj2835
Beyond #Development Paradigms for #Sustainable #Futures
We’re rethinking the economy to put human development, justice, and sustainability first.
🗓️ Abstracts due: 19 Dec 2025
🗞️ Publication: Aug 2027
🔗 More info: rebrand.ly/ekj2835
A new #PolicyForum shows why successful EdTech needs strong systems, teacher support, and local adaptation.
With lessons from Tiger Leap, OLPC & Plan Ceibal, it charts how AI can truly boost #learning and #equity.
A new #PolicyForum shows why successful EdTech needs strong systems, teacher support, and local adaptation.
With lessons from Tiger Leap, OLPC & Plan Ceibal, it charts how AI can truly boost #learning and #equity.