#CapabilitiesApproach
The #capabilitiesapproach is explored here as a way to find meaning through #cognitivedecline. It demonstrates a positive approach through vulnerabilities and offers carers and those with #dementia a way to find meaning through confusion. #meaningfullife #lucidity www.linkedin.com/pulse/dement...
Dementia Prevention and Vulnerability: What Meaningful Work Can Teach Us about Strength through Weakness
Discover how vulnerability and the Capabilities Approach can strengthen dementia prevention and care by turning weakness into resilience.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
🎉 That’s a wrap on HDCA 2025! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone who joined us in Bradford and online. Over the past few days, we’ve shared ideas, built connections, and deepened our understanding of human development and the capability approach. 🌍💡

#HDCA2025 #HumanDevelopment #CapabilitiesApproach
September 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📢 Just released: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 26, Issue 2!

This issue features articles, policy forums, book reviews, and comments—advancing debates on justice, agency, and development.

We’ll highlight each piece over the coming weeks.
#CapabilitiesApproach #HumanDevelopment
May 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Always love reading capabilities approach applied in migration studies. Rodriguez-Peña presents a great case how migration capabilities vary across different regions.

#MigrationStudies #CapabilitiesApproach

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Mapping migration capabilities worldwide - Comparative Migration Studies
The complexity and abstract nature of capabilities may explain why research on migration aspirations is far more prevalent than studies on migration capabilities, and why clear conceptualizations and ...
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June 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
📚Have you checked out our JHDC issue Vol. 26.1?

Papers on SDGs in crisis, agency, food-delivery workers, gender equity, family farms & more.
Fresh takes on human development in turbulent times.

🔗https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjhd20/current
#CapabilitiesApproach #HumanDevelopment #AcademicJournal
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
Volume 26, Issue 2 of Journal of Human Development and Capabilities
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April 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
✨ The #HDCA2025 Conference kicks off today at the ‪@uniofbradford.bsky.social

We’re welcoming colleagues & friends from around the world to the UK City of Culture 2025 🌍🎶, the perfect stage for conversations on #HumanDevelopment and #CapabilitiesApproach
September 1, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#development #health #capabilitiesapproach #inequality
#corruption
Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm.
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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations – DW – 06/29/2025
Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🎥 Missed our recent HDCA seminar? Catch the recording!
Dr. Madhulika Sahoo shared deep insights on the reproductive #healthcare rights of #IndigenousWomen in #India—through Nussbaum’s #CapabilitiesApproach.

🔗 Recording: https://rebrand.ly/5zz9ysf

#GenderJustice #ReproductiveRights
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July 9, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🛂 Visa/ETA?
▫️Apply from June 1
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▫️Your acceptance email is enough
▫️July = slower processing (UK student visa rush)

🧳 Bradford is ready. Are you?

Expanded info here: https://rb.gy/q1iwuj

#ConferenceTips #Bradford2025 #AcademicTravel #CapabilitiesApproach
2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK
The HDCA is a global community of academics and practitioners that seeks to build an intellectual community around the ideas of human development and the capability approach, and relate these ideas to the policy arena.
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June 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The early bird rate for the 2025 HDCA Conference closes on Monday, 30 June ⏰

Don’t miss your chance to join us in Bradford, UK this September—at a reduced rate! Be part of a vibrant gathering of scholars, practitioners, and changemakers engaging with #HumanDevelopment and the #CapabilitiesApproach.
June 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Morning, skypeople! Looking forward to teaching my #GG6103 course and I've made a #CentralCapabilities #mixtape to get people into the #CapabilitiesApproach. First up #reasoning: youtu.be/-61mui3UIWY?...
Conscious Of My Conscience
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February 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
From war + climate to AI + "educide," education is under pressure.
This session explores how the #HumanDevelopment & #CapabilitiesApproach can help us rethink what learning should be.

🎥 Talk + discussion | Recording available
Cameras optional, curiosity encouraged!

Join us here: shorturl.at/4Nb4P
May 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Your registration includes:

✔️ 1-year HDCA membership
✔️ Journal subscription
✔️ Conference dinner (in-person)
✔️ Keynote access (online)
✔️ Concession rates for NGOs

🔗 Register now: https://hd-ca.org/conferences/2025-hdca-conference-bradford-uk<a href="/hashtag/anchor6" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#anchor6

#CapabilitiesApproach #AcademicConference
2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK
The HDCA is a global community of academics and practitioners that seeks to build an intellectual community around the ideas of human development and the capability approach, and relate these ideas to the policy arena.
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June 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Explore educide, decolonial strategies, & transformative education.

🎓 Coordinators: Rosie Yasmin, Fenella Somerville, Esdras Lins Bispo Junior

📺 Recording now available here: https://rb.gy/1lytxd

#CapabilitiesApproach #SuMingKhoo #TransformativeEducation
Reviving creative educational capabilities in times of polycrisis
The HDCA Education Thematic Group presents an online masterclass presented by Associate Professor Su-Ming Khoo.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🌱 Are you an #EarlyCareer professional passionate about #HumanDevelopment and #CapabilitiesApproach?

Join the Early Career Researchers & Practitioners Network (ECRPN), a welcoming HDCA community that supports your growth from student to professional.

We connect, collaborate, and learn together 💬✨
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢 Deadline is coming up! Call for Papers – Special Issue on #Work and #Employment in the Capability Approach 📑

The Journal of Human Development and Capabilities invites submissions exploring how work—paid & unpaid—shapes well-being, agency, and justice.

#CallForPapers #JHDC #CapabilitiesApproach
June 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Are there any #HDCA #HumanDevelopment and/or #CapabilitiesApproach people on here discussing #HDCA2024? Still don't really know how threads works on this app
September 21, 2024 at 11:42 AM
🤖 Friend or Foe? #AI and People’s Work Capability

AI is transforming work faster than ever. But what does this mean for #humandignity, #agency, and #socialjustice?

A new blog from Shepherd, Kuhn, Meier, Weidel & Stephens explores the future of work through the #CapabilitiesApproach.
October 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Anlässlich der DGfE-Tagung zur Sozialpädagogik stellen wir Prof. Dr. Zoë Clarks Monografie vor. Sie beleuchtet die Jugendphase aus Sicht des Capabilities Approach und deren Potenziale.
#Jugendforschung #CapabilitiesApproach #Sozialpädagogik #Gerechtigkeit #Ungleichheit #DGfE #Tagung
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March 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🎙 Speakers:
🔸 Dr. Paulina Jara – on barriers to real child participation in policy
🔸 Dr. Pablo Cheyre – on a capabilities-participatory lens for child well-being

💬 Let’s rethink adult-centric views!

🔗 Info: https://rb.gy/1yvulq

#HDCA #Chile #ChildParticipation #WellBeing #CapabilitiesApproach
Webinar: Children’s Voices and Participatory Approaches in Chile
Children’s Voices and Participatory Approaches in Chile Date: May 20, 2025 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM Santiago, Chile (CLT [...]
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May 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🛂 Visa/ETA?
▫️Apply from June 1
▫️Purpose: “Academic visit or business”
▫️Your acceptance email is enough
▫️July = slower processing (UK student visa rush)

🧳 Bradford is ready. Are you?

Expanded info here: https://rb.gy/q1iwuj

#ConferenceTips #Bradford2025 #AcademicTravel #CapabilitiesApproach
2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK
The HDCA is a global community of academics and practitioners that seeks to build an intellectual community around the ideas of human development and the capability approach, and relate these ideas to the policy arena.
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July 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌱 Join us for an HDCA seminar on June 27! 🌱

Dr. Madhulika Sahoo will explore the reproductive #healthcare rights of #IndigenousWomen in #India—through the lens of Nussbaum’s #CapabilitiesApproach.

🕙 10–11 UTC | Online
📅 June 27 | 🔗 Link:
Seminar: Understanding Reproductive Healthcare Rights of Indian Indigenous Women from the lens of Nussbaum’s Central Human Capabilities: A Learning
Date: June 27, 2025 Time: 10:00–11:00 UTC+0 Format: Seminar The HDCA Education Thematic Group invites you to a seminar presented [...]
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June 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🛂 Visa/ETA?
▫️Apply from June 1
▫️Purpose: “Academic visit or business”
▫️Your acceptance email is enough
▫️July = slower processing (UK student visa rush)

🧳 Bradford is ready. Are you?

Expanded info here: https://rb.gy/q1iwuj

#ConferenceTips #Bradford2025 #AcademicTravel #CapabilitiesApproach
2025 HDCA Conference – Bradford, UK
The HDCA is a global community of academics and practitioners that seeks to build an intellectual community around the ideas of human development and the capability approach, and relate these ideas to the policy arena.
rb.gy
May 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Based on his book The Future of Work, Meier explores the ethical challenges and shifting nature of labor in a tech-driven world.

🎬 Recording now available: https://rb.gy/5tf8rm

#CapabilitiesApproach #WorkAndEmployment #AIethics #MeaningOfWork
The Meaning of Work in the Context of Advancing Automation
Speaker: Darius Meier Discussants: Thomas C. Stephens & Timothy Weidel Organised by the HDCA Thematic Group on Innovation, Technology and Design, together with the European Regional Network and the Work and Employment Thematic group.
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June 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📚 Teach-in Tuesday

Philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum reminds us that justice is about real opportunities for all. Her “Capabilities Approach” asks what people are truly able to do and be.

#TeachInTuesday #Humanism #MarthaNussbaum #CapabilitiesApproach #HumanDignity
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM