🌍HDCA Webinar: Bridging Epistemic Worlds – Linking Capabilities & Transitions Research for Just & Sustainable Futures 🌱 Can sustainability transitions be truly just & human-centred? How can the Capability Approach help expand freedoms rather than reproduce inequalities? 🗓 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 💻 Online

📣 HDCA Update This year, HDCA is taking a different approach to community engagement. Rather than our annual conference, we’re offering a series of events designed to foster ongoing dialogue and connection across our global community. 🌍 📅 This March, join us for three exciting events:

🌱 New #OpenAccess article! This research explores how ecological heritage and intergenerational learning around Moringa oleifera can support youth livelihoods in #SouthernAfrica, strengthening #CulturalIdentity, #CollectiveAgency, & sustainable socio-ecological futures.

📘✨ Nuevo artículo open Access Cáceda-Adrianzen analiza el Modelo de Renovación de Licencia Institucional y la reforma universitaria en #Perú, explicando cómo la #EducaciónSuperior puede contribuir al #DesarrolloHumano y a los #ODS desde el Enfoque de Capacidades. 🔗 shorturl.at/C78xR

📘 Have you checked out the new issue of the Journal of HDCA? Volume 27, Issue 1 is out: #Education, #Sustainability and #SocialJustice Guest editors: Fenella Somerville & Sarah Ward 🌍 Voices and lessons from the #GlobalSouth on expanding #HumanCapabilities through education and sustainability.

📢 Online discussion coming! From Critique to Action: A #CapabilityApproach (CA) to Reimagining #HumanRights Due Diligence We’re excited to host Dr. Bitar for a conversation around her recent article, bringing the CA into business & human rights debates. 🗓 Mon, 2 Feb 2026 ⏰ 14:00–15:00 UTC 💻 Online

Applications are open for the OPHI Summer School 2026. Do you currently work in - or want to gain skills in - multidimensional poverty measurement? Apply now to join us on between 20 - 31 July 2026 at Universidad Latina, San José, Costa Rica. Apply now: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...

🌟 Kickstart 2026 with a deep dive into the Capability Approach! 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

Deadline approaching!🚨 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

🌍 Engaging #Capabilities Worldwide: Participatory Methodologies in #ComparativePerspective 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!

What does meaningful access to university really look like? 📚 "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 #CapabilityApproach

🌍🌱 Join the HDCA Sustainable Human Development Thematic Group — connecting researchers, practitioners and change-makers from all disciplines working on #sustainability, wellbeing, and #HumanDevelopment from interdisciplinary perspectives. Subscribe to stay updated... 1/2 🔗 hd-ca.org/thematic_gro...

💡 Have you read the latest scholarly Comments and Addendum to “Why Economic Inequality Should be Central to Strategies for the Future” by Werner Neu? Neu offers thoughtful critique on core arguments and expands the discussion by proposing alternative framing strategies... 1/2

🌏 Calling all researchers, practitioners & changemakers in the #AsiaPacific! 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 Dive in 👉 hd-ca.org/region/asia-...

📢 New #Research: “Adaptive Preferences as Constraints on Self-Development” by Azizjon Bagadirov. 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

🌍 Join the HDCA Human Rights Thematic Group! 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

🎥 Now Available Online! 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... 1/2

📢 New #Research Alert! 🧠✨ 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... 1/2

🌱 What will happen to human possibility when #AI reshapes the very capabilities that define our lives? This article considers AI’s role in human development, & how these systems may transform our freedoms, relationships, & futures... 1/2 hd-ca.org/is-ai-transf... #CapabilityApproach #SocialScience

📣 AVAILABLE NOW! 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 ⬇️

🚀 Join the HDCA European Network! 🌍 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 Role of Language(s) in Transformative #HigherEducation in Africa: A Capabilities Perspective” — by Ntimi Mtawa, Larry Ndivo & Laela Adamson — shines a spotlight on the role of language-in-education policies and practices. 1/2 #CapabilityApproach

🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue 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 1/2

🌟 HDCA Thematic Group: Human Security 🌟 “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. 1/2 hd-ca.org/thematic_gro... #CapabilityApproach

📚 We’re delighted to share a new article in the Journal of Human Development & Capabilities: “Forming an Eco-social Capability in the South African Higher Education Space” by Melanie Walker & Fenella Somerville. #CapabilityApproach #HigherEd #ClimateJustice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 HDCA #HealthAndDisability Webinar – Dec 11 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! hd-ca.org/es/event/web... 1/2

🌍 New guest editorial in the JHDCA! “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

🌟 HDCA Thematic Group: Technology, Innovation & Design 🌟 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.

🌍 Join us on 9 Dec for the #lecture “Contesting Corporate Responsibility from the Margins.” 🕚 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.

🌱 How the CA can transform #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.

🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue 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

🚀 Is #AI enough to transform #education? 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.

🌍 Can #AI help people not just survive but thrive in a changing #climate? Join our policy forum on AI in Adaptive #SocialProtection Learn how AI can anticipate shocks, deliver support faster, and build long-term resilience, while addressing risks like bias and exclusion.

📣 On 24 Nov, join us for the launch of Youth Voice and Participatory Arts in Global Development, a powerful new book by The May Group The book explores how #participatory #arts can amplify #youth voices and support more #inclusive #development.

🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue 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:

🌱 How can we better understand and expand the real freedoms of children and young people? The HDCA Children and Youth Capabilities Thematic Group is an interdisciplinary network exploring human development through the capability approach. #HumanDevelopment #Children #Youth

🤖 How can #AI serve human flourishing, not just efficiency? A new open access #PolicyForum, “Navigating AI with a #HumanDevelopment Compass”, explores how AI can expand capabilities, agency & wellbeing across the life course. By Lengfelder, Tapia & Biggeri.

Early-career researcher? 🌍 Working on the capabilities approach but missing mentorship or a community? The HDCA Mentorship Program (ECRPN) is here to connect you with guidance, support, and collaboration across the globe! Learn more: hd-ca.org/thematic_gro...

Why do women in the Middle East & North Africa have more education but fewer jobs? 🤔 A new study on Tunisia uses the #CapabilityApproach to rethink this “gender paradox”, showing it’s really about capability deprivation, not lack of education By Çuhadar, Kawamura & Jawad

How can we align AI with Human Development instead of working against it? 🌍 In a new policy forum, Mario Biggeri & Andrea Simoncini explore how international coordination and supranational regulation can help ensure AI expands human agency and capabilities, not limits them.

🌱 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 💬✨

🌍 Call for Papers – #JHDC Special Issue 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:

🌍 Would you like to host the next HDCA Conference? Hosting this global event is a unique chance to bring visibility, energy & collaboration to your institution with full support from HDCA. Join this Webinar and learn more! 🗓️ Thu Oct 30 | 14:00–15:30 UTC 💻 Zoom | 📩 https://rebrand.ly/8ps81pt

🌎 ¡Únete a la Red Latinoamericana de HDCA! ¿Te interesa el desarrollo humano, la justicia social y el enfoque de capacidades en América Latina? HDCA-LA es una comunidad multidisciplinaria vibrante que conecta a investigadoras e investigadores de toda la región Conoce más:

🕊️ Webinar: Everyday Peacebuilding through Democratic Political Education Join the HDCA Ethics & Development Thematic Group for a discussion of Stephen Esquith’s new book 📅 Wed, Oct 29, 2025 | 12:00–13:30 UTC

🌍 Webinar: Transforming Rehabilitation Through the Capability Approach 1 in 3 people globally live with a condition that could benefit from rehabilitation, but services remain limited, especially in LMICs. 📅 Tue, Oct 28, 2025 | 14:30–16:00 UTC 💻 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register:

🧵 New #OpenAccess article The authors examine how Tonga women artists in Zimbabwe use art and storytelling to reclaim heritage, voice, and cultural identity through participatory research and the development of narrative capability. 📖 Full article:

A few weeks ago we gathered for #HDCA2025 in Bradford, a week of ideas, reflection & connection around human development and capabilities. ✨ 📸 Relive the best moments in our photo gallery: https://hd-ca.org/conferences/2025-hdca-conference-bradford-uk#anchor13

🌍 Webinaire du Réseau francophone d’Afrique de la HDCA Les membres du réseau partageront leurs présentations de la Conférence HDCA 2025 L’événement se déroulera principalement en français. 🗓 14 oct. | 16:00–17:30 UTC 💻 En ligne 🔗 Inscription : hd-ca.org/region/francophone-africa

🤖 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.