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  1. HDCA Member Views on the Capability Approach

    …eads us to widen the range of policies concerned with human development, encompassing competition policy and industrial organisation, as well as the policy areas typically considered. This is where the Capability Approach makes a contribution. Melanie Walker SARCHI Chair in Higher Education & Human Development Research Programme, University of the Free State, South Africa, Education in the capability approach is about more than developing human ca…

  2. Editorial Staff

    …Review Editor Josh Platzky Miller, Sociology Department, University of the Free State, South Africa Policy Forum Editor Mario Biggeri, Department of Economics and Management, University of Florence, Italy Managing Editor Kathryn Rosenblum, Human Development and Capability Association, USA Associate Editors M. Niaz Asadullah, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Malaysia Paola Ballon, The World Bank, USA Melis Cin, Lancast…

  3. Overview of past Maitreyee Issues

    This is an overview of all past issues of Maitreyee, the e-bulletin of the HDCA. Issue Theme July ’14 Group Inequality and Intersectionality Dec. ’13 Water and Capabilities June ’13 Collectivity in the Capability Approach Dec. ’12 Value Judgements & Multidimensional Poverty Measurement March ’12 Innovation, Technology & Design Sept. ’11 The Capability Approach as a Theory of Justice March ’11 The Environment Sept. ’10 Religion & Human Development…

  4. Spotlight Series 3 – Interview with Oliver Mutanga

    …n and Health issues. He was awarded a scholarship at the University of the Free State in South Africa to pursue doctoral studies (2013-2016). In 2015, he was awarded a CICOPS Fellowship by the University of Pavia, Italy. In 2017, he was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oslo, Norway. This was followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) in 2019. Prior to his PhD research, Oliver wor…

    HDCA Webinar 2022 Education HDCA Videos
    46 minutes
  5. Methodological Options and Challenges for Measuring Multidimensional Well-Being

    Turning complex conceptual frameworks into operational applications imply a series of methodological decisions that are not free of challenges. The capability approach is far from an exception. This third webinar of the series on measuring multidimensional well-being reflects on some of these methodological challenges, in close connection with themes from previous webinars in the series. This webinar will host an open conversation with Dr. José M…

    HDCA Webinar 2021 HDCA Videos
    92 minutes
  6. Rethinking Participatory Research in the Pandemic Era

    …ons for the quality and the validity of the participatory inquiries and outcomes of our projects. Through this discussion, we wish to create a collective learning space to come out with options and alternatives that could be adopted to stay true to the principles and processes of participatory research in the pandemic era. What are the frameworks within the capability approach that enable us to understand the present crisis through participatory r…

    HDCA Webinar Participatory Methods HDCA Videos
    122 minutes
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