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  1. Special Issue of ‘Dimensions’: OPHI 10th Anniversary

    …Enjoy this special edition of ‘Dimensions’ which provides a 10-year retrospective on the impact of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. Contributions by Amartya Sen, Michael Spence, Anthony Shorrocks and former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet. Interviews with James Foster, Frances Stewart, and María Emma Santos. Click here to read online or download…

  2. HDCA WEBINAR: Work in progress on developing measures using the CA

    …r help/ideas from the group (on possible approaches to problems, things to read etc.). That should leave us c.30mins for broader discussion, where other students can also ask for advice about their own work on capability-based measures. The idea is to have a collaborative open discussion on work in progress, rather than present results. Presentations: 1. Mateus Humberto – “Measuring the CA concepts into the domain of urban mobility: capabilities,…

  3. WEBINAR: “Epistemic Injustice and the Capability Approach”

    …More specifically, she studies how the subject’s capacity of offering the truth is influenced by credibility excess or deficit based on identity prejudices (2007). Furthermore, she considers the notion of epistemic contribution as a central human capability discussing the capacity of epistemic giving and reciprocity in the pool of shared epistemic materials (2015). In the webinar, we will critically discuss Fricker’s contribution and explore its r…

  4. Call for Abstracts: 2018 Oxford International Health Congress

    St Hugh’s College, Oxford (28th-30th June 2018) http://www.globalhealthcongress.org/submissions The Submission Process First Call Deadline 23.59 GMT – 20th December 2017 To submit an abstract, you will need the following information: 1. A 100-word abstract and title (theory/framework, methods and hypotheses, results, conclusions). 2. Contact details of all co-authors (Email, Name, Affiliation). 3. Other information relating to the proposed presen…

  5. II level International Master on Measuring Well-Being

    …sulting of an agreement between the University of Florence and the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), as a follow up of the project “BES: Equitable and Sustainable Wellbeing in Italy”. The Master aims at developing new skills in managing statistics at analytical, management and communication level, summarizing the recent debate on the topic. As the task to measure quality of life and well-being is a complex one, a multidisciplinary…

  6. Call for Abstracts: International Indigenous Development Research Conference 2014

    …pproaches to and methodologies of knowledge creation, exploring indigenous worldviews and understanding the contribution of these approaches to world knowledge. · Furthering Excellent Indigenous Research Capability – what is the nature of the indigenous research capability? How is this achieved? How can we harness new technologies? What do we mean by excellence in indigenous research capability? Do any current models exist? What models exist in th…

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