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This section provides news about PASCAL together with significant developments in policy and research relating to the areas of interest to PASCAL. It is based on regular scanning of policy, practice and academic literature, including web-based sources.

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Towards citizens enablement: A hand-up – not a hand out ¦ Professor James Powell

Following from his extensive PASCAL studies into the PUMR development, Professor James Powell has upgraded his exploration concerning academic support  for improving the adult learning of citizens throughout the world under the title Towards citizens enablement: A hand-up – not a hand out (Local Development and Society, March 13, 2022, published by Taylor and Francis 0n-line).

Last chance speaker call out! CYW Conference 2022

The Changing Your World Conference has gone fully online… and across three days.

As a result we’re reopening our call-out for speakers far and wide. We had our program pretty much full as a one day in person event – but now that we’re online across 3 days, we have more scope for concurrent sessions, and more space for speakers, who can come from anywhere across Australia – or even the world!

News from UALL

We are busy preparing for the conference in June and will shortly be sending out up to date information on how to register.

NEP: New Economics Papers - Social Norms and Social Capital - Digest, Vol 136, Issue 3

In this issue we feature 10 current papers on the theme of social capital, chosen by Fabio Sabatini (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”):

New Briefing Paper - Connecting People and Planet for a Sustainable Future

We are pleased to make available to PASCAL subscribers a further paper in the EcCoWell series by Peter Kearns, entitled, Connecting People and Planet for a Sustainable Future.

This paper examines how PASCAL EcCoWell 3 could be further developed as a path to a sustainable future in a turbulent period of disruptive change. The paper draws on the 2021 UNESCO Reimagining the Future Together report in its assessment of the critical situation confronting humanity and the planet requiring transformation of the world towards “a more just, equity, and sustainable future”.

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