Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.
A soft brush moves slowly across the forearm. The touch can be located and described, but it may also feel pleasant or socially meaningful. Those aspects…
How confidence and reliance on AI should track actual task performance across clinical, police and public-service decisions.
Capacity development is the process through which an ability becomes more available, durable, adaptable and usable across the conditions in which it matters, rather than remaining an idea understood once or a performance produced only under support.
Knowledge is what a person can understand, remember or explain. Capacity concerns what they can reliably perceive, select, regulate and do with that knowledge in the conditions where it matters. The distinction is useful, but the two are interdependent rather than opposing categories.
A skill is usually defined around the ability to perform a process or task. The Institute uses capacity more broadly for the reliable, context-sensitive availability of abilities across changing conditions. The distinction is practical, not a universally standardized scientific boundary.
What chronic stress means across time, how bodies and contexts interact, and why no single biomarker diagnoses cumulative strain.
Claire Wardle’s work helped give researchers and practitioners a shared language for misinformation, disinformation and malinformation, then pushed beyond taxonomy toward verification, information ecosystems and community information needs. Her programme is most useful when the categories are treated as analytic tools rather than perfectly observable natural kinds.
A person returns to a familiar coast after a storm and finds that a place tied to family memory has changed beyond recognition. Another watches a forest…
A child becomes upset after an unexpected change. An adult notices the child’s distress, speaks more slowly, stays nearby, and helps name what happened.…
Thinking does not happen in the head alone. It happens through bodies, tools, spaces, symbols, other people, routines, and increasingly intelligent systems that share the work of remembering, finding, comparing, and deciding.