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Volume 2 Issue 2 2026
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2026)We are pleased to announce that The Human Occupation and Wellbeing Journal Vol. 2 Issue 2 is now available.
This issue covers the following categories: perspectives, empirical research articles, personal narratives, book reviews, and our recently added essays and letters, expanding the range of scholarly forms through which urgent questions in occupational therapy and occupational science can be explored.
We are especially grateful to the first-time and experienced authors who have contributed to this issue. Together, their work reflects the breadth of HOWJ’s scope and our commitment to creating inclusive scholarly spaces for diverse voices, critical perspectives, and contextually grounded knowledge on human occupation and wellbeing.
The contributions in this issue engage with practice in contexts of crisis, decolonial spaces for healing, financial pressures after spinal cord injury, risky outdoor play for young children with developmental disabilities, foster youth support, mindful awareness in occupational engagement, chemotherapy prehabilitation, everyday resistance in Palestine, and reflections on occupational futurity.
We are deeply grateful to our reviewers for the valuable insights, expertise, and time they generously contribute. Their committed engagement makes our editorial work possible and continues to strengthen the quality and integrity of HOWJ.
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Volume 1, Issue 2 (2025)
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025)We are delighted to publish Issue 2 of the HOWJ, closing 2025 with energy, momentum, and a strong sense of shared achievement. This issue affirms our early hopes: the journal is generating genuine interest and becoming a welcoming home for engaged scholarship.
The issue brings together contributions across Perspectives, Original Research Articles, and Reviews. We are especially proud to feature work by first-time authors and early career researchers, reflecting the journal’s commitment to mentoring emerging scholarly voices, alongside contributions from experienced scholars whose work continues to advance thinking about human occupation and wellbeing. Guided by the Ubuntu ethos, this issue reflects knowledge as a collective endeavour. We thank all contributors and invite readers to engage, reflect and grow with us.
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Volume 2 Issue 1 2026
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026)We are pleased to announce the release of HOWJ Volume 2, Issue 1.
This issue brings together a range of scholarship, from anti-oppressive occupational therapy praxis and the politics of historical erasure, to perinatal mental health inequalities, reliability findings on the new Occupational Resilience Measure (ORM1.0), relational ethics in teaching, interactive technology in practice, an occupational lens to understanding adjustment disorder, and a fresh occupational science reading on the occupation of dumpster diving.
We are deeply grateful to our authors, reviewers, and editorial board for making this new issue of The Human Occupation & Wellbeing Journal possible.
