1. aboni's picture   Alejandra Boni Aristizabal Doctora en Derecho
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PhD in Human Rights and Democracy from the U. of Valencia; Full Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) and Deputy Director of Ingenio Research Institute (CSIC-UPV). Extraordinary Professor of the University of the Free State (South Africa). Co-ademic director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), an international consortium of leading European research institutes and national countries working on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. More than 130 international and national publications in the following areas: human development, social innovation, education, participation, technology and sustainability (papers, books and book chapters). Relevant research on higher education, social and grassroots innovation in the field of energy, food and digital sectors. Expert in the use of participatory methodologies to co-design, implement and evaluate policy initiatives in the field of transformative evaluation, development education and participatory policy. Large experience and records in the field of development education and global citizenship education.

From 2011-2023, PI of 15 research projects from international, national and local grant calls (total amount 979.693€) and 12 contracts with national and local public and private institutions (total amount 338.413€). With a broad network of national and partners with whom research and publish. Invited researcher at Institut Mines-Telecom- Business School, Evry-France (2022), Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Medellín-Colombia (2019), University College of London-UK (2016-2017), University of New York-USA (2011), Erasmus University at Rotterdam-Netherlands (2009) and University of Sussex-UK (2007).

Editor in chief of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and Associate Editor of the Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies. Awarded with the University College of London Grand Challenge Prize (sept. 2019) for a meaningful engagement between academics and practitioners.

Awarded by the Spanish Research Council in 2023 for her PhD supervision career; from 2010 to 2023 has supervised 18 PhD thesis in 4 different Universities. Her doctoral students are working in the academic sector (as associate professors, lecturers and postdoc researchers), in local administrations (Valencian municipality or technical staff in universities), private sector (Ford company), educational sector (vocational education teacher), third sector (NGOs in Belgium and Spain).

Main recent papers:

Diana Velasco, Bipashyee Ghosh, Alejandra Boni, Katharina Schiller, Laura Winkler (2024), Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022, Environmental Science & Policy, 160.

Matias Ramirez, Alejandra Boni, Imogen Wade & Rob Byrne, (2024) How does transformative innovation policy travel across physical and cognitive spaces? Exploring the role of mutable fluid space in experimental policy engagements, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 52 (2024) 100881, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2024.100881

Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco, Jordi Molas-Gallart, Johan Schot, (2023) Evaluating transformative innovation policy in a formative way: Insights from Vinnova’s food mission experiment, Research Evaluation, 2023;, rvad029, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvad029

Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro & Alejandra Boni (2023): Enlarging the knowledge transfer realm through engagement with research stakeholders: a conversation attempt with action research, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, DOI: 10.1080/25729861.2023.2213596


Tabarés, R and Boni, A.(2023) Maker culture and its potential for STEM education, Int J Technol Des Educ, 33, 241-260, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10798-021-09725

Monique Leivas Vargas, Alejandra Boni Aristizábal & Lina María Zuluaga (2023)  Capabilities for epistemic liberation: the case of hermeneutical insurrection of the Network of Community Researchers in Medellin, Colombia, Journal of Global Ethics, 19:1, 43-62, 2023.
DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2022.2079707

Melanie Walker, Alejandra Boni, Carmen Martinez-Vargas & Melis Cin (2022). An Epistemological Break: Redefining Participatory Research in Capabilitarian Scholarship, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 23:1, 1-7,
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2022.2019987

Boni, A, Velasco, D. & M. Tau (2021), The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from the South-African “Living Catchments Project, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 22, 4, pag.737-747.

Molas-Gallart, J., Boni, A., Giachi, S., & Schot, J. (2021). A formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies. Research Evaluation, 30(4), 431-442.

Pellicer-Sifres, V., Simcock, N., & Boni, A. (2021). Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities. Local Environment, 26(8), 1026-1042.

Velasco, D., Boni, A., Delgado, C., & Rojas-Forero, G. D. (2021). Exploring the role of a Colombian university to promote just transitions. An analysis from the human development and the regional transition pathways to sustainability. Sustainability, 13(11), 6014.

Belda-Miquel, S. Pellicer-Sifres, V and A. Boni, (2020), Exploring the Contribution of Grassroots Innovations to Justice: Using the Capability Approach to Normatively Address Bottom Up Sustainable Transitions Practices,  Sustainability, 12(9), 3617. (Q1).

Boni, A, López-Fogués, A, Millán G y Belda-Miquel, S. 2020. Analysing participatory video thorugh the capability approach - A case study in Quart de Poblet (Valencia-Spain), Action Research, 8, 3, 282-301, DOI: 10.1177/1476750317715073

Boni, A and D. Velasco, 2019, Epistemic Capabilities and Epistemic Injustice: What is the Role of Higher Education in Fostering Epistemic Contributions of Marginalized Knowledge Producers?,  GLOBAL JUSTICE : THEORY PRACTICE RHETORIC (12/1) 2019 https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.12.01.228

Sergio Belda-Miquel, Alejandra Boni & Carola Calabuig (2019), SDG Localisation and Decentralised Development Aid: Exploring Opposing Discourses and Practices in Valencia's Aid Sector, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 20:4, 386-402, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2019.1624512

Alejandra Boni, Aurora López-Fogués, Álvaro Fernández-Baldor, Gynna Millan & Sergio Belda-Miquel (2019)  Initiatives towards a participatory Smart city. The role of digital grassroots innovations, Journal of Global Ethics, 15:2, 168-182, DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2019.1636115

Boni, A., Sastre, J.J. y C. Calabuig, (2019) Educating engineers for the public good through internships in developing countries: An exploration based on a case study at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) Science and Engineering Ethics, 2019, 25:1799–1815 DOI 10.1007/s11948-015-9728-z

Boni, Alejandra; Belda-Miquel, Sergio & Pellicer-Sifres, Victoria, (2019) Innovación transformadora. Propuestas desde la innovación social colectiva para el desarrollo humano. Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 23, pp. 67-94.

Boris Lazzarini, Agustí Pérez-Foguet and Alejandra Boni, (2018) Key characteristics of academics promoting Sustainable Human Development within engineering studies, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, Volume 188, 1 July 2018, Pages 237-252

Victoria Pellicer-Sifres, Sergio Belda-Miquel, Iván Cuesta-Fernández and Alejandra Boni, (2018) Learning, transformative action, and grassroots innovation: Insights from the Spanish energy cooperative Som Energia. Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 42, August 2018, Pages 100-111.

A. Boni, G. F. Millán Franco & M. A. Millán Franco (2018), When Collectivity Makes a Difference: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from Urban and Rural Communities in Colombia, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 19, 2, 216-231.

Boni, A. & Calabuig, C. (2017) Education for global citizenship at universities. Potentialities of formal and informal learning spaces to foster cosmopolitanism,  Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017, 21 (1), pp. 22-38 DOI: 10.1177/1028315315602926

Hueso, Andrés; Boni, Alejandra; Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro, Embracing the complexity of policy processes in sanitation: insights from India, Development Policy Review 10.1111/dpr.12246 2017

Victoria Pellicer-Sifres, Sergio Belda-Miquel, Aurora López-Fogués & Alejandra Boni Aristizábal, (2017) Grassroots Social Innovation for Human Development: An Analysis of Alternative Food Networks in the City of Valencia (Spain), Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017, DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2016.1270916    

Belda-Miquel S, Boni Aristizábal, A. y M.F. Sañudo Pazos, (2015) Informal learning for citizenship building in shared struggles for rights:Cases of political solidarity between Colombian and Spanish organizations, Voluntas. 10.1007/s11266-015-9598-7.

Boni Aristizábal, A. & Calabuig-Tormo, C.Enhancing pro-public-good professionalism in technical studies, Higher Education 2016, 71, 6:791-804. 10.1007/s10734-015-9916-4

A. Frediani, A. Boni and Des Gasper  "Approaching Development Projects from a Human Development and Capability Perspective", Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2014, 15:1, 1-12.

Books and book chapters

- Walker, M, Boni, A & D. Velasco eds (2024), Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces, Springer.

- Belda-Miquel, S. & A. Boni (eds) (2023), Innovación para la Transformación Social y Ambiental, Tirant Humanidades.

- Velasco, D., Boni, A., & Chalela, S. (2021), Developing Transformative Innovation Through Policy Experimentation in Two Colombian Universities. In Science, Technology, and Higher Education (pp. 181-204). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- A. Boni  and A.A. Frediani (2021), Expanding capabilities through participatory action research in The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach, Martinetti, Osmani and Quizilbash (eds), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 477-495.
- Boruncle, Imbach, Zamora, Urueña and Boni  (2021), Building Local Strategies for the adaptation to climate change of farming livelihoods. Review of a participatory approach in Mesoamerica in Lachapelle, Gutierréz-Montes and Butler (eds) Community Capacity and Resilience in Latin America, Routledge, New York/London. Pp.32-51.
- M. Walker and A. Boni (ed.) (2020), Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice. A transformative agenda for higher education, Palgrave McMillan, Springer, Switzerland.

- Boni, Belda-Miquel y Calabuig, 2020, Educación para la ciudadaniá global crítica, Sintésis, Madrid.

- Boni, A y M. Walker (2016), Universities and Global Human Development. Theoretical and empirical insights for social change, World Sustainability Series,  Routledge,  London
- Boni and Walker, (eds.) (2013) Human Development and Capabilities. Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century, Routledge.

 

 

 

 

2024

  1. Özman Müge & Cédric Gossart
    VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations,
    Vol: 35(2) - pags 374 - 385
  2. Mistral Van Oudenhove * , María Martínez-Mena, María Almagro , Elvira Díaz-Pereira , Efraín Carrillo, Joris de Vente , Cristina Fernández-Soler , Raquel Luján-Soto and Carolina Boix-Fayos
    Biology and Life Sciences Forum,
    Vol: 30 - pags 1 - 7
  3. Ozman Müge & Cédric Gossart
    Management International / International Management / Gestiòn Internacional,
    Vol: 28(4) - pags 55 - 67
  4. I. Aparisi-Cerdá, D. Ribó-Pérez, J. Gomar-Pascual, J. Pineda-Soler, R. Poveda-Bautista, M. García-Melón
    Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews,
    Vol: 189 - pags 1 - 13
  5. Cristina Fernández-Soler, Noelia Garcia-Franco, María Almagro, Elvira Díaz-Pereira , Raquel Luján, Eloísa García, María Martínez-Mena
    Soil Use and management,
    Vol: - pags 1 - 21
  6. Ozman Muge, Cédric Gossart, Nicolas Jullien
    International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing,
    Vol: 21(3) - pags 539 - 564
  7. Gossart
    cf. GS page,
    Vol: - pags 1 - 1
  8. Marta Maicas Pérz, Alejandra Boni Aristizabal, Álvaro Fernández-Baldor Martínez
    Revista Prisma Social,
    Vol: - pags 307 - 330
  9. Gossart Cédric & Cynthia Srnec
    Journal of Innovation Economics & Management,
    Vol: 1(43) - pags 215 - 246

2023

  1. Pablo F. Méndez, Floriane Clement, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
    Sustainability Science,
    Vol: - pags 303 - 321
  2. Pablo Villalobos Mateluna, Salim Chalela, Alejandra Boni
    Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad,
    Vol: 18 - pags 171 - 197
  3. Sara Sánchez López, Dani Jennifer Barrington, Rocio Poveda Bautista, Santiago Moll López
    BMC Women’s Health,
    Vol: 23 - pags 1 - 14
  4. Consoli, D., Castellacci, F., Santoalha, A.
    Industry & Innovation,
    Vol: 30 - pags 919 - 946
  5. Marie Gruber, Thomas Crispeels, Pablo D’Este
    Minerva,
    Vol: - pags 1 - 32
  6. Ana G. Ramirez‑Santos, Federica Ravera, Marta G. Rivera‑Ferre, Mar Calvet‑Nogués
    Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine,
    Vol: 19 - pags 1 - 19
  7. Sara Sánchez López, Dani Jennifer Barrington, Rocio Poveda Bautista, Santiago Moll López
    BMC Women’s Health,
    Vol: 23 - pags 1 - 14
  8. Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Adrián A. Díaz-Faes, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Rodrigo Costas
    JASIST,
    Vol: - pags 1 - 15
  9. Ana Escario-Chust, Fenna Vogelzang, Jordi Peris-Blanes, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Sergio Segura-Calero
    Energy Research & Social Science,
    Vol: 100 - pags 1 - 13
  10. Ferrán Catalá-López, Adolfo Alonso-Arroyo, Matthew J. Page, Lourdes Castelló-Cogollos, Brian Hutton, Manuel Ridao, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Rafael Aleixandre-Benavent, David Moher
    Journal of Clinical Epidemiology,
    Vol: 157 - pags 22 -
  11. E. Güell, C. Benito-Amat, J. Molas-Gallart
    Mental Health & Prevention,
    Vol: 0 - pags 1 - 19
  12. Gianna Angermayr, Andrés Palacio, Cristina Chaminade
    Sustainability,
    Vol: 15 - pags 15 439 -
  13. Irene Ramos-Vielba, Pablo D’Este
    Studies in Higher Education,
    Vol: - pags 1 - 12
  14. Rachel Bezner Kerr, Julio C Postigo, Pete Smith, Annette Cowie, Pramod K Singh, Marta Rivera-Ferre, Maria Cristina Tirado-von der Pahlen, Donovan Campbell, Henry Neufeldt
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,
    Vol: 62 - pags 101 275 -
  15. Hamed Vagheei, Alex Laini, Paolo Vezza, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Fulvio Boano
    Science of The Total Environment,
    Vol: 893 - pags 164 645 -
  16. Adela García-Aracil, Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga, Sílvia Monteiro, Leandro Almeida
    Education Sciences,
    Vol: 13 - pags 1 - 14
  17. Adela García-Aracil, Rosa Isusi-Fagoaga, Isidora Navarro-Milla
    Research in Comparative and International Education,
    Vol: 18 - pags 104 - 122
  18. Francisco González-Sala, Julia Osca Lluch, Maria Peñaranda Ortega
    Revista Española de Documentación Científica,
    Vol: 46 - pags 1 - 14

Pages

  1.   Exploring resource seeking in a scientific collaboration network and its effect on scientists' knowledge creation
    2023-11
    Karine Revet, Isabel Maria Bodas-Freitas, Barthélemy Chollet, Pablo D'Este
  2.   The steady effect of knowledge co-creation with universities on business scientific impact throughout the economic cycle
    2022-02
    Ana María Gómez-Aguayo, Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Carlos Benito-Amat
  3.   Research impact seen from the user side
    2022-01
    Jordi Molas-Gallart, Richard Woolley
  4.   Características psicológicas del personal investigador español
    2021-04
    Azagra Caro, J. M., Planells Aleixandre, E., Izquierdo Sánchez, B., & Moreno Cabezudo, J. A.
  5.   Personality and affects: Researchers with emotional intelligence
    2021-03
    Laura Hernando-Jorge, Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Ana M. Tur Porcar
  6.   Academic artists' engagement and commercialisation
    2021-02
    Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Carlos Benito-Amat, Ester Planells-Aleixandre
  7.   From emotion to motivation: the role of social support for researchers
    2021-01
    Ana Tur-Porcar, Andrés Salas-Vallina, Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro
  8.   Blue uncertainty: Warding off systemic risks in the Anthropocene - Lessons from COVID-19
    2020-03
    Pablo F. Méndez
  9.   New industrial policy and the role of executive agencies at the subnational level
    2020-02
    Pedro Marques
  10.   Exporting but still poor: the challenges of regional development in regions with mature industries
    2020-01
    Pedro Marques, David Barberá-Tomás
  11.   Indicadores de Participación Ciudadana desde una perspectiva de responsabilidad en la ciencia y la innovación: el caso español
    2019-02
    Mónica García-Melón, Hannia González-Urango
  12.   Fiction Lagging Behind Or Non-Fiction Defending The Indefensible? University-Industry (et al.) Interaction In Science Fiction
    2019-01
    Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, Laura González-Salmerón, Pedro Marques
  13.   Indicadores de género desde una perspectiva de responsabilidad social en la ciencia y la innovación: el caso español.
    2018-03
    Paula Otero-Hermida
  14.   Innovation from science: the role of network content and legitimacy ties
    2018-02
    Pablo D’Este, Óscar Llopis, Maureen Mc Kelvey, Alfredo Yegros
  15.   Connections matter: the influence of network sparseness, network diversity and a tertius iungens orientation on innovation
    2018-01
    Óscar Llopis, Pablo D’Este, Adrián A. Díaz-Faes
  16.   Research & Innovation in Spain 2016
    2017-02
    Ana Fernández-Zubieta, Irene Ramos-Vielba
  17.   From brawn to brains: manufacturing-KIBS interdependency
    2017-01
    Dioni Elche, Davide Consoli, Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo
  18.   A Functional Review of Literature on Research Careers
    2016-05
    Richard Woolley, Carolina Cañibano, Jakob Tesch
  19.   Exploring connections between social innovation, grassroots processes and human development: an analysis of alternative food networks in the city of Valencia (Spain)
    2016-04
    Victoria Pellicer Sifres, Sergio Belda Miquel, Aurora López Fogués, Alejandra Boni Aristizábal
  20.   Challenging traditional logics of energy planning: a Capability Approach analysis of a Grassroots Innovation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
    2016-03
    María Ten Palomares
  21.   Regional Human Capital and University Orientation: A case study on Spain
    2016-01
    Mabel Sánchez-Barrioluengo, Davide Consoli
  22.   ‘Shaken, but not stirred’: six decades defining social innovation
    2015-04
    Mónica Edwards-Schachter, Matthew L. Wallace
  23.   Who do you care about? Scientists’ personality traits and perceived beneficiary impact
    2015-03
    Óscar Llopis, Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro
  24.   The impact of one of the most highly cited university patents: formalisation and localization
    2015-02
    Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro, David Barberá-Tomás, Mónica Edwards-Schachter
  25.   A Taxonomy of Multi-Industry Labour Force Skills
    2015-01
    Davide Consoli, Francesco Rentocchini
  26.   Agglomerations and firm performance: how does it work, who benefits and how much?
    2014-11
    Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll
  27.   Resolving tensions of research utilization: The value of a usability-based approach
    2014-10
    Paul Benneworth, Julia Olmos-Peñuela
  28.   Clusters and industrial districts: where is the literature going? Identifying emerging sub-fields of research
    2014-09
    Jose Luis Hervas Oliver, Gregorio Gonzalez and Pedro Caja
  29.   Explaining researchers’ readiness to incorporate external stimuli in their research agendas
    2014-08
    Julia Olmos Peñuela, Paul Benneworth, Elena Castro-Martínez
  30.   Acceso al conocimiento público universitario en España: patrones geográficos - Access to universities’ public knowledge in Spain: geographical patterns
    2014-07
    Joaquín M. Azagra-Caro

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