Álvaro Fernández-Baldor Martinez

Álvaro is assistant professor at the Department of Project Engineering. He has an interdisciplinary profile, having studied technical industrial engineering (Univ. de Cantabria), automation engineering (Univ. del País Vasco), master's degree in rural development (Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and a doctorate in agri-food economics and environment (UPV).

His teaching focuses on the Master's Degree in Development Cooperation, where he coordinates the EICE-MACODE educational innovation group. It also participates in the Innovation for Social and Environmental Transformation postgraduate courses organized by Ingenio, coordinating the digital socio-technical system module.

At the research level, he is interested in development processes, participatory methodologies, grassroots social innovation and, in general, the social impact that technology can generate. In fact, his doctoral thesis focused on analyzing the social impact of rural electrification projects with renewable energy in the Andes through the human development paradigm and the capabilities approach. Link to thesis here (http://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/34459).

Selection of publications:

(2024) Maicas-Pérez, M., Boni, A., & Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro. Investigación Acción Feminista para la (re)construcción de organizaciones habitables. Revista Prisma Social, (44), 307–330. Recuperado a partir de https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/5174

 (2023) Guijarro, Ester; Castro; Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro. Integral viability analysis of entrepreneurial projects in critical contexts: Application to the case of the management of a shea mill in Kumbungu, Ghana. Intangible Capital, 3 (19), 434 - 458. 10.3926/ic.2223

 (2023) Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro. Una llamada desde el Sur Global a revisar la investigación participativa en clave de justicia en “Democratising Participatory Research”. Journal de Ciencias Sociales, 2 (1), 108 - 112. 10.18682/jcs.v1i20.8188

 (2023) Leivas, M, FERNÁNDEZ-BALDOR, Á. Epistemic Resilience: Articulating Struggles and Dreams from the Co-production of Knowledge from Below Between Universities and Community Researchers. In: Walker, Boni & Velasco (eds). Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces. Pp. 69-88. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-3-031-45805-7

 (2023) Bueno Castellano, FERNÁNDEZ-BALDOR, Á., Smith, A. Evolución y análisis del sistema digital desde la perspectiva multinivel. In: Innovación para la transformación social y ambiental. Una propuesta desde las transiciones sociotécnicas (207 - 233). Tirant Humanidades. ISBN: 978-84-1183-025-6

 (2022) Leivas, Monique; Maicas-Pérez, Marta; Monge-Hernández, Carmen Lidia; Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro. “They Take Away What We Are”: Contributions of a Participatory Process with Photovoice to the Capabilities for Epistemic Liberation of Young People. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 1 (23), 50 - 72. 10.1080/19452829.2021.2005555

 (2022) Guijarro, Ester; María Clavel; Fernández-Baldor, Álvaro. Participatory Methodologies for Self-Management of Waste: Case Study for the Reduction of Plastics in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps. Sustainability, 237 (14), 1 - 17. 10.3390/su14042037

 (2021) Maicas-Pérez, M., Leivas, M., A., FERNÁNDEZ-BALDOR, Álvaro. Alzando voces tejiendo futuros. Aprendizaje en Acción en la ciudad de València. Introducción. Cuadernos de investigación en procesos de desarrollo, 8, 9-21.

 (2020) Leivas, M.; FERNÁNDEZ-BALDOR, Álvaro; Maicas-Pérez, M.; Calabuig-Tormo, C. A Freirian Approach to Epistemic Justice: Contributions of Action Learning to Capabilities for Epistemic Liberation. In: Walker, M., Boni, A. (eds.). Participatory Research, Capabilities and Epistemic Justice. A transformative agenda for higher education. Palgrave Macmillan.  pp. 89-114. ISBN 978-3-030-56197-0 http://hdl.handle.net/10251/202131