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Álvaro Fernández-Baldor Martínez

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Álvaro Fernández-Baldor is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Engineering Projects at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and senior researcher at INGENIO. He has an interdisciplinary background, having studied Industrial Technical Engineering (University of Cantabria), Control Engineering (University of the Basque Country), a Master's in Rural Development (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), and a PhD in Agri-food and Environmental Economics (UPV).

His teaching focuses on the Master’s in Development Cooperation, where he is the current director and coordinates the educational innovation group EICE-MACODE. He also participates in the postgraduate programs on Innovation for Social and Environmental Transformation organized by INGENIO, coordinating the module on the digital socio-technical system.

His research interests include development processes, participatory methodologies, grassroots social innovation, and more broadly, the social impact of technology. In fact, his doctoral thesis analyzed the social impact of rural electrification projects using renewable energy in the Andes, applying the human development paradigm and the capabilities approach.

Thesis available here: http://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/34459

Selection of Recent Publications:

(2025) Leivas Vargas, M.; Fernández-Baldor, Á.; Calabuig-Tormo, C. Academic ecosystem and epistemic opressions: an experience of academic migration from Brazil to Spain. International Journal of Social Research Methodology. DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2025.2590496

(2025) Fernández-Baldor, A. et al. Tecnologías apropiadas y el Buen Vivir. Construyendo el B’an q’atine - B’an anq’ib’il. Análisis de casos en comunidades maya Ixil y Mam de Guatemala. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/229076

(2025) Bueno Castellanos, C.; Fernandez-Baldor, A. Transformative Potential of Digital Manufacturing Laboratories: Insights from Mexico and Spain. Knowledge, 5, 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/knowledge5030012

(2024) Puchol, G.; Fernández-Baldor, Á.; Lovaton, R.; Rodilla, JM.; Botija, M. Beyond Housing: Exploring Homelessness Through the Capability Approach. Housing Theory and Society. DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2024.2441179

(2024) Maicas-Pérez, M., Boni, A., & Fernández-Baldor, Á. Feminist Action Research for the (Re)construction of Habitable Organizations. Revista Prisma Social, (44), 307–330. https://revistaprismasocial.es/article/view/5174

(2023) Guijarro, E., Castro, Fernández-Baldor, Á. 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. https://doi.org/10.3926/ic.2223

(2023) Fernández-Baldor, Á. A Call from the Global South to Rethink Participatory Research in Terms of Justice, in Democratising Participatory Research. Journal de Ciencias Sociales, 2(1), 108–112. https://doi.org/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. The Evolution and Analysis of the Digital System from a Multi-level Perspective, in Innovation for Social and Environmental Transformation. A Proposal from Socio-technical Transitions, pp. 207–233. Tirant Humanidades. ISBN: 978-84-1183-025-6

(2022) Leivas, M., Maicas-Pérez, M., Monge-Hernández, C. L., Fernández-Baldor, Á. “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. https://doi.org/10.1080/19452829.2021.2005555

(2022) Guijarro, E., Clavel, M., Fernández-Baldor, Á. Participatory Methodologies for Self-Management of Waste: Case Study for the Reduction of Plastics in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps. Sustainability, 14(4), 2037. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042037

(2020) Leivas, M., Fernández-Baldor, Á., Maicas-Pérez, M., Calabuig-Tormo, C. A Freirean 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, pp. 89–114. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-56197-0

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