Alejandra Boni Aristizabal

Doctora en Derecho por la U. de Valencia en el Programa de Derechos Humanos y Democracia y Catedrática del Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería de la U. Politécnica de Valencia. Vicedirectora del Instituto Ingenio (CSIC-UPV).

Ha sido investigadora invitada en el Institute of Development Studies en Sussex (2007), el Institute of Social Studies de la Haya (2009), Research Centre for Leadership in Action de la U. de Nueva York (2011), el Instituto Pensar de la U. Javieriana de Bogota (2011 y 2013), la U. de Free State de Sudáfrica (2013 y 2014) y la University College of London (2016-17). Special Lecture de la U. de Nottingham (2008-2012) y Honorary Professor de la University of the Free State en África del Sur.

Investigadora principal de diferentes proyectos de investigación (2005-2017) sobre educación para el desarrollo, cooperación internacional y desarrollo humano, innovación social de base y cambio climático,  financiados por el MCIIN, AECID, la UPV y la Secretaría de Estado de Universidades. Participante en distintos proyectos europeos: EDUWEL enmarcado en el programa Marie Curie (2010-2014), SOCIETY financiado por el 7 Programa Marco (2013-2015), Global Engineering financiado por Europe Aid (2013-2015),  Global Identity through Human Development (2014), Students 4 Change. Social Entrepeneurship in Academia (2016-2019) Motion (Building a Methodology and Community of Practice for Catalyzing Transformative Change through System Innovation 2019-2021). Participante activo del Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium.

Coordinadora de la Red de la red CYTED (Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo) Análisis multidimensional de las interacciones universidad-sociedad en Iberoamérica para el período 2018-2021 que aglutina a 13 instituciones iberoamericanas.

Las temáticas de interés principales son el desarrollo humano, la universidad, la educación para el desarrollo, los proyectos de cooperacion y el desarrollo, la cooperación internacional, la innovasion social desde la base, la investigacion acción y el cambio climático.

Entre sus publicaciones científicas recientes destacan:

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; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12093617

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) 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: https://doi.org/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, 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, Innovación transformadora. Propuestas desde la innovación social colectiva para el desarrollo humano.2018, Recerca. Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi, 23, pp. 67-94.

Boris Lazzarini, Agustí Pérez-Foguet and Alejandra Boni, 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,  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, When Collectivity Makes a Difference: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from Urban and Rural Communities in Colombia, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 2017, DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2017.1412408

Boni, A. & Calabuig, C. 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, (2017) 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, 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, Informal learning for citizenship building in shared struggles for rights:Cases of political solidarity between Colombian and Spanish organizations, Voluntas 2015. 10.1007/s11266-015-9598-7.

Boni, Alejandra, Leivas, Monique, De La Fuente, Teresa y Sergio Belda-Miquel, Grassroots innovation for human development. Exploring the potential of Participatory Video, International Journal of E-Politics Volume 7 • Issue 4 • October-December 2016 DOI: 10.4018/IJEP.2016100103.

 Boni, A. & G. Millán. Action-Research using Participatory Video. A learning experience in San Lorenzo, Castellón, Spain (2016), Commons, Revista de Comunicación y Ciudadanía Digital, Vol. 5 N. 1 pp. 113-135.

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

Belda S, A. Boni, Cuesta, I and J. Peris, Are Rights-Based Approaches helping (re)politicise development NGOs?.Exploring the Spanish case." International Development Planning Review, 38(2):135-157

 Alejandra Boni, Aurora Lopez-Fogues & Melanie Walker, Higher education and the post-2015 agenda: a contribution from the human development approach, Journal of Global Ethics, 12:1, 17-28; 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2016.1148757

Lillo, P, Ferrer-Martí, L. Boni, A. and A. Fernandez-Baldor. Assessing management models for off-grid renewable energy electrification projects using the Human Development approach: case study in Peru Energy for Sustainable Development, Volume 25, April 2015, Pages 17–26 doi:10.1016/j.esd.2014.11.003  

Libros y capítulos de libros: 

Frediani, A.A., Peris, J y A. Boni, Notions of Empowerment and Participation: Contributions from and to the Capability Approach in D. A. Clark et al. (eds.), 2019, The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation, Rethinking International Development series, Palgrave, London, 101-124 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-35230-9_5

Drydyk, J., A. Boni, A. A. Freadiani, M. Walker y A. López-Fogués; The muldimensionality of empowerment. Conceptual and empirical considerations in L. Keheler y S. J. Kosko (eds), Agency and Democracy in Development Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambdrige/London/Melbourne, 2019, pp. 205-227.

Alejandra Boni Aristizábal, Aurora López-Fogués, Alvaro Fernández-Balbor Martínez, Gynna Farith Millan Franco y Sergio Belda-Miquel, Repensando la Ciudad Inteligente desde la Innovación Social Digital Ciudadana. REFERENCIA LIBRO: Instituto Nacional de Admnistraciones Públicas, Madrid. 2018.

Boni, A. Educación, democracia y justicia social in Severine Deneulin, Jhonatan Clausen, Arelí Valencia (eds.) Aportes para el desarrollo humano en América Latina. Manantial, Flacso, 2018, pp. 359-372.

Boni, Alejandra and Merridy Wilson-Stryodm, Education. Worthwhile education for ethical human development in Jay Drydyk y Lori Keheler (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics Routledge, 2018, pp. 188-199

Alejandra Boni, Carola Calabuig and Victoria Pellicer, Transforming the System from Within: Experiences of a Development Cooperation Masters en Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education (Editors: Melanie Walker and Merridy Wilson-Strydom) Palgrave, London, 10.1057/978-1-137-55786-5_10 pp. 201-220, 2017.

Belda-Miquel, S, Boni Aristizábal, A y M.F. Sañudo Pazo, Hacia una cooperación internacional transformadora: Solidaridades y aprendizajes con movimientos sociales por los derechos humanos en Colombia, Icaria, Barcelona, 2016

Boni, A y M. Walker, Universities and Global Human Development.Theoretical and empirical insights for social change. REFERENCIA LIBRO: World Sustainability Series, 2016, Routledge,  London

Boni, A. and Walker, M. (Eds) (2013) Universities and Human Development. A New Imaginary for the University of the XXI Century, London: Routledge.

Associate Editor: Journal of Human Development and Capability (2009-) and Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies (2012-)

Secretary of Red Española de la Red de Estudios en Desarrollo (2011-2018)

Vicepresident of the International Development Ethics Association (2011-2018)

External examiner of the Human Development Degree in St. Patricks College, Drumcondra, Dublin City University, 2013-2016 and Master in Social Development Practice, University College of London 2014-2017.

Awarded with the University College of London Grand Challenge Prize (sept. 2019) for a meaningful engagement between academics and practitioners in using the capability approach.