Alejandra Boni Aristizabal

Doctora en Derechos Humanos y Democracia por la Universidad de Valencia. Catedrática de la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) y Vicedirectora del Instituto de Investigación Ingenio (CSIC-UPV). Profesora Extraordinaria de la Universidad del Estado Libre (Sudáfrica). Es Co-directora del Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), un consorcio internacional de institutos de investigación europeos y de los países nacionales que trabajan en políticas de ciencia, tecnología e innovación. Más de 130 publicaciones internacionales y nacionales en las siguientes áreas: desarrollo humano, innovación social, educación, participación, tecnología y sostenibilidad (artículos, libros y capítulos de libros). Investigación relevante en educación superior, innovación social y de base en el ámbito de la energía, la alimentación y el sector digital. Experta en el uso de metodologías participativas para codiseñar, implementar y evaluar iniciativas políticas en el ámbito de la evaluación transformadora, la educación para el desarrollo y la política participativa. Amplia experiencia y trayectoria en el ámbito de la educación para el desarrollo y la educación para la ciudadanía global.

Desde 2011-2023, IP de 15 proyectos de investigación de convocatorias de subvenciones internacionales, nacionales y locales (importe total 979.693€) y 12 contratos con instituciones públicas y privadas nacionales y locales (importe total 338.413€). Con una amplia red de colaboradores nacionales y con los que investiga y publica. Investigadora invitado en el Institut Mines-Telecom- Business School, Evry-Francia (2022), Universidad Autónoma Latinoamericana, Medellín-Colombia (2019), University College of London-Reino Unido (2016-2017), University of New York-Estados Unidos (2011), Erasmus University at Rotterdam-Países Bajos (2009) y University of Sussex-Reino Unido (2007).

Editora jefe del Journal of Human Development and Capabilities y editora asociada del Iberoamerican Journal of Development Studies. Premiada con el University College of London Grand Challenge Prize (sept. 2019) por un compromiso significativo entre académia y profesionales.

Premio Margarita Salas del CSIC por su trayctoria en supervisión de tesis doctorales. Entre 2010 y 2023 ha supervisado 19 tesis doctorales en 4 universidades diferentes. Sus doctorandos trabajan en el sector académico (como profesores asociados, conferenciantes e investigadores postdoctorales), en las administraciones locales (ayuntamiento valenciano o personal técnico en universidades), en el sector privado (empresa Ford), en el sector educativo (profesor de formación profesional) y en el tercer sector (ONG en Bélgica y España).

Entre sus publicaciones científicas recientes destacan:

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, 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.

Libros y capítulos de libro

- 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.