I am a doctoral candidate in the Political, Societal and Regional Change programme experienced in qualitative research and implementation of development cooperation projects in Finland and Latin America. My doctoral research focuses on how the focus of women’s empowerment shifts when Finland’s development aid has been increasingly transferred from traditional development cooperation to the private sector through cross-sectoral partnerships with Kenya. My professional work has been focused on using research to inform project design and implementation in development cooperation initiatives for gender-based violence, gender equality, peacebuilding, psychosocial support, and migration. Previously I have conducted research on Women, Peace and Security, and feminism in Colombia, and refugees, agency, and gender-based violence in Norway.

I am a doctoral researcher in the Doctoral program in School, Education, Society and Culture (SEDUCE) of the University of Helsinki. My research focuses on equity in academic partnerships between Global North and Global South higher education institutions. I am more specifically interested in understanding the temporalities of academic partnerships, time conceptions informing partnership time frames, and how partnership time frames either support or undermine equitable collaboration.

I work in capacity building projects in Asia, LAC and Africa.

Projects

Capacity Building for Renewable Energy Planning in Cuban Higher Education Institutions (CRECE)

Myanmar Energy and Environment Education (MEEE)

Cuban Energy Transformation: Integration of Renewable Intermittent Sources in the Power System (IRIS)

I am a doctoral researcher from the Univerisity of Helsinki (Social Science, Global Development Study) and hold two master's degrees in Political Sciences.

I am starting the Doctorate Program at Aalto University in 2021. My research project aims at investigating how frugal social innovations from the Global South might create alternative concepts and appropriated meanings of quality, well-being, social change, consequently, development. This proposal is aligned with contemporary efforts to link management research to Grand Challenges such as poverty alleviation (Kistruck & Shulist, 2020), positioned at the emergent and interdisciplinary field of Business and Development (Lund-Thomsen et al., 2020). I believe that being part of the UniPID DocNet will be an excellent opportunity to expand my training opportunities, exchange and partnerships, while also collaborating with the network, bringing a different background and commitment to discuss the grand societal challenges and development issues in the world. To embark on such an endeavor, I bring an interdisciplinary and multifaceted background, as a researcher and educator from Latin America, working with topics related to social innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development, including significant experience in international collaborations in Brazil, the USA, Uganda, India, and other countries in Latin America and Europe.