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Biography
José Manuel Roche joined OPHI as a Research Officer in 2009. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Sussex and has research and consultancy experience in poverty analysis, social inequality, survey analysis, social indicators and on the human development and the capability approach. He was awarded the 2007 Wiebke Kuklys Prize, and is a Chevening Alumni (2004-2006). He is research fellow at CISOR, Education Officer (elected 2012-2015) of the HDCA executive council, and coordinator of the Quantitative Research Thematic Group at the HDCA. Previous to OPHI, he worked in research projects at the University of Sussex, the Institute of Development Studies, UNDP, UNICEF, the Venezuelan National Institute of Statistics and the Venezuelan Ministry of Planning and Development. He has taught courses on advance statistics, social research methods, international development, and inequality at the undergraduate and graduate level.
At OPHI, José Manuel has undertaken and overseen research on multidimensional poverty analysis and on the missing dimensions program. He oversaw the 2011 Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) calculations with Sabina Alkire, and carried out a global analysis of sub-national disparities and inter-temporal evolution of multidimensional poverty. He has also undertaken research on child poverty measurement, on multidimensional poverty in Venezuela, as well as provided technical guidance to nationally tailored multidimensional poverty measures. In the missing dimensions program, José Manuel oversaw the analysis of the Chilean national survey and of the pilot surveys in the Philippines, Sri Lank, Nigeria and China. In this area of OPHI research, José Manuel has particularly concentrated on subjective scale validation with emphasis on scales to measure relative autonomy. His role at OPHI also includes overseeing research and providing technical guidance to those applying OPHI’s methodologies.
Areas of Expertise
Poverty analysis, social inequality, geographical inequality, Human development and capability approach, survey analysis and social indicators
Education
2009 DPhil in Sociology, University of Sussex, UK
Thesis: ‘Capabilities and group inequalities: Measuring geographical and social class inequalities in housing adequacy in Venezuela’
2005 MSc (Distinction) in Social Research Methods, University of Sussex, UK
1999 BA (Hons) in Sociology, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Venezuela
Selected Publications
2012 – ‘Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty’ (with Sabina Alkire), in Alberto Minujin and Shailen Nandy (Ed.) Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action, Bristol: The Policy Press, p 103 – 134. An earlier version as OPHI Working Paper 45 in 2011.
2012 – ‘Beyond Headcount: The Alkire-Foster Approach to Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement’ (with Sabina Alkire), in Isabel Ortiz, Louise Moreira Daniels and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir (Ed.) Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives, New York: UNICEF Division of Policy and Practice, p 18 – 22. A print version of the Child Poverty Insights from October 2009.
2011 – ‘Sub-national Disparities and Inter-temporal Evolution of Multidimensional Poverty across Developing Countries’ (with Sabina Alkire and Suman Seth), OPHI Research in Progress 32a
2009 – ‘Operationalization of the capability approach, from theory to practice: a review of techniques and empirical applications’ (with Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti) in Chiappero-Martinetti, E. (Ed.) Debating Global Society: Reach and Limits of the Capability Approach. Milan: Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli.
2009 – ‘Capability and Group Inequalities: Revealing the latent structure’, OPHI Research in Progress 18
2009 – ‘Child Poverty Measurement: An Assessment of Methods and an Application to Bangladesh’, OPHI Research in Progress 11, forthcoming in Social Indicators Research.
2009 – ‘The United Kingdom: From flexible employment to vulnerable workers’ (with Jacqueline O’Reilly, John MacInnes and Tizana Nazio) in Vosko , L. F., M. MacDonald and I. Campbell (Ed.) Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment. New York: Routledge (Series: IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics).
2008 – ‘Monitoring Inequality among Social Groups: A Methodology Combining Fuzzy Set Theory and Principal Component Analysis’, Journal of Human Development, 9 (3).
2005 – ‘Información Social: Material Instruccional’ (with Claudia Giménez, Cecilia Torres, Élida Di Bonaventura) Serie Cuadernos Técnicos Nº 23. Fundación Escuela de Gerencia Social. Caracas: Ediciones FEGS.
2004 – ‘Atlas del Desarrollo Humano en Venezuela’ [CD-ROM] (with Proyecto Sisteem), Caracas: Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas – Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.
2003 – ‘Identificación de microáreas sociales homogéneas: una metodología para el Sistema de Información Social Municipal y de las Comunidades’ (with Roger Pece), Caracas: Proyecto PNUD-INE.
2002 – ‘Caracterización, Tipología y Clasificación Municipal de Venezuela: Una Medición del Desarrollo Humano a Nivel Municipal’ (with Claudia Giménez, José Luis Fernandez, Carlos Noguera, Cecilia Torres, Elida Di Bonaventura, Beatriz Barrot, Gerardo Correa), Sistema de Información para la Gestión Local, Caracas: Instituto Nacional de Estadística – Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.
1999 – ‘The educational conditions in the agricultural areas of Venezuela’ (with Alberto Gruson, Tito Lacruz, and Paola Signorini), commissioned by Fundación Polar, Caracas: CISOR.
