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Job Title: Research Officer Contact Details: jose.roche(at)qeh.ox.ac.uk |
Biography
Jose Manuel Roche joined OPHI as a Research Officer in 2009. He holds a PhD in sociology and an MSc in social research methods from the University of Sussex, UK. His research interests include poverty analysis, social inequality, geographical inequality, survey analysis, human development and social indicators. He has served as a consultant and social statistics advisor for UNDP, UNICEF, EU, IDS, 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 undergraduate and graduate level.
Areas of Expertise
Poverty analysis, social inequality, survey analysis, human development 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
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
2011 – ‘Beyond Headcount: Measures that Reflect the Breadth and Components of Child Poverty’ (with Sabina Alkire), OPHI Working Paper 45, forthcoming in Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Measurement, Concepts, Policy and Action, Alberto Minujin and Shailen Nandy (Ed.), Bristol, The Policy Press.
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.
