About Carmen Martinez Vargas

Carmen Martinez-Vargas is currently based at the Higher Education and Human Development Research Group (University of the Free State, South Africa) as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. She has several years’ experience working with participatory approaches (participatory methods, methodologies and research processes) within the global north and global south and her PhD project focused on the conceptualization and implementation of a participatory capabilities-based research process to advance socially just higher education. Moreover, her research interest problematizes intersections of decolonization and social justice in the context of human development.