• Florence School of Transnational Governance

Presentation of the paper by Dr Laura De Vito

This paper Foresight for sustainability and well-being governance: exploring challenges and opportunities by Dr Laura De Vito presents preliminary findings from the ESRC Policy Fellowship: Welsh Government Sustainable Futures. It provides an overview of the role of futures and foresight in supporting sustainability and well-being governance. It draws on data from international case studies with a particular focus on the case of Wales and its Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). It will present data from national and international interviews as well as insights from three foresight pilots conducted with Welsh Government policy teams on current policy projects and a stakeholder workshop. 

About the speaker

Dr Laura de Vito is a researcher working at the policy-academia interface on sustainable development governance and environmental and climate change policy. Since 2017 she has been employed in the Air Quality Management Resource Centre (AQMRC) at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, where she is now working as a Senior Research Fellow. Her academic background is in Public Policy and Environmental Policy, in which she has two Masters' (at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, & at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences). In 2017, Laura completed a PhD at the University of Bristol (Geography department). Her PhD research addressed the complexities of implementing the EU's Water Framework Directive and her thesis was nominated for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law prize for outstanding excellence in a doctoral thesis. 

As an ESRC Policy Fellow (2022-23) she’s currently working with the Welsh Government Sustainable Futures Division on a research project that aims at strengthening long-term policymaking through futures and foresight for the delivery of the Well-being of Future Generations Act.

About the ESRC Policy Fellowship

The ESRC Policy Fellowship (2022-23) hosted by the Welsh Government Sustainable Futures Division focused on policy development and strategic foresight associated with the drivers and trends likely to affect the achievement of Wales’ national well-being goals set out in the Well-being of Future Generations Act. This work involved working closely with the Sustainable Futures Division, which enables and supports Strategic Foresight and Futures work in Welsh Government and the wider One Welsh Public Service, including supporting the publication and maintaining of a Future Trends Wales resource, i.e. the Future Trends Report. 

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