Dr Laura de Vito

• Qualifications:BSc, MA, MSc, PhD
• Position:Senior Research Fellow: Air Quality Management Resource Centre
• Department:FET - Geography and Environmental Management
• Telephone:+4411732 85011
• Email:Laura.Devito@uwe.ac.uk
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Laura is a researcher working at the science-policy interface on long-term and future-regarding 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. Since 2022 she has focussed on researching and teaching sustainable futures, specialising in futures studies and foresight methodologies

Selected projects

ESRC Policy Fellowship – Welsh Government Sustainable Futures (PI, Feb 2022-Aug 2023): exploring the role of strategic foresight in sustainable development governance 

JPI-ESRC CCC-CATAPULT (Co-I and WP lead 2020-2024) explores young people's climate anxieties and perceptions and intergenerational fairness issues  

UKRI Homes under the microscope (2021-2023) (Co-I and WP lead): a citizen-science project exploring airborne microplastics in homes and co-developing better practice and exploring potential policy solutions.

BA Just Transition and Biodiversity (Co-I, 2021), looking at what just transition mean for biodiversity protection using place-based lens

Local Government Association (LGA) – Net Zero Innovation Programme (Co-I, lead researcher 2021) in partnership with South Gloucestershire council for the development of a local carbon communication strategy and toolkit 

The NERC-MRC Clean Air for Delhi through Intervention Mitigation and Engagement (CADTIME)  (2017-2021) long-term policy solutions to air pollution in Delhi, India

Advisory roles

She is member of the Bristol Advisory Committee on Climate Change and of the Scottish Government Working Group on Public Engagement and Clean Air for Scotland.

Social media links

Laura De Vito (@DrLauraDeVito) / Twitter

Laura De Vito | LinkedIn

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9196-4013

Area of expertise

Academic background: Political Sciences (Public Policy and Public Administration) 

Research themes: environmental and climate change policy; sustainable development governance.

Research methods: mixed-methods (qualitative and quantitative), comparartive research and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA); foresight methodologies

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