Dr De Vito is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK. She is a Public Policy scholar working at the science-policy interface on environmental governance and sustainable development. Since 2022 she has also focussed on researching and teaching sustainable futures, using her research background to support governments to embed strategic foresight for more future-regarding and resilient policymaking, and directly applying a wide range of strategic foresight methods as analytical techniques.