Esmee Wilcox, works in the spaces in-between citizen-led groups, NGOs and UK local and national government on sustainability futures. She is a social systems change and futures practitioner, working through consultancy Socially Adept; and PhD researcher in the Science, Society and Sustainability group at UEA where she is investigating the potential to reform citizen with science and government institutional relationships in the making of sustainable rural futures as UK nationally designated wholescale restructures of local and regional governance systems may open up seemingly stable systems.
Esmee’s first careers in policy and political engagement included co-authoring the 2005 cross-government strategy on Disability (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit) and implementing the 2004 rural strategy (Defra) where she also undertook her Masters in Professional Development (Middlesex) on dialogue for transformative learning in the evidence-policy interface. She worked in one of the government’s science laboratories before stints in local government and subsequently setting up her consultancy practice.
Esmee holds an Emerging Fellowship and membership of the Association of Professional Futurists. She is Visiting Senior Fellow in Social Equity and Sustainability at the Suffolk Sustainability Institute, and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Manufactures and Commerce.
