Session II Social learning in the veterinary sector: Perspectives from the social sciences

1. Kevin Bardosh, PhD
School of Public Health, University of Washington
Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh
Social learning in the veterinary
sector: Perspectives from the
social sciences

2. Common tensions in veterinary
policy approaches
1. Vertical vs horizontal
2. Biomedical vs participatory
3. Local production vs biosecurity
4. Low tech vs high tech
5. Behaviour vs systems change

6. Different forms of social science
engagement
1. Exploratory research
2. Intervention research
3. Systems research
4. Critical research
5. Philosophical research
6. Participatory research
7. Academic activism

12. Global Animal Health Governance Network
(GAHN)

13. Knowledge and Discourse:
What is the policy narrative?
Actors and Networks: Who is
involved and how are they
connected?
Politics and Interest: What are
the underlying power
dynamics?

14. The “futures-focused” policy process
A common tool for strategic planning

15. Futures thinking
• Uncertainty
• Imaginative
• Participatory
• Anticipatory, not predictive
• Futures not “the future”
• Beyond the noise and hype

16. Sources: P. Raskin and M. Zurek
Scenarios provide
an integrated view

17. https://www.fao.org/3/ca5420en/CA5420EN
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18. The Foresight Approach
The Futures Toolkit: Tools for Futures Thinking and Foresight Across UK Government.
2016https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/674209/futures-toolkit-edition-
1.pdf

19. The Futures Toolkit: Tools for Futures Thinking and Foresight Across UK
Government (2016)
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/a
ttachment_data/file/674209/futures-toolkit-edition-1.pdf
UNDP Foresight Manual: Empowering Futures (2018)
https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/capacity-
building/global-centre-for-public-service-excellence/ForesightManual2018.html

22. Five critical AMR Future uncertainties
Bardosh, Kevin. 2020. Antimicrobial Resistance Futures: Five critical uncertainties threaten policy and response plans of the livestock sector in low- and
middle-income countries. Background paper. Gainesville, FL, USA: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Livestock Systems.

23. The AMR Futures Approach
Step 2:
Defining
the present
Step 3:
Exploring
change
dynamics
Step 4:
Envisioning
the future
Step 5:
Planning
for change
Step 1.
Intelligence
gathering

24. Global Animal Health Governance Network
(GAHN)