On Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 2:00 pm (CET), we are hosting the CAS SEE Seminar with Vlatka Matković on Decision-Making as a Democratic Site – Examining How Community Identity Is Institutionalised Within Governance Processes in conversation with the RECAS Fellow Srđan Kukolj.

About the seminar

This seminar conceptualises decision making as a democratic site by examining how community identity becomes institutionalised within governance processes. Community identity is treated as an operational policy category defined through exposure and vulnerability that gains institutional force once embedded in policy instruments and institutional obligations. The seminar focuses on the mechanisms through which lived experience is converted into evidence, then incorporated into formal documents that structure accountability. Attention is given to the procedural conditions under which certain identities become politically legible, as well as to the implications this has for legitimacy within evidence informed governance.

Vlatka Matković is a Brussels based public health and environmental policy professional whose work examines how health evidence is converted into governance decisions, as well as how those decisions are stabilised through policy instruments. She has held senior science policy roles in European policy settings, including a decade at the Health and Environment Alliance and she has contributed to analytical work for the European Commission Joint Research Centre on burden of disease and health related costs attributable to air pollution in urban areas in the Western Balkans, with her current role as EU Project Manager at Lungs Europe. She holds a PhD in Biomedicine and Health Sciences in the field of Public Health from the University of Zagreb and she completed postgraduate training in Health Economics, which supports her focus on the interface between epidemiological estimation and policy design.  

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