Sarah Lewis

A brand new Learning Pathway has been launched on One Ocean Learn knowledge-translation platform, focusing on Blue Humanities: an inter- and multidisciplinary area of study that explores the multiple and complex relationships between humans and the ocean. As a subfield of Environmental Humanities, Blue Humanities bring together disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy and cultural studies, among others, […]

An exciting new exhibition has been added to the knowledge-translation platform One Ocean Learn: ‘The Sea is in our blood‘ presenting an illustrated poem by Hub PhD researcher Menka Vansant. The poem traces the stories and knowledge of the fisherfolk from Port Nolloth in South Africa’s Northern Cape that Menka engaged with during fieldwork in this […]

This blog post provides a brief summary of a day spent with a group of environmental Masters and PhD students from the South African Environmental Observation Network’s (SAEON) Graduate Student Network (GSN), funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa, drawing on Hub research to demonstrate the power of art in making marine […]

The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 16) will be the first Biodiversity COP to take place since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal. COP 15 was pivotal in introducing human rights standards into the […]

This was the question explored in the Our Shared Future: Developing Our Joint Pathway for Impactful Partnerships in Africa, organised by the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (UK) on 9-10 October 2024. Philile Mbatha, Deputy Director of One Ocean Hub, presented on the innovative approaches to international partnerships piloted […]

Protecting children’s right to a healthy environment, including a healthy ocean, is essential to ensure climate justice. Hub Director Elisa Morgera and early-career researcher Sophie Shields contributed to two international conferences on children’s human rights and climate justice, connecting One Ocean Hub research findings with a wide network of children’s rights and climate justice experts.   […]

A new episode (E6 – Part 2) of the One Ocean Hub podcast series is now available online, in which Hub researcher Alana Malinde Lancaster (University of West Indies, Barbados) and Hub early-career researcher Lysa Wini (University of Strathclyde, UK) delve deeper into the discussion on the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Alana and Lysa discussed how islands, each […]

How can we develop an inclusive global strategy against transnational organised crime to prevent environmental damage and protect human rights? One Ocean Hub researcher, Alana Malinde S.N. Lancaster (The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados) explored these questions, as a Keynote Speaker at the First Strategic Expert Dialogue focusing on ‘Priorities for Multilateral […]

Research findings on transformative ocean governance, and their relevance for biodiversity, climate and broader environmental science-policy interfaces, contribute to developing the capacities of present and future international negotiators. Hub Director Elisa Morgera was invited to contribute to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) annual Course on Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) Negotiations (Helsinki, 27 May – 6 […]