News and Blogs
Making space for small-scale fishers: developing a community-based fisher mapping methodology in St Helena Bay, South Africa
A research team from the University of Cape Town has commenced a collaborative, community-based research project with three small-scale fishers (SSF) communities from St Helena Bay on the West Coast of South Africa. The project aimed to develop a methodology that would support fishers in documenting their knowledge and co-creating the information base needed to […]
Reframing ocean literacy under the UN Ocean Science Decade
Hub researcher and Empatheatre co-founder Dylan McGarry contributed to the Ocean Literacy Dialogue and the UN Ocean Decade Conference, with a particular emphasis on the need to shift attention from ‘ocean literacy’ to ‘ocean fluency’. In his words: “There are many ocean fluent people, from small-scale fishers, Indigenous Peoples, surfers, swimmers and children. We don’t need to make them […]
A New Definition for ‘Destructive Fishing’ to Kickstart A Fresh Era in Fishing Policy
This blogpost speaks about the importance of a new definition for ‘destructive fishing’ developed through an iterative process from 2021 to 2023 by experts in this field. The definition draws attention to the “significant and irreversible damage caused to the wider marine ecosystem, threatens not only biodiversity but also the ability of marine systems to […]
Clarifying the transformative potential of the human right to a healthy ocean
Hub Director Elisa Morgera has collaborated with Nathan Bennet (WWF), with whom she also works on the Ocean Defenders project, and UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment David Boyd on the article “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable ocean.” Published on npj Ocean Sustainability, the article seeks to engage […]
Spotlight on early-career researcher: nina rivers
My name is Nina Rivers and I am currently an early-career researcher with the One Ocean Hub at the University of Strathclyde, UK and Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. My work focuses on integrating Hub research and findings across and within Hub partner countries and thematic areas. My areas of interest are equitable knowledge co-creation […]
One Ocean Learn launches a new Learning Pathway focusing on transdiciplinarity
A new Learning Pathway, ‘Transdiciplinarity’ is now available on the One Ocean Learn knowledge-translation platform. The Learning Pathway delves into various stages of implementation of transdisciplinary methods, defining, discussing, and differentiating between ‘strong’ and ‘weak’ transdisciplinary. The learning pathway was developed by Hub early-career researcher Mia Strand, (Nelson Mandela University, South Africa and University of […]
New podcast on knowledge co-production, art-based participatory methods and social justice
In the new episode of the One Ocean Hub podcast, early-career researcher Elsemi Olwage (University of Namibia) and Kira Erwin (groundWork/Durban University of Technology) talk to Hub’s Milica Prokic about their experiences of collaborative research in Namibia and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, of knowledge co-production, art-based participatory methods, and social justice. In this deeply insightful and […]
New film: ‘Women in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana – the unsung heroines’
The short film ‘Women in Small-Scale Fisheries in Ghana – the unsung heroines’ focuses on the contributions of women in the fisheries sector in Ghana. The film reflects on the workshops that were organised by Hub researchers and local partners in Ghana in 2021-2023. The workshops sought to empower the women to recognise and address their human rights issues […]
Part II of the ‘Women of the sea’ podcast expands insights on women’s knowledge of the ocean
In the second part of the One Ocean Hub Podcast, Episode 4 ‘Women of the sea’, Knowledge Exchange Associate Milica Prokic continues the conversation on the entanglements of the ocean, ocean research and gender with two South African scholars and activists, Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa). In the podcast, […]
