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Four co-authored papers arise from the Hub’s knowledge integration workshop
Hub researchers from Ghana, Namibia, South Africa, the Caribbean and the UK convened at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa for a five-day writing workshop (5-9 February 2024) to collaborate on inter-disciplinary papers focussing on high-impact Hub themes: Transdisciplinarity; Culture and art; Socio-legal aspects of small-scale fisheries; Climate vulnerability and National Blue Economy policies. The overall purpose of the writing workshop […]
Calling attention to the role of recreational fisheries in low and middle-income countries at the World Fisheries Congress
Hub researchers organised a workshop at the World Fisheries Congress on Recreational Fisheries Governance in low-and-middle-income countries in Seattle (US) in March 2024. Funded by the One Ocean Hub, to use this unique opportunity to attract and engage with participants from a global pool. Hub early-career researcher Alexander Winkler and Chris Bova (Rhodes University, South […]
Hub research included in UN Special Rapporteur’s report on right to food, fisheries and climate change
The 2024 report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, focused on fisheries and the right to food in the context of climate change (A/HRC/55/49), with a focus on the advancement of the human rights of small-scale fishers and Indigenous Peoples. The report sought to build on the work done […]
Contributing views on future work of the Just Transition Work Programme of the UN Climate Change Convention and the 2024 Bonn Ocean-Climate Dialogue
In February 2024, we collaborated with the Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group in preparing a joint submission on views on the work to be undertaken and the possible topics for the dialogues under the Just Transition Work Programme, which was established at the UN Climate COP28. The Hub contributions focused on small-scale fishers’ […]
Hub evidence integrated in the UN Special Rapporteur’s report on the Human Right to Science
The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, has published a report on the human right to science (A/HRC/55/44), which clarifies how the human rights approach needs to apply by all actors involved in scientific research, funding and cooperation. The Rapporteur has cited four times a submission from the One Ocean […]
Spotlight on early-career researcher: Rachael Hall
My name is Rachael Hall, and I am currently doing my PhD at Heriot-Watt University (UK), while based at the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban, Scotland. I am a marine ecologist with a research interest in the effects of anthropogenic activities on the functioning of coastal ecosystems. I have been a part of […]
How can transdisciplinary and human rights-based methods and approaches deliver “the ocean we want”? Join us as we share learnings at the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference
Event details here. For a long time, processes for determining the use, access to and governance of the ocean and its resources in various parts of the world have been largely driven by Western and natural science approaches that largely excluded other ways of knowing about the ocean. However, over the past few decades, there […]
Human rights concerns shared about deep-seabed mining
As the negotiations of new international rules on deep-seabed mining resume at the International Seabed Authority (18-29 March 2024), the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has published a letter to underscore the international human rights obligations of States and responsibility of business in the exploration and exploitation of minerals in the deep […]
Hub early-career researchers shortlisted in the ‘Heroes’ category of the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards
The inter-disciplinary team of 37 Hub early-career researchers (ECRs) are recognised for their efforts in ‘working on ground-breaking and innovative approaches towards the goal of inclusive and equitable ocean governance, whereby people and the environment can flourish.’ “The Hub’s ECRs combine passion and creativity with academic rigour in their research, using innovative participatory methods that […]
