News and Blogs
Senia Febrica wins University of Strathclyde’s Impact Award
One Ocean Hub Knowledge Exchange Associate, Dr Senia Febrica, has won this year’s University of Strathclyde’s (UK) Humanities & Social Sciences Impact Award in the Early Career category. Senia’s submission to the Award focused on “Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific Region”, and whilst this research theme is not one of the focus areas of the […]
Ocean defenders research at the Association of Human Rights Institutes’ Conference
Conference in Bilbao, 7-9 September 2023 Two Hub researchers, Elaine Webster and Elisa Morgera (University of Strathclyde, UK), will contribute to the Annual Network Conference of the Association of Human Rights Institutes, that will be hosted by the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, under the theme, “Human Rights Defenders Under Siege.” The Hub will contribute to the panel focused […]
Can the humanities help save the ocean(s)?
Nina Rivers, One Ocean Hub, Law School, University of Strathclyde, Scotland Ingvild Boberg, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway This blog post reflects on the role of humanities to help save the ocean, based on interactions at the summer seminar “OCEAN: Use and Regulations of World Oceans – a […]
Unveiling the hidden contributors: Towards researching on women within small-scale fisheries to reach greater equity in ocean governance
My name is Maude Chuche, and this past spring I had the opportunity to undertake a three-month internship at the One Ocean Hub. As a French student in the final year of my degree at Paris Sciences & Lettres, my academic background is interdisciplinary, as my degree in environmental sciences is a combination of both […]
Reflecting on the role of the UN in supporting the human right to a healthy environment
What is needed to bridge the gap between human rights practices and the human right to a healthy environment? The UN Development Programme (UNDP) invited Hub Director Elisa Morgera to contribute to answering this question during the UNDP Annual Meeting on Rule of Law and Human Rights (20-22 June 2023). Continuing Hub engagement with the […]
Including blue economies in human rights processes on just transitions and foreign investment protection
Human rights issues in the context of extractive industries, transitions to net-zero emission futures, and foreign investment are being investigated by different UN bodies. The Hub made two submissions to ensure that sufficient attention is also paid, in this connection, to negative human rights impacts in the context of blue economies. The first was directed […]
Contributing to stakeholders’ preparations for the SDG Summit
Over 150 people attended a conversation on progress and recommendations on SDG 15 (life on land) and SDG 16 (peace, justice and strong institutions), in preparation for the SDG Summit on 18-19 September 2024. Hub Director Elisa Morgera was invited to deliver a keynote speech by the Stakeholder Forum, following on her contribution on SDG […]
Spotlight on early-career researchers: Kirsty McQuaid
introducing Kirsty My name is Kirsty McQuaid, and I am a South African postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Plymouth (UK) and the South African National Biodiversity Institute (South Africa). I am a deep-sea benthic ecologist, which means I work on understanding animal communities that live on the seafloor in areas deeper than 200m. […]
The threat of plastic pollution in Ghana
This blog post aims to address the critical issue of plastic pollution in Ghana. Hub researchers Bhavani Narayanaswamy and Geslaine Goncalves (Scottish Association for Marine Science, SAMS, UK) are working together with Joseph Aggrey-Fynn and Benjamin Nyarko and students at the University of Cape Coast (UCC, Ghana) exploring the challenges posed by plastic consumption and […]
