News and Blogs
PROTECTING WOMEN’S AND GIRL’S RIGHTS TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
The One Ocean Hub has made a written submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment based on a call on “Women, Girls and the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment.” The submission was prepared by Hub early-career researcher Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa), Dr Georgina Yaa Oduro […]
Spotlight on early-career researchers: Eric Debrah Otchere
My name is Eric Debrah Otchere. I am a Music Educator with a research interest in a broad array of music-related topics such as: African music; Transgressive Learning pedagogies; Music, Health and Wellbeing; Music Psychology; Cultural Sustainability; and the use of Music in everyday life. I work in the Department of Music and Dance at […]
Cocooned in Harmony: Songs of Ghanaian artisinal fishers
This blog post provides an insight into one of One Ocean Hub’s Deep Fund project in Ghana entitled Cocooned in Harmony: Power, Agency and Multiple Realities in the Songs of Indigenous Ghanaian Seine Fisherfolk” or “Cocooned in Harmony” for short. The resulting documentary shows how Ghanaian artisanal fishers’ songs illuminate their identity, power/inequality and gender […]
Sharing transferable findings for a new WHO pandemic treaty
Hub findings and policy recommendations related to fair partnerships in bio-based discovery were shared at an international workshop on current negotiations of a new international instrument on pandemics, to enhance preparedness and response and to support the sharing of pathogens, genetic sequence data and benefits, under the aegis of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Hub […]
Contributing to the UN Biodiversity Summit
The One Ocean Hub contributed to two side-events at the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), held in Montreal, Canada, from 7-19 December 2022, on small-scale fishers and on biodiversity-health linkages. Small-scale fishers The Hub partnered with WWF and the Aquatic Blue Food Coalition, in organising the side-event “Small-Scale […]
Spotlight on early-career researchers: david wilson
My name is David Wilson, I am a historian and early-career researcher based at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. My research centres on the history of colonisation and marine space, particularly surrounding the impact of colonisation on marine law and governance. I am especially interested in how colonisation led to disparate outcomes across distinctive coastal […]
UN CLIMATE COP 27: WHAT NEWS FOR THE OCEAN?
After the historical mandate to integrate the ocean in all areas of work under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the Glasgow COP in November 2021, and the Ocean-Climate Dialogue at the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting at Bonn in June 2022, this blog post provides a rapid assessment of the COP27 outcomes […]
spotlight on early-career researchers: kristina beck
My name is Kristina Beck, and I am investigating the effect of future environmental conditions, including climate change, on cold-water corals, both on the physiology of live corals and the dead skeletal framework. We are currently planning a long-term multiple stressor aquarium experiment with the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa. In this experiment, we want to […]
CLIMATE CHANGE & ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN AREAS BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTION
As part of the COP27 Virtual Ocean Pavilion, the One Ocean Hub coordinated an event on 16 November 2022, on the interlinkages between ecosystem services, climate change and the governance of these elements in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). Watch the recording here. BACKGROUND Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) comprise the high seas and the […]
