International recognition for arts-based research towards equitable ocean
Hub early-career researcher, Mia Strand (Nippon Fellow Ocean-Nexus Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa/ University of Strathclyde, UK), is one of the 23 National Champions for the 2024 Frontiers Planet Prize. Mia’s research centres around arts-based knowledge co-production for more equitable ocean governance processes. Her research has focused on inclusive knowledge co-production processes, marine cultural heritage, and children’s human rights to a healthy ocean through re-imagined ocean literacies.
The winning article, “Reimagining Ocean Stewardship: Arts-Based Methods to ‘Hear’ and ‘See’ Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Ocean Management” formed part of her PhD on the value of arts-based participatory research, and was co-authored with her PhD supervisors and Hub researchers, Nina Rivers and Bernadette Snow.
Launched in 2022, the Frontiers Planet Prize is an annual competition that funds and accelerates scientific research to find solutions for our planet which is confronted with an environmental crisis threatening humanity. Since then, the Frontiers Planet Prize has engaged leading universities and research institutions, national academies of science, a prestigious jury of 100 led by an internationally recognised scientist Johan Rockström, the International Council of Science, and several leading sustainability partners from around the world.
Mia continues to explore the use of arts-based methods such as photostories and storytelling to change the way we develop and promote ocean knowledges and ocean literacies, challenge existing knowledge hierarchies in ocean governance and research, and bridge the gap between traditional sciences and local knowledge systems.
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