Welcoming Professor Katie Boyle as an Affiliate Member
As the One Ocean Hub navigates towards its next phase through its legacy work, we are delighted to welcome Prof Katie Boyle from Strathclyde University Law School as a new member of our research community.
Katie is Professor of Human Rights Law and Social Justice at the University of Strathclyde and her research addresses the legalisation and accountability mechanisms for economic, social and cultural rights. Her latest book, Access to Social Justice, uses empirical data to theorise justice as a journey, using the right to an effective remedy as a normative lens.
Katie has been gradually involved in the One Ocean Hub research since she joined Strathclyde University in 2023, and participated in the Hub’s closing conference in Cape Town in May 2024, contributing to our reflections on advancing research and protection of human rights in the context of ocean governance, as well as on transformative research approaches and art-based methods as human rights practices. Katie is also supporting the further documentation and analysis of the Hub’s impact and gifted the closing conference participants a performance of traditional fishing-related fiddle music from Ireland.
She commented:
“I have loved every minute engaging with the ground-breaking and emancipatory research agenda of the One Ocean Hub. I had the pleasure of attending the closing conference in South Africa where I was able to see first-hand the type of community-engaged participatory, interdisciplinary and arts-based research in action. It has already sparked new lines of thinking and enquiry in my own approach to justice research, and in particular what is required of genuinely empowering and co-created research agendas. I am thrilled to be an affiliate member of the One Ocean Hub, as the closing conference clearly showed that the Hub’s work is just beginning.”
Katie’s research is very much aligned with the Hub ethos of fair research partnerships for impact. For instance, her work has been instrumental in Scotland’s processes of incorporation of international human rights law, including legislation incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. She served as a member of the Scottish First Minister’s Advisory Group for Human Rights Leadership that recommended the incorporation of economic, social, cultural and environmental rights in Scotland.
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