One Ocean Hub

A new episode (episode 6 – Part 2) of the One Ocean Hub podcast series is now available, where Hub researcher Alana Malinde Lancaster (University of West Indies, Barbados) and Hub early-career researcher Lysa Wini (University of Strathclyde, UK) delve deeper into the discussion on the Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Alana and Lysa discussed how islands, each with their own peculiarities, are connected through many similarities and the waters of our one ocean. They also discussed Lysa’s research with her own community in the Solomons Islands, and Alana’s ongoing work with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the ocean-climate nexus. The first part of this podcast reflected on the impact of the colonial past on present-day people and policies. Alana and Lysa addressed how the lack of access to ocean-related decision-making fora posed challenges for SIDS. They further discussed the important themes of Indigenous ways of knowing and (post)colonial knowledge extraction.

The new special episode of the One Ocean Hub podcast is dedicated to small-scale fishers. Milica Prokic (Knowledge Exchange Associate, One Ocean Hub) joined by Maria Honig, (Coastal Communities Lead, World Wide Fund for Nature, WWF) had the honour and the pleasure to meet with five representatives of small-scale fishers from South Africa: Hilda Adams (Small-Scale Fisher Cooperative and South African Fishers Collective, Umra), Bradley Warner (Cape Town and Saint Helena Bay), Randall Bentley (Eastern Cape), and Jerry Mngomezulu and John Peter Narayansamy (KwaZulu Natal). The fishers discussed their struggles to defend their fishing tenure rights, access to ancestral fishing areas, and the continuing challenges they face stemming from the violent legacies of apartheid. They also spoke about their tireless work on resisting and tackling these challenges and the role of programmes and organisations such as One Ocean Hub and WWF to help fishers to fully realise their human rights. To view the visual recording visit our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz0PNtAm6T4

In the sixth episode of the One Ocean Hub podcast, Hub researcher Alana Malinde Lancaster (University of West Indies, Barbados) and Hub early-career researcher Lysa Wini (University of Strathclyde, UK) discuss how the colonial pasts shape present issues in ocean governance in an island context. From the viewpoint of Solomon Islands where Lysa comes from and where her research focus is; and the Caribbean, where Alana lives and centres her work around, the speakers reflect on policies that govern Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the impact of the colonial past on present-day people and policies. Alana and Lysa dwell on the challenges that the lack of access to ocean-related decision-making fora pose for SIDS and discuss the Indigenous ways of knowing and (post)colonial knowledge extraction. The episode is hosted by the Hub’s Knowledge Exchange Associate Milica Prokic.

In the new episode of the One Ocean Hub podcast, early-career researcher Elsemi Olwage (University of Namibia, Namibia) and Kira Erwin (groundWork/Durban University of Technology, South Africa) speak about their experiences of collaborative research with the local people in Namibia and KwaZulu Natal, South Africa: they focus on transdiciplinarity, knowledge co-production, art-based participatory research methods, and social justice.

The second part of Episode 4 'Women of the sea', where two South African scholars and activists Buhle Francis (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Aphiwe Moshani (University of Cape Town, South Africa) who are Hub early-career researchers and winners of the British Council Scotland Earth Scholarships. They discussed Buhle’s work undertaking pioneering collaborative research at the nexus of environmental justice, gender equality, ocean livelihoods, and inclusivity in ocean-related decision-making processes. Aphiwe and Milica (our podcast host) also discussed the new Learning Pathway they are creating for the One Ocean Learn platform, which focuses on the interlinkages of the ocean, culture and cultural heritage and explores the cultural values, history, heritage, and Indigenous and local knowledge systems related to the ocean.

In the latest, fourth episode of the One ocean Hub podcast, Milica Prokic speaks to the Hub’s Early Career Researchers and the British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarship winners, Aphiwe Moshani and Buhle Francis. The topic of the episode was gender and the ocean, and the often overlooked - yet essential- role of women in the relationship of the ocean and humankind. In Part 1, they focused on their new, exciting work: Buhle’s research with women and seaweed labour in South Africa, and Aphiwe’s PhD research on gender and Blue Economy, both speaking to the challenges that women coastal communities face in their everyday life. What’s more, and very important, they shared their own experiences as the ocean researchers and women of colour from the Global South, and the challenges they face- and tackle- in their work.

Mia Strand and Sophie Shields talk about children’s right to be heard on the ocean-climate nexus, ocean literacies (plural intended), the General Comment No 26 on children’s human rights and a healthy environment, as discussed their two new joint publications and two recent policy briefs (here and here). Hosted by Milica Prokic.

Dr Mitchell Lennan, Lecturer in Environmental Law (University of Aberdeen) and Dr Kirsty McQuaid, Postdoctoral Research Fellow (University of Plymouth) discuss their work on special issue about ocean-climate nexus and Human Rights. Hosted by Milica Prokic

Discussing the paradoxical connection between customary laws, human rights and the ocean and exploring ideas for meaningful change. Hosted by Nkeiru Scotcher, with guests Bolanle Tolulope Erinosho, Hub researcher and lecturer at the University Cape Coast in Ghana, and David Wilson, Hub researcher and lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.