Knowledge and Action Hub: People and the Ocean

The People and the Ocean Knowledge and Action Hub is led by Celine Germond -Duret and gathers expertise on the wide range of connections that exist between people and the coastal and marine environment. The hub is interdisciplinary and values a diversity of insights, from social sciences to arts and humanities and from economics to law. It aims at sharing academic knowledge and fostering dialogue with private and public stakeholders.

The Hub builds on the expertise of researchers from the School of Global Affairs (Celine Germond-Duret, Basil Germond, Senia Febrica), the Lancaster Environmental Centre (Christina Hicks, John Childs, James Robinson, Suzana Ilic, Sophie Standen), Arts and Design (Serena Pollastri, Paul Cureton), Organisation, Work & Technology (Divya Jyoti, Martin Quinn), Accounting and Finance (Jan Bebbington), Marketing (Josi Fernandes) and Entrepreneurship (Magnus George).

Collectively, our expertise includes (but is not limited to): ocean justice and the blue economy; sense of place in coastal and marine environments; community engagement with coastal and marine processes; fisheries and social responses to fish farming; ports as novel hubs of ocean governance; blue avian ecologies; maritime security.

Mapping Blue Business

With an initial focus on Lancashire, UK, this project aims to investigate place-based blue economies.
Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship

This project, led by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, has identified and works in partnership with ‘keystone actors’ in the seafood industry. In this way it has developed a unique interaction between researchers and nine of the world's largest seafood companies.
Ocean Justice and the Blue Economy

A collaborative and transdisciplinary research project working to foster a fair and just blue economy. The research aims to co-produce alternative knowledge of ocean justice in relation to the blue economy with coastal communities.
2025 Oceans Conferences

Report from the One Ocean Science Congress and then UN Oceans Conference 3 (UNOC3), June 2025 in Nice, France.