About
My main research project, funded by the Anniversary Fellowship and entitled (Un)Mediating the Ocean: Making the Seabed in Governance, Science, Finance, Culture and Infrastructure, investigates how the seabed is mediated in legal, financial, scientific, infrastructural and cultural documents and interventions as part of the creation of a regulatory framework for deep-sea mining. The project explores questions about Just Energy Transition, Civil Society engagement with the International Seabed Authority negotiations and In/Tangible Underwater Cultural Heritage.
I also collaborate with a group of colleagues on the socio-ecological lives of Kelp Forests, see more in an article recently published with The Conversation.
In 2024, I was invited to share my research and deep-sea mining and heritage at the Royal Society UK Centre for Seabed Mapping Meeting in 2024.
See here a recording of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Curiosity event 2023 where I participated in a roundtable on "The Future of the Seabed" along with brilliant colleagues across different institutions in the UK and South Africa.
I volunteer for the International Commission of the History of Oceanography and I'm also a co-convenor for the Haunted Shores Network, the Reading Decoloniality Group and a collaborator on the Ecological Belongings and the Ecological Reparation Projects.
In 2022, I was also a Green Transition Fellow at the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger, see here or here for my presentation and here for the blogpost.
See here a collaborative podcast episode created for The University of Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences Network in the context of COP26 entitled "Stories from the Ocean: What can COP26 learn from Coastal Communities".