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.