International researcher-practitioner collaboration to co-produce conceptualisation of marine identities & put marine citizenship theory into practice

联合国海洋科学促进可持续发展十年确定了人类要应对的十大挑战，以确保海洋和人类的可持续未来。这项提议是对挑战10的回应：“改变人类与海洋的关系”。海洋公民身份正在行使参与改变人与海洋关系的权利，包括各种活动，从选择海洋友好型产品到开展旨在减少人类对海洋的有害影响的运动。我的博士研究表明，可能存在一种海洋身份，通过这种身份，人们直接依赖于健康的海洋环境，这会激励人们从关心海洋到采取行动保护海洋。该项目将召开一个由国际研究人员和从业者组成的研讨会和网络，以通过全球社区的不同视角、知识、研究和实践来制定海洋身份的概念化；询问与海洋公民身份和海洋素养的关系；发布针对全球环境变化的研究结果，以接触领先的环境研究人员。这次研讨会预计将有来自萨摩亚航海协会(SVS)和加拿大海洋扫盲联盟(COLC)的代表参加，SVS致力于通过培养文化认同、海洋素养和传统技能，将太平洋岛屿儿童与其传统航海遗产重新联系起来；加拿大海洋扫盲联盟(COLC)是一个在加拿大各地促进海洋素养的项目，开创了新的技术和参与性方法。该项目将为海洋特性的概念化及其与海洋公民身份和海洋素养的联系奠定基础，并为跨学科研究开发有效的测量工具。为了促进这些目标，该项目包括与英国第一个普利茅斯海湾国家海洋公园(PSNMP)的合作。PSNMP和关联彩票遗产地平线项目的核心是普利茅斯居民和游客与海洋的联系。两者都旨在通过积极的经验和与海洋环境的互动来促进海洋公民身份。通过这种合作，将共同开展应用的跨学科活动，以试验通过参与和影响发展海洋公民身份和海洋特性的方法。这将使城市中的一系列组织、企业和社区了解并促进海洋公民身份。学习将超越普利茅斯，通过PSNMP作为其他NMP蓝图的角色。这将为未来发展海洋公民身份和海洋身份的研究奠定基础。其中一个核心部分将是开发ESRC新调查人员拨款申请，旨在更全面地描述海洋身份及其与国际社会的海洋公民身份和海洋扫盲的关系。该项目将利用案例研究(如PSNMP、SVS和COLC)，横跨西方和非西方、土著和非土著以及城市和非城市社区，以确定海洋特性中的共性和差异。研究设计将建立在研讨会、PSNMP协作和我的博士研究中提出的理论海洋身份框架的成果基础上。该项目将使用跨学科和混合方法从整体上了解海洋身份，旨在提供跨文化研究工具并为支持研究和实践奠定基础，这些研究和实践将促进积极的海洋公民身份和人与海洋关系的转变。通过这一奖学金，我将增加我的出版物产出，同时继续建立我关于影响和公众参与的模范记录。研究结果将与海洋部门的研究人员和从业人员以及各种社区分享。

The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development identifies ten challenges for humanity to address to secure a sustainable future for the ocean and humanity. This proposal responds to Challenge 10: "Change humanity's relationship with the ocean". Marine citizenship is exercising the right to participate in the transformation of the human-ocean relationship and includes activities ranging from choosing ocean-friendly products to leading campaigns aimed at reducing harmful human impacts upon the ocean. My PhD research suggests there may be a marine identity, through which people are directly dependent on a healthy marine environment, which motivates people to go from caring about the ocean, to taking action to protect it.The project will convene a workshop and network of international researchers and practitioners to: develop a conceptualisation of marine identities through diverse perspectives, knowledge, research and practice in global communities; interrogate relationships with marine citizenship and ocean literacy; publish the findings, targeted at Global Environmental Change, to reach leading environmental researchers. This workshop is anticipated to include representatives from the Samoan Voyaging Society (SVS), which works to reconnect Pacific Islanderchildren to their traditional seafaring heritage, through nurturing cultural identity, ocean literacy, and traditional skills; and the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition (COLC), a project promoting ocean literacy across Canada, pioneering new techniques and participatory approaches.This project will lay the groundwork for conceptualising marine identities and their connection to marine citizenship and ocean literacy, and develop effective measurement tools for interdisciplinary research. To facilitate these aims, the project includes collaboration with the UK's first National Marine Park in Plymouth Sound (PSNMP). PSNMP and the linked Lottery Heritage Horizons project are centred on the connection Plymouth residents and visitors have with the ocean. Both aim to promote marine citizenship through positive experience and interaction with the marine environment. Through this collaboration, applied interdisciplinary activities will be co-produced to pilot methods of developing marine citizenship and marine identity through participation and impact. This will enable a range of organisations, businesses and communities in the city to learn about and promote marine citizenship. Learning will reach beyond Plymouth, through the PSNMP's role as a blueprint for other NMPs. This will provide foundations for the development of future research into marine citizenship and marine identities.A core component will be the development of an ESRC New Investigators Grant funding application, aiming to more fully characterise marine identities and their relationship with marine citizenship and ocean literacy across international communities. Using case studies (e.g., PSNMP, SVS and COLC), the project will cross Western and non-Western, indigenous and non-indigenous, and urban and non-urban communities to enable identification of commonalities and differences within marine identity. The research design will build on outcomes of the workshop, the PSNMP collaboration, and the theoretical marine identity framework proposed in my PhD research. The project will use interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches to understand marine identity holistically and will be designed to provide cross-cultural research tools and lay the foundations to support research and practice that will promote active marine citizenship and the transformation of the human-ocean relationship.Throughout this fellowship, I will increase my publication outputs whilst continuing to build my exemplary record of impact and public engagement. Findings will be shared with researchers and practitioners in the marine sector, and communities of all kinds.