How to change the world – unusual collaborations to solve challenges in the Anthropocene ocean
In this seminar you will be introduced to unlikely allies and ways to create leverage to drive change.
You will also hear about the importance of impossible ambitions and how a scientific idea brought the speaker back to academia.
Frida is a PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University where she works on ocean governance and the role of corporate stewardship in the management of marine resources. She focuses in particular on ownership dynamics and governance systems that facilitate transshipments, that is when catches are transferred between fishing vessels and refrigerated cargo vessel – a practice often described as opaque and underpinning illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as well as human rights abuses at sea. Frida holds a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences with a major in Geography and a Master’s degree in Development Studies.
Before joining the Stockholm Resilience Centre, she worked with Greenpeace where she was involved in and negotiated several sustainability commitments covering entire supply chains from Russian and Norwegian fishermen to household brands such as McDonalds and Birds Eye. In 2018 she negotiated a major voluntary conservation agreement with the Association of Responsible Krill Harvesters (ARK) to limit fishing in key areas for penguins during the breeding season and in 2020 ARK further committed to close an area in Antarctica for fishing all year around. She has also led two ship expeditions to Antarctica conducting the first recount of Chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island in over 50 years and identifying new vulnerable marine ecosystems where several are now formally protected against bottom fishing. Her work with Greenpeace has also taken her to the Arctic and scientific expeditions focusing on the impacts of ocean acidification and sea ice dynamics.
The event will be recorded and made available online at a later date.
Photo credits: Image of ship: (c) Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace | Image of Frida: (c) Greenpeace
The event is aimed primarily at Lancaster University postgraduate students and staff, but some limited places are available on a first come first served basis for Lancaster University undergraduates and people external to the University. Due to limitations of the booking system we have to manage this manually - if our limits have been met, following confirmation of booking you may be contacted by a member of our team.
Health & Safety and access information
- In order to safeguard everyone's health, if you test positive for Covid-19 before the event, or are feeling unwell in any way, please don't attend (and please let us know).
- You are encouraged to wear face coverings during the event, unless eating and drinking.
- Please maintain good hand hygiene, washing your hands regularly/before eating or drinking, and making use of hand sanitiser.
- The lecture theatre is wheelchair accessible and has IR induction loop.