GCRF Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for health, wellbeing, food and livelihoods of coastal communities
Lead Research Organisation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Department Name: Plymouth Marine Lab
Abstract
Seas and coasts and the nature that lives in them provide multiple services (e.g. farmed and wild capture protein-rich seafood for local consumption and sale, coastal flood and storm defences, tourism, leisure, marine renewable energy, transport and climate regulation) that can be exploited or are passively used to support local economies and the health and well-being of coastal communities. Yet, there is an increasing demand for ocean space resulting from expanding use of the marine environment, and a growing awareness that much of the marine environment is deteriorating. In response a need for marine planning (MP) has grown globally to ensure sustainable use of marine space and extraction of its resources. This is particularly evident in E and SE Asia, where conflicts over marine space and resources are growing, added to by pressures of population growth
The capacity to implement MP throughout E and SE Asia is largely lacking and presents an overarching challenge: to improve the integrated management of marine and coastal environments to reduce conflict between users, mitigate risks associated with expanded or new uses, and protect fragile ecosystems while supporting livelihoods, food security, health and well-being of coastal communities. We will achieve this through collaborative international, interdisciplinary research, training and capacity building. Activities will focus on learning-by-doing among researchers, local stakeholders, and local communities to deliver research outcomes with potential for impact. We have five sub-challenges to address, aligning with three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG1 no poverty; SDG2 zero hunger; and SDG3 good health and well-being):
Challenge 1: Promote sustainable harvesting by reducing overexploitation of seafood and degradation of the environments, and promoting sustainable management of wild capture seafood and production of seafood through aquaculture.
Challenge 2: Prepare for climate change by understanding its direct and indirect effects on coastal communities and anticipating and mitigating the impacts e.g. coastal wetlands, reefs and mangroves dampen the effects of flooding, storms and tsunamis; their management plays a key role on human wellbeing beyond being sources of food.
Challenge 3: Promote good health: we aim to show how improved management of marine ecosystems may promote health and wellbeing benefits, including but not limited to food and nutrition, and reduce the health risks that arise from degraded and overexploited ecosystems.
Challenge 4: Identify opportunities for future growth: improved management can provide additional, sustainable, opportunities for growth via technologies such as marine renewable energy. We will need to recognise and account for synergies and trade-offs among uses of the marine environment under MP.
Challenge 5: Co-development and implementation of MP: marine plans need to be culturally-acceptable, facilitate growth of, and reduce risks to and conflicts among users of the marine environment, and simultaneously contribute to improving livelihoods, health and wellbeing and ensuring sustainable use of marine ecosystems.
We will focus research, (and learning-by-doing), on case studies in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and China and marine protected areas in Malaysia.
Ultimately this project will deliver economic, social, health and wellbeing and environmental benefits to coastal communities in SE Asia via co-development of local research capacity, stakeholder engagement, and application of contextually relevant tools for MP that will endure well beyond the four-year programme. We anticipate a future where people can rely on restored and more resilient marine ecosystems that can be used sustainably to support and improve livelihoods. Delivery of that objective will in turn create durable collaborations between academic and non-academic partners to deliver research with transformative impact.
The capacity to implement MP throughout E and SE Asia is largely lacking and presents an overarching challenge: to improve the integrated management of marine and coastal environments to reduce conflict between users, mitigate risks associated with expanded or new uses, and protect fragile ecosystems while supporting livelihoods, food security, health and well-being of coastal communities. We will achieve this through collaborative international, interdisciplinary research, training and capacity building. Activities will focus on learning-by-doing among researchers, local stakeholders, and local communities to deliver research outcomes with potential for impact. We have five sub-challenges to address, aligning with three UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG1 no poverty; SDG2 zero hunger; and SDG3 good health and well-being):
Challenge 1: Promote sustainable harvesting by reducing overexploitation of seafood and degradation of the environments, and promoting sustainable management of wild capture seafood and production of seafood through aquaculture.
Challenge 2: Prepare for climate change by understanding its direct and indirect effects on coastal communities and anticipating and mitigating the impacts e.g. coastal wetlands, reefs and mangroves dampen the effects of flooding, storms and tsunamis; their management plays a key role on human wellbeing beyond being sources of food.
Challenge 3: Promote good health: we aim to show how improved management of marine ecosystems may promote health and wellbeing benefits, including but not limited to food and nutrition, and reduce the health risks that arise from degraded and overexploited ecosystems.
Challenge 4: Identify opportunities for future growth: improved management can provide additional, sustainable, opportunities for growth via technologies such as marine renewable energy. We will need to recognise and account for synergies and trade-offs among uses of the marine environment under MP.
Challenge 5: Co-development and implementation of MP: marine plans need to be culturally-acceptable, facilitate growth of, and reduce risks to and conflicts among users of the marine environment, and simultaneously contribute to improving livelihoods, health and wellbeing and ensuring sustainable use of marine ecosystems.
We will focus research, (and learning-by-doing), on case studies in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and China and marine protected areas in Malaysia.
Ultimately this project will deliver economic, social, health and wellbeing and environmental benefits to coastal communities in SE Asia via co-development of local research capacity, stakeholder engagement, and application of contextually relevant tools for MP that will endure well beyond the four-year programme. We anticipate a future where people can rely on restored and more resilient marine ecosystems that can be used sustainably to support and improve livelihoods. Delivery of that objective will in turn create durable collaborations between academic and non-academic partners to deliver research with transformative impact.
Planned Impact
Millions of people rely on marine and coastal ecosystems for food security, livelihoods and their health and well-being. Increasing demand for ocean space by marine users, conflict between them and growing awareness of the deteriorating state of many components of the marine environment, are all leading to the recognition of the global need for marine planning with community integration. In E/SE Asia, where marine activities are important contributors of GDP, marine spatial planning has been highlighted as a particular need. Through academic-stakeholder collaborations and capacity building, and with community co-creation, Blue Communities will support the development and management of the marine components of selected UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and marine parks in E/SE Asia. In so doing, it will provide lessons for the innovative application of integrated marine planning in E/SE Asia and beyond.
Non-academic beneficiaries will include UNESCO Biosphere Reserve/Marine Park personnel, regional and international marine and public health organisations (e.g. PEMSEA, APACPH), NGOs (e.g. INPLF, Blue Ventures, North Devon Biosphere Foundation), local and national government, sector representatives (e.g. fishers and tourism associations) and members of coastal communities. Ensuring successful engagement and the delivery of maximum benefit will require good communication, careful nurturing and sensitive management, with engagement strategies tailored for each group.
Co-production will form the basis of all research activities whereby relevant stakeholders and communities will be incorporated as equal partners in the research process. This will ensure that projects, and the Programme as a whole, respond to a demonstrable need. Stakeholder and coastal community representatives will be invited to join the Expert Advisory Panel, and will have the opportunity to steer the Programme to ensure that all outputs meet identified development challenges.
Stakeholders will benefit from being part of a strengthened interdisciplinary, international network, providing them with access to a range of academic expertise to support the implementation of marine planning. Project outputs will help end-users to make more informed decisions about sustainable use and management of the marine environment; which activities may promote the health and well-being of coastal communities; current and future opportunities for economic growth; and how to prepare for the impacts of climate change. Coastal communities associated with the Biosphere Reserves and Marine Park case studies will benefit from marine plans that incorporate their needs, reduce conflict with other users and support sustainable livelihood development.
All project materials and data will be available to interested stakeholders, including coastal communities, through the Blue Communities website, in the relevant languages. The website will be tailored to the programme's diverse audience with tiered content to provide various levels of accessibility. Information will also be disseminated to coastal communities through community meetings and specially designed materials, taking account of language and potential low levels of literacy. A programme of popular articles in local newspapers and interviews with local radio and TV stations will be pursued in partner E/SE Asian countries. Blue Communities will also hold a 'managers conference' towards the programme end, to showcase the new models, methods of marine spatial planning and other innovations. To this we will invite practitioners from the Western Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific as well as from the UK and E/SE Asia.
Leveraging this four year Programme and its project activities, key beneficiaries will be invited to co-develop further collaborative and cutting-edge research related to marine spatial planning in the region, extending the impact of Blue Communities through enduring interactions.
Non-academic beneficiaries will include UNESCO Biosphere Reserve/Marine Park personnel, regional and international marine and public health organisations (e.g. PEMSEA, APACPH), NGOs (e.g. INPLF, Blue Ventures, North Devon Biosphere Foundation), local and national government, sector representatives (e.g. fishers and tourism associations) and members of coastal communities. Ensuring successful engagement and the delivery of maximum benefit will require good communication, careful nurturing and sensitive management, with engagement strategies tailored for each group.
Co-production will form the basis of all research activities whereby relevant stakeholders and communities will be incorporated as equal partners in the research process. This will ensure that projects, and the Programme as a whole, respond to a demonstrable need. Stakeholder and coastal community representatives will be invited to join the Expert Advisory Panel, and will have the opportunity to steer the Programme to ensure that all outputs meet identified development challenges.
Stakeholders will benefit from being part of a strengthened interdisciplinary, international network, providing them with access to a range of academic expertise to support the implementation of marine planning. Project outputs will help end-users to make more informed decisions about sustainable use and management of the marine environment; which activities may promote the health and well-being of coastal communities; current and future opportunities for economic growth; and how to prepare for the impacts of climate change. Coastal communities associated with the Biosphere Reserves and Marine Park case studies will benefit from marine plans that incorporate their needs, reduce conflict with other users and support sustainable livelihood development.
All project materials and data will be available to interested stakeholders, including coastal communities, through the Blue Communities website, in the relevant languages. The website will be tailored to the programme's diverse audience with tiered content to provide various levels of accessibility. Information will also be disseminated to coastal communities through community meetings and specially designed materials, taking account of language and potential low levels of literacy. A programme of popular articles in local newspapers and interviews with local radio and TV stations will be pursued in partner E/SE Asian countries. Blue Communities will also hold a 'managers conference' towards the programme end, to showcase the new models, methods of marine spatial planning and other innovations. To this we will invite practitioners from the Western Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Pacific as well as from the UK and E/SE Asia.
Leveraging this four year Programme and its project activities, key beneficiaries will be invited to co-develop further collaborative and cutting-edge research related to marine spatial planning in the region, extending the impact of Blue Communities through enduring interactions.
Organisations
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory (Lead Research Organisation)
- Medical Research Council (Co-funder)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Co-funder)
- University of Technology Sydney (Collaboration)
- Zoological Society of London (Collaboration)
- Nasional University (Collaboration)
- Curtin University (Collaboration)
- Blue Ventures (Collaboration)
- Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- City Government of Puerto Princesa (Collaboration)
- North Devon Biosphere Foundation (Collaboration)
- Nagasaki University (Collaboration)
- Hanoi National University of Education (Collaboration)
- Mindanao State University – Naawan (Collaboration)
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Yayasan Planet Indonesia (Collaboration)
- Sabah Parks (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- Government of Scotland (Collaboration)
- International Pole and Line Foundation (Collaboration)
- University of Malaya (Collaboration)
- WorldFish (Collaboration)
- Government of the Republic of the Philippines (Collaboration)
- Soka University (Collaboration)
- Esa Unggul University (Collaboration)
- University of Plymouth (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- Primer-E Ltd (Collaboration)
- Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Western Philippines University (Collaboration)
- Sabah Environmental Trust (Collaboration)
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Collaboration)
- International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (Project Partner)
- International Pole & Line Foundation (Project Partner)
Publications
Alcantara LB
(2023)
Climate change awareness and risk perceptions in the coastal marine ecosystem of Palawan, Philippines.
in UCL open. Environment
Azzeri A
(2020)
A Review of Published Literature Regarding Health Issues of Coastal Communities in Sabah, Malaysia.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Boey S
(2018)
Initializing multi-stakeholder engagement in the context of Marine Protected Area management and capacity-building programmes: A Tun Mustapha Park case study
in Journal of Research Management & Governance
Broszeit, S
(2022)
Ecosystem service provision by marine habitats in South-east Asia
Cheung V
(2021)
Blue Communities in Southeast Asia
in Environmental Scientist
Dao H
(2021)
Impact of Seawater Temperature on Coral Reefs in the Context of Climate Change. A Case Study of Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve
in Frontiers in Marine Science
| Title | Colleagues from the University of Malaya have created an educational comic informing readers about the impact of fish bombing |
| Description | Colleagues from the University of Malaya have created a comic for schoolchildren entitled (directly translated into English) "Please return, Dolphin". It is an educational booklet using comic cartoons to explain the impacts of fish bombing on the local ecosystems and marine environment. A total of 500 copies have been printed and these will be used for public engagement and for a research study to evaluate changes in the knowledge following distribution and the possible changes in behaviour of local community members during time periods following distribution. |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | The impacts will be measured following distribution. |
| Title | Mural of three future scenarios on Taytay City wall |
| Description | Based on a one day workshop including key representatives of the Taytay Barangay (Palawan, Philippines), three future scenarios were built. These scenarios were then represented in the form of a painted mural on the Taytay city wall. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | The painting activity was evaluated in terms of awareness, intentions and future concept as well. we found a significant increase in perceived behavioural control, feeling of responsibility and future concept, three variables play an important role for behaviour change. |
| Title | Schoolchildren in Palawan, Philippines co-wrote and produced a song about environmental issues and the positive actions needs to live sustainably |
| Description | A group of schoolchildren were inspired by the research conducted by colleagues from Western Philippines University concerning the environmental issues and need for positive actions needed to live sustainably and co-wrote and produced a song. |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The song has engaged an audience beyond the schoolchildren's group, including the immediate and extended families and enabled an artistic form of communicating the environmental issues and need to appreciate and protect the ecosystems. |
| Description | As this was primarily a capacity building project: An early career researcher network of approximately 45 people across SE Asia and the UK has been created. This creates collaborations, partnerships and friendships for the future. The early career researchers received substantial training and practice in winning grants, training and seminars, which they have used to help develop and write publications and to win funding. Publications: 37 papers published or in press: 18 first authored by SE Asia of which 15 are early career researcher leads; 18 of which are UK first authored of which 8 were early career researchers. Funding: UK Partners won £5 million of competitive funding that is indirectly or directly linked to outputs of GCRF Blue Communities; SE Asia partners have won at least ~ £300k Career Development: more than 10 early career researchers moved to other jobs in academia; there were at least 5 staff promotions. SE Asia Partners are now better able to engage with national, regional and local policy makers and environmental managers, health professionals, and NGOs. For example University of Malaya engages with Sabah Parks, Sabah Biodiversity Centre (SaBC), District Offices and District Health Office to inform (and obtain feedback) authorities of the program findings. There is a lot of interest among stakeholders especially in social/health vs environment surveys. Stakeholders continuously expressed their interests towards the program's findings during the sharing sessions. Sabah Parks requested bi-annual updates on the project progress for the management reporting. Findings have been shared with Sabah Parks but to date have not yet been incorporated into its management plan/strategy/policy. Schools BC MY have engaged requested for more engagement in the future with the students focusing on climate change and climate action activities. BC MY & Sabah Environmental Trust (SET) managed to secure funding from Sime Darby Foundation and is currently implementing a student awareness & empowerment program with 14 secondary schools in TMP areas (Jan 2022 - May 2023). SaBC provided inputs in developing the National Conservation Trust Fund (NCTF) research proposal based on the BC MY data shared and presented to SaBC for future research in TMP. Preparation of final report to SaBC on research permit application in Sabah was based on BC MY's experience. Engagement initiated with the Kudat office of WWF-Malaysia sharing our fisheries and climate projections and implications. WWF-Malaysia will develop a fisheries management plan and intends to invite BC MY to provide inputs into the plan from the findings. Amy Then presented in person the fisheries and climate projections data (specifically tailored for Sabah) to a number of fisheries officers (including Director and key members) of the Department of Fisheries Sabah. Unsure yet of how DOFS intends to use the data. Local coastal communities requested the participatory ecosystem services maps that were co-developed with them in order to display the maps at their respective places (local NGOs) for the purpose of educating the public and local communities. Management-wise, stakeholders particularly Sabah Parks and WWF-Malaysia indicated their increased awareness of the relationships between the different stakeholders involved and the roles they played within the collaborative management context of TMP. • Change of perceptions of scientists' involvement in the field - officers at the District Health Office, Sabah Parks' management, schools and local communities expressed their appreciation for the continuous engagement activities conducted (including the sharing sessions and obtaining feedback on BC's findings) with them rather than a one-off effort merely aimed at data collection purposes. • Community engagement - at the core of the collaborative management concept of TMP since the inception of the idea to gazette the marine park. No specific change is observed in terms of the opinions towards community engagement. BC's engagement with the local communities in TMP created awareness particularly among youths on the establishment of TMP as some were not aware of the park's gazettement prior to this. British High Commission KL - collaborated and organised the International Partnership Workshop for Early Career Researchers 2022 targeting Malaysian ECRs with guidance from experienced researchers (GCRF & Newton). • Permatang Pauh Parliamentary Office - NetMap tool was shared with the parliamentary office staff and Member of Parliament (MP) and the tool was later adopted by their team in their multidimensional poverty index study in Permatang Pauh (a report was released by the parliamentary office in October 2021). In Palawan, Philippines, Local village leaders and head teachers have devised plans and conduct coastal marine protection and development initiatives based on the BC research results. For example, the Liminangcong National High School and the Youth for Environment in Schools Organization in Taytay, Palawan included the following in their 2022-2023 priorities: • waste management; • information, education, and communication campaigns to create awareness of environmental protection and community involvement in environmental issues and actions; • mangrove planting; • climate change; and • Social and science curriculum enhancement for grades 7-10 to enhance youth awareness; implementation of "no to single-use plastic". The above-mentioned organizations coordinated with the BC-Philippines for the partnership in implementing these plans. The Blue Communities program has driven communities to participate and get involved in coastal marine protection, conservation, and development. It has increased their faith in the power of their local ecological knowledge in research and policy initiatives. The program has also increased the coastal community's appreciation of the coast and the ocean as not only a source of their food and livelihood but also a space for recreation and better mental health. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | Development of strategy and feedback on current strategy for the "Plastic free Semporna" governmental program in Sabah, Malaysia |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The region Semporna (in Sabah, Malaysia) is currently developing a program in order to become a plastic-free region. This includes reduced consumption of plastic in general, bans of plastic straws, bags and bottles, increased recycling rates, the establishment of local waste management, regular cleanups as well as education programs to various audiences (schools, tourism business, fishers, housewives) and awareness. The impact made was the co-development of the program, feedback on current strategies and the setup of a plan for ongoing evaluation over the next two years. |
| Description | Elected Chair of the Partnership of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in North Devon, 2019- |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Adopted Marine Natural Capital Plan developed through the Marine Pioneer of the 25 Year Environment Plan and Natural Capital Strategy through its Landscape Pioneer |
| URL | https://www.northdevonbiosphere.org.uk |
| Description | Invited member of Royal Society working group to produce briefing note on IPCC SROCC report: Ocean, cryosphere and climate change: Opportunities and challenges for the UK. Royal Society Briefing Note. Working group members: Melanie Austen, Jonathan Gregory FRS, Corinne Le Quéré FRS, John Shepherd FRS, Eric Wolff FRS (Chair) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/climate-change/IPCC-special-report-briefing-ocean-c... |
| Description | Member of Defra Marine Pioneer (North Devon) Steering Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Member of the Joint Committee that leads JNCC and has overall responsibility for its work. |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | As a member of the Joint Committee that leads JNCC and has overall responsibility for its work. JNCC is the public body that advises the UK Government and devolved administrations on UK-wide and international nature conservation. JNCC's work helps maintain and enrich biological diversity and conserve geological features. It also helps sustain natural systems, which provide the core "services" we all depend on like food, fresh water and clean air. In this way they contribute to economic growth and social well-being and are integral to sustainable development. JNCC itself is a forum that brings together the UK's four country conservation bodies. They advise Government and a wide range of bodies to help join up policy and to deliver a strong and cost-effective evidence base by helping to see that the best possible return is achieved from investment in research and surveillance in the UK and internationally. As chair of the Marine Protected Areas Sub-Committee we ensure that scientific advice on designating marine reserves across the UK is robust |
| URL | http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-5349 |
| Description | Member of the UK Government's Natural Capital Committee (NCC) - an independent advisory committee that provides advice to the government on the sustainable use of natural capital - that is, our natural assets including forests, rivers, land, minerals and oceans as well as the benefits we derive from them, such as food, recreation, clean water, hazard protection and clean air. The NCC reports to the Economic Affairs (EA) Committee of the Cabinet. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The Natural Capital Committee has worked with Defra and HM Treasury staff, Ministers and Secretaries of State on a variety of key policies including the 25 Year Environment Plan, The Agriculture Act, the Environment Bill, the Fisheries Bill, and revision of the HM Treasury 'Green Book' Guidelines for the Assessment of Public Spending. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/natural-capital-committee |
| Description | North Devon Natural Capital Plan |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.northdevonbiosphere.org.uk/mncp.html |
| Description | Production of Marine Pioneer Reports |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4564011# |
| Description | Strategic Priorities Fund: Sustainable Management of Marine Resources Member of Strategic Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | A Systems Analysis Approach to Reduce Plastic Waste in Indonesian Societies (PISCES) |
| Amount | £3,561,375 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/V006428/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 07/2024 |
| Description | ACU Blue Charter Fellowship |
| Amount | £7,996 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | N/a |
| Organisation | The Commonwealth Fund |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Centre for doctoral training in sustainable management of UK marine resources (SuMMeR) |
| Amount | £836,936 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/W007215/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2028 |
| Description | ESRC IAA scheme |
| Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2018 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Rufford Foundation: Small Grant awarded to Voon-Ching Lim, University of Malaya. Understanding the socio-ecological systems in the Tun Mustapha Park (TMP), Sabah, Malaysia through the local communities' perspectives. |
| Amount | £4,976 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 28095-1 |
| Organisation | Rufford Small Grants Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2019 |
| Description | UM Partnership Grant titled "Fostering Sustainable Behaviour Among Women and Children within the Marine Park Community through Community-Based Social Marketing" awarded to Hong Ching Goh |
| Amount | RM25,000 (MYR) |
| Organisation | University of Malaya |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Start | 05/2019 |
| Title | Marine Planning Trade-off Analysis (MaPTA) Tool |
| Description | Marine Planning Trade-off Analysis (MaPTA) is a tool designed to lead you on a step-by-step journey to identify the trade-offs arising from management interventions. It will help you to assess and decide the extent to which trade-offs are acceptable, or unacceptable, to different stakeholders. It will also encourage you to identify response options for mitigating, compensating for, or avoiding potentially harmful and unacceptable outcomes |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool has been pilotted in Palawan, Philippines: Participants reported: "Thought differently from beyond what I normally think, I don't think I have experienced a technique that has made me think this way." We have been approached by Flora and Fauna International, an NGO, about the possibility of piloting the tool with some of their upcoming marine projects. |
| Title | Participatory Marine Governance Analysis Handbook |
| Description | The Participatory Marine Governance Analysis (PMGA) handbook offers a toolkit for learning from marine governance innovations through the participation of those involved in their implementation. It provides tools that analyse the enablers and barriers to the successful implementation of marine governance innovations |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The handbook provided the reference guide for training over 25 Southeast Asian researchers in conducting participatory marine governance analysis. The use of handbook has resulted in three publications in high impact journals (one published, two under review). |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/6338294#.Yisu5xDP0-W |
| Title | Participatory Marine Governance Analysis tools |
| Description | The Participatory Marine Governance Analysis (PMGA) toolkit outlines a participatory process for analysing the governance of marine parks and biosphere reserves. Key stakeholders systematically analyse the governance context within which they are working, and stakeholders more widely learn from the experiences and knowledge of each other and reflect on how to improve the performance of marine governance in the future. The process of outlined in a manual aimed at researchers in Blue Communities partner universities. A key focus of the PMGA is governance innovations - the creation of new ideas for governing the marine environment and the process by which these ideas are adopted and adapted in new places. Firstly, the manual outlines relevant concepts, before introducing the PMGA process. Secondly, it presents three analytical tools: (i) Institutional Analysis; (ii) Innovation Histories; (iii) and NetMap. The institutional analysis records the wider governance context, the innovation history learns from past processes of change in governance, and NetMap analyses the current relationships and distribution of power within the governance system. In combination these analytical tools support participants to identify opportunities to improve governance processes and outcomes in the future. The manual will be made available publicly once tested in our case studies. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Researchers in partner SE Asian universities and key stakeholders involved as co-researchers have learnt a new approach to governance analysis. As partners implement the research tools, we expect to see tangible impacts within our case study biosphere reserves by stakeholders rethinking their governance and identifying practical solutions to issues identified by the processes. |
| Title | Value Chain Analysis questionnaires |
| Description | Value Chain Analysis (VCA) questionnaires have been developed, targeting fishers and tuna processors. VCA assess a portion of an economic system, offering insight into how the value is generated and captured along a value chain. Those questionnaires have been designed to investigate the benefits linked with one-by-one fisheries. The VCA questionnaires aim at 1) identifying and understanding the interactions and links between the various economic agents involved in tuna fishing and processing and 2) measuring both qualitatively and quantitatively the value produced along the value chain and the distribution of benefits among economic agents in the chain. The questionnaire targeting fishers collect data on fishing practices (vessel size, gear, fishing trip, species caught), employment, costs and income. The questionnaire targeting processors collect data on the type of tuna bought and to whom, the type of processing done, employment, costs, buying and selling prices, the destination of processed tuna. Fieldwork has been conducted end of 2020: 38 fishers and 14 processors have been interviewed. |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data collected and results obtained will feed into discussions of the Indonesian Tuna Consortium, discussing tuna fisheries management strategy. |
| Title | Zoom In |
| Description | An offline website representing the current situation including all pressing issues in the Blue Communities partner regio Taytay, Palawan, Philippines. the user can freely zoom in and out different topics like fisheries, agriculture or corals and learn via different channels like pictures, short stories, audios, videos and infographics. The target audience is elementary school kids in the Philippines. The tool is bilingual (English and Tagalog) |
| Type Of Material | Technology assay or reagent |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The tool will be evaluated thoroughly and its use will be compared to other means of environmental communication. this will provide insight into the importance of visualisation and free navigation in environmental communication. |
| Title | CSERM conducted the first observations and data collection on fisheries potential in Tambolongan and Polassi Islands including Selayar |
| Description | The first observation and data collection on fisheries potential in Tambolongan and Polassi Islands including Selayar were carried out in July 2018. The CSERM team interviewed related local stakeholders, i.e., Head of Selayar Fisheries agency, labour of ice making industry, head of Tambolongan village, Head of Polassi village, and several fishermen in Tambolongan and Polassi Islands. In addition to conducting interviews, the team also carried out direct observations to obtain data on the type and amounts of fish caught, fishing tools, number of fishermen, and market chain of the fish products. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The data collected provides baseline information from which pathways to impact will be measured during the progression of the project. |
| Title | CSERM has conducted fieldworkand collected initial biodiversity data |
| Description | The objectives of the fieldwork conducted by CSERM were to identify the biodiversity potential and observe the condition of coastal and marine waters in the support of ecotourism development. Furthermore, as none of CSERM members had previously visited the two islands prior to this fieldwork, another objective of the fieldwork was to observe the physical (and socio) conditions in the target locations and initiate contacts with local community in the two islands. All of these were useful in providing technical information (e.g. alternative means of transport, homestay, and other necessities) for other teams planning to visit the islands in the near future. The fieldwork was conducted on 13 - 19 April 2018. Initial biodiversity data collected during the fieldwork consists of marine and terrestrial biodiversity. The terrestrial data focused on the variations of birds in the two island. As for the marine biodiversity, the fieldwork was focused on initial observation of coastal condition by snorkelling. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This initial fieldwork and data collection enabled good preparation of marine biodiversity data collection in the subsequent fieldwork, which would require more labour and equipments. The data collected provides some baseline information from which pathways to impact will be measured during the progression of the project. |
| Title | CSERM has conducted follow up fieldwork in Kanari forest, Tambolongan and Polassi islands |
| Description | The fieldwork was conducted on 21 - 28 May 2018 in Kanari forest, Tambolongan and Polassi islands to collect socio-economic data (including demographics, resources utilisation, health, education and poverty), biodiversity data, and ecotourism potential (including accessibility, attraction, activities, accommodation, and amenities) data. Further discussions with Head of Taka Bonerate National Park and Head of Local Development Planning Agency were also carried out in finalising the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this field visit. An informal discussion was also conducted with the head of village in Kanari forest regarding socio-economic aspects of community, including total amount of production of kanari (walnut) per month, and also village infrastructure facilities such as water and energy to add to the data collected. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The collection of this data provides additional data for interdisciplinary research across several aspects of the Blue Communities programme. The data collected provides baseline information from which pathways to impact will be measured during the progression of the project. |
| Title | Hanoi National University of Education organised a site visit at Cu Lao Cham to gather data |
| Description | Researchers from Hanoi National University of Education arranged a site visit from 23-24th March 2018 to enable the research team to become familiar with the study site. The team scoped the study area from mainland to the islands, and gathered data from visiting the coral systems, evaluated the area in Cu Lao Cham forest, visited villages, waste processor/kiln industries, the reservoir dam and talked with the land team leader, leaf-collector group leader, fishermen and the people who allocated sea for protection in Bai Huong village. The ecosystems were evaluated and the environmental pressures considered (e.g. impacts on sea grass ecosystems, overharvesting of fish, pollution, tourism pressures). Additionally, data was gathered on the livelihoods and governance in the case study area. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Additional stakeholders have been engaged during the site visit and awareness of the project being raised. Identification of any gaps in the data and ground-truthing for mapping of ecosystems in Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An has been made. |
| Title | Marine environment climate change projections for Southeast Asian seas |
| Description | Projections of physical and biogeochemical conditions in Southeast Asian seas, 1980-2098, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, derived from climate models. For more details see BlueCommunities_2d.dataset_description.pdf |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This dataset has enabled (1) production of projections of change in fish species in Southeast Asian seas due to climate change and fishing pressure (doi:10.5281/zenodo.4281146) (2)a study of the impact of seawater temperature on coral reefs in the context of climate change for Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve (doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.704682). Further studies are in preparation. |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/4775853 |
| Title | Regional climate model outputs for South East Asian seas |
| Description | Projections of environmental conditions in South East Asian seas, 1980-2098, created using a coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem model, POLCOMS-ERSEM, driven by a regionally-downscaled atmospheric model from the CMIP5 set (HadGEM2-ES). Model outputs include temperature, salinity, current speeds, sea surface elevation, nutrients, plankton and bacterial biomass, primary production and pH. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | In use for research in Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. |
| Title | Western Philippines University collected secondary data at the Local Government Unit of Taytay, Palawan |
| Description | Researchers from Western Philippines University collected secondary data and Shape files from the Local Government Units of Taytay and Aborlan, Palawan during March 2018. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The correspondence with the Local Government Units in the two case study sites (Taytay and Aborlan) have been strengthened as a result of this data collection. |
| Description | A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Western Philippines University and the Local Government Unit of Aborlan was signed |
| Organisation | Government of the Republic of the Philippines |
| Department | Local Government Unit of Aborlan |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The UK research team encouraged and endorsed researchers from Western Philippines University to negotiate and liaise with the Local Government Unit of Aborlan. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researchers from Western Philippines University arranged and signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Local Government Unit of Aborlan on March 5, 2018 |
| Impact | Strengthing collaborations and relations with the stakeholders in the Case Study area will enable coordination of the research to be conducted and engagement with the local communities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between Western Philippines University and the Local Government Unit of Taytay was signed |
| Organisation | Government of the Republic of the Philippines |
| Department | Local Government Information Unit of Taytay |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The UK researchers have encouraged and supported the MoU with local governments in the case study areas. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researchers from Western Philippines University have prepared and signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Local Government Unit of Taytay, Palawan on 2nd May 2018. |
| Impact | Strengthing collaborations and relations with the stakeholders in the Case Study area will enable coordination of the research to be conducted and engagement with the local communities. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | A collaboration with Yayasan Planet Indonesia (YPI) initiated by Blue Ventures |
| Organisation | Yayasan Planet Indonesia |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The UK Research team have encouraged and supported the collaborations being established with other research organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researchers from Blue Ventures (Indonesia) have been in discussions with a local partner, Yayasan Planet Indonesia (YPI), on the plan to collaborate with Blue Communities. YPI agreed upon the future collaboration in analysing the corelation between health and well-being of coastal community toward marine ecosystem management. Blue Ventures has introduced the YPI team to the research team from Exeter University and strengthened the collaboration and established shared vision. There has been a sharing of resources between Blue Ventures team and YPI to support the design of baseline assessment development. YPI has supported the team from Exeter University in the application of the requesite research permit in Indonesia. |
| Impact | These activities support the realisation of Program Outputs: 3.1 Improved understanding of relationship between marine environment and well-being 6.1 Interdisciplinary, international research teams, comprising researchers at different career stages, addressing pilot research case studies co-created with relevant stakeholders 6.3 Increased experience of UK researchers in E/SE Asia, and increased exposure to overseas issues and challenges. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CSERM at UNAS and ICIT at Heriot Watt University have signed an agreement to work collaboratively |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Programme Director has encouraged and endorsed collaborations and partnership with other research institutes to enhance the visibility and productivity of the GCRF Blue Communities programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | CSERM at UNAS, Indonesia and ICIT at Heriot Watt University, Scotland have signed agreement regarding the training and capacity building as well as advice and technical assistance for case study site's renewable energy resources assessment and integrated renewable energy solutions. The activities have commenced and starting from Q3 2018/2019 with data being provided by Heriot Watt University on solar, wind and tidal information. |
| Impact | The activities are planned to commence in quarter 3 of 2018/2019. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Curtin University |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Sabah Environmental Trust |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia |
| Department | Department of Forest Resources Management |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Worldfish |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creation of the Advisory Group for the GCRF Blue Communities enabled engagement with representatives of key contacts in intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and research institutes within and beyond the SE Asia region including: The Executive Director of Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the Director of Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University; the Chief Executive Officer of the Sabah Environmental Trust; The Director of the North Devon Biosphere Foundation ; a Senior Scientist at Worldfish; Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific; and the Director, Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, at the University of British Columbia. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the Advisory Group members were able to provide their expert advice and guidance on a various aspects of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme, including additional networking opportunities, considerations to be included for the risk register, advice on national policy, |
| Impact | The Members of the Advisory Group have reviewed and provided input to the Terms of Reference, Risk Register and provided introductions to stakeholders and relevant networks. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | Blue Ventures |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | Hanoi National University of Education |
| Country | Viet Nam |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | International Pole and Line Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | Nasional University |
| Department | Centre for Sustainable Energy and Resources Management |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | North Devon Biosphere Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Department | Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | University of Malaya |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Department | School of Psychology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | University of Technology Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Kick Off meeting |
| Organisation | Western Philippines University |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Creating new collaborations and strengthening existing collaborations with research organisations in the Southeast Asia region and non-governmental organisations in the UK who are Partners on the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme at the kick off meeting. This meeting was hosted by one of the overseas partners, the Universiti of Malaya and co-organised by members of the research team from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and attended by programme participants from all ten Programme Partners (Plymouth Marine Laboratory, University of Plymouth, University of Exeter, University of Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Western Philippines University, Hanoi National University of Education, North Devon Biosphere Foundation, Blue Venture, International Pole & Line Foundation). New collaborations were established with researchers from the University of Technology Sydney. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All of the ten Partners worked together to forge stronger collaborations to meet the objectives of the GCRF Blue Communities Programme; to learn about the project partner and case study needs and interests; to identify and co-create agreed research questions (and desired outcome and outputs); to further identify training needs; to plan the implementation of the projects and activities across the case studies whilst ensuring intergration and coherence; and to consider and plan interaction and integration with stakeholders. Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have relevent experience and expertise in providing information to fisheries managers about teh contribution of small scale tuna fisheries to coastal communities to inform marine planning for the region, with particular experience in Indonesia. |
| Impact | Implementation plans for delivering the 12 sub-project encompassed within the GCRF Blue Communities Programme have been drafted. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Esa Unggul University |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Mindanao State University – Naawan |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Nagasaki University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Soka University |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | University of Malaya |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | University of Plymouth |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia |
| Organisation | Western Philippines University |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A proposal was submitted in response to a call for the GCRF UKRI-JST-DOST research collaborations in Southeast Asia, for a project entitled "Circular Economy of Plastics in Aquaculture and Fisheries of Southeast Asia (CEPAF SEA)" . This project was to draw together multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Unfortunately, UKRI withdrew its funding from this grant, but solid prospective collaborations were built between the partner organisations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multi-disciplinary leading academic researchers from the University of Plymouth (UoP, UK), Soka University (SU, JP), Nagasaki University (NU, JP), Western Philippines University (WPU, PH), Mindanao State University - Naawan (MSU-N, PH), MSU - Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT, PH), University of Malaya (UM, MY) and Universitas Esa Unggul (UEU, ID) & NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) cam together to work upon a proposal. Following the withdrawal of funding from UKRI, the partners in Southeast Asia continued to work with their respective funding bodies in Japan and the Philippines (JST and DOST). |
| Impact | Unfortunately the project was not funded, but networking opportunities and solid collaborations with new partners (Soka University, Nagasaki University, Mindanao State University, Iligan Institute of Technology, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology) were established. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | ICES WG Marine Planning and Coastal Zone Management |
| Organisation | Government of Scotland |
| Department | Marine Scotland Directorate |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Ana Queiros is the joint lead of the Climate Change term of reference of the Working Group. She leads activities aiming to identify current mechanisms, and develop further ones, to help deliver climate-smart marine spatial plans. Ana brings her climate change research expertise to the group, which includes many colleagues from predominantly marine spatial planning policy across Europe and Canada. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners bring predominantly knowledge of marine policy and governance, especially around Europe and Canada. |
| Impact | Ana has, as a consequence of her participation, been involved in several invited contributions to high level stakeholder events, including giving an invited talk at the European Maritime Day 2021 (Dan Helder), a contribution to the UN Global Compact document "ROADMAP TO INTEGRATE CLEAN OFFSHORE RENEWABLE ENERGY INTO CLIMATE-SMART MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING", and a keynote talk at the NSBR eMSP conference 2022. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MOA between Department of Science and Technology (DOST) MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduqeue, Romblon, & Palawan) Region and the Western Philippines University (WPU) |
| Organisation | Government of the Republic of the Philippines |
| Department | Department of Science and Technology |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Support and endorsement of this collaboration was made by our research team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues from the Western Phliippines University, a partner working on the GCRF Blue Communities programme agreed an Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduqeue, Romblon, & Palawan) Region which was presented and approved by the WPU Administrative Council for endorsement to the Board of Regents. |
| Impact | This MoU has formalised the collaboration between Western Philippines University and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduqeue, Romblon, & Palawan) Region. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | MoU between Sabah Parks and Universiti Malaya |
| Organisation | Sabah Parks |
| Country | Malaysia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Sabah Parks and Universiti Malaya (UM) in Kota Kinabalu for joint benefits in the field of research (February 2018). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sabah Parks is the Case Study in Malaysia for the GCRF Blue Communities Programme. By engaging with the governors of the Marine Park, the research that will be conducted in the Marine Park can be coordinated and supported, enabling engagement with the local communities, policy-makers for marine planning and other stakeholders going forward. World Wide Fund for Nature Malaysia (WWF), has a working MoU with the Sabah Government to develop Tun Mustapha Park which would further enhance the research activities conducted for the GCRF Blue Communities Programme. |
| Impact | Strengthening the collaboration between the Partner institute, Universiti Malaya, with the Chairman of Sabah Parks and colleagues, as well as WWF. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Research collaboration with Dr Tom Webb |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of data, supervision of students, collaborative analyses, seminars, joint proposals (SOFI grant, studentships, MERP) Co-supervision of current PhD student |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of data, supervision of students, collaborative analyses, seminars, joint proposals (SOFI grant, studentships, MERP) |
| Impact | Publications PhD studentships |
| Description | The Western Philippines University signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Zoological Society of London |
| Organisation | Zoological Society of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Programme Office has fully endorsed and supported collaborations with relevant organisations to work alongside GCRF Blue Communities partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Researchers from the Western Philippines University initiated and arranged a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Zoological Society of London. |
| Impact | This collaboration has just started, therefore it is too soon to list the outputs or outcomes of the partnership. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Training with PRIMER |
| Organisation | Primer-E Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Working with company to develop statistical methods and advise on software implementation Giving bespoke commercial courses on use of the software worldwide - training courses now being delivered on-line |
| Collaborator Contribution | Developing statistical methods for use in research, provision of test software |
| Impact | Many publications (with KR Clarke and others) Many courses worldwide - now being delivered on-line International networking Research opportunities |
| Description | University of Exeter collaboration |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Department | Medical School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of Oceans and Human Health area of research by bringing understanding of marine ecosystems and services to the collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | contribution of expertise in human and public health |
| Impact | Conference on Oceans and Human Health in March 2014; This produced the 'Message from Bedruthan' which called for a coordinated, transnational and interdisciplinary oceans and human health research programme in Europe. It recommended that research should be solutions-oriented, supporting health and wellbeing promotion and disease treatment, and informing maritime, environment, public health and innovation policy. |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Western Philippines University signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the City Government of Puerto Princesa city |
| Organisation | City Government of Puerto Princesa |
| Country | Philippines |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Local Government Unit of Puerto Princesa City will collaborate and cooperate with the WPU team to conduct meeting, gather secondary data, surveys, interviews, assessment and similar activities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Western Philippines University is further building upon the networks and local government offices to support the research being conducted. |
| Impact | Currently working on ouputs and outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | '() ( - ) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Through the collaboration of the College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (CFAS), Research, Development and Extension Office of Western Philippines University (WPU), and the Blue Communities-Philippines, a seminar-workshop was successfully held and participated by the faculty members and researchers from the seven colleges of Western Philippines University on April 22, 2022, at the WPU-PPC Audio-Visual Hall. The event facilitated the sharing of experiences and learnings of BCPh ECRs from the four-year involvement with the BC programme towards broadening the research and extension perspective of the participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 5th Our Ocean conference, Bali, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Blue Communities Research Programme pledged its commitment at the 5th Our Ocean Conference, which took place from 29-30 October 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. The ocean commitment through the GCRF Blue Communities Research Programme was announced on behalf of the programme by Meghan Jeans, Program Director of the Ocean Foundation: "The marine environment is under immense pressure from the multiple, and often conflicting, needs of the people that use it. In Southeast Asia, where marine activities are important contributors to GDP, marine spatial planning involving coordinated decision-making has been highlighted as a key requirement for a sustainable future. We announce that, through academic-stakeholder collaborations, community co-creation and co-delivery, Plymouth Marine Laboratory (lead) is working with partners to deliver the £6.7million Blue Communities project by September 2021 through UK Government Global Challenges Research Funding. Blue Communities will support development, implementation and ongoing management of initiatives promoting sustainable use of marine resources by multiple users, whilst protecting the fragile marine ecosystems and supporting the livelihoods food security, health and well-being of the people in these coastal communities. A lasting legacy for the benefit of coastal communities in the target regions, including 3 regional UNESCO Man & Biosphere Reserves and a Marine Protected Area, scientific partners in SE Asia and the UK." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/AL0BVlhRRk4 |
| Description | A training workshop on Health and Safety best practice was organised for all project participants |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A workshop session on the topic of health and safety was arranged for all project participants to attend. Experts from the University of Exeter and University of Plymouth delivered a two-hour long session for all participants to join and ask questions on the topic. The content enabled capacity building for both UK and DAC partners, ensuring that best practices were shared and materials were disseminated across the research community. It also enabled the UK partners to better understand the policies and procedures in the different partner organisations and how to ensure all parties are prepared for aspects of the fieldwork. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | A website post on the HNUE Biology Department was published in Vietnamese |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A web article was posted on the website of Biology Dept. (HNUE) about the joint country paper of GCRF BC P3 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://bio.hnue.edu.vn/Nghi%C3%AAn-c%E1%BB%A9u/C%C3%B4ng-b%E1%BB%91-m%E1%BB%9Bi/T%E1%BA%A1p-ch%C3%A... |
| Description | Amy Then, Universiti Malaya presented at the 2021 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2021) online |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Amy Then was selected as one of the Early Career Champions for the 2021 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI2021) Early Career Research Programme held from 12th - 15th June 2021 online and onsite (Brisbane, Australia). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Analysis and publication writing training workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training event on conducting qualitative analysis and writing high impact publications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Annual meeting with all project partners 21-23rd November, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Over 60 participants attended the GCRF Blue Communities Annual Meeting, including representatives from each of the 10 partner organisations (4 of which are from DAC countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam, as well as representatives from the 6 UK partners). This was hosted by the Western Philippines University and held in Palawan, Philippines from 21-23 November 2018 where activities to-date were reviewed, lessons learned shared among the partners, interactive workshops enabled co-creation and planning for future activities and further collaboration and cooperation among the partners and beyond was established. In addition, four training workshops were held from 19-20 November and 24-25 November, enabling further capacity building and training for the DAC project participants. The meeting also included side meetings of the Executive Group and the Advisory Group enabling an opportunity to review the risk register, the logframe, the plans for work and further networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Article on Blue Communities' Our Ocean conference pledge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article on Blue Communities' pledge at the Our Ocean conference to support and build research capacity in marine planning in SE Asia and ultimately help improve the overall wellbeing of the region's coastal communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Blue_Communities_pledges_its_commitment_to_improvi |
| Description | Attendance at the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) East Asia Capacity Building Workshop on Biodiversity and Its Research Management by University of Malaya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mohd Iqbal attended the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) Asia Capacity Building Workshop from 23rd to 24th September 2019 in Jakarta, Indonesia focusing on the theme of "Science Advice in Biodiversity and its Research Management". The workshop aimed at discussing and sharing between scientists on the aspect of communicating science and findings to policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Attended workshop on Improving Fisherman's Welfare through Holistic and Collaborative Approach - Five Case Studies on Alleviating Poverty Pilot Project (held by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Dept of Social Sciences) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project participants from CSERM-UNAS attended a workshop on Improving Fisherman's Welfare through Holistic and Collaborative Approach - Five Case Studies on Alleviating Poverty Pilot Project (held by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Deputy of Social Sciences). Attendees gained new information on methods in performing socio-economic assessments, and opened new networks for collaborative works with CCRES research group who had done a lot of research activities in Selayar Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bayesian Belief Network training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | As part of GCRF Blue Communities project 8, training was delivered to project members on developing conceptual models and moving from conceptual models to operational Bayesian Belief Network models. Approximately 25 people attended this training and it has led to discussions about which case study team would like to take this forwards and develop a full model. Workshop materials have been made available to participants and other interested parties from the GCRF Blue Communities programme, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Blog featured on Newton-GCRF website authored by colleagues from Universiti Malaya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog article authored by Wan Nur Syazana Wan Mohamad Ariffin, Eva Vivian Justine, Muhammad Ashraf Abdul Rahman, Nurul Kamila Mohd Yusof, Wan Mohd Syazwan Wan Solahudin (GCRF Blue Communities Malaysia) featured on Newton-GCRF website as a data insights blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/data-insights-blog/why-we-must-involve-young-people-in-our-resear... |
| Description | Blog written by WPU team members featured on Newton-GCRF website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog featured on Newton-GCRF website authored by WPU team members entitled "Science and survival with the blue communities of Palawan" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/data-insights-blog/science-and-survival-with-the-blue-communities... |
| Description | Blue Communities - Philippines Information, Education and Communication Kick-off Meeting with 4 Barangays in Taytay, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Western Philippines University team members organised and deliever Blue Communities - Philippines Information, Education and Communication Kick-off Meeting with 4 Barangays in Taytay, Palawan, Philippines with local leaders, village teachers and peoples organization on February 15 to 18, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities 4th Annual Meeting: 21-28 July 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities 4th Annual Meeting was held online and attended by over 120 international participants. In addition to a series of presentations which was open to external participants for the first 2 days of the meeting, a series of workshops and internal training opportunities for programme participants took place over 5 days. These included a workshop organised by the Early Career Researchers on Project Management, and individual writing workshops, data analysis workshops and communications workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Final Newsletter released |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On 9th June 2022, the final newsletter from Blue Communities was released. This featured updates from the project from the partners in Southeast Asia as well as the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://blue-communities.org/News/Blue_Communities_final_Newsletter_(June_2022)_is_out_now |
| Description | Blue Communities Final Symposium 23-25 March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The final symposium for Blue Communities was held online over 3 days, and researchers from the project presented research papers included within the themes of a) Human Health and the Marine Environment; b) The Future, Climate Change and Modelling; c) Governance and Management; d) Ecosystems and Resource Management; and e) Building Research Capability. These were presented in various formats including precording narrated video presentations, live presentations accompanied by slideshows, and poster presentations. We received 182 registrants from all around the world and the audience were encouraged to ask questions to the presenters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Blue Communities Malaysian team continue to maintain news items on social media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities' Malaysian team continue to maintain news items on social media via their Facebook page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesMY |
| Description | Blue Communities Newsletter December 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Programme newsletter aimed at sharing programme and related news with participants and stakeholders, focused on the progress that has been made since the Annual Science Meeting as well as exploring the opportunities and challenges that have emerged with regards to conducting ODA research in the Pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://5liu3.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/mk/mr/YcaI6PLM6tS0FkpHDwKgdiLhGcOoHR_Sw0AFYGJt4tXoB2jgZJ9WiyKfZ9cB... |
| Description | Blue Communities Newsletter July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Programme newsletter aimed at sharing programme and related news with participants and stakeholders, focused on the progress that has continued to be made through the early stages of the pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/6eea721244d7/gcrf-blue-communities-newsletter-november-1760705?e=9889454b77 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #1: Prof. Dr.Enny Sudarmonowati |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The first of the regular Blue Communities Seminar Series was launched on 12th October 2020. Prof. Dr.Enny Sudarmonowati previous President of the International Coordinating Council o the UNESCO Man and Biosphere programme gave a full talk about the programme and discussed how the activities of Blue Communities can contribute. The seminar was opened up to external stakeholders as well. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #2: Dr Vik Mohan, Andy Bell, Zacari Edwards |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | For the 2nd session of the Blue Communities Seminar Series, Vik Mohan (Blue Ventures), Andy Bell (NDBR) and Zacari Edwards (IPNLF) gave presentations about their NGO partnerships with Blue Communities. The event was attended by stakeholders and interested parties as well as researchers within the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #3: Early career researchers from University of Exeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Early career researchers from University of Exeter organised the 3rd session in the Blue Communities Seminar series and shared "Stories from the field...and festive fun". Three PhD students shared some of their experiences from their fieldwork and also organised an informal quiz to network with the partners. This gave the UK ECRs an opportunity to take responsibility for organising a session, preparing and delivering their talks and chairing the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #4: Prof Sabina Leonelli |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | For the 4th Blue Communities seminar series session, Prof. Sabina Leonelli provided a seminar about research data management and the ethics of research data management; possible scientific and social problems deriving from data mishandling; the issues of trust that emerge among research communities when it comes to data sharing; and the tricky dilemmas confronted by us all as researchers when trying to make data scrutinisable and re-usable, while also being mindful of their social and political value. This provided a useful and informative session, building the capacity of both UK researchers and DAC researchers, sharing best practice on data management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #5: Western Philippines University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On 8th February 2021, Early Career Researchers from Western Philippines presented a series of presentations under the theme " The challenges and joys of working with the communities in Palawan" sharing some of the observations from their research and fieldwork. This session was open to external stakeholders and interested parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series #6: Dr Maklarin Lakim, Director of Sabah Parks. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The speaker for the 6th GCRF Blue Communities Seminar was Dr. Maklarin Lakim, Director of Sabah Parks. Invited by the University of Malaya, Dr. Lakim talked about Tun Mustapha Park, a marine park located off the north coast of the state of Sabah, Malaysia comprising an area of 898,762.76 hectares with more than 50 islands and islets located across Kudat, Pitas and Kota Marudu districts. Tun Mustapha Park is one of the four Case Study sites of the GCRF Blue Communities programme. This session was also opened up to external stakeholders and interested parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series Workshop Session: Impact of Blue Communities' work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | On 1st March 2021, a workshop session was organised for the Blue Communities where examples of pathways to impact were shared by the representatives from each of the DAC partners, and also a training session on how to use a matrix developed by the Monitoring and Evaluation committee was presented to the project participants. There was also a panel session where participants could put questions forward around the topic of measuring impact. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 1 - Prof. Dr.Enny Sudarmonowati, The UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The first of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was launched with a talk presented by Prof. Dr.Enny Sudarmonowati, President of UNESCO's Man and Biosphere (MAB) International Coordinating Council (ICC). This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 10 - Asep Pranayaja, S.Pi. & Zul Janwar, S.Kel,M.Si. Achieving SDGs with Local Communities in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The tenth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by two speakers who had been invited by our project partner, Universitas Nasional, Asep Pranayaja, S..Pi. from the Taka Bonerate National Park talked about "Taka Bonerate National Park Community Based Management" and Zul Janwar, S.Kel,,M.Si. from the Agency for Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Kepulauan Selayar Regency, talked about "Collaborative Marine and Fisheries Management in Selayar". Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve is located in the Flores Sea, south of Sulawesi island of Indonesia. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 11 - Dr Peter Miller, Dr Andrey Kurekin, Dr Emma Sullivan and Dr Olivia Langmead. Remote sensing, mapping and modelling of ecosystem services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The third of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by Dr Peter Miller, Dr Andrey Kurekin, Dr Emma Sullivan (from Plymouth Marine Laboratory) and Dr Olivia Langmead (from the University of Plymouth). The first three presentations were about "Earth Observation Approaches in Blue Communities", "Aquaculture site mapping from satellite" and "Coastal Habitat Mapping and Protected Areas from Satellite", and the fourth about "Mapping and Modelling Ecosystem Services". This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 12 - Zacari Edwards, Heri Heri, Dr Nicholas McClean, Dr Umi Muawanah - How Indonesia is making strides to include socio-economic indicators in its management of local tuna fisheries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The twelfth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office. Project partner International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) invited speakers and included talks presented by Zacari Edwards (Socio Economic Manager, IPNLF), Heri Heri (Indonesia Program Technical Advisor, IPNLF), Dr Nicholas McClean (Socio-economic Researcher, University of Technology Sydney), and Dr Umi Muawanah (Fisheries Economist, Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, SOSEK), The speakers gave presentations about how Indonesia is making strides to include socio-economic indicators in its management of local tuna fisheries. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 13 - Karen Madarcos, Lea Janine Gajardo & Ziedwrick Ayson Dicar (WPU). Ways to create video and visually impactful presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The thirteenth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented Karen Madarcos, Lea Janine Gajardo & Ziedwrick Ayson Dicar from the Western Philippines University where they shared their experiences and advised on "Ways to create video and visually impactful presentations." They are early career researchers and this built capacity and shared skills with UK partners benefitting as well as overseas partners. A panel session including the Communications Officer, Kelly-Marie Davidson enabled discussions. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 14 - Dr Voon Ching Lim, Dr Radisti Ayu Praptiwi, and Edgar Jose - Early Career Reseachers' Pilot Projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The fourteenth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by Dr Voon Ching Lim (Monash University), Dr Radisti Ayu Praptiwi (Universitas Nasional), and Edgar Jose (Western Philippines University). They are early career researchers conducting research that supports the objectives of Blue Communities. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 15 - Ms Aimee Gonzales. An introduction to PEMSEA - a model of regional, coastal and ocean governance mechanisms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The fifteenth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with a seminar presented by Ms Aimee Gonzales, Executive Director of the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA). This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. As Blue Communities had organised a Collab for PEMSEA's East Seas Congress, this enabled the audience to see how the work of Blue Communities has relevance to international organisations such as PEMSEA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 2 - Dr Vik Mohan, Andy Bell & Zacari Edwards. NGO Partnerships with Blue Communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The second of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the programme office. Presentations were given by Dr. Vik Mohan, Director of Community Health at Blue Ventures Conservation; Mr Andy Bell, the international projects development lead for the UK National Committee for the MaB programme; and Mr. Zacari Edwards, Socio Economic Manager at the International Pole and Line Foundation. The three speakers represent the NGO partners of Blue Communities and talked about the work of Blue Communities contributes to the objectives of their three NGOs. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 3 - Liliana Bastian, Timur Jack-Kadioglu & Anastasia Voronkova. Stories from the field |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The third of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by Liliana Bastian, Timur Jack-Kadioglu & Anastasia Voronkova from the University of Exeter. They shared the lessons learned and initial findings from their fieldwork in the Case Study countries. They are early career researchers conducting research that supports the objectives of Blue Communities. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 4 - Prof. Sabina Leonelli . Research Data Management: Responsible and Open? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The fourth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with a talk presented by Prof Sabine Leonelli, Professor in Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Exeter. Prof Leonelli discussed the ethics of research data management; possible scientific and social problems deriving from data mishandling; the issues of trust that emerge among research communities when it comes to data sharing; and the tricky dilemmas confronted by us all as researchers when trying to make data scrutinisable and re-usable, while also being mindful of their social and political value. . This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 5 - Lea Janine Gajardo, Joel Sumeldan & Recca Sajorne. The challenges and joys of working with the communities in Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The fifth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by Lea Janine Gajardo, Joel Sumeldan & Recca Sajorne from the Western Philippines University. They are early career researchers conducting research that supports the objectives of Blue Communities. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 6 - Dr. Maklarin Lakim. A Journey towards a Sustainable Marine Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The sixth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with a talk presented by Dr. Maklarin Lakim, Director of Sabah Parks, who was invited by project partner, University of Malaya. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 7 - Isabel Richter, Susan Kay, Sevrine Sailley & Ana Queiros. Looking into the future: how Blue Communities' research is shedding light on the future for people, for the environment and for climate-resilient marine spatial planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The seventh of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented by Isabel Richter, Susan Kay, Sevrine Sailley & Ana Queiro from the University of Plymouth, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. They are researchers conducting research that supports the objectives of Blue Communities across several of the sub-projects. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Seminar Series: Session 8 Mr Le Ngoc Thao & Dr Nguyen Thu Ha. Changes in the Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The eighth of the Blue Communities Seminar Series was hosted by the project office with talks presented. They are researchers conducting research that supports the objectives of Blue Communities. This was held via Zoom and international external participants as well as project participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Symposium at the College of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at WPU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Facilitated a CFAS & Blue Communities Symposium on "Power, politics, and social exclusion: livelihood narratives on an island coastal community in Taytay, Palawan" as presented by T. Jack-Kadioglu of the University of Exeter, in March 2020 with approximately 200 (161 via e-registration) students, faculty members, government personnel from the WPU, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue Communities Vietnamese team continue to maintain news items on social media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Hanoi National University of Education have continued to maintain and upload news articles and photographs from their Blue Communities related activities on their Facebook page throughout the year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Communities-Viet-Nam-968220886901391/ |
| Description | Blue Communities Workshop: Data Management and Intellectual Property |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An internal workshop for Blue Communities programme participants was hosted by the project office and lead by Blue Communities' Data Management Committee. Followin a general presentation, programme participants discussed their data management processes and shared best practice in breakout rooms - findings were used to update the Data Management guidance for the programme - thus building capacity and providing training. This was held via Zoom and international programme participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Workshop: Impact of Blue Communities' Work |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An internal workshop for Blue Communities programme participants was hosted by the project office and included presentations from representatives from each of the ODA partners (Fatimah Kari, University of Malaya; Ben Gonzales, Western Philippines University; Duong Minh Lam, Hanoi National University of Education; and Asep Adhikerana, Universitas Nasional, who each gave presentations outlining examples of pathways to impact that had occurred in each country. Programme participants then received training on how to record and monitor pathways to impact and a Q&A panel session followed - thus building capacity and providing training. This was held via Zoom and international programme participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Workshop: Sofia Fernandez - Making Sense of the Open Research Landscape |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A workshop for Blue Communities programme participants and interested external parties was hosted by the project office and delivered by Sofia Fernandes, the Open Research Manager at the University of Exeter, who talked about open access publishing, journal practices, the DORA principles and horizon scanning for future trends in these areas - thus building capacity and providing training. This was held via Zoom and international participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities Workshop: Tips for Delivering Effective Presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | An internal workshop for Blue Communities programme participants was hosted by the project office. Following a series of presentations in different styles (including Pecha Kucha and video-narrative), programme participants discussed different ways to deliver impactful presentations through a panel Q&A sessions - thus building capacity and providing training. This was held via Zoom and international programme participants joined the session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities at the East Asian Seas Congress news item |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | News item on Blue Communities participation in the East Asian Seas Congress alongside the associated social media activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Blue_Communities_at_the_East_Asian_Seas_Congress |
| Description | Blue Communities ecosystem service training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training was given to Blue Communities project partners on ecosystem services concepts and frameworks, the use of ecosystem service approaches in marine planning and management and an introduction to environmental valuation methods. Training supported project partners to undertake the research involved in Blue Communities but also provided materials for them to use as training for other individuals in their institutes and beyond. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Blue Communities exhibit at Sharkfest 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An exhibit space was acquired for Blue Communities where the project was able to raise awareness and educate visitors to the exhibition stand. Most visitors were members of the public and were interested to hear about the activities that GCRF is funding in ODA countries. Activities such as colouring sheets for visitors to the exhibit and giveaways such as pens and notepads were provided to attract visitors. Awareness was also raised among the other exhbitors present at the Sharkfest event and further links with project partners (Blue Ventures) were also strengthened. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.sharkfestuk.com/ |
| Description | Blue Communities heads to Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the kick off meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the European Centre for Environment & Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School published a press release about the meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.ecehh.org/news/blue-communities/ |
| Description | Blue Communities holds its first Annual Progress Meeting press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A press release was circulating summaraising the key point of the meeting and associated activities. The website version received 138 engagements on Twitter and 141 engagements on Facebook. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Blue_Communities_holds_its_first_annual_progress_m |
| Description | Blue Communities team members from UNAS participated in the Universitas Nasional's 72nd anniversary event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Indonesian team members who are based in Jakarta participated in UNAS 72nd anniversary event, by holding a session specifically for the dissemination of Blue Communities project. The event was attended by researchers from research centres at UNAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities workshop: Data Management and Intellectual Property |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A workshop session was organised by the Chair of the Blue Communities Data Management committee (Dr Stefanie Broszeit) and other members of the committee. This gave Dr Broszeit, an early career researcher an opportunity to learn to chair and organise a committee, present a seminar on data management, facilitate a workshop and prepare articles for the BC newsletter and taking a lead on data management for the overall project. This opportunity has provided capacity building for the UK researchers as well as DAC researchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Blue Communities' Indonesian team continue to maintain news items on social media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Team members from Universitas Nasional Indonesia Blue Communities' team continue to maintain news items on social media throughout 2021 via their Instagram account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.instagram.com/cserm_unas/ |
| Description | Blue Communities' Philippines team continue to maintain news items on social media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Western Philippines University Blue Communities' team members continue to maintain news items on social media throughout 2021 via their Facebook page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesPhilippines |
| Description | Blue Communities- Sustainable Interactions with Marine Ecosystems: PEMSEA Collab Event for East Asian Seas Congress 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities hosted and organised a Collab Event in the lead up to the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress, the theme for which was "Charting a New Decade of HOPE (Healthy Ocean, People, and Economies)." External parties were invited to join the discussions on Ecosystem services from natural capital in the Southeast Asia region and presentations on the following topics were given, along with panel sessions: • Links between the marine coastal environment, ecosystems and human health • Predicted changes in marine resources due to climate change and how to prepare for them • Trade-offs between conflicting demands on marine resources from different users • Strategies for effective communication with and engagement of stakeholders Blue Communities submitted recommendations to the Royal Government of Cambodia and PEMSEA as part of the ESA Congress 202. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://eascongress2021.pemsea.org/ |
| Description | Blue Communities- an interdisciplinary marine research in southeast Asia - presentation by Hong Ching Goh at 8th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Global Young Academy (GYA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation entitled "Blue Communities- an interdisciplinary marine research in southeast Asia" was given by Dr Hong Ching Goh (University of Malaya) at the 8th Annual Conference and General Meeting of the Global Young Academy (GYA) Pattaya Thailand, which took place 7-11 May 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://agm2018.globalyoungacademy.net/ |
| Description | BlueCommunities: future projections writing workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | participants discussed how to use the future projections outputs from the project to support their own research. A number of paper were discussed and planned. These are now in various stage of being written and prepared for submission. There was interest in using outputs to support climate change discussion and policy recommendation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Borneo Ocean Talks Psychology of Behaviour Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote at Borneo Ocean talks around sustainable development of coastal communities in Malaysia with a focus on plastic pollution from a psychological angle. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ums.edu.my/v5/ms/announcement-link-3/7486-program-borneo-ocean-talks |
| Description | British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur Twitter post features HCG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | On 7 March, the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur (@UKinMalaysia) posted a twitter feed in relation to International Womens Day 2021 and Commonwealth Day, featuring Dr. Hong Ching Goh, Principle Investigator for Blue Communities as contributing to science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/UKinMalaysia/status/1368486582458650624 |
| Description | COP 27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt: attended, hosted University of Plymouth Stand, gave presentations on a panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attended COP 27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Manned University of Plymouth Stand explaining research to a wide footall audience, gave presentation and joined discussion on a panel 'Influence of National and Global Climate Education, Innovation, and Research on The Governmental Policies and Participation in The Green Economy' in the Climate Education Hub of Earth organization |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CSERM provided a training workshop focusing on Renewable Energy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A training workshop focusing on Marine Renewable Energy was led by Leuserina Garnita and enabled recipients of the training to map the actors and stakeholders and resources assessment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CSERM successfully coordinated an international workshop as side event of 30th International Coordinating Council - Man and Biosphere (ICC-MAB) in Palembang |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSERM has successfully coordinated an international workshop as side event of 30th International Coordinating Council - Man and Biosphere (ICC-MAB) in Palembang, 23rd July 2018. The main objectives of the workshop were: (i) to gather multi-disciplinary experience relating to managing of sustainable nature and natural resources from academics and practitioners, local and global stakeholders; and (ii) to identify existing global, regional, national, and local policies and financing mechanisms for decentralised, small scale, sustainable good practices of nature and natural resources management. By organising the workshop CSERM has obtained many inputs from international experts and stakeholders regarding contribution to the economic development and social welfare of communities in the Biosphere Reserve areas, which is strongly correlated with the GCRF Blue Communities projects, including ecosystem services and marine planning and governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Capacity building workshop on environmental communication Palawan, Philippines with WPU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Environmental communication strategies for different audiences |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Climate-ready ecosystem level options for marine spatial planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I led a workshop that was designed as a capacity development activity whereby co-developed research within the project will lead to a climate change assessment to facilitate the development of adaptation strategies to inform the spatial management of marine reserves, the tourism sector, fisheries and aquaculture in Vietnam, Malaysia and Philippines. Researchers involved in marine higher education, marine management and policy development from the listed countries attended the workshop. Training was given on the application of spatial meta-analysis on climate change modelling datasets as a decision support tool to inform the development of those strategies.The training included a lecture as well as a workshop, where participants used custom prepared Jupyter Notebooks to analysed climate change modelling datasets for the correspoding marine regions. Three case studies were identified (on in each country) that will serve as the focus of co-developed work within this award, as led by the Co-I and Project 11 lead A Queiros. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Celebrating_success_at_2nd_Annual_Progress_Meeting |
| Description | Colleague from HNUE presented at International scientific conference on the prospect of social interdisciplinary research collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Nguyen Thu Ha from Hanoi National University of Education presented the Blue Communities interdisciplinary research: Community perception on coastal environmental drivers/pressures in Hoi An, Vietnam in the "International scientific conference on the prospect of social interdisciplinary research collaboration" organised by University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University on 22nd October 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universitas Nasional led dissemination activities to village governments and local communities in Tambolongan and Polassi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CSERM UNAS representative, Sainal, led a team of local facilitators to visit Tambolongan and Polassi with main activities of: 1. Preparation and coordination for dissemination activities with village governments of Tambolongan and Polassi. 2. As part of preparing the dissemination materials, a local photographer was hired to take photos of coral diversity in Tambolongan & Polassi according to the results of the assessment conducted by the research team (Wulan, Sainal and Fauzan) to be included in biodiversity book, which will be distributed to local communities and Office for Education Selayar. 3. Participated and contributed in local workshop event held by Tambolongan and Polassi village governments on Capacity Building to Improve Local Products. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universiti Malaya presented a webinar hosted by the Sabah & Sarawak Affairs Division |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Fatimah Kari, a member of the Blue Communities Malaysia team presented at a webinar hosted by the Sabah & Sarawak Affairs Division (Prime Minister's Department). She talked about the strategy for economic recovery of Sabah and Sarawak during and after the COVID-19. The webinar session was held on 29 June 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universiti Malaya presented and was a panel member at IGEM 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Eva Vivian Justine from the Universiti Malaya Blue Communities team, participated as a presenter and panellist in the "Communicating Science for Climate Action" at the at International Greentech & Eco Products Exhibition & Conference Malaysia (IGEM) 2021 conference. IGEM is organised by the Ministry of Environment & Water (KASA) through Malaysian Green Technology & Climate Change Centre (MGTC). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universiti Malaya presented at the 2021 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability (ICBS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Goh Hong Ching presented on behalf of BC MY 'Responding to SDGs: Case Study of Tun Mustapha park, Sabah, Malaysia' at the 2021 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability (ICBS) on 12th November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universiti Malaya presented at the APEC Sustainable Coastal Cities Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Vivian Kuit presented the preliminary findings from the citizen science litter audit and online survey on perceptions towards marine plastic pollution in Sabah at the APEC Sustainable Coastal Cities Symposium on 26th November 2021 during the Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Coastal Cities session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from Universiti Malaya presented at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning & Real Estate (SUPRE) webinar series 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Hong Ching Goh, from Universiti Malaya presented work from Blue Communities at the Centre for Sustainable Urban Planning & Real Estate (SUPRE) webinar series 2021 with a talk entitled "An introduction to netmap as a tool for stakeholder analysis" on 22nd September 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from WPU presented at the Marine Pollution Awareness-Southeast Asian Youth Leadership Program (SEAYLP)-Daloy Dalisay Program |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Karen Madarcos from the Western Philippines University was invited as a keynote speaker at the Marine Pollution Awareness-Southeast Asian Youth Leadership Program (SEAYLP)-Daloy Dalisay Program, Quito, Bagong Silang, Puerto Princesa City. September 25, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleague from WPU presented at the Scientific Planning Workshop on the Population Management of Indo-Pacific Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Benjamin Gonzales from Western Philippines University was invited to join the Scientific Planning Workshop on the Population Management of Indo-Pacific Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) in Palawan, Philippines on September 7 to 8, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from CSERM-UNAS have been providing reports to the local government institutions in relation to tourism development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Team members from CSERM-UNAS have provided reports to local government institutions (Selayar Planning Agency/Bappeda and Tourism Office) on the potential of tourism development in Selayar island. *note: CSERM UNAS has been working collaboratively with local governments to help them in assessing tourism potentials and plan for sustainable tourism development. Since 2019/2020, Indonesian government has designated Selayar as a special economic zone (KEK) for tourism. It is hoped that CSERM UNAS contribution in tourism and renewable energy assessment can provide input for the local government. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Colleagues from HNUE delivered GIS training course to Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Hanoi National University of Education provided training and delivered a GIS course to Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve staff members. Building further capacity to end users beyond the academic stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colleagues from HNUE presented work from the Vietnamese Blue Communities team at an event for Mundus maris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from HNUE, Dr Duong Minh Lam, presented work from the Vietnamese Blue Communities team at an event for Mundus maris and the Small-Scale Fisheries Academy in August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from UNAS facilitated a workshop for local stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was held at Grand Savero Hotel, Bogor, from 22 to 25 November 2021, and administered by CSERM-UNAS. The workshop participants were seven personels representing the Taka Bonerate National Park, the Agency of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, and the turtle conservation community in Selayar Islands. Representing the Taka Bonerate National Park were Mr. Asep Pranajaya, Mr. Khoirul Anam, Ms. Andi Muthmainnah, and Mr. Sunadi Buki. Representing the Agency of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs were Mr. Zul Janwar and Mr. Andi Ridha Nurafdal. The turtle conservation community in Selayar Islands was represented by Mr. Datu. A number of CSREM researchers also participated in the workshop, namely: research assistants (Dwi Cahyo, Sainal, Fauzan) and research fellows (Dr. Tatang Mitra Setia and Dr. Asep Adhikerana). Three national level stakeholders and experts were invited to this workshop, namely Dr. Matheus Halim, Mr. Tegas Gentur from the Seribu Islands National Park, and Ms. Susi Sumaryati from the Karimunjawa National Park. Dr. Halim, who has vast experiences in both researches and conservation actions of sea turtles in Indonesia, guided the participants in gaining the knowledge on sea turtle ecology and conservation. Mr. Gentur provided the experiences of sea turtle conservation in his national park, while Ms. Sumaryati guided and encouraged the participants to develop a concept of the strategic plan for sea turtle conservation in Selayar Islands. The first day of the workshop was spent for two main activities: dissemination of Blue Communities activities conducted in the past 4 years, and introduction session aimed to increase the knowledge of the participants about sea turtle ecology, guided by Dr. Halim. The first half of the second day was spent by Dr. Halim to describe sea turtle breeding technique. This was followed up by Mr. Gentur who explained the experiences of Seribu Island National Park in breeding the sea turtle anchored on the islands. The remaining session was spent by Ms. Sumaryati to guide and encourage the participants in developing a strategic plan for turtle conservation on Selayar Islands. At the end of this workshop, the participants and Blue Communities Indonesia team successfully brought back a number of important notes to develop a strategic plan in Selayar, which consist of three programs: (a) habitat management, (b) community socio-economic improvement, and (c) institutional strengthening. Nevertheless, the participants expressed their hope of getting support from CSERM in developing strategic plans in near future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from UNAS have been sharing media assets in the format of video via their YouTube Channel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A series of films have been produced by team members (Carya Maharja) from Universitas Nasional telling the stories of coastal communities in the Blue Communities case study site in Indonesia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3atuVJrpaCFxdIkR4H_0XQ |
| Description | Colleagues from UNAS worked with stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from UNAS worked with stakeholders with Taka Bonerate National Park and local community members to assist them in conducting carrying capacity study for tourism development in national park area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from Universiti Malaya shared Blue Communities' study findings with key stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | field visit to Sabah was to engage and share the project 2, 3/8, 6, 10 and marine plastic pollution study findings with the key stakeholders as well introduce the Sime Darby's SECA project. BC MY members who participated were Hong Ching, Amira, Vivian, Sofia, Eva and Maznah. Among the stakeholders engaged during the visit were Sabah Parks (both headquarter and Kudat office), Kudat Area Health Office, Sabah State Education Department, District Education Office, District Offices (Kudat and Kota Marudu), WWF-Malaysia and secondary schools in Kudat and Kota Marudu.The team hired a local videographer that documented video interviews with several local stakeholders and BC MY members including Augustine Binson (Sabah Parks), Sofia Johari (BC MY & KTCS), Vijay Ragavan (school teacher) and Hong Ching (BC MY) as requested by the UK team for Blue Communities-related films. Sime Darby Foundation's SECA project - During the field visit, team members from BC MY including Hong Ching, Amira, Vivian and Sofia, together with Dr Rahimatsah and Reena from Sabah Environmental Trust, attended a meeting with the Sabah State Education Department (JPNS) on 17th January 2022. The SECA program was introduced to the representatives during the session. It was noted that the current guideline on the management and operation of schools during the pandemic still does not allow any individual or agencies that are not related to JPNS to enter school premises and conduct physical activities with students and teachers. The team submitted an application letter to JPNS to conduct the SECA program. The team was advised by JPNS to apply for recognition of the program to the Ministry of Education 45 days before conducting the program. The team was unable to set up meetings with District Education Offices but passed the presentation slides to the offices. The team also had meetings with potential schools to be involved in the program including Abdul Rahim Secondary School and Tandek Secondary School in order to brief the teachers about the program. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colleagues from University of Malaya conducted a citizen science workshop in Sub-stesen Serinsim, Kota Marud, Sabah, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A citizen science (photovoice) workshop was held from 7-8 December 2019 at Sub-stesen Serinsim, Kota Marudu, Sabah involving around 30 participants from community-based organisations, schools & government agency (Sabah Parks). This workshop also supported and co-hosted with Sabah Parks. Analysed the protocol for the Photovoice activity. Created a manual/handbook for the Photovoice activity for participants perusal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Colleagues from University of Malaya conducted a series of workshops with school teachers from four schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | From 6th - 9th January 2020, Goh Hong Ching, Mohd Iqbal and Ponmalar Alagappar visited four schools in Tun Mustapha Park including Abdul Rahim Secondary School & St. Peter Secondary School (Kudat), Tandek Secondary School (Kota Marudu) and Pitas Secondary School (Pitas). Discussions were held with the school teachers in regards to hosting the 2nd festival similar to the Kudat Coastal Communities Festival held in September 2019. These activities were conducted under the remit of the Partnership Grant received from the University of Malaya, enabling knowledge-sharing and presenting of the proposed work enabling the schools to learn more about the GCRF Blue Communities programme. This grant has added value to the GCRF Blue Communities grant enabling additional funding to be leveraged from additional sources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Colleagues from University of Malaya organised a Focus Group Discussion with various stakeholders (Project 12) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Focus group discussion (FGDs) workshops were conducted relating to the photovoice resultswith Kudat Turtle Conservation Societ (KTCS), Taritipan Youth Club (ANBATAR), members of Supirak Association and Banggi Coral Conservation Society (BCCS) from 3rd - 11th January 2020. The FGDs had discussed about the photos taken and narrative provided by the locals including the ecosystem services in the photos, and threats, pressures as well as benefits of the ecosystem captured in the photos. Photovoice training was also provided to KTCS members who were unable to participate in the Citizen Science Workshop in December 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU Collaborated with Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff (PCSDS) through the 2021 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University collaborated with Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff (PCSDS) in celebrating the 50th year's UNESCO MAB Anniversary and co-organised the 2021 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability. Blue Communities were given a 1-hour panel discussion to present its findings and accomplishments that contribute towards the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU completed their research internships under the Southeast Asia Ocean Profession Programme (SEAOPP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Two of the research associates (LJ Gajardo and JR Madarcos) from Western Philippines University Blue Communities team completed their research internship under the Southeast Asia Ocean Profession Programme (SEAOPP). This programme is an initiative of East-West Center in Hawaii, USA and is hosted under the decade programme Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU conducted Fish Talk featuring Victor Brun of Centre of Island Research and Environmental Observatory, France in partnership with CFAS of WPU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | WPU team conducted Fish Talk featuring Victor Brun of Centre of Island Research and Environmental Observatory, France in partnership with CFAS of WPU. It was attended by 138 students, researchers, local and national government representatives, and private individuals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU conducted education campaigns to increase capacity and share knowledge to communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University generated videos and PPTs on ecosystem services, coastal resource management, and marine plastic litter used by other WPU projects in education campaigns with more than 500 participants from 10 communities in Palawan MAB |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU delivered the Information Education and Communication Campaign Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University conducted the last leg of the Information Education and Communication Campaign Series (IEC CS) entitled "Using multimedia information campaigns for community-based and ecosystem-based management of marine coastal areas" in Taytay, Palawan on December 5 to 13, 2021 with 189 participants attending the training events. Participants were from the Barangays of Liminangcong, Pamantolon, New Guinlo and Biton started with Introduction of the Blue Communities as a research programme under CFAS and Western Philippines University. It was followed by the review of the IEC Plan from Barangay Case Study areas and the trend in the province of Palawan where coastal marine issues were identified by local representatives. This was then connected to the presentation of the overview and schedule of activity and the reminders and protocols on ethics, social distancing and safe space. To cap the activities, an open forum on marine environment management was also done. This was followed by the turnover of IEC materials from BCPh and CFAS. These include a "Power of Three Ecosystems" plywood sized painting, 5 photography boards on "Ocean and Human Health" and 3 tarpaulins on marine plastic litter, Strategic Environmental Plan for Palawan and Fisheries Code of the Philippines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU provided mentoring on Research Ethics Certification Applications |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University provided mentoring on Research Ethics Certification Application with Palaweno researchers on September 24, 2021 (via Zoom). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Colleagues from WPU visited the area of Taytay which was badly affected by supertyphoon Odette (Rai) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University disseminated 200 pieces BC shirts , 32 pieces 2022 Blue Communities Calendar to 4 coastal villages and 4 Municipal Offices in Taytay, Palawan; visited Typhoon Odette (Rai) affected coastal areas and provided small relief to BC partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Colleagues from Western Philippines University conducted a radio Interview on Radio Pilipinas - Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A radio Interview on Radio Pilipinas - Palawan was conducted with representative from Western Philippines University, talking about the work being undertaken for the GCRF Blue Communities programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Colleagues from Western Philippines University conducted a series of report back events to 10 case study barangays |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | From January 13 - 15, 21 & 22, 2020 colleagues from Western Philippines University conducted a series of community engagement events which also involved collecting baseline data, survey data validation and reporting back to the stakeholders in 10 case study barangays. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Communication research activities organised by Western Philippines University in Taytay, Palawan (Project 12) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | On 13 September 2019, communication research was conducted in Taytay, Palawan with 88 students from Central Taytay National High School where various mediums for communicating environmental issues and sustainability were investigated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Communications Break Out Session at the Annual Progress Meeting 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A Communication Break Out session was held during the online Annual Progress Meeting in July 2020. The session aim was to discuss communication approach to engaging with stakeholders and to solicit information on pathways to impact fro each partner. The information gathered in this sessions and in other methods will help in the development of the final programme communication products. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Coordination with Project Stakeholders in the Philippines - lead by the partner Western Philippines University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Various meetings and workshops were organised and lead by researchers from the Western Philippines University, to coordinate with GCRF Blue Communities Programme Stakeholders (from the Municipalities of Taytay and Aborlan, Province of Palawan, Palawan Council for Sustainable Development and World Wildlife Fund), Philippines. These activities were conducted over the following dates February 14, 15, and 20, 2018. This enabled further engagement with these stakeholders and strengthened collaborations across the groups to enable coordination of research going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Data Analysis Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this workshop we looked at previously collected data. It was demonstrated how to analyse it and how to interpret the results and potentially relate them to other items in the survey (e.g. age or where they come from). In the end, research questions and potential publications were discussed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Devon Lord Lieutenants Environment Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Devon Lord Lieutenants Environment Group asked me to attend their meeting and discuss some of the aspects of marine environment in Devon that they should be aware of in their roe. There was a wide ranging discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Dr. Benjamin Gonzales from WPU attended the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Orientation meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Benjamin Gonzales attended the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Orientation meeting on measuring the Illegal, Unregulated, and Unrecorded (IUU) fisheries among Philippine municipalities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dr. LA Creencia was invited to present in a Webinar entitled: Youth for Fisherfolk and Food Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. LA Creencia from Western Philippines University was invited as a resource person in a Webinar entitled: Youth for Fisherfolk and Food Security |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=4145701085494718 |
| Description | ECR training workshop during annual meeting in Plymouth, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Several senior members of Blue Communities (Prof. Sabine Pahl, Dr Goh Hong Chig, Dr Karyn Morrisey, Prof Lora Fleming) created a workshop involving problem-solving, experience reports, best practice and project management for the junior members of Blue Communities. The workshops also aimed to prepare the junior researchers for an internal funding competition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Early Career Researchers from Western Philippine University visited the UK to meet with project leads for capacity building in data analysis, manuscript preparation and research planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | From 4-25 October, 3 early career researchers from Western Philippines University who are conducting research in several of the sub-projects within the GCRF Blue Communities programme, visited the UK and met with colleagues from the University of Exeter European Center for Environment and Human Health, Plymouth University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory, to process data collected to-date, undertake statistical analysis, plan and prepare manuscripts for publication, and plan future work for the projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Earth Futures Festival by UNESCO International Geoscience Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Earth Futures Festival is an international film and video festival showcasing the role of geoscience in our sustainable future. It was held online from September-October 2022 and the film "The Sea, Ecosystem Services, & Well-being: Weekend (Part 1) and Weekday (Part 2)" produced by the UNAS team, Indonesia was selected and screened during the festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.earthfuturesfestival.com/the-films/v/the-sea-ecosystems-services-wellbeing |
| Description | Ecosystem Services presentation to the Oil Spill Response (OSR) Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | key note presentation to the Oil Spill Response (OSR) Industry Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) raising awareness of opportunities to prioritise oil spill response measures by considering ecosystem services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Evidence Synthesis Public lecture in Indonesia (CSERM, UNAS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Engagement lecture to introduce the concept of Evidence Synthesis in Environmental Science and Conservation to a wide audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Evidence Synthesis Workshop in Indonesia (CSERM, UNAS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 2.5 day training workshop on systematic review methodology. Mentoring on protocol development following question refinement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Exhibit stand at the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress in Iloilo, Philippines (27-30 November 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An exhibition stand hosted by Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) was present throughout the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress, where the research activities of PML in the Southeast Asia region were highlighted in particular the GCRF Blue Communities programme. The exhibition stand was managed by several members of the GCRF Blue Communities programme (Prof. Austen, Dr. Loveday, Dr. Cheung) as well as other staff from PML (Prof. Allen, Dr. Evers-King). Nearly 1000 delegates attended the Congress and visitors to the stand included the Ministers from the East Asia region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Fieldwork organised by Project Partner HNUE in Hoi An city and Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve: Participatory analysis with stakeholders (sub-project 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During this fieldtrip (25/02/2019-01/03/2019) representatives of Cu Lao Cham community groups, including fishermen group, seafood processing group, homestay service group, Cu Lao Cham tourist association, boat owner group and Cu Lao Cham community conservation club were brought together for focus group discussions and facilitated the sharing of experiences and lessons learnt by stakeholders over the history of the designation and implementation of Cu Lao Cham marine protected area (CMPA), the core zone of Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An biosphere reserve, Hoi An city, Quang Nam province, in order to identify opportunities for improving its implementation in the future. There were two focus group sessions, one with governmental participants and a second with community-level participants - for both sessions, innovation history and Netmap methods were applied to identify events and actors related to the initiation and implementation of the Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area were recorded. The main outputs include: • Stakeholder group timelines of key events in the history of CMPA (2 timelines created by two groups of stakeholders) • NetMap showing relationships and influence on the implementation of CLCMPA (2 NetMap created by two groups of stakeholders) • Detailed notes for analysis (4 note files) and transcriptions of recordings of the focus group discussions (4-to be transcribed) • Innovation history and NetMap preliminary analysis forms (on completing process) • Lessons learnt and research themes for further investigation during interviews. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Fieldwork organised by University of Malaya team in Tun Mustapha Park focusing on data collection for Projects 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project 2: NetMap exercises and interviews were conducted by the Team with several individuals and agencies in Kudat namely Head of Village (Tanjung Kapor 1 village), Unit Pemimpin Pembangunan Masyarakat, Borneo KOMRAD (NGO on education for stateless), Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency, Kudat Fishermen Association, Kudat Welfare Department, Sabah Islamic Affairs Department, St. Peter Secondary School, and a business provider in Kudat. Initial findings from these exercises and interviews had yielded several issues including lack of information sharing between agencies, overlapping education and welfare programs between agencies, lack of awareness among coastal communities on their roles within Tun Mustapha Park, and an absence of a platform/system that can link all the information and programs carried out by all agencies and NGOs in Kudat. Project 3/8: The Team were joined by Johana (University of Exeter) and conducted ecosystem mapping with the local communities in Tun Mustapha Park (Kudat, Kota Marudu and Pitas) namely involving the Kudat Turtle Conservation Society, Banggi Coral Conservation Society, ANBATAR (Taritipan Youth Club), Supirak Association, and Tiku Farm (ecotourism operator in Kudat). Project 6: The Team carried out the pre-testing of the household survey in Kudat area involving four villages namely Marang Parang, Bavang Jamal, Tanjung Kapor 1, and Sebayan villages. A total of 68 respondents were interviewed from 43 households. The in-depth interview session with health officers in Kudat had to be postponed due to the absence of approval from Sabah State Health Department. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Fieldwork organised by University of Malaya team in Tun Mustapha Park, Kudat and Kota Kinabalu Sabah engaging with various stakeholders and undertaking activities for sub-projects 2, 3/8, 6 and 12 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During the field trip from 17-24th March to Sabah, a number of activities were undertaken. These included: The presentation of the NetMap analysis outcomes from the exercises conducted in January to the stakeholders involved including KTCS, WWF-Sabah and Sabah Parks; meetings with several contacts from Universiti Teknologi MARA Sabah (UiTM) to discuss collaborations with Universiti of Malaya working on the GCRF Blue Communities programme; meetings with Kudat Turtle Conservation Society (KTCS) to discuss the NetMap analysis outcome, alternative livelihoods and possible ecosystem mapping by KTCS members; meetings with Sabah Parks (Kudat) to discuss progress, and finalise villages, cohorts and schools to be approached for upcoming fieldwork activities. Project 2: Initial analysis of the NetMap exercises with Sabah Parks, WWF, and Kudat Turtle Conservation Society had yielded several issues in the coastal resource management of TMP including co-management, enforcement, stakeholders conflict and social, natural and economic resources. Project 3/8: During the trip, the team finalised the list of communities for mapping activities with Sabah Parks. The team has also obtained permission from youth clubs (i.e., Kudat Turtle Conservation Society and Banggi Coral Conservation Society) to conduct mapping activities in April 2019. Project 6: The regional training workshop on 27 & 28 March 2019 participated by the partner countries synchronised the questionnaire used by all the partner countries, reached an agreement on submission of ethics application to Exeter University, and setting dates for pilot testing of the questionnaire and stakeholders engagement. Project 6: Met with Mercy Malaysia (Sabah Chapter) and Kudat District Health Office to introduce Project 6, discuss about health status and interventions in TMP, planned household surveys in TMP and potential enumerators with medical background. Project 12: Collaborating with Isabel Richter (University of Plymouth; Project 12) to examine the potential of educational comic to transfer knowledge and change negative behaviour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Fieldwork organised by project partner HNUE in Hoi An city and Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve: Local stakeholders' meetings to discuss habitat types and ecosystem services (sub-projects 3 and 3b) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | For sub-project 3, during the period 25-28 February 2019, two group meetings were held with local stakeholders in Hoi An and Cu Lao Cham and 9 discussions with individual stakeholders to identify habitat types (including soft and hard coral reefs, seagrass beds, seaweed, mangroves, wetland, forests, sandy beach, sand dunes) and ecosystem services (including provisioning services, regulation and maintainence and cultural services). The current impacts were identified and other information about the research area were discussed. For sub-project 3b, group discussions among official managers, fishermen and tourism service workers were conducted. A further 10 in-depth interviews were conducted with stakeholders in Hoi An city and Tan Hiep commune as well as 3 in-depth interviews with Cu Lao Cham Marine Protect Area staff members. Using the general information gathered, the data formed the basis for designing the research questionnaire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Fieldwork organised by project partner UNAS: interviews with local communities, Office for Tourism and tour operators |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interviews conducted with local residents in the case study area in Selayar, government officials in the Office for Tourism and tour operators, to collect data and engagement with these networks for sub-project 2. Initial data in Apatannah village was collected for Project 6 (from 23 respondents). Scenario development workshops were conducted with local stakeholders and networks though a local youth group were established. Discussions were made with the Local Planning Agency (Bappeda) and the research team were asked for advice for the development of sustainable tourism in Selayar; discussions were held with the National Park office to formalise collaborative activities in the core zone of Taka Bonerate Kelulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve. However, the fieldwork activities had to be suspended due to rapid escalation of COVID-19 at the local level and it was necessary for the researchers to return to Jakarta. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Focus Group Discussion with stakeholders on the governance analysis of sustainable tourism and sustainable fisheries conducted by CSERM-UNAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CSERM-UNAS team in Indonesia conducted a focus group discussion at national level on the governance analysis of Sustainable Tourism & Sustainable Fisheries. The attendees included representatives from the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Indonesia, Bogor Agricultural Institute, Indonesia Ecotourism Network, and Natural Conservation Education Insititute - Indonesia. Based on the discussions, there are several factors that affect sustainable tourism development in Indonesia, i.e., human resources capability and minimum institutional capacity. The data gathered in this FGD will be analysed and will contribute to research under the sub-project 2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | GAIA Stories of Lands and Food International Film Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GAIA Stories of Lands and Food International Film Festival took place from 26/09/2022-02/10/2022, took place in Caprarica di Lecce - Italy. The film produced by the team from UNAS, Indonesia featured i nthe "Food, Territoris and Society" category. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gaiafilmfestival.it/en/ |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Programme Partner meetings and Blue Communities presentation at Hanoi National University of Education and the University of Malaya,10-19 Feb 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Austen gave presentations at meetings with the programme partners Hanoi National University of Education and the University of Malaya,10-19 Feb 2019. This enabled further discussions and further co-creation and planning of research and capacity building activities. Dr Cheung also gave presentations about the management of the programme, requirements for the technical and financial reporting, thus further increasing capacity at these partner institutes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities Website and Social Media accounts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A programme logo was designed and applied to all media and communications for the GCRF RCUK Blue Communities Programme, giving the programme a distinct identity. A project website was launched and social media accounts activated for the Programme (Twitter account @bluecommunities and Facebook Page @BlueCommunitiesGCRF). The website and social media accounts are continuously being updated throughout the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org |
| Description | GCRF Blue Communities was included in the New Year 2022 speech ceremony by the Universiti Malaya's Vice-Chancellor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | GCRF Blue Communities was included in the New Year 2022 speech ceremony by the UM's Vice-Chancellor and noted to be one of the high impact research projects involving Universiti Malaya staff members (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqjoWXyomQ minute 56.50) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqjoWXyomQ |
| Description | Good Development article featured on Newton-GCRF website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Good Development article featured on Newton-GCRF website following a meeting where Professor Melanie Austen and Dr Hong Ching Goh joined Minister Amanda Solloway to discuss their research programme that explores how the impacts of climate change on the marine environment is affecting coastal communities' livelihoods, food, employment and well-being. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/climate-action/good-development/ |
| Description | Hanoi National University of Education organised a stakeholders' workshop in Hoi An |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was held on 22nd March 2018 with participation of 30 participants from Hoi An Peoples Committee, Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area, CBR, 13 communes, GreenViet (NGO), and Da Nang Education University. The workshop included a brief overview of CBR, an introduction to Blue Communities project and discussion on the status and issues and problems in the site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Hanoi National University of Education: Research Results Workshop for Blue Communities March 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Blue Communities team from Hanoi National University of Education organised a workshop for presenting research results from Blue Communities. Local (Vietnamese) representatives from 1) the UK embassy in Hanoi, 2) Ministry of Science and Technology, 3) Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nha Trang University, 4) Vietnam National University of Agriculture, 5) Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, 6) HNUE (Faculty of Biology, Geology and Social Work-lecturers and Graduate students), and 7) CLC-HA MPA and Biosphere Reserves, were invited, as well as the Blue Communities Programme participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Hub session in Blue Economy Track at PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress in Iloilo, Philippines (27-30 November 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress, Partnership Hubs were held as side events with 7 tracks as the main themes and 3-5 sessions held within each track. Within the Blue Economy Track, 6 representatives from the GCRF Blue Communities partnership were involved in the session. Dr. Bell was the Chair of the Session, presentations were given by Prof. Austen, Dr. Praptiwi, Prof. Creencia, Prof. Fleming and Dr. Goh on the topic of "Interdisciplinary research to underpin sustainable planning and management for Blue Economy". This was followed by a discussion session with the speakers as panellists and the audience contributing to the discussions. The presentations sparked questions and discussion afterwards with the audience which comprised of representatives from intergovernmental organisations, NGOs and academia. The session enabled further networking opportunities and potential collaborations going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://eascongress2018.pemsea.org/eas-congress-2018/official-programme/partnership-hubs-programs/ |
| Description | Human Dimensions of Plastic Pollution featuring Blue Communities examples |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Isabel Richter, an environmental psychologist discusses behavioural change and sustainable practices in a marine context. Human decisions and behaviour frequently result in the loss of plastic into the environment through deliberate and unintended actions. Isabel considers the impacts of pollution on physical and mental health as well as the costs. She refers to research from the BLue communities project, which has explored the predictors of behavioural change as well as numerous case studies covering consumer nudging to social norms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDRaX1uisz0&t=1194s |
| Description | IOC Oceans and Human Health Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As you may or may not know, thanks to our colleagues at the IOC and the European Marine Board (EMB) and our speakers, we held a Webinar on the Ocean and Human Health as part of the IOC series launching the UN Ocean Decade on Oct 5 2020 The link to the website announcing the webinar https://oceandecade.org/events/131/The-Ocean-Decade-Virtual-Series-Ocean-and-Human-Health A link to the entire recording of the 1.20 hour Ocean and Human Health Webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1P_1l-OSM A link for the amazing 12 minute Global Voices of Ocean and Human Health video (with thanks to Paula Kellet and our speakers) https://www.dropbox.com/s/3glidnx71teymxn/VideoPostDimanche.mp4?dl=0 -Ms. Sandra Howard - Co-lead Sustainable Tourism Working Group, Blue Climate Initiative -Dr. Josep Lloret - Director, Oceans and Human Health Chair -Dr. Jacqueline Uku - President, Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association -Dr. Timothy Bouley - CEO, BioFeyn -Prof. Lota Alcantara-Creencia - Marine biologist, Blue Communities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx1P_1l-OSM |
| Description | IPCC Special Report Meeting: Climate Change Around the Globe organised by the Royal Metereological Society, Panellist for session: The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, BEIS Conference Centre, London, November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on how Climate change is affecting the Oceans and the implications for UK policy based on the IPCC SROCC report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Indonesian Case Study Lead met with key local stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A year-4 coordination meeting was held between Pak Jito as BC Indonesia case study lead and key local stakeholders (Pak Faat as Head of Taka Bonerate National Park; and Vice Regent of Selayar) to discuss remaining activities to be implemented and potential future collaboration. The meeting was also attended by Prof. Enny Sudarmonowati from BRIN (Indonesia Research and Innovation Council), and Pak Asep from CSERM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Interdisciplinary marine research to make a difference to lives and livelihoods presentation at PlymSEF 2018, Plymouth, February |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on creating impact from research, stimulated discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Conference (2022): Science and Research in, for and with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The International Conference: Science and Research in, for and with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves took place from May 16th to May 20th, 2022, about 120 early career scientists and research managers working in, for and with UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR) came together in a conference to jointly develop strategies for future action. Representatives from the Blue Communities project attended, including Andrew Bell, Lea Janine Gajardo, Recca Sajorne, John Madarcos and Karen Madarcos. An assessment of the current situation, especially through the eyes of young scientists, led to conclusions for the future of research in BRs. Their conclusions were complemented by recommendations from research managers. All findings were merged into proposed guidelines. These guidelines are currently being compiled together with the presentations into a conference volume. In the long term, this exchange shall lead to more research for sustainable development in the World Network, from which not only the MAB Programme will benefit, but society as a whole.Thus, the project aims to contribute to the implementation of the research-related goals of the Lima Action Plan (LAP) and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): Research in the World Network of BR shall be promoted through the international exchange of research results and positive examples of research support. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.biospherereserves.institute/programme |
| Description | Interview for regional news - Thomson Reuters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | An interview and meeting with the Asia Resilience Correspondent from Thomson Reuters Foundation was conducted in Kuala Lumpur following the GCRF Blue Communties kick off meeting, and was attended by several of the Principle Investigators from the Partners of the programme. Background information was provided to the journalist and introductions were made with the PI from Universiti Malaya. Plans were made for a site visit by the journalist to gather further interviews with members of the local community in the Case Study site in Sabah Parks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Introductory newsletter Nov 18 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities 1st newsletter introduced the array of projects being undertaken by the programme. Articles were structured to explain the project objective, how participants would be approaching the reserach and capacity buliding with SE Asian partners and stakeholders as well as future plans and anticipated impact. The newsletter had a 43% open rate across the recipient lists (industry average open rate 19.6%) with an average click-through rate of 22.4% (industry average click rate 2.3%). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/dea3f3a4366d/gcrf-blue-communities-newsletter-november-2018 |
| Description | Invited panellist for conference: Is the UK on track to adapt to climate change? jointly hosted by the National Centre for Atmospheric Science, the SPF UK Climate Resilience Programme Champions at the University of Leeds, and the Committee on Climate Change, Session 2: State of climate impacts. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited panellist to discuss impact of climate change effects in the marine environment - questions after |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ukclimaterisk.org/learn-more/conference-is-the-uk-on-track-to-adapt-to-climate-change/ |
| Description | Invited presentation 'Natural Capital: Can it be operationalised for the marine environment?'at Coastal Futures Conference, Royal Geographic Society, London. 23-24 Jan 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Austen was invited to give a platform presentation at the Coastal Future conference, at the Royal Geographical Society, London (23-24 January 2019). The presentation was entitled 'Natural Capital: Can it be operationalised for the marine environment?'. The audience was able to ask questions and engage in discussions afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://coastal-futures.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Austen-Natural-Capital-Can-it-be-operationlise... |
| Description | Invited speaker to give Introduction at European Parliament Intergroup Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA) conference on 'Valuing Marine Ecosystem services - Taking into account the value of ecosystem benefits in the Blue Economy, European Parliament', Brussels, Belgium, April |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of use of valuation of marine ecosystems in policy development and regulation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Invited talk at Coastal Futures 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to talk about Oceans and Human health at Coastal Futures 2019 - an annual event bringing together about 300 marine specialists in the UK spread across, academia, policy, industry etc. I included a discussion of what we are doing as part of Blue Communities in the talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://coastal-futures.net/ |
| Description | JNCC-Marine Scotland workshop 'Exploring an Integrated Approach towards a Sustainable Blue Economy' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited speaker at JNCC-Marine Scotland workshop 'Exploring an Integrated Approach towards a Sustainable Blue Economy' - I gave 2 presentations (1) Systems Thinking Approach for marine sustainability and (2) GCRF Blue Communities: Systems thinking research to advance marine spatial planning in SE Asia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | John Madarcos - won 3rd place best paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Typology, Frequency, and what predicts the coastal communities' exposure to the Marine Environment and its potential impact on health and well-being (John Madarcos won 3rd place best paper at the 11th MHRDC Health Research Forum and Research Caravan) . The announcement was made via social media (Facebook) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Launch of Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society, Natural History Museum, - keynote speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The launch of University of Plymouth's Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society at the Natural History Museum, London. This was an evening dinner event attended by more than 100 invitees across all sectors. Keynote presentations were given by Prof Austen, Dr Gemma Harper of JNCC and Prof Duncan Wingham, Chief Exec of NERC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-systems-thinking |
| Description | Lecture to students at UNAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on ecosystem-based fisheries management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lectures and practical sessions given to Masters students in Remote Sensing processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Masters students participated in a remote sensing course during May 2020, where the students learned about processing Sentinel2 images using the case study of Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve as a working example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Linking the marine environment and human health Two-day workshop: University of Malaya, KL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BC Project 6 aims to explore the links between human health and the marine and coastal environment. Both the benefits and hazards of living by the coast will be explored. To understand these links, a large-scale survey will be co-developed with Project 6 co-leaders Dr Mat White, Dr Karyn Morrissey & Dr Jo Nayoan, with academics from each of the 4 BC SE Asian institutions and members of the local community. This workshop was a survey co-creation workshop with our partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Local Philippine stakeholder workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Two site visits to Taytay in the North, and Aborlan in the South of Palawan to begin the design of a local survey to assess the health and wellbeing implications of coastal environmental change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Local community and stakeholders engagement event - Coastal Communities Festival, Indonesia - lead by the CSERM-UNAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Partner CSERM-UNAS participated in a local community and stakeholders engagement event and presented the GCRC Blue Communities project in the annual "Coastal Communities Festival (Festival Komunitas Pesisir)" in Selayar, Indonesia (14-18 February 2018). A meeting of various stakeholders was undertaken during the event and included: 1) Taka Bonerate National Park as national park management, has 3 main duties, i.e. protection, conservation and sustainable use of ecosystem services; 2) Marine and Fisheries Agency, Selayar Regency. The role is fisheries management, including protection of marine areas in national park from unsustainable practices (illegal fishing, bombing, anesthetic use, etc); 3) RARE, awareness rising to change the behaviour of communities is RARE' goal. Local staffs from national park have been trained by RARE to continue the programme; 4) Law Enforcement Agency, Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The role is to secure national park marine territory of national park from unsustainable practices; 5) CCRES - LIPI. CCRES has collaborated with Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) in developing a toolkit for adaptive coastal governance and management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MARE conference presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk titled 'Communication is key: how to facilitate audience-informed conversations about sustainable marine stewardship' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://marecentre.nl/wp-content/uploads/Programme-Book-MARE-2021.pdf |
| Description | Marine Ecosystem Valuation Policy Brief invited presentation to British Irish Parliamentary Meeting, Co. Wicklow, Ireland May 13th |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation made on the European Marine Board Marine Ecosystem Valuation Policy Brief to Parliamentarians from the UK and the Republic of Ireland at their bilateral meeting. Questions afterwards |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Marine issues presentation to Cefas Management Board away day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited to give a presentation on current marine issues to the to Cefas Management Board at their away day to promote awareness and challenge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting organised by Western Philippines University with policy-makers in Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 8th April 2019, members of the research team from Western Philippines University met with various policy-makers including representatives from the Department of Health, The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the Provincial Health Office (Provincial Government of Palawan), Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff and Provincial Tourism Office. The objectives and plans for Project 6 focusing on well-being benefits and risks of coastal living were presented by Dr. Creencia (Western Philippines University) . Ms. Ubani of DENR stated that she is seeing the need for stronger enforcement of the captured issues in the study related to environment. She also added for the team to explore what else the program could provide in addition to capacity building which may include the implementation of programs and activities needed that may be identified through this study. Ms. Madarcos then stated that the study also revolves on capacity building of researchers and data gathering for the spatial marine plan. The Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Navarro, also reiterated for the need to conduct Water Quality Monitoring of the ocean and that capacity building of the locals is also vital. She was also hoping for a substantive recommendation on sewerage and waste disposal because of its big impact on health of the coastal communities. She further added that this result and recommendations should be forwarded to the Local Chief Executives. She was also hoping that that result will be used to enhance the existing Land and Water Use Plan and the infrastructure projects of the Local Government Unit. Dr. Curameng of the DOH then stated that the related agencies should now think of out of the box solutions to the issues that might come out of the result. He also added that previous solution such as adding Doctors and hospitals didn't work and further said that the next policies should be beyond infrastructure and provisions. He is also hoping that the result can mobilize the locals to initiate and make a move on the changes that might enhance the status of their wellbeing. Mr. Pontillas of the PCSDS then said that is important that communities should be taught with the science of the environment and its link to their status and wellbeing so that they can initiate and advocate for their protection. Ms. Alcantara from the Provincial Tourism office also showed her interest in the result of the study and further added that it would be better if the result related to tourism should be specified. Mr. Subang of the BFAR fully supports the study and further said that information campaign related to enforcement of fishery policies is necessary. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with fishing community stakeholders in Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Mel Austen and Western Philippines University researchers (WPU) visited Purok Marikit, a village of around 400 people built on stilts in the coastal mangrove of Palawan, Philippines. WPU introduced the Blue Communities Programme and its Coordinator (Mel Austen) to an organised gathering of .around 20 people (mostly women with their children) including the leader of seaweed harvesting. This was followed by a question and answer session and discussion. The stakeholder community was very engaged. Issues we discussed included Marine Plans (they have one), the importance to them of sustainability for future generations; difficulties that there is not enough enforcement of protected areas so poachers encroach - the municipality is supposed to enforce marine protected areas but don't have sufficient resource; the coastal community would like training in marketing and adding value to fish and dried fish and other marine products; and support systems to get their products to market. They displayed some examples of creative art that had been made from washed up plastic waste which they are keen to bring to market. We discussed fish for food vs fish for cash. Fish is for cash to buy rice, villagers only eat the fish if there is more than they need for cash. Fishing is in both open coast, but close to shore, or within the mangrove.They have a middleman system who gives loans but buys fish at a cheaper rate in return. The villagers were very interested in Blue Communities and are keen to develop the opportunities it presents for improving their livelihoods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Methods workshop and data analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of data handling and analysis process via Zoom |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Mr. John Roderick Madarcos from WPU attended the Schools for the Planet Virtual Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Mr. John Roderick Madarcos from Western Philippines Univesrity attended the Schools for the Planet Virtual Workshop on May 22, 2021 as a speaker discussing Marine Pollution |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | National Biodiversity Conference 'New Horizons for Nature' ,Dublin Castle 19-21 Feb 2019. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Austen attended and presented at the National Biodiversity Conference 'New Horizons for Nature' , Dublin Castle, Ireland 19-21 Feb. Prof. Austen was an invited panel member for session ''How can we value natural capital in marine ecosystems?'' and gave an introductory presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.biodiversityconference.ie/ |
| Description | Natural Capital Committee Annual Report Launch (2019) Panel Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Natural Capital Committee Annual Report Launch (2019) at the Royal Society, London 5 Feb. (Defra Sec of State and Shadow Sec of State both present) with panel discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Natural Capital Committee Natural Capital Conference: Natural assets for future generations, panellist, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Final conference of the Natural Capital Committee - the panel discussed the work we had done and delivered to government - our influence on policy, legislation and regulation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPi4zH_7OR2MsBjQpTcM7RA |
| Description | Natural Capital Committee Natural Capital Conference: Science Symposium, presentation 'What do we need to measure to account for marine natural capital?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented on the work of the Natural Capital Committee - final reporting. Questions and discussions afterwards during the panel session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPi4zH_7OR2MsBjQpTcM7RA/videos |
| Description | New appointments to the Natural Capital Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Announcement of Prof. Mel Austen's appointment to the Natural Capital Committee by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Michael Gove). Mention of Prof. Austen's leadership on the GCRF Blue Communities Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-appointments-to-the-natural-capital-committee |
| Description | News article "Blue Communities includes Marudu, Pitas in festival" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Work conducted by Blue Communities colleagues in Malaysia was featured in a news article "Blue Communities includes Marudu, Pitas in festival" in the Daily Express (independent national newspaper of East Malaysia). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/175643/blue-communities-includes-marudu-pitas-in-festival/?fbcli... |
| Description | News article in the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on the funding award of Blue Communities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.apacph.org/wp/2017/08/gcrf-blue-communities |
| Description | News article on Palawan News Online website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A web news article was published on 14th December 2020, entitled Marine research on plastics pollution classifies Puerto Princesa beaches "dirty to extremely dirty" reporting on the findings presented by Western Philippines University's researchers at the conference hosted via Zoom. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://palawan-news.com/marine-research-on-plastics-pollution-classifies-puerto-princesa-beaches-di... |
| Description | News article: Malaysia's largest marine park in Sabah benefits local community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | News article on New Straits Times about the work that Blue Communities team members from Universiti Malaya have conducted in Sabah. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2021/03/678150/malaysias-largest-marine-park-sabah-benefits-local... |
| Description | News articles announcing the signing of MoU betweek University of Malaya and Sabah Parks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following the signing of the MoU between University of Malaya and Sabah Parks, press articles were published in both English (http://www.theborneopost.com/2018/02/06/sabah-parks-um-ink-mou-for-joint-benefits-in-research/) and Malay (http://berita.rtm.gov.my/index.php/nasional/11667-hubungan-erat-tts-institusi-akademik-mantapkan-pengurusan-khazanah-alam) . This public announcement informs the general public, policy makers, researchers and other stakeholders of the collaboration between the two parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.theborneopost.com/2018/02/06/sabah-parks-um-ink-mou-for-joint-benefits-in-research/ |
| Description | Ocean Recovery Conference, Invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation: What impact does marine valuation have? generated questions and discussion afterwards |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://coastal-futures.net/programme |
| Description | Outcomes from the GCRF Blue Communities Partner Hub Session within the Blue Economy track of the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress was included in the Daily Bulletin and the recommended actions for PEMSEA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF Blue Communities' Blue Economy Hub Session was included in the PEMSEA EAS Congress Daily bulletin (which was distributed to delegates). Additionally the outcomes and discussions from the Blue Economy hub session were included in the recommended action for PEMSEA, which was to "promote integrated planning for improving ocean health and socio-economic benefits in their regional action plans. Including the development, implementation and financing of national ocean policies". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://eascongress2018.pemsea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Summary-of-the-EAS-Congress-Internation... |
| Description | P6 SF12 workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Prof Karyn Morrissey delivered a training presentation on the use of the SF12 software which converts a series of 12 questions into two scores, one for mental health and one for physical health. Due to licensing only Prof Karyn Morrissey can use the software, and so we did the training for the partners on the project to explain the techniques used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | P6 cross-country paper workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Held a cross-country paper workshop with research partners to discuss the findings of the two cross-country papers, to get partner feedback and input into the papers to inform future analysis and the papers discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | P6 data analysis training (pt 2) - Vietnam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Performed a similar training workshop to before with Dr Ha from HNUE in Vietnam, but this time we went over how to perform univariate analysis with SPSS, and she updated us on her descriptive analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | P6 data analysis training - Vietnam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Met with Dr Ha from Hanoi National University of Education to discuss the analysis of her recently collected data for Project 6, and gave some basic training in how to use SPSS to create descriptive variables. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | P6 survey workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Most of the partners for the project came together to go through each of the surveys from the four countries and discuss how we could write some papers using the data from all four countries. We came up with a variety of ideas, and shared knowledge about the different communities where the surveys were conducted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress 2018: Exhibition stand showcasing science and research conducted by PML in collaboration with East Asian partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Plymouth Marine Laboratory is a Partner of PEMSEA and had an exhibition stand throughout the PEMSEA East Asian Seas Congress, where the research activities of PML in the Southeast Asia region were highlighted in particular the GCRF Blue Communities programme, ACCORD project and other activities . The exhibition stand was managed by several members of staff from PML including the GCRF Blue Communities programme (Prof. Austen, Dr. Loveday, Dr. Cheung) as well as ACCORD (Prof. Allen) and other staff from PML (Dr. Evers-King). Nearly 1000 delegates attended the Congress and visitors to the stand included school groups, undergraduate students, representatives from NGOs, intergovernmental organizations and the Ministers from the East Asia region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Partner article on joining Blue Communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Partner article on joining Blue Communities to highlight the collaboration and the work that will be undertaken. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ipnlf.org/news/ipnlf-joins-global-partnership-project-to-enhance-research-into-coastal-commun... |
| Description | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Partner article on the Blue Communities kick-Off meeting to highlight the international collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/south-west-blue-communities-experts-head-to-asia |
| Description | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Host partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting to highlight the programme to local media and stakeholders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.unas.ac.id/en/berita/cserm-unas-ikuti-kick-off-meeting-proyek-blue-communites-guna-jaga-... |
| Description | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off to highlight the international collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/news/articles/globalsciencetosupportcoa.html |
| Description | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Partner article on the Blue Communities Kick-Off meeting to highlight the launch of the programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.pml.ac.uk/News_and_media/News/Global_science_to_support_coastal_communities_in_S |
| Description | Partner article on the Blue Communities funding award |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Article on a partner's website about the Blue Communities funding award |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_596578_en.html |
| Description | Pilot of Marine Planning Trade-off Analysis (MaPTA) tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A new Marine Planning Trade-off Analysis tool has been developed as part of the Blue Communities programme. This is online process that was pilotted with the Western Philippines University in March 2022. The pilot was facilitated remotely over two morning sessions, during which participants were trained in the tool so that they could use it in their future work. Feedback was also provided by the participates on the usability and clarity o the tool, which fed into making improvements to it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | PlymSEF Annual Spring Lecture, National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth 12 June - invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "It's not all about the fish!" Presentation and discussion to demonstrate that the marine environment is important to people, how and why we measure its value (importance) and reflect on what that means for marine policy and management. Lively discussion of the importance of valuation and the role of marine policy followed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Plymouth and Brexit: Perspective of Marine Research Organization |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on marine science undertaken by Plymouth marine research organisations and concerns and benefits of BREXIT as a piece that stimulated further audience discussion and debate within plenary and subsequent small breakout group sessions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/business/summit-hears-how-plymouth-could-383512 |
| Description | Plymouth and Brexit: Perspective of Marine Research Organization |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Appearances on local/national television (ITV, BBC) associated with presentation given at Plymouth and Brexit conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poster Presentation at the IAPS (International Association of People-Environment Studies) Conference, Rome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Blue Communities project, its aims and scope was presented to the conference participants in form of a poster. The main focus was sub-project 12 "Alternative Future Scenarios", past, current and planned activities as well as identified research gaps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://iaps2018.com/ |
| Description | Pral talk at ICEP 2019 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Oral talk at the International Conference for Environmental Psychology 2019 in Plymouth, UK, on the latest findings of Blue Communities, project 12. The main content was the development and evaluation of the scenario built in Taytay, Palawan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presenattion of Blue Communities Programme at 2021 Commonwealth Science Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Session abstract 45 out of 54 Commonwealth countries are ocean states, and 24 are small island developing states (SIDS). These countries and their regions face acute adaptation and mitigation challenges arising from climate change, which include sea level rise, more frequent and intense storms and the implications of these for a growing vulnerability and inequality. This session will examine the impacts of climate change on cities and settlements by the sea across the Commonwealth, highlight solutions being developed by researchers and local and indigenous communities, and consider how international collaboration and information-sharing can address these common challenges. Third speaker - Isabel Richter. Focus of talk: human dimensions of marine stewardship |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/royalsociety |
| Description | Presentation and participation at 3rd International Symposium on Conservation and Management of Wetlands (ISCMW 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'gender and ecosystems'. Highlighted to policy makers, other scientists, and practitioners that we need to consider the uneven distribution of benefits from wetlands amongst different social groups, taking gender as an example. Talked raised awareness of Blue Communities as well, and topic introduced participants to ideas behind project 9 of Blue Communities. A pop-up exhibit stand for Blue Communities was also displayed, and it provided a useful networking event for potential participants of Blue Communities research going forward. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://iscmwswcs.wixsite.com/iscmw/3rdiscmw |
| Description | Presentation at EU Ocean Day at the EU pavilion, during the United Nations Climate Change Conference, of the 25th Conference of Parties (COP25): Climate ready marine spatial plans: end-use demonstrator usingmodelling data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave this presentation at the EU Ocean's day during COP25, in the opening session entitled: Oceans and Climate: from science to policy, which was an event hosted EU Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commission department, organised and chaired by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the Association of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union. The event was opened by Veronika Veits, the Director of International Ocean Governance and Sustainable Fisheries, of the Directorate General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Commission; and by Prof. Biliana Cicin-Sain, President of the Global Ocean Forum. The other speakers included Porf Hans-Otto Pörtner, Co Chair IPCC WGII & the Alfred Wagner Institute, GER; Prof Manuel Barange, Director of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Policy and Resources Division of the UNited Nation's Food and Agricultural Organisation; Faisal Dilrosun, Expert on Oceans, for the Curaçao government; Pablo Lopez-Herrerias, Coordinator of the OCTA secretariat); Sebastien Soleille , Head of Energy Transition at BNP Paribas; Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Research Director of the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Iddri, France; and Dr Loreley Picourt, of the NGO Ocean and Climate Platform. The event was attended by circa 70 people, with an audience varying between research, policy makers, NGOs, business, and civil society. The talk given was intended to highlight UK based development of decision support tools for the assessment of the emergence of the climate signal, whcih I have led, to facilitate the development of climate ready marine spatial planning strategies around the globe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/calendar/0138/calendar_en.htm#schedule |
| Description | Presentation at the European Union pavilion at the Eu Ocean Day at the 23rd United Nations Conference of Parties: Oceans and Climate and Science III: From challenges to solutions (10 Nov 2017, 16:00-17:00) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given on past EU funded PML led research (Queiros et al.) and its new application in several official development assistance projects I am involved in focusing on adaptation and mitigation measures to support coastal communities via climate-ready marine spatial planning, including the RCUK GCRF project Blue Communities (lead: Mel Austen, PML). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ec.europa.eu/clima/events/0118/calendar_en.htm#schedule |
| Description | Presentation on Blue Communities and participation in GCRF panel discussion at National Oceanography Centere Association, London 1 May 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented Blue Communities project to audience. Discussed GCRF projects during subsequent panel discussion. Raised awareness among marine scientists and practitioners of opportunities and challenges in engaging in marine research and GCRF challenge work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on Ecosystem Services and Wellbeing at the University of Malaya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A 1 hour presentation on the complex relationship between ecosystem services and holistic wellbeing was carried out at the university of Malaya. This involved follo wup conversations with post graduate students and WWF rresearchers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation to University of British Columbia Collaborative for Landscape Planning (CALP) team "Meet the Scholar" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sabine Pahl presented the Blue Communities approach and work programme, particularly focusing on Project 12. A lively discussion ensued with lots of thoughtful input from the interdisciplinary audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://calp.forestry.ubc.ca/poster_dr-sabine-pahl/ |
| Description | Presented BlueCommuities to Natural England's Living Coasts group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Living Coasts Intitiative is supporting sustainable livelihoods in the UK and I talked about the parallel work we are doing the Philippines - and the amazing overlaps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Preserntation to the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), Kuala Lumpur (January 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mel Austen (project leader) presented the Blue Communities Programme to various staff including the Director at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA). This provided useful connections as MIMA is.a policy research institute set up by the Malaysian Government providing them with assistance and support national maritime policy planning and implementation. We discussed our approaches in Blue Communities and how we might together work with MIMA towards meeting our aims and objectives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Press release - Global science to support coastal communities in SE Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A press release entitled "Global science to support coastal communities in SE Asia" was disseminated to media contacts from the Communications Department of the Lead Partner, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, and via social media platforms such as Twitter. The article focused up on the news of the kick off meeting held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Global_science_to_support_coastal_communities_in_S |
| Description | Press release - Supporting coastal communities in Southeast Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A press release entitled "Supporting coastal communities in Southeast Asia" was disseminated to the media contacts from the Communications department of the Lead Partner, Plymouth Marine Laboratory on 7th December 2017. This was further disseminated via social media platforms including Twitter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/Supporting_coastal_communities_in_Southeast_Asia |
| Description | Press release announcing funding award for Blue Communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Press release to announce the Blue Communities funding award |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.pml.ac.uk/News_and_media/News/Supporting_coastal_communities_in_Southeast_Asia |
| Description | Prof Fatimah Universiti Malaya gave a talk on strategies for Sabah and Sarawak's economic recovery |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Prof Fatimah gave a talk on strategies for Sabah and Sarawak's economic recovery during and post-COVID-19 pandemic in the ASEAN economy context hosted by the Sabah & Sarawak Affairs Division (Prime Minister's Department). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Prof. Mohd Aizat Mohd Zain, Universiti of Malaya participated in Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof. Mohd Aizat Mohd Zain, Universiti of Malaya participated in Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Conference at which he presented a paper entitled "Factors associated with health status among coastal communities in the Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah, Malaysia". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Programme newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Regular Programme newsletter, which focused on the great work that has already happened in the case study areas and working with the case study partners from different side of the world. It is used to promote programme activities to stakeholders to encourage collaboration and/or uptake of the science and as the Programme is so large, the newsletter provides a great opportunity to share information about programme activities, celebrate success and alert to future activities. We have received positive feedback and thanks for an interesting and useful read. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/d7c42c04eec2/gcrf-blue-communities-newsletter-november-1608445?e=9889454b77 |
| Description | Programme website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Website to share programme and related news, which received over 4600 unique visitors and 19.5k page views. Since the start of the programme, the site has attracted over 19k visitors and just shy of 48k page views |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.blue-communities.org |
| Description | Project 3 session: Ecosystem Services Further update on progress and participatory activity mapping in the case study sites, 17th July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Virtual Annual Meeting presentation to project participants and stakeholders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Project 8 session: Ecosystem service trade-offs. Adding layers to habitats maps - unresolved issues, 21st July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Annual Virtual Meeting, discussion and questions afterwards |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Project overview presented to stakeholders in San Juan, Aborlan and Liminangcong, Biton, Pamantolon and New Guinlo, Taytay; and ocular inspection at Apurawan, Aborlan, Palawan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines Universities conducted courtesy calls and presented project overviews at San Juan, Aborlan and Liminangcong, Biton, Pamantolon and New Guinlo, Taytay and there was an ocular inspection at Apurawan, Aborlan, Palawan. Outcomes from the workshops and meetings at barangay level had resulted in the understanding and support of the barangay local government units to the project and how they can be involved . |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Provincial government workshop (Palawan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | About 20 participants at the provincial level of Palawan attended a workshop organised by Blue Communities partner Western Philippines University. The team implemented methods taught at a previous training workshop, with guidance and feedback from M Fortnam. Participants discussed challenges and opportunities for improving the Environmental Critical Areas Network in the Palawan UNESCO Man and Biosphere Reserve. WPU team members reported that they have learnt a lot from participating in this process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public Presentation UM: The Impact of air pollution on hospital admissions for respiratory illness in Kuala Lumpur |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to colleagues in the UM on the The effects of air pollution on asthma hospital admissions in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, 2013-2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public lecture on systematic reviews and maps at CSERM, UNAS, Jakarta, Indonesia, February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This presentation provided an introduction to the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence and the CEE approach to evidence synthesis (systematic reviews and maps). The presentation introduced the role of evidence syntheses, what they entail, and how CEE supports the conduct and publication of high quality evidence syntheses. We discussed the context of evidence syntheses in SE Asia and fielded an interactive question and answer session with the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Publicity on Annual Science Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A Twitter Moment was created of all the tweets regarding the Annual Science meeting. This was shared with a review of the meeting, posted on the BC website (https://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/3rd_Annual_Progress_Meeting). The aim was to share some of the great ideas and progress that the meeting allowed as well as some of the initial findings of some of the survey work and to promote the Evidence Synthesis mapping tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/i/events/1293802712157626368 |
| Description | Regional Training Workshop on Participatory Marine Governance Analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities Project 2 UK partners provided training in governance analysis concepts and methods to researcher partners and key stakeholder from each case study. Country teams are now customising and implementing these methods, and analysing data, in their respective BC case study marine parks and biosphere reserves, with support from UK partners. Outcomes, participants: 1. Developed a shared understanding of key concepts, such as marine governance, governance innovations and power 2. Share knowledge about different management approaches in the case study marine reserves and parks 3. Develop capacities in doing participatory research 4. Received training in and trialled Innovation History and Netmap methods 5. Customise and planned fieldwork for each case study 6. Preliminary analysis of stakeholder relationships and history of a governance innovation in each biosphere reserve |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Remote Sensing - Geographic Information System Training in Coron, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from the Western Philippines University attended a training workshop on "Remote Sensing - Geographic Information Systems" in Coron, Palawan, Philippines between 27-29 August 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Remote methods training for Scenario development and communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on scenario development methods with partners from three countries (Vietnam,Indonesia and Malaysia). The workshop was conducted over three days and was held remotely due to the COVID19 risk. contents of the workshops involved for example scenario theory, data management and analysis, scenario development, scenario communication and stakeholder interactions. Co-lead by Dr. Elizabeth Gabe Thomas and Dr Isabel Richter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from HNUE attended UKRI International Development Peer Review College Global Engagement Meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Representatives from Hanoi National University of Education attended the UKRI International Development Peer Review College Global Engagement Meetings (scheduled for 30 November and 2 December 2020). This built capacity and understanding of the role of GCRF of promoting challenge-led disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, including the participation of researchers who may not previously have considered the applicability of their work to development issues; strengthening capacity for research, innovation and knowledge exchange in the UK and developing countries through partnership with excellent UK research and researchers and providing an agile response to emergencies where there is an urgent research need. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from UNAS gave a presentation at the Special Online Session of UNESCO's Southeast Asian Biosphere Reserve |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 26th November Dr Radisti Praptiwi presented a talk on behalf of the Blue Communities programme, at a special online session of the Southeast Asian Biosphere Reserves Network (SeaBRnet). This was attended by many representatives of the UNESCO Southeast Asian Biosphere Reserves and was good experience and capacity building for Dr Praptiwi, and early career researcher. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya participated as a panel member for the Borneo Ocean Talks (special series) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Eva Vivian participated in the Borneo Ocean Talks (Special Series) as one of the panel members held on 19 June 2020. This focused on community and private sector involvement in turtle conservation in Borneo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya participated as a speaker at the 6th International Marine Conservation Congress (held online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sofia Johari attended the 6th International Marine Conservation Congress as an oral presenter for a paper titled "State Introduced Design and Technology for Community-base Aquaculture of Sea Cucumber (Holothuria Scabra) in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya participated in a Zoom meeting with UNDP and World Bank |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 13th November 2020, Prof Fatimah Binti Kari participated in a Zoom session with UNDP and World Bank and shared basic data on health and income from the Project 6 household health survey. These organisations are interested in baseline data collected for the Blue Communities programme before the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya participated in online meetings with WWF-Sabah |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On 5th August 2020, team members from University of Malaya met with representatives from WWF-Sabah to discuss the research plans and some of the findings from the sub-project. They discussed topics regarding to the sustainability of the fisheries in Tun Mustpha Park. The fish landing statistics compiled by the BC MY team was consistent after cross checking with WWF-Sabah during the meeting. The University of Malaya team were informed that there was a fish stock assessment in Tun Mustapha Park conducted by WWF-Sabah, showing that the stock in the area might collapse in 2040/2050 with current fishing practice. Hence, it was identified that a paper on this area is much needed to raise the awareness of the challenges we might face. Additionally, they discussed the aquaculture practices and development in Sabah and the possibility on tracking legal and illegal aquaculture activities in Tun Mustapha Park and Sabah using remote sensing. Future discussions will be conducted once the situation in Sabah is stable to coordinate a study on aquaculture practices in Sabah with remote sensing methods and ground truthing (in-situ observation). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya presented a poster presentation at APACP 2020 meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Aizat Zain Aizat recorded a presentation for the 52nd Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health on a poster titled "Factors Associated with Health Status Among Coastal Communities in the Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from University of Malaya presented a talk at the 5th Asia Engage Regional Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 18th November 2020, Eva Vivian presented at the 5th AsiaEngage Regional Conference 2020 (webinar) related to the TMP Communities Festival program and outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representative from Western Philippines University hosted a webinar via Zoom and Facebook live |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 14th December 2020, team members from Western Philippines University hosted a webinar (via Zoom and Facebook Live) on "What lies beneath: Marine Plastic litter in Palawan and its threat to ocean and human health" . This gave an overview of the findings of research and observations in Palawan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesPhilippines/videos/218005586450634 |
| Description | Representative from Western Philippines University hosted information, education and communication meetings with 4 Barangays in Taytay, Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | From 15-18 February 2021, team members from Western Philippines University shared information, education and communication through a kick-off meeting with 4 Barangays in Taytay, Palawan, Philippines with local leaders, village teachers and peoples organization. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Representatives from HNUE organised a stakeholder workshop on developing future scenarios for Cu Lao Cham community |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During January 2021, team members from Hanoi National University for Education successfully organized a stakeholder workshop on developing future scenarios for Cu Lao Cham community. The workshop was held in the Cu Lao Cham MPA office in Tan Hiep commune, with the participation of local communities on the island. After the workshop, 3 scenarios (business as usual, worst case, best case) were developed. Three draft Vietnamese narratives were written up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Representatives from The Faculty of Built Environment, University of Malaya presented the Blue Communities programme to the University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Faculty of Built Environment, University of Maalya which the Blue Communities project is parked under had recently presented the research projects under the faculty and the Deputy Vice Chancellor had taken an interest in the Blue Communities project thus requested for a 3-minute video of the project focusing on its high impact and outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representatives from University of Malaya participated in the 2nd Kudat Coastal Community Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Following several meetings which were held via Zoom with the project members and teachers from the four secondary schools to prepare for the 2nd Kudat Coastal Community Festival, team members from the University of Malaya participated in the festival on 15th September 2020 which was a hybrid event combining schools online and face-to-face in the local area. The event was held at SMK Abdul Rahim attended by participants from the other three schools (SMK St. Peter, SMK Tandek and SMK Pitas). BC MY field-based staff, Eva Vivian and Sofia Johari attended the event physically while the rest of BC MY team joined the event via Zoom from 10.30AM to 3.00PM. Similar to the first festival that was conducted in September 2019, two competitions were held, photovoice and airbnb experience (videography) in which 38 school students from the four schools participated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representatives from Western Philippines University conducted a community engagement activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During November 2020, members of the Western Philippines University team conducted a Seminar-Workshop on Information, Education and Communication - Citizen Science Strategy Planning and Validation with 1) Feedback of BC Philippines study results; 2) Seminars (bespoke videos and lectures) on a) Citizen Science, b) Marine Interaction, c) Coastal Resources Management, d) Marine Litter Management, and e) Coastal Livelihood; and 3) Co-creation of Community IEC Plan for 10 Case Study Barangays with approximately 131 participants from local government units (officials and leaders), People's Organization and Department of Education (basic education sector). - Bespoke BC IEC materials and infographics disseminated to approximately 10 groups upon request for utilization of schools and Local Government Units during assemblies and meetings. - Bespoke training design with special considerations on COVID-19 protocol |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Representatives from Western Philippines University presented poster presentation the 2019 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability and Philippine Association of Marine Science (PAMS) 15th National Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Attendance to the Philippine Association of Marine Science (PAMS) 15th National Symposium (July 4 to 6, 2019) and 2019 International Conference on Biosphere and Sustainability (July 24 to 26, 2019) where a poster presentation was given about the work conducted in Palawan for the GCRF Blue Communities programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Representatives from the University of Malaya team published an article introducing the Blue Communities projects and progress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The Blue Communities-Malaysia team published an article introducing the BC projects and progress in the University of Malaya Research Bulletin Vol. 20, No. 1, 2020, page 22. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended seminar on Algal Blooms and Red Tides |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended a talk on "Algal Blooms and Red Tide can be Harmful in Pasay City". This improved knowledge on the Harmful Algal blooms and Red Tide in the case study sites and provided information necessary for the effective conduct of Case Study project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended the 3rd International Conference on West Philippine Sea at Puerto Princesa City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended the 3rd International Conference on West Philippine Sea at Puerto Princesa City on 2 May 2018. This provided an opportunity to raise awareness of the GCRF Blue Communities project and its objectives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended the 4th National Conference on Sustainable Development and 5th Palawan Research Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended the 4th National Conference on Sustainable Development and 5th Palawan Research Symposium and disseminated information about the GCRF Blue Communities Project therein thus improving capacity in presentation skills at a scientific conference, disseminated information about the GCRF Blue Communities project, and added networks and linkages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended training workshop on research ethics review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended a training workshop on Research Ethics Review for the Ethical review Committee at Cagayan De Oro City, and then increased capacity among the research team by conducting an echo lecture to the team afterwards; learned about the Ethics Review Process in Philippine setting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Royal Society Global Environment Research Committee workshop on UK research priorities for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Invited panellist and speaker for Panel discussion: Ocean-based opportunities, solutions and management presented on Marine resource governance, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion: Ocean-based opportunities, solutions and management, I initially presented on Marine resource governance. Discussions generated afterwards. A summary of the workshop is being produced to advise government on direction of research for the UN Decade of the Ocean |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Scenario Workshop Capacity Building, University of Malaya |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction of scenario workshop exercises to the local team of the Malaysia case study. Three scenarios were developed. As a result, the local team will be able to lead the scenario exercises with the stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Scenario workshop capacity building, Palawan, Philippines with WPU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction of scenario workshop exercises to the local team. As a result, the local team could lead the scenario exercises with the stakeholders a few days after this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Second Annual Meeting with all project partners 5-9 August 2019, Plymouth, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Over 80 participants attended the 2nd GCRF Blue Communities Annual Meeting, including representatives from each of the 10 partner organisations (4 of which are from DAC countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam, as well as representatives from the 6 UK partners). This was hosted by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and held in Plymouth, UK from 5-9 August 2019 where activities to-date were reviewed, lessons learned shared among the partners, interactive workshops enabled co-creation and planning for future activities and further collaboration and cooperation among the partners and beyond was established. In addition, nine training workshops were held from 8-16 August which were hosted by the University of Plymouth, enabling further capacity building and training for the DAC project participants. The meeting also included side meetings of the Executive Group and the Advisory Group enabling an opportunity to review the risk register, the logframe, the plans for work and further networking. A field trip was also organised for all participants, to visit the North Devon Biosphere Reserve, where various local stakeholders provided guided walks and also presentations to share information relating to the management of the Biosphere Reserve and enabled the visiting researchers to have a better understanding of the challenges experienced in sustainable coastal management in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar for the Blue Communities Malaysia talk series entitled "Blue Communities: an interdisciplinary approach to building research capacity and developing marine management for the benefit of coastal communities" on 18th February 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | As part of a UK-funded Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project titled 'Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for the benefit of the health, well-being, food security and livelihoods of coastal communities in East and Southeast Asia' (http://www.blue-communities.org/), a talk organised by the Blue Communities Malaysian team and co-organised by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment and Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, was presented by Prof Austen. This was an opportunity for academics from across other faculties and departments to ask questions and further understand the interdisciplinary approach of the research being conducted. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/events/2994049550612544/ |
| Description | Social Media via Facebook page by @BlueCommunitiesMY |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | NetMap/actor network mapping session with the enumerators and staff from the Parliamentary Office of Permatang Pauh who are currently embarking on a multidimensional poverty index study (MPI) in the Permatang Pauh area |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesMY/posts/902194340634505 |
| Description | Social Science Methods Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Capacity building: Introduction to social science research methods including example data analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Social media channels |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blue Communities has a Twitter (@BlueCommunities) and FB (BlueCommunitiesGCRF) account. Both are used to share programme and related news to slightly different audiences (Twitter = UK/Europe stakeholders and interested parties, FB = SE Asia stakeholders and interested parties). The programme account also aggregates posts from the partner accounts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020,2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/BlueCommunities |
| Description | Stakeholder Engagement; workshop with WWF Malaysia (and South East Asia in general) on behavior change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | At the headquarters of WWF Malaysia, a 3hour workshop was held on behaviour change with focus on several issues relevant for sustainable development of coastal communities like sustainable seafood, plastic pollution, poaching, palm oil and alternative livelihoods. Members from WWF International participated via Zoom conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop at Puerto Princesa Campus, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In subgroups, participants discuss about three questions, note their results down on a flip chart and present to the audience, followed by a plenary discussion a) What are the main problems/challenges in Palawan/ your Barangay (economic, social and environmental)? b) What are the main problems/challenges in the health sector in Palawan/ your Barangay? c) What are your visions for the future/ your aspirations for Palawan/ your Barangay? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop at Puerto Princesa Campus, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Delivering training materials on using the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensor data for the Earth observation applications.Provided training on processing Sentinel-1 SAR data using SNAP software package. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop in Taytay Barangay Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In subgroups, participants discuss about three questions, note their results down on a flip chart and present to the audience, followed by a plenary discussion a) What are the main problems/challenges in Palawan/ your Barangay (economic, social and environmental)? b) What are the main problems/challenges in the health sector in Palawan/ your Barangay? c) What are your visions for the future/ your aspirations for Palawan/ your Barangay? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Stakeholder Workshop in Taytay, Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During a full-day workshop, three scenarios were co-created (best case, worst case and business as usual) by a group of about 15-20 stakeholders from the Taytay region, North Palawan, Philippines. The outcome is a better understanding of the local's perceptions of the future as well as a visualisation of scenarios. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Stakeholders' Consultative Seminar Workshop in Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | On 7 March 2018, researchers from Western Philippines University organised a Stakeholders' Consultative Seminar Workshop with the Department Heads and representatives from the Provincial Government of Palawan, Local Government Units of Taytay and Aborlan, Palawan Council for Sustainable Development Staff and World Wildlife Fund - Philippines. Outcomes of this workshop were: 1) the Stakeholders shared the current status and existing plans of their agencies/offices in related identified areas (Harmful Algal blooms and Water quality; mangrove and climate change; seagrass and corals; coastal fisheries; Marine Protected Areas (MPAs); and Food, livelihood, health and wellbeing), 2) The project team introduced the project areas of the case study and 3) Issues, related data available needs and gaps, areas of complementation and responsible agency/office were also identified in Taytay and Aborlan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Statistics and R Training Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | R training and statistical analysis training was given as part of Project 6 training at the annual event in Plymouth in August 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Symposium presentation to UNAS students and staff, Jakarta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented Blue Communities work and lecture on the Gendered Nature of Ecosystem Services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Team members from UNAS hosted a filmmaking workshop session for local stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | As part of our research dissemination and engagement activities, we held public screening and filmmaking workshop session for local stakeholders. The screening of P12 films made by participants was held on 10 June 2021 in Pola Room, Selayar Regent's Office (Benteng, Selayar). The event was attended by 54 people, including representation from Selayar local government institutions, National Park, photography community, other local organisations, and local communities. In addition, a dissemination and filmmaking workshop with local stakeholders were held on 16-17 June 2021 in the same location involving 17 participants from 10 institutions (including: Selayar local government institutions, National Park, Photography community, and other Local organisations) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Team members from several Blue Communities' partners participated in MARE Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Team members from multiple partners from the Blue Communities programme presented results at MARE conference held between 28 June-2 July 2021. Representatives from Universiti Malaya, Universitas Nasional, Hanoi National University of Education, Western Philippines University, University of Exeter and University of Plymouth presented and participated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Art of Research Communication - Virtual Panel hosted by Scriberia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Prof Melanie Austen was invited to be a panel member to discuss how Blue Communities, as a case study, used creative methods for extending the communication assets. The event was attended live by 102 attendees, with 182 registrants who then received the recording and e-newsletter from Scriberia about the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | The Natural Capital Initiative (NCI) 10th anniversary summit: Valuing Our Life Support, London, May 2019 Invited Plenary Session opening speaker, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on marine natural capital, its uses and limitations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Ocean Decade Virtual Series : Ocean and Human Health video presentation from Western Philippines University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Convened by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO in partnership with the Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Europe Project, the BlueHealth Project and the European Marine Board, this virtual session "The Ocean and Human Health" addressed one core aspect of the relationship between humankind and the Ocean. A video presentation was prepared and delivered by the team from Western Philippines University presenting the Blue Communities project as a case study. The recording of the whole session is available on UNESCO's Youtube channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRzXlp7-nwA |
| Description | The social media account for WPU GCRF Blue Communities Facebook page was launched |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The social media account for WPU GCRF Blue Communities Facebook page was launched in January 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/pg/WPU-GCRF-Blue-Communities-Palawan-PH-390023441445397/posts/?ref=page_int... |
| Description | The social media account on MY GCRF Blue Communities Facebook page was launched |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The social media account on the University of Malaya GCRF Blue Communities Facebook page was launched during August 2018. News and updates are regularly posted to this channel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesMY |
| Description | The team from CSERM-UNAS are disseminating research on bird diversity to stakeholders and communities in Taka Bonerate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination activities of research on bird diversity was started on late October 2020 and continued in to early November, in the form of printed reports, infographics, and posters given to local government institutions (report, leaflet & poster), communities living in Tambolongan and Polassi (leaflets), and schools in Tambolongan and Polassi (leaflets & posters). The local research assistants (Maya and Sainal) reported that local community and schools in the islands have requested more dissemination materials (leaflets and posters) for local bird diversity as they are considering to include this in basic-levels school curriculum. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The team members from Western Philippines University held an internal colloquium 14-22 July |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | During the week that the 3rd Annual Meeting took place, the Western Philippine University Blue Communities team also held an internal colloquium and held these in morning sessions (local time) each day, ahead of the sessions relating to 3rd Annual meeting involving all project partners. This enabled the WPU team members to keep each other informed and updated on all of their activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Third Annual Meeting with all project partners 15-22 July 2020, Virtual |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Originally planned to take place in Hoi An, Vietnam, the third Annual Meeting had to take place virtually online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first two days were opened up to external stakeholders who were invited to pre-register and join via Zoom. In addition to reports back to the plenary from the case study partners, the President of the International Coordinating Coouncil of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere programme was invited to give a brief presentation. Also, the sub-project leads and co-leads provided updates on the sub-projects so far. In addition, other session topics included the current communication methods, monitoring and evaluation and ways to measure impact, and interactive workshop sessions involving all of the programme participants were conducted around the topics of research ethics, data management, code of conduct and health & safety, and monitoring and evaluation. Project-specific sessions were run to update on progress, work on collaborations and planning papers, co-developing further research and one day was dedicated to providing training on scientific writing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Third NetComFish workshop: Research training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | As part of the NetComFish project, training was offered to two Blue Communities partners from the University of Malaya, together with another researcher and two postgraduate students from the University of Malaya during a visit to PML in July 2018 (all members of the NetComFish team). Training covered effective questionnaire development, qualitative data analysis using Nvivo and an introduction to multicriteria analysis. The skills developed will be used in future NetComFish and Blue Communities activities as well as in other research projets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Third year undergraduate students receive lectures in remote sensing at Hanoi National University of Education |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Third year undergraduate students participated in a remote sensing course during April 2020. They learned about the application of Sentinel2 using the case study of Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve as a working example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Training Workshop on using and communicating climate model outputs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a capacity-building workshop for partners in the GCRF Blue Communities project. Participants were able to: • Learn some key modelling language and concepts • Be able to locate and interpret publicly available climate model outputs • Be able to view and analyse information in netCDF files, the most commonly used format for environment model data • Understand some key psychological concepts for communication of complex environmental data. • Practice communicating climate model information in ways suitable for different audiences Following the workshop, they have been planning how to use climate model outputs in their research work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Training event on participatory governance analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Training event to Sabah Parks and WWF Malaysia staff on participatory marine governance analysis methods, to support them in understanding how to improve the governance of marine and terrestrial parks in Sabah, Malaysia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training workshop in participartory trade-off analysis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An online workshop was held with 25 participants where we used hypthetical case study to demonstrate a new decision-making tool that was under development at the time (now completed). Participants were introduced to the notion of trade-offs in marine planning, and a process by which these trade-offs could be identified and assessed in terms of their acceptabiliy to different staeholder groups, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Training workshop on systematic reviews and evidence synthesis in environmental management topics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 25 colleagues from the project partners in the UK and SE Asia attended capacity building workshops to provide training about systematic reviews and evidence synthesis and bespoke guidance on protocol development for future synthesis projects. 5-6 August 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training workshop on the use of climate model data in participants' research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a workshop for partners in the GCRF Blue Communities project. Following the workshop the participants were able to: • Understand the kind of data that is available from the project 10 modelling • View, plot and process data from the model outputs produced for Blue Communities • Understand the main issues to consider when using model outputs to investigate scientific questions • Have a plan for writing a paper using the model outputs and/or to use the model outputs in other parts of their Blue Communities work Work on several papers is underway following the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training workshop on use of model projections. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | attendees were trained in how to use model projections and use them to supplement their research within the project. Plans were made for a number of paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Training workshop on using the biogeochemical ecosystem model ERSEM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Other 12 Blue Communities partners participated in the workshop, learning how to use the biogeochemical ecosystem model ERSEM. During the course of the workshop they got to understand how the model functioned and explore a few scenario. Afterwards they felt confident that they could use biogeochemical model outputs in their own research as well as train others into using them. Partners reported a higher likelihood that they would use biogeochemical ecosystem model outputs in their research in the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Training workshop with partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Around 20 researchers from Western Philippines University attended an evidence synthesis training day, endorsed by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. This introduced the key concepts and approaches of systematic review and evidence synthesis, and stimulated discussion about evidence based [practice as well as identifying possible topics of interest for future evidence synthesis work.. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Transdisciplinary research to underpin policy and regulation in the marine environment, International Congress on Industrial Port Research, Sept Iles, Canada, May 2019, Invited speaker, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on the use of interdisciplinary research in marine policy and management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Twitter feed from @LanguPenang re: Dr Voon Ching Lim's activities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Voon Ching Lim presenting on socio-ecological systems in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah, Malaysia! Rock on, VC! #RuffordConferenceMalaysia2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/LangurPenang/status/1215821327229079552?s=20&fbclid=IwAR0M61Q6QA6PeAjtru3KVAXnUv... |
| Description | Twitter post by @GCRF, linking to Data insights blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the International Day of Education, a Twitter post made by @GCRF linking to the Newton-GCRF Data Insignts Blog "Young people are enthusiastic about playing their part in combating climate change. They are active and willing to be part of the movement." Learn how @BlueCommunities are engaging young people in #climateaction researchhttp://bit.ly/3fkHDD4 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/GCRF/status/1617816892558962688?s=20&t=HsiX2Stshjgvl8e_RIGuSQ |
| Description | UCL Environment Session of Beyond Boundaries Conference: Sustainability and the Water Cycle, Invited speaker and panelist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presented on GCRF Blue Communities An example of an interdisciplinary research programme addressing Sustainable Development Goals. There were many questions and much discussion afterwards |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable-development-goals/beyond-boundaries-realising-un-sustainable-devel... |
| Description | UK Govt FCO-SIN UK-India workshop to develop joint funding programme on marine plastics and solutions, Chennai India 10-16 Oct. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of research needs in India to address problems of plastic in the marine environment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UK partners meet to discuss progress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Webnews of UK Partners Meeting in Plymouth which took place in August 2018, was distributed as a press release and posted as a web news article. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.blue-communities.org/News_Events/UK_partners_meet_to_discuss_progress |
| Description | UK-UM Blue Communities partnership to support marine spatial planning in Tun Mustapha Park, Sabah |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | University of Malaya published a press release published on "Asia Research News" website about the GCRF Blue Communities Project and its focus on Tun Mustapha Park (TMP) in Sabah, Malaysia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.researchsea.com/html/announcements.php/aid/11918/cid/1/research/science/university_of_ma... |
| Description | UNAS organised a workshop for local stakeholders to discuss sustainable tourism and fisheries sectors for compiling an innovative history timeline (Project 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A local level workshop in Selayar was held over two days in June 2019. Day one was attended by local government officials i.e., Local Development Planning Agency, National Park of Taka Bonerate, Local Marine Affairs and Fisheries Agency, Local Tourism Agency, and Local Transportation Agency. Day two was attended by local NGOs and communities such as Head of Village (Tambolongan, Polassi, Patilereng), Selayar Scuba Dive and Selayar Dive Adventure. During the two day workshop discussions were made about sustainable tourism and fisheries perspectives from both government officials and communities to be plotted in innovation history timeline and current available network for sustainable tourism and fisheries development in local level. The actors and their roles were plotted in the network map. Based on the discussions, both local government official and communities excited to know the analysis result from the workshop.As follow up, Agung was invited to give short speech to the participants of tourism training held by Head of Patilereng Village on the 26th June. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UNAS organised fieldwork to measure marine renewable energy potentials and a workshop for local stakeholders to discuss the local community's perspective on renewable energy (Project 4) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During the period 16-25 June 2019, fieldwork was performed to measure marine renewable energy potentials in several different sites and to observe the local community's perspective on previous renewable energy project in Selayar and their aspiration for future development. Stakeholders' engagement was performed by several informal meetings with representatives from the Development Planning Agency - Selayar, Taka Bonerate National Park, the Transportation Agency - Selayar, Harbour Master Benteng - Selayar, Head of Tambolongan Village, Head of Polassi Village,Head of Patilereng Village, Coordinator of Waste Bank, Tanadoang - Selayar, the Division for New and Renewable Energy Agency, One Door Integrated Service - Selayar, Ranger of Taka Bonerate National Park, National Electricity Company - Selayar Branch, Elders in Kenari Forest - Selayar, Local fishermen and communities in Selayar, Tambolongan and Polassi. Site observations were also carried out which focussed on finding appropriate sites for direct measurement and identify the site candidate for energy system installation (including measurements of tidal movement, and current, wind and solar measurements) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UNAS team members participated in community engagement activities in collaboration with local stakeholders in Barugaia Village, Selayar, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Members of the Blue Communities Indonesia team were invited by Taka Bonerate National Park to participate in a beach cleaning event, that was held to commemorate local Waste Awareness Day. The event was arranged and held collaboratively by the national park, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and Selayar Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB). Other stakeholders involved in the activity include local NGOs, communities living in Barugaia village. The event took place in "Kampung Penyu" Barugaia Village beach area, which is a sea turtle conservation village. The area is a sandy beach used by the sea turtles to lay eggs. The area is an initiative of local community living in the village to monitor the area to reduce eggs poaching and rescue stranded sea turtles. Every year, during west monsoon season, the area becomes one of Selayar's marine waste hotspots, threatening the species and its ecosystem. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UNFCCC COP 25 meeting, 2-7 December 2019, Madrid invited speaker and panel member at 4 side events: |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and panel discussions at 4 side events: o The ocean, climate and biodiversity: the evidence is clear for raising ambition (WWF Pavilion) o The ocean, CO2 and society: challenges, opportunities and science responses for seas and society (UK Pavilion) o IPCC Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC): a Pacific perspective (Moana Pacific Pavilion) o Blue Carbon - can it tackle climate change and boost resilience? (UK Pavilion) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Undergraduate students at Hanoi National University of Education in their 4th year participated in GIS application course |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | During September 2020, 4th year students attending Hanoi National University of Education participated in GIS application course where they learned the application of GIS for suitability approach using the case study of Cu Lao Cham Hoi An Biosphere Reserve as a working example. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Undergraduate students at Hanoi National University of Education received a course on remote sensing, focusing on the Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | During October 2019, 4th year undergraduate students participated in a course delivered by staff at Hanoi National University of Education, about remote sensing methods focusing on the Case Study site Cu Lao Cham - Hoi An Biosphere Reserve, where they learnt how to process Sentinel-2 data. This is an example of the participants in the GCRF Blue Communities as trainees (having received training from UK partners) then trained additional students in the techniques using the open source tools available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Universitas Nasional colleagues organised a workshop with local stakeholders in Taka Bonerate-Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During December 2019, the new team members visited the Taka Bonerate-Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve and arranged a stakeholders workshop. Some key messages that were conveyed by stakeholders (National Park, Local government and local tourism practitioners) include the need for recommendations for capacity building and planning that are focused on development of sustainable tourism, and management of solid waste (including ocean litter). Specific message from NP management include their wish for Blue Communities project to be focused within their authority area (core zone of TBKS biosphere reserve). Up to this point, the whole of BC activities were conducted outside the core zone -Tambolongan, Polassi and Selayar islands that are part of the transition zone of the BR. CSERM researchers also met with experts at UNHAS. Some of the things discussed during the meeting include involvement of UNHAS students as local facilitators during our research activities. This could be ideal considering that the students have already had local knowledge and are experience in working within communities. In addition, it could expand the Blue Communities capacity building to a wider research communities beyond UNAS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University Malaya Seminar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Systems thinking research to advance marine spatial planning in SE Asia - invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at University seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | University of Malaya Seminar series, October 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Sharlene Boey from the University of Malaya Blue Communities team gave seminars entitled 'Influence for change' and 'Achieving social equability for coastal communities in marine protected areas through zoning' respectively. A total of 29 people attended the BC Talk Series #4, mostly undergraduate, postgraduate, and lecturers from the University of Malaya. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of Malaya colleagues organised a workshop with local stakeholders in Tun Mustapha Park to further develop the innovation history and Netmap (Project 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During September 2019, innovation history and NetMap exercises were conducted with four stakeholders in the Pita area of Tun Mustapha Park (TMP) including Department of Fisheries (Pitas), Ko-Nelayan (Pitas) - fishermen's cooperation, Majlis Pengurusan Komuniti Kampung (MPKK) - communities association. Preliminary findings from these stakeholders show that majority of them were unaware of their roles in TMP and were under the impression that TMP falls under the responsibility of Sabah Parks. They were only involved during the TMP planning stage and are still uninformed about TMP's rules and regulations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Malaya coordinated the first stakeholders' engagement workshop in Kota Kinabalu |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A workshop was arranged by the University of Malaya in Kota Kinabalu where 19 stakeholders participated including representatives from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Environment; the Marine Research Foundation; WWF Malaysia; Kudat Turtle Conservation Society; Sabah Parks; Sabah Tourism Board; Sabah Environmental Trust; Sabah State Health Department; Banggi Youth Club; Taman-taman Sabah; Sabah Tourist Association; UCSF; Tampat Do Aman; ESSCOM; and Reef Check Malaysia. This enabled the researchers to make useful contacts especially with local communities (fishermen group, tour operators) and the main ecosystem services, issues and aspirations for Tun Mustapha Park were identified. This workshop took place during the period 21 - 26 March 2018 when all of the University of Malaya participants also conducted a series of meetings to plan research activities, decide upon the exact locations of the research sites (within the vast area of the marine park) and identify research methods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | University of Malaya representatives contributed to the Kudat Coastal Communities Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Using contributions from the University of Malaya partnership grant to add value to the GCRF Blue Communities funding, representatives from University of Malaya attended the Kudat Coastal Communities Festival which was held at Abdul Rahim Secondary School on 6th September 2019. To collect data, 34 students ranging from the age of 15-17 years old participated in the Photovoice and AirBnB Experience (video) competitions. The Photovoice activity provided the students with the opportunity to showcase their concerns and strengths on critical issues in TMP through photographs and narratives. AirBnB is a video competition that promotes interesting places and experiences in TMP through the students' perspectives. The photographs and narratives from the Photovoice competition had brought forward issues such as polluted coastal areas, coastal livelihood, traditions and customs, and several more. Representatives from Sabah Tourism Board, Sabah Parks, WWF and Abdul Rahim Secondary School had served as judges for the competitions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Malaya team members met online with Dr Maklarin in response to a request by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Hong Ching Goh, Dr Amy Then and Wan Nur Syazana Mohamad Ariffin joined an online discussion with Dr Maklarin (Sabah Parks) in order to discuss and respond to the request for proposal by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (KeTSA) through the National Conservation Trust Fund (NCTF). The meeting had discussed on the potential for Sabah Parks and BC MY to further research collaboration and areas/topics to focus on in the application. The suggested area of research that was proposed and agreed by both sides during the discussion is to focus on the requirement and documentation in order to provide support to Sabah Parks in the process to apply for Marine Biosphere Reserve status for TMP in the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | University of Malaya's Publisher printing 250 copies of educational comic for distribution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An educational comic has been produced, aimed at primary schoolchildren, to educate them about the impacts of fish bombing in the marine environment and the detrimental consequences of such practices. The objective is for the children to discuss what they have learned with their family units and disseminate the information through the community. The University of Malaya's Publisher has agreed to accept the educational comic as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility and the printing costs for 250 copies of the comic has been waived. There are plans to submit a proposal for further research to evaluate the impact and increases in knowledge and/or changes in behaviour in the communities following distribution of the comics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Plymouth House of Lords Reception |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | University of Plymouth House of Lords Reception - met and discussed research and outcomes with a wide variety of people |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Various updates throughout the year on social media by the CSERM-Universitas Nasional Blue Communities team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Regular news updates and announcements have been posted on the Facebook page managed by the communications team at the Centre for Sustainable Energy Resources Management at the Universitas Nasional, Indonesia. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/Centre-for-Sustainable-Energy-Resources-Management-Universitas-Nasional-104... |
| Description | Various updates throughout the year on social media by the HNUE-BC team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Regular news updates and announcements have been posted on the Facebook page managed by the communications team at the Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/HNUE-GCRF-Blue-Communities-Cu-Lao-Cham-Hoi-An-Vietnam-968220886901391/ |
| Description | Various updates throughout the year on social media by the Malaysian-BC team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Regular news updates and announcements have been posted on the Facebook page managed by the communications team at the University of Malaya. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesMY/ |
| Description | Various updates throughout the year on social media by the Western Philippines University-BC team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Regular news updates and announcements have been posted on the Facebook page managed by the communications team at the Western Philippines University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/BlueCommunitiesPhilippines/ |
| Description | Video published by UNAS: The Sea, Ecosystem Services, and Well-Being - Part 1: Weekend in Tambolongan, Indonesia. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A completed video illustrating the lives of coastal communities in Tambolongan was shared at the 4th Annual Meeting and posted on the Blue Communities website. Entitled "The Sea, Ecosystem Services, and Well-Being - Part 1: Weekend in Tambolongan, Indonesia." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51P4OnbeLaA |
| Description | Video published by UNAS: The Sea, Ecosystem Services, and Well-Being - Part 2: Weekday in Polassi Island, Indonesia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A completed video illustrating the lives of coastal communities in Polassi Island was shared at the 4th Annual Meeting and posted on the Blue Communities website. Entitled "The Sea, Ecosystem Services, and Well-Being - Part 2: Weekday in Polassi Island, Indonesia" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhdayZwHP1M |
| Description | Virtual Seminar on Enhancing the Area of Ocean Governance of the EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific through Dialogue (23 June 2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Vikki Cheung was invited by the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) to present and be a panellist for a Virtual Seminar on Enhancing the Area of Ocean Governance of the EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific through Dialogue (23 June 2022). The Embassy of France and the EU Delegation to Malaysia in collaboration with the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) hosted the online seminar: "Saving our oceans: The case for Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) - Enhancing the Area of Ocean Governance of the EU Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific through Dialogue". The aim of this event was to bring together stakeholders and foster exchanges/cooperation between Europe and South East Asia. Ocean Governance and MSP was addressed through four different approaches and Vikki contributed as a presenter and panellist in the first session focusing upon "Effectiveness of MSP and MPAs as conservation tools" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit by Marine Management Organisation Board and Executive Team to Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Marine Management Organisation's (MMO) Board and Executive Team visited Plymouth Marine Laboratory for the morning of 26 September 2018. They were shown examples of UKRI funded work including GCRF Blue Communities, Marine Ecosystems Research Programme (MERP), NERC SWEEP, NERC National Capability. Discussions enabled MMO to realise they could make greater use of outputs from these projects, and influence the direction of work in them, via greater collaboration, with potential for improved outcomes in their role as regulators of the marine environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit by Therese Coffey Minister Defra Marine Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented aspects of Blue Communities and underpinning ecosystem services research to Therese Coffey MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with responsibility for marine environment during her visit to Plymouth Marine Laboratory (1st March 2018). She was interested in what we were doing and asked questions about the partners and the issues faced by them and by our programme and its approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to EUMETSAT 22nd October, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation on the work we carry out to collect information on marine ecosystem services. It involved several examples from GCRF Blue Communities and IMMERSE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visualising satellite imagery webinar 3rd November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This webinar gave an overview of how to use web browser tools to view satellite imagery and timeseries. This webinar was the result of a discussion with partners who were interested in using satellite imagery in their work, particularly for exploration of study sites and exploring change over time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | WPU GRCF Blue Communities Programme overview presentation during the 7th regular session of Barangay Local Government Unit of Apurawan, West Coast of Aborlan, Palawan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from the Western Philippines University presented an overview of the GCRF Blue Communities programme during the 7th regular session of Barangay Local Government Unit of Apurawan, West Coast of Aborlan, Palawan during October 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | WPU colleagues presented initial results at the Philippine Association of Marine Science (PAMS) Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University presented the initial results from Project 2 at the Philippine Association of Marine Science (PAMS) Conference, held in July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | WPU colleagues shared knowledge with undergraduate students at the University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from Western Philippines University presented research from Blue Communities activities to undergraduate students on the Fisheries and Aquatic Biology course, during July 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | WPU team member invited to participate in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Sectoral Workshop, Palawan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Karen Madarcos from Western Philippines University was invited to participate in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan's Comprehensive Land Use Plan - Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Sectoral Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | WPU team members conducted some Information Education and Communication activities to communities in Puerto Princesa City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | BCPh was invited by a local power supplier in Palawan to conduct the usual information education and communication (IEC) activities in a small coastal Indigenous People community in Puerto Princesa City composing of approximately 40 participants (fishers, women and children); despite the recent supertyphoon Odette. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Web new article on dailyexpress.com.my website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article entitled "Keeping our heritage via voices of youths" about the Coastal Community Festival. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news/151066/keeping-our-heritage-via-voices-of-youths/ |
| Description | Web news article on University of Plymouth website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Web news article entitled "Blue Communities: Building capacity for sustainable interactions with marine ecosystems for the benefit of coastal communities in Southeast Asia" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/institutes/marine-institute/our-research/blue-communities |
| Description | Webinar on Earth Observation Approaches |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Webinar comprising lectures and practical sessions on Aquaculture Site Mapping and coastal habitat mapping |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on Intervention Planning and target audience communication with WWF Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop planned to be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (headquarters of the WWF Sabah) was being held virtually. this offered the opportunity for all employees of the WWF Malaysia to join the webinar. Contents were how to plan interventions step by step, how to segment target audiences and how to avoid unwanted side effects. Engagement was high and interaction/question-answer sessions were included. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: Data Entry Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Training on Pre-Analysis Data Set-Up before partners begin to collect their data. Workshop on how to enter collected surveys into excel for future analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Western Philippines Researchers attended training workshops on stakeholder engagement and behaviour changes and systems thinking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from Western Philippines University attended training workshops on Stakeholder Engagement and Behavior Changes, and Systems Thinking. Outcomes from the trainings included improved strategies in dealing with anthropogenic behaviour change in coastal resource use and management; and introduction to new tools for systems thinking modelling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Western Philippines University twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Western Philippines University set up a Twitter account to help share their activities to a wider range of interested parties. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/GCRFBlueComWPU |
| Description | Why we must involve young people in our research to fight climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog featured on Newton-GCRF website for World Oceans Day - posted by @GCRF Twitter account. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/GCRF/status/1534470239185952768 |
| Description | Workshop on the the use of outputs from model of fish catch potential |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Projections from a model of future fish catch projection were shared with the partners in the Blue Communities model and advice given on how to use them, including a written guide. The group discussed plans for papers using the model outputs and how we could support each other in writing these papers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Workshop with national and local stakeholders in Jakarta, Indonesia - December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on the project 2 schedules in Indonesia including FGD and workshop with national and local stakeholders in Jakarta and Selayar. National level stakeholders were identified, which include LIPI, Bogor Agricultural Institute, Ministry of Marine Affair and Fisheries, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Tourism.Local level stakeholders were identified and include National Park, Marine fisheries agency, tourism agency, planning and development agency, head of villages (Tambolongan and Polassi), Hasanuddin University, local communities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | chair a Royal Society of Biology's 'Policy Lates' panel event 'Why protect ocean biodiversity?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to chair a Royal Society of Biology's 'Policy Lates' panel event 'Why protect ocean biodiversity?' (online, evening, 15/11/2021) with 4 speakers. We explored the different benefits humans derive from marine organisms and ecosystems and why biodiversity is important for many aspects of life outside of the ocean. The event explored the value of marine biodiversity within the context of novel pharmaceuticals, and the interactions between the marine environment and the global climate as well as the social and policy challenges of developing international conservation targets for the world's oceans. The Policy Lates series is a partnership of five RSB Member Organisations: British Pharmacological Society, Biochemical Society, Society for Applied Microbiology, Society for Experimental Biology, and The Physiological Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rsb.org.uk/news/experts-take-a-deep-dive-into-the-importance-of-ocean-biodiversity |
| Description | face to face meeting with all SE Asia partners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Mel Austen (Blue Communities Leader) made Visits to the Partner institutes in Southeast Asia (Centre for Sustainable Energy & Resources, Universitas Nasional, Indonesia; Western Philippines University; Hanoi National University of Education, Vietnam; and University of Malaya, Malaysia soon after the start of the project to engage with the project participants and strengthen relations.Christopher Taysom (PML Director of Finance) similarly visited all partners as part of Due Diligence to investigate discuss institute governance and finance proceses and procedures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | stakeholder Workshop at Aborlan Campus, Palawan, Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In subgroups, participants discuss about three questions, note their results down on a flip chart and present to the audience, followed by a plenary discussion a) What are the main problems/challenges in Palawan/ your Barangay (economic, social and environmental)? b) What are the main problems/challenges in the health sector in Palawan/ your Barangay? c) What are your visions for the future/ your aspirations for Palawan/ your Barangay? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | the Theory of Change - presentation to all JNCC staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited presentation to all JNCC staff on the Theory of Change |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | • PEMSEA Blue Economy Forum, Thailand 14-15 November |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The 2 day Blue Economy Forumin Bangkok, Thailand was organised by Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA), an intergovernmental organization operating in East Asia to foster and sustain healthy and resilient oceans, coasts, communities and economies across the region. The meeting was attended by decision-makers and leading experts from ministries, industry, academe and international organizations. There were 185 participants from various agencies from the international, regional and national level as well as representatives from NGOs, learning institutions and the private sector. I was invited to co-chair the two sessions on State of Oceans and Coasts (SOC) Reports sessions which reported on 9 countries in the region. This gave me an opportunity to introduce and present the GCRF Blue Communities project and to meet . The presentation, as well as my comments throughout the meeting, generated considerable regional interest in the project including one to one discussions with e.g. Gordon Johnson of UNDP and Jerker Tamelander of UNEP, and Ms. Cheryl Rita Kaur, Head, Centre for Coastal and Marine Environment, Maritime Institute of Malaysia who invited me to visit her organisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | • UKRI GCRF/Salzburg Global Seminar co-sponsored session 605 - Climate Change, Conflict, Health, and Education: Targeting Interdisciplinary Research to Meet the SDGs; Salzburg 17-21 Mar. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Salzburg Seminar Session 605 was a global gathering of GCRF and other researchers, policymakers, humanitarian and development agencies, and philanthropic foundations. The program promoted dialogue that spans research, policy and practice, incorporated representative voices in the research agenda-setting process, and examined how research for development is actually conducted, communicated, and translated into impact. Discussions ranged freely. My interventions prompted greater consideration of the needs of Coastal Communities in the global south by the participants, and consideration of the needs of, and challenges for early career researchers working within GCRF programmes. Networking activities led to collaboration on a joint proposal for funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |