How to change the world – unusual collaborations to solve challenges in the Anthropocene ocean
Tuesday 1 November 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Venue
Management School Lecture Theatre 3, Lancaster, United Kingdom, LA1 4YWOpen to
Postgraduates, Staff, UndergraduatesRegistration
Free to attend - registration requiredRegistration Info
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Event Details
Frida Bengtsson shares insights gained from involvement in both activism and academia.
In this seminar you will be introduced to unlikely allies and ways to create leverage to drive change.
You will also hear about the importance of impossible ambitions and how a scientific idea brought the speaker back to academia.
The event has been recorded and can be viewed online: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/pentland/news-and-events/pentland-speaker-series/
The event is aimed primarily at Lancaster University postgraduate students and staff, but some limited places are available on a first come first served basis for Lancaster University undergraduates and people external to the University. Due to limitations of the booking system we have to manage this manually - if our limits have been met, following confirmation of booking you may be contacted by a member of our team.
Health & Safety and access information
- In order to safeguard everyone's health, if you test positive for Covid-19 before the event, or are feeling unwell in any way, please don't attend (and please let us know).
- You are encouraged to wear face coverings during the event, unless eating and drinking.
- Please maintain good hand hygiene, washing your hands regularly/before eating or drinking, and making use of hand sanitiser.
- The lecture theatre is wheelchair accessible and has IR induction loop.
Speaker
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Frida is a PhD candidate at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University where she works on ocean governance and the role of corporate stewardship in the management of marine resources. She focuses in particular on ownership dynamics and governance systems that facilitate transshipments, a practice often described as contributing to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as well as human rights abuses.
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