Dear Robin and Patrick, I hope this finds you both in festive mood, ready to celebrate the beginnings of a coordinated approach to climate and the blue economy!
I expect you are already aware of this programme, but thought I would send it to you just in case. Great if you could alert TBTI participants, There are some developments coming together in various Commonwealth bodies that I can tell you more about in January, addressing maritime security at all levels. I decided not to seek re-election to the Board of CHEC this year, given other commitments. The Caribbean Studies Association is meeting in Haiti in 2016, but the programme is pretty much full now. In 2017, we will be in the Bahamas, followed by the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to be held in the UK in early 2018 (some rumours of a northern city, Liverpool or Manchester). Great if CERMES were interested in holding a panel in the Bahamas, leading to an event at the UK CHOGM.. The Malta CHOGM was pervaded by blue economy initiatives, with CANARI and the Seychelles particularly strongly represented. The Business Forum also highlighted the blue economy, but I am waiting to see how the outcomes will affect the interests of SSFs. I would also like to formalise the membership of the CSA Environment and Sustainability [Working] Group, and would like to invite you both to join an advisory board. As yet, we have no formal constitution, and I have, as you know, been convening on pretty much a personal basis. It would be good to get some formal rules in place and think of explicit succession planning, ideally at the Bahamas CSA, so that there is a continuing presence of the CSA E&S group in the region, but hopefully allowing also diaspora and other overseas colleagues with the time and interest to continue to participate. Any ideas on this would be most welcome, and great if you could consider joining an advisory board/group. I do not envisage this involving major commitments at this stage. I am working with Catherine Cole of the Commonwealth Associatiion of Museums trying to find support for a travelling exhibition across Commonwealth SIDS on the theme of ‘Fish, Fishing and Fishing-dependent Communities”. This will be housed in a converted shipping container but also in virtual format, encompassing both the cultural side ( the ‘marine imaginary’) and the science and policy side, and we propose virtual links across all relevant Commonwealth museums (maritime and natural history). If you have any thoughts on this - content, partners, sponsors, process - do let us know. All best wishes for the season of peace and joy! Nicholas Dr Nicholas Watts FRSA Convenor, Caribbean Studies Association Environment and Sustainability Group Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol (UoB) Graduate School of Education (GSoE), Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education (CIRE) Education in Small States Research Group (EiSSRG) and joint Coordinator, SIDS UN partnership, "Learning from the Sharp End of Environmental Uncertainty in SIDS” (The Sharp End Partnership) (www.smallstates.net) and (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=7918) Senior Research Associate, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU) http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss/forschung/systeme/ffu/ueber_uns/team/research_associates/watts-nicholas/index.html Fisherfolk Livelihoods Programme Coordinator (www.commonwealthfisheries.org), Commonwealth Human Ecology Council (CHEC) Member, IUCN Commission on Education and Communication https://iucn.org/about/union/commissions/cec/ Member, Advisory Board, Society for Caribbean Research (SOCARE) http://www.caribbeanresearch.net Contact: Tel (landline UK) +44 (0) 208 806 4008 Tel. (mobile UK) +44 (0) 7928 747 077 or +44 (0) 7515 393 127 Tel. (mobile Germany) +49 (0) 1520 349 2550 (only when I am in Germany) Skype: nicholas.watts1 Email: [email protected] > On 22 Dec 2015, at 12:40, Maria H Ivanova <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Colleagues, > > We are offering eight fully funded PhD fellowships in our Coasts and > Communities IGERT program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. These > fellowships are competitively awarded to PhD students interested in > conducting transdisciplinary research and developing innovative and > sustainable solutions to pressing environmental challenges. Please share the > announcement below with your students and colleagues. Id be glad to engage > with any students interested in our program in global governance and human > security and in the IGERT fellowship. > Thank you!! > Maria Ivanova > > The University of Massachusetts Boston offers eight PhD fellowships in its > Coasts and Communities IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research > Traineeship) program funded by the National Science Foundation. Applicants > should be admitted to one of our participating PhD programs – in global > governance and human security > <https://www.umb.edu/academics/mgs/crhsgg/grad/globalgov_phd>, environmental > science > <https://www.umb.edu/academics/environment/grad/environmental_science/es_phd>, > environmental biology > <https://www.umb.edu/academics/csm/biology/grad/environmental_biology_phd>, > marine science and technology > <https://www.umb.edu/academics/environment/grad/marine_science/mst_phd>, or > organizations and social change > <https://www.umb.edu/academics/cm/business_administration_phd/osc>. > > Our Coasts and Communities program seeks to train a new kind of environmental > problem solver, one able to think and act across disciplinary and geographic > boundaries and to develop and implement sustainable solutions to pressing > environmental problems. Our core collaboration is in the Horn of Africa and > successful applicants are expected to bring a global perspective to their > work. Because the program is funded by the National Science Foundation, only > US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for the fellowship. > > For more information, please visit https://www.umb.edu/igert > <https://www.umb.edu/igert> or contact the program manager, Dr. Maria > Petrova, at [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Eligible > applicants are encouraged to communicate directly with the participating PhD > programs, which have earlier deadlines (in December 2015 and January 2016), > prior to submitting an IGERT application, the deadline for which is February > 15, 2016. > > Maria Ivanova, PhD > Associate Professor of Global Governance > Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance > http://www.crhsgg.umb.edu <http://www.crhsgg.umb.edu/> > > Co-Director, Center for Governance and Sustainability > http://www.umb.edu/cgs <http://www.umb.edu/cgs> > http://www.environmentalgovernance.org > <http://www.environmentalgovernance.org/> > > John W. 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