Dear Robin Good to hear from you, and a Happy New Year to you, too.
I am in much the same position as you, having taken Voluntary Redundancy from London Met a couple of years ago. I am still in the process of sorting out my archives! With CSA in the Bahamas next year, I plan by then to be in a position to hand over to someone more local, for whom the role coordinating the Working Group offers more career incentives, perhaps a mid-career colleague. If there is someone at CERMES you think might be interested, I’d be grateful if you would let me know. It’s getting more expensive for me to attend, and my focus is shifting more to trying to make a difference in policy and to promote awareness of fisheries and Commonwealth issues working with colleagues in the Museums sector, of which I will tell you more as this shapes up. The Bahamas is interesting as I attended the Commonwealth Education Ministers’ meeting (19CCEM) there in June last year, and had the opportunity to make several links, including with BREEF. I would be interested in what you decide to do next! I assume you are maintaining an emeritus role at UWI? All the best, Nicholas Ifor whom more career incentivewith more professional incentive > On 13 Jan 2016, at 14:37, Robin Mahon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Nick, <> > Good to hear from you. Happy New Year. Sorry for the delayed response. This > message got buried in the Christmas mail and I thought I had replied. Thanks > for thinking of me re the Caribbean Studies Association Environment and > Sustainability [Working] Group. At this point, however, I am not taking on > any new commitments for a while. I retired in July 2014 and am yet to clear > the various project and student commitments I had when I retired. Therefore I > have decided not to take on anything new until those are clear, I have had > some time to deal with other personal matters and have had some time to > reflect on what next. > All the best > Robin > > > Robin Mahon > Professor Emeritus > Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) > University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus > St. Michael, Barbados > > Tel w 246-417-4570, h 246-432-7415, m 246-231-6782, Fax 246-432-7415 > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > www.cavehill.uwi.edu/cermes <http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/cermes> > skype robinmahon > > From: Nicholas Watts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:59 AM > To: Robin Mahon; Patrick McConney > Cc: gep-ed; [email protected]; Catherine C. Cole > Subject: Re: [gep-ed] PhD Fellowships in Global Governance with environmental > focus > > 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 > <http://www.smallstates.net/>) and > (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=7918 > <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 > > <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 > <http://www.commonwealthfisheries.org/>), Commonwealth Human Ecology Council > (CHEC) > > Member, IUCN Commission on Education and Communication > https://iucn.org/about/union/commissions/cec/ > <https://iucn.org/about/union/commissions/cec/> > > Member, Advisory Board, Society for Caribbean Research (SOCARE) > http://www.caribbeanresearch.net <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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >> On 22 Dec 2015, at 12:40, Maria H Ivanova <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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. McCormack Graduate School of Policy & Global Studies >> University of Massachusetts Boston >> 100 Morrissey Bvd. >> Boston, MA 02125 >> >> Tel. +1.617.287.7263 >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "gep-ed" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
