Join the OLRC to take part in collaborative opportunities, access the ocean literacy research commons, ideate networked research, join virtual research cafés, and contribute to our community-driven newsletter!
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What is the OLRC?
The ocean literacy research community is a global network of researchers – including natural and social scientists; education and communication specialists; place-based, community experts; and program evaluators. Together, we aim to better understand and scale enabling conditions that support human-ocean connection, well-being, and action.
Objectives
Coalesce
To engage in, and bring together, interdisciplinary research collaborations across geographies, generations, and genders to address and measure co-identified gaps across varying scales
Co-design
To create an open, collaborative, streamlined, and co-creative space to share existing research and shape future endeavours focused on human-ocean relationships
communicate
To conduct and communicate research in ways that respect and include the multitude of relationships that exist among places, ecologies, cultures, and languages
priority areas
Measuring Ocean Literacy & Impact
Ocean Literacy & Climate Change
Ocean Literacy & The Blue Economy
Ocean Literacy as a Policy Tool
Cross cutting theme:
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion
Benefits of joining THE OLRC
- Collaborating with a dynamic global community of researchers who value multiple ways of knowing
- Contributing to and accessing an ocean literacy research commons
- Ideating and co-identifying networked research opportunities
- Participating in quarterly, virtual research cafés
- Curating a quarterly, community-driven newsletter
OUR WORK
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