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Dr Giulia Champion

 PhD
Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship)

Research interests

  • Blue, Energy and Environmental Humanities
  • Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
  • Marine and Maritime Cultural Productions

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Connect with Giulia

Email: G.Champion@soton.ac.uk

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My main research project, funded by the Anniversary Fellowship and entitled (Un)Mediating the Ocean: Making the Seabed in Governance, Science, Finance, Culture and Infrastructure, investigates how the seabed is mediated in legal, financial, scientific, infrastructural and cultural documents and interventions as part of the creation of a regulatory framework for deep-sea mining. The project explores questions about Just Energy Transition, Civil Society engagement with the International Seabed Authority negotiations and In/Tangible Underwater Cultural Heritage.

I also collaborate with a group of colleagues on the socio-ecological lives of Kelp Forests, see more in an article recently published with .

In 2024, I was invited to share my research and deep-sea mining and heritage at the Royal Society UK Centre for Seabed Mapping Meeting in 2024.

See a recording of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Curiosity event 2023 where I participated in a roundtable on "The Future of the Seabed" along with brilliant colleagues across different institutions in the UK and South Africa.

I volunteer for the and I'm also a co-convenor for the , the and a collaborator on the and the

In 2022, I was also a Green Transition Fellow at the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger, see or for my presentation and for the blogpost.

See  a collaborative podcast episode created for The University of Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) Climate Crisis Thinking in the Humanities and Social Sciences Network in the context of COP26 entitled "Stories from the Ocean: What can COP26 learn from Coastal Communities".

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