There are many things we want to tell you about what we expect and hope to achieve through our expedition. It is, after all, a cultural exchange as much as a sea-kayaking expedition.
Here are our currently planned communication and impact-related activities:
- Commitments to the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): article(s) for the RGS-IBG Geographical Magazine (UK); a ‘Monday Night’ public lecture.
- Participation in the RGS-IBG ‘From the Field’ project, which links researchers and teachers in development of geographical resources for the classroom.
- Participation in The Open University’s ‘Creative Climate Project’.
- Online (video diary) and text-based articles (with visuals) for international kayak industry publications and sponsors’ websites.
- Chapter for a monograph, ‘Chocolate, sex and seaweed’, by Duika Burges Watson. The book is in preparation and is a social history of the global carrageenan industry, targeted at the popular, informed non-fiction market.
- Two papers for publication in peer reviewed journals: one planned for Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; another for Journal of Public Health.
- Academic lectures and presentations at conferences where opportunities arise.