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Christine Knott

Co-investigator (WP9)

Dr. Christine Knott completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with FOCI WP9 and has started a new position as assistant professor in Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at San Diego State University. Her post-doctoral fellowship with the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) in the Department of Geography at Memorial University, addressed Social License and Planning in Coastal Communities. Her research expertise aims to develop a better understanding of the current gendered and racialized labour processes within the aquaculture and seafood processing industries and their dynamics within communities and workplaces. These explorations allow Dr. Knott to investigate the significance of the interactions among resource dependent communities, government policies, global corporate capitalism, ecological and economic mobility regimes, and animal enclosure and commodification. Dr. Knott FOCI Work Package 9, Inclusion, social justice and equity in urban and rural coastal communities resulted in the development of a website and podcast series Fishy Feminist; Imagining Inclusive, Just & Equitable Fish-Human Relations - https://www.fishyfeminist.com/. Christine continues in role of co-investigator for FOCI WP9.

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Christine Knott

We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.

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To learn more about Memorial University's Strategic Framework for Indigenization please visit the Office of Indigenous Affairs.

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Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures 

is administered in partnership by the St. John’s and Grenfell Campuses of Memorial University 

Research funding was provided by the Ocean Frontier Institute, through an award from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

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