Sarah Cummings, PhD, is a researcher and consultant on knowledge management for development with a current focus on decolonization of knowledge, with the long-term, personal goal of aiming to reduce knowledge-related injustice in international development. She is a member of the influential KM4Dev community and founder (2005) and editor-in-chief of the community's Knowledge Management for Development Journal. She is a co-founder of the Knowledge for Development Partnership, an iNGO based in Vienna, as well as being co-editor of the Agenda Knowledge for Development, a UN-supported initiative to recognize the role of knowledge in the Sustainable Development Goals. She is a visiting researcher at the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation chair group, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands.
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Sarah Cummings
Knowledge Ecologist
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Email: sarahcummingswork@gmail.com
Learning Pathways Followed
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Organize a virtual conference: enhance participation easily
5 modules / 16 resources
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Learning from local knowledge, and its role in ocean science
5 modules / 15 resources
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The ocean and human rights
5 modules / 13 resources
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The ocean and climate change
5 modules / 13 resources
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Gender and the ocean
4 modules / 12 resources
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
4 modules / 16 resources
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Transdisciplinarity
5 modules / 17 resources
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Cultural heritage and ocean governance
4 modules / 11 resources
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Human rights of small-scale fishers
4 modules / 16 resources
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Understanding the blue economy
4 modules / 10 resources