Pendleton publishes a front lines look at peer-to-peer sharing of Indigenous knowledge and academic science
Four key learnings for peer-to-peer knowledge sharing (illustration by Liao Muya from the ‘Etolan Indigenous Amis community). ICES J Mar Sci, Volume 82, Issue 12, December 2025, fsaf209, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf209
Linwood Pendleton coordinates the Ocean Knowledge Action Network, “a unique and innovative global network of networks, bringing together scientists from natural and social science disciplines, lawyers and policy makers, stakeholders, and funders to stimulate the collaboration and knowledge exchange that is needed to find new ways of co-creating ocean science for a sustainable future.” They bring together ocean and coastal leaders from many cultures, with the goal “to share knowledge and support each other in finding better ways to steward our planet,” Linwood shared on LinkedIn.
The community created a bespoke “workshop focused on the sharing of Indigenous knowledge and academic science by Indigenous academics,” and described the success of the approach in a December 2025 paper in ICES Journal of Marine Science. This paper is an important documentation of “peer-to-peer knowledge sharing between Indigenous academics working in marine science and management.” The community used a “co-designed planning process that prioritized Indigenous protocols over common academic formats.” Linwood shared that “the process blended traditional Polynesian ways of sharing knowledge (talanoa) in a format deeply rooted in local Amis ways of meeting and sharing.”
As described in the abstract, they “found that four key elements were important to the success of our knowledge exchange: build relationships, raise awareness about Indigenous academic science, engage in active listening, and allow for enough time.”
Learn more in the open access paper here.
Citation:
Linwood Pendleton, Claudia Baron-Aguilar, Futuru C L Tsai, Liam Kokaua, Teriitutea Quesnot, Antony Vavia, Teina Rongo, Hsiao-Chun Tseng, Stella J Alexandroff, Sophie Hsin-lin Su, Tung-Yuan Ho, A front lines look at peer-to-peer sharing of Indigenous knowledge and academic science, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 82, Issue 12, December 2025, fsaf209, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf209
