Giulia Champion

Dr Giulia Champion completed her PhD at the University of Warwick in 2020, exploring how culture registers colonial extractivism in the case of plantation agriculture and oil extraction. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. Her main research project, entitled (Un)Mediating the Ocean, 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 by the International Seabed Authority. The project explores questions about the Just Energy Transition, Civil Society engagement with the International Seabed Authority negotiations, and intangible underwater cultural heritage. In 2022, she was a Green Transition Fellow at the Greenhouse at the University of Stavanger. She volunteers for the International Commission of the History of Oceanography and is a co-convenor for the Reading Decoloniality Group, as well as a collaborator on the Ecological Reparation Project.