Text by Marie Descottes, University of Toulouse In the OCSEAN projects theme to better understand the human demographic and cultural processes in the Oceania I spend two months (June to August 2025) in Australia, hosted by Tristen Jones at the University of Sydney (USYD). This secondment was a major opportunity to advance my doctoral research of rock art. As was part of the knowledge exchange I gave two presentations on my thesis work (fig.1) at two universities: Australian

Text by: Monika Karmin, Catherine Upex and Rachel Wood   The visiting researchers from University of Udayana (UNUD), Davao Medical School Foundation Incorporation (DMSFI) and University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) arrived in Bristol in summer 2025. They came to an intensive ‘Data Camp’ to first learn quantitative methods, then apply these to OCSEAN linguistic dataset while in Bristol and then take the skills back home to apply in their research projects.   The linguistic datas

Papuan Past Project With the aim to better understand human movements between New Guinea Lowlands and Highlands, members of the Papuan...

One of the major aims of the OCSEAN project is the integration of data generated from linguistical, bioanthropological, and...

We are very glad to announce that OCSEAN second Summer School will be held in Tartu, the European Culture Capital of 2024 , also known as the home of the Kissing Students, and the City of Good Thoughts. Summer School will be hosted by the University of Tartu , the oldest university in Estonia. We invite all OCSEAN members to join. Summer School 2024 will be yet another capacity building event covering topics of Heritages Studies: Folkloristics; Ethnobotany & Biocultural Diver

In October 2023 a distinguished OCSEAN secondee - Dr George van Driem, Prof Emeritus from the University of Bern, gave a series of...

In October 2023 Dr Merili Metsvahi from the University of Tartu was busy building bridges between the heritage studies of Philippines and...

The summer of 2023 brought hard labor and excitement for OCSEAN secondee Dr Hugo Reyes-Centeno (University of Tübingen and University of...

In June-September 2022, OCSEAN organises a 3-month capacity building Summer Training Course, which will include a training on linguistic data collection, management and archiving and workshops on archeology, anthropology, heritage conservation, and population genetics. Fifty participants including indigenous representatives, cultural workers, and academics from the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea were invited. The course will take place in Uppsala University, Swe

First secondment initiated between the University of Tübingen (Germany) and Ifugao State University (Philippines).