Joe Boyle

What lies beneath? Transdisciplinary ways of knowing seafloor-to-surface geographies

Joe is a DPhil candidate who uses participatory mapping to reveal plural knowledges for marine and coastal planning accounting for social and ecological dimensions. He is part of the Oxford Seascape Ecology Lab and a member of St John's College. His research interests include: seascape ecology, participatory mapping and environmental knowledges.For more on his 'Meadows, Memories, and Missing Layers' work in Sanday, Orkney, please see https://linktr.ee/seagrassSES

Prior to this PhD, Joe worked across several departments of the university on short-term contracts, following an MSc at SoGE 2022-3. Before this, he working in outdoor learning and nature engagement, primarily in Scotland.

• Boyle, J.S. (ed.) (In press) Flat Time & Fluid Space: re/collections from Sanday. Tangle Press, Brighton.
• Boyle, J.S., Lilley, R.J., Agardy, T., Stanković, A.T., Brogan, K., Ghaleb, J., Lennie, W., Smith, P., Ljosland, R., Jones, J., Hooper, K., Peace, R., Neave-Webb, E., Neave, R., Hough, A., Boswarva, K., Hirons, M., McDermott, C.L. and Wedding, L.M. (In review) Seagrass as a boundary object linking science, stewardship, and resilience in Sanday, Orkney. Frontiers in Marine Science.
• Boyle, J.S., García Alvarez, A., Ordoñez-Calderón, M., Sanmiguel Lugo, O. and Anaya Valdéz, O. (2026) Generación SEA: Binational youth engagement to cultivate sense of place, respect different ways of knowing, and develop future ocean leaders. Current: The Journal of Marine Education, 41.
• Boyle, J.S., Lilley, R.J., Thomsen, E., Mulyani, M.E., Agardy, T. and Wedding, L.M. (2026) Meadows, memories, and missing layers: Transdisciplinary seagrass mapping towards restorative marine spatial planning. Ambio.
• Boyle, J.S., Polgreen, K., Baker, L., Bullard, V., Carter, N., Cappleman, S., Caseby, R., Chanarin, E., Clement, M., Crockatt, M., Dahlsjö, C., Edwards, H., Felipe Cadillo, M., Hammond, L., Jani, A., Ladbrook, R., Marsden, R., Montier, C., Needham, H., Scratchard, S., Simmons, M., Stankovic, A., Stott, E., Vasy de la Cruz, P., Watkinson, S., Wynn, J. and Malhi, Y. (2026) Seven principles for engaging schools with nature: pooling the expertise of teachers & nature educators. Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery.
• Wedding, L.M., Frazão Santos, C., Agardy, T., Appiott, J., Boyle, J.S., Gissi, E., Green, S.J., Singh, I., Wilhelm, K. and Crowder, L.B. (2026) Aligning climate-smart marine spatial planning and ecoscape restoration for global biodiversity recovery. Nat. Rev. Biodivers., 2.
• Wilhelm, K., Lomax, T., McCarthy, L., Boyle, J.S., Menon, S., Hall, J., Freebody, J., Hart, A., Fleming, W., Danziger, J., Coombes, M.A. and Singh, I. (2026) The Role of Hybrid Green Spaces in Secure Psychiatric Care. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 100348. 
• Boyle, J.S. and Gentili, G. (2025) Tidal Thinking for art and research: beachcombing located memories and place values. Concept, 16, 1-15.
• Fälthammar De Jong, G., Gallois, E., Boyle, J.S., Grenier, M., Myers‐Smith, I.H. and Bjorkman, A. (2025) Time‐lapse cameras bridge the gap between remote sensing and in situ observations of tundra phenology. Methods Ecol Evol, 16: 2919-2930.
• Wedding, L.M., Agardy, T., Green, S., Boyle, J.S., Frazão Santos, C., Malhi, Y. and Crowder, L.B. (2025) Bridging land and seascape restoration for ecoscape recovery. npj Ocean Sustain, 4, 31: s44183-025-00133–6.
• Wu, H., Soleiman, J., Bolam, J. and Boyle, J.S. (2025) Exploring a unified definition of ecological complexity towards restoration. Total Environment Advances, 14: 200125.
• Troiano, M., Sidwell, N., Boyle, J., James, M., Wright, G., Barbrook-Johnson, P. and Hirons, M. (2024) Impact and collaboration in environmental research: moving universities from evidence producers to co-producers. Agile Initiative, Oxford Martin School. 
• Wedding, L.M., Pittman, S.J., Lepczyk, C.A., Parrain, C., Puniwai, N., Boyle, J.S., Goldberg, E.G., Young, M., Marty, P., Wilhelm, K., Taylor, S. and Crowder, L.B. (2024) Integrating the multiple perspectives of people and nature in place-based marine spatial planning. npj Ocean Sustain, 3: 43.
• Wright-Arora, G., James, M., Troiano, M., Sidwell, N., Boyle, J., Barbrook-Johnson, P. and Hirons, M. (2024) The role of publics and deliberation at the environmental science-policy interface. Agile Initiative, Oxford Martin School.
• Boyle, J.S. and Copley, L. (2022) Co-Design and Conservation: A Case-Study from RSPB Biosecurity for LIFE in Coastal and Island Primary Schools and Youth Groups Across Scotland. Concept, 13, 1-13.