Marleen joined the LEC Reefs team in 2016 as a PhD student within the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), where she was supervised by Christina Hicks (LEC), Jacob Phelps (LEC), and Claire Waterton (Sociology). Marleen’s research was about the extent to which the evolving landscape of ocean governance contributes to the representation and alignment of different values, world views and images of the actors involved. More specifically, she focused on the concepts of ecosystem services and the emergent blue economy and how these manifest themselves across different scales.