“…The last two decades have seen something of a 'turn to citizens', with human-ocean (and coast) connections being explored through a range of marine social science lenses (McKinley et al, , 2022Bennett, 2019). This has included, but is not limited to, the blue economy (Germond-Duret and Germond, 2022;Bennett et al, 2019), socio-cultural values of marine and coastal environments (Burdon et al, 2022;McKinley et al, 2019;Gee et al, 2017;Martin et al, 2016), public awareness and perceptions of marine topics (Jefferson et al, 2021;Potts et al, 2016;Gelcich et al, 2014), governance, management and decision-making (e.g., Marine Protected Areas; Ban et al, 2019;Mascia et al, 2010) and participation and engagement (Jarvis et al, 2015;Pomeroy and Douvere, 2008).…”