The Maritime Work Watch / MWW research network is an academic project which has developed out of collaboration between a group of reserachers with a shared interest in maritime labour. In this sense, we have become aware of the need to launch an initiative of this kind and submit it to the international community with a view to drawing together all the different research being carried out in this field within a single network.

As the name of the network indicates, the subjective area of study is a broad one. It covers, for example, workers in the merchant navy, fishing workers, workers providing services on offshore platforms and staff from port services. The material perspective of study should be cross-cutting and that it can and must encompass different fields of research such as: Employment Conditions; Training and Qualifications; Hiring Practises; Women and the Sea; Occupational Health and Safety, etc.

It is conducted by Olga Fotinopoulou Basurko, Prof. Associate of Labour and Social Security Law at the UPV/EHU (University of the Basque Country) in Spain. The team is completed, among others, by recognised experts in this field of knowledge, as for example, the Prof. Patrick Chaumette (University of Nantes/France).