PhD candidate with the SEATIMES Project. My interdisciplinary research investigates human-whale relations and tourism encounters in  Andenes and Skjervøy, in Arctic Norway. I have also carried out fieldwork in São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.

My MA research on Greenland sharks and basking sharks resulted in the artistic collaboration Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt, which has been showcased in Amsterdam and Bergen. 

Ocean Anthropology (BA/MA), autumn 2024 and autumn 2025 - course convenor

Public scholarship & other academic writing

• Hale, Sadie. (2022) Blog post: Out of place, out of time: Freya the walrus in the Anthropocene | The SEATIMES Project | UiB
• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “The Greenland shark can outlast nuclear waste. Will it?” Edge Effects Magazine
• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “What does it mean to live a ‘not quite fatal’ existence? Rachel Carson offers us a concept for understanding the poor lives of factory farmed chickens.” Seeing the Woods (Rachel Carson Center)

Public exhibitions

• “CAIRBAN: A contemporary shark hunt.” (2021-2023) Bergen University Museum whale hall & Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. In collaboration with visual artist Miriam Sentler. 

SEATIMES Project