It has been a rush catching up on readings, learning how to use Learn to learn😂  and setting up a work/study routine. I am tired but I’m satisfied and excited to be in school again. The 2-Day intensive sessions for the Exclusion and Inequalities course were really intense, but the insights that came out […]

Last week I tested my soft skills, this week I think I’ll record the hard ones.  While I know that hard skills are not necessarily actual physical skills, look up what they are made me think of this website I found a few months ago that tests your computer reflexes which I found was quite […]

In this week, I tried to explore a possible project idea of surveillance in COVID-19.  Thanks for Theresa’s website and Darcie’s comment, which gave me an inspiration. And the readings about policing and surveillance in Exclusion and Inequality also show me some example of governmental surveillance through biotech. What hidden behind are asymmetric biopolitical relation […]

The second week was a busy but plentiful week for me. Even though I only took one course, called Insights Through Data. This week’s course helped me shape an initial framework about the definition, classification, and application of data, and it also helped me review my introductory knowledge of Python. Thanks to my memory, I found that I […]

As the term goes on, I have a deeper understanding of my learning direction and read more literature. After reading the literature, I found the universal inequality in the world regarding inequality and exclusion. In the literature, literalized sociological problems are often solved with mathematical formulas, and corresponding conclusions are finally drawn. The analysis is […]

  This week I gradually got used to life in Edingburgh and had more courses. The course called Insight of Data left a deep impression on me, because my background is in statistics, and most of the content in the classes is not strange to me. And this course still deepened my insights and thoughts […]

I started reading the paper this week regarding the workplace inequality that occurred. And I’ve seen a variety of perspectives on inequity. In one of the articles, there is a section on the LGBTQ community. Due of their differences from the majority of people, they constantly face prejudice or worry that they will face it once […]

You’ve all met me, by now, but welcome to my blog series as part of my part-time PG journey in Data, Inequality and Society!   Why I’m here My job involves installing energy monitors into vulnerable peoples’ homes on the Orkney islands. This remote archipelago, where I grew up and live, has the highest rate […]

  Last week, I ran across this thread on Twitter.   I wanna zoom in on one word in one sentence. “There is a *need* to develop a system that establishes a link between spoken and sign languages.” This entire abstract and paper are obviously wrong and deeply problematic, but let’s talk about “need” for […]