When you fly into Changzhou’s airport, the recorded flight attendant over the intercom system tells you to open the shade on your window as the plane lands (normal landing protocol). Meanwhile, the real flight attendant walking down the aisle tells you to close the shade. The airport in Changzhou pulls double duty for a fleet […]

In these two weeks, I mainly thought about what aspects I should improve after completing my proposal. I finally found the database about the crime rate in the United States, but I don’t know how to reveal the bias of data bias and algorithm bias in crime prediction through data analysis. Later, I need to […]

Some Key Term Takeaways Remote/online learning spaces are incredible progress toward access, inclusion and equity but they cannot completely replace the benefits of synchronous in-person learning, such as social cues, social connection, focus/immersion, and the work/discussion/collaboration that occurs outside what’s defined/controlled by instructors. This is an important consideration as I start to explore the impacts […]

This is a meaningful time node for me in the Programme. The actual project progress came along a little later than I expected after struggling with the assessments in the busy April. Although the excitement for the project was partially dulled by the temporal relaxation of completing the coursework, it was really more excited and […]

I started to write the paper on Ethical Data Future this week. However, due to the strike, this course will only be dismissed twice this semester. So it was very difficult for me to start writing this paper. I don’t know how to think about it and I don’t know exactly what Angle to write […]

This final post will be a reflection on the time I have spent on the KIPP blogs as well as a feelings check going into the final dissertation. The past two posts I submitted were compiled weeks after I had actually done the work.  While I believe working on the project has been important and […]

I wrote up a project parameters to send to JB and would like to include it below.  This act helped me to solidify what I was doing and wrap my mind around what the sole purpose of my project was about.  Some of this was changed, added to, or taken away from in the final […]

I have been doing a lot less reflecting and a lot more actual writing of ideas and solidifying those ideas.  I have included below the notes that I took with me to my supervisor meeting and the notes that I left with my supervisor meeting with.  The meeting took place on March 28th, 2023.  Even […]

This week I started collecting information and literature on a sample of well-known UK-based community currencies to collate and categorise a sample of data that I could use, but I found it difficult to collect complete and realistic operational data on public platforms, and I was met with a lot of resistance here, so for […]

In the process of pursuing my research on the digitization of community currencies, I had originally planned to produce a documentary film that would take me to different regions to explore and document the evolution and impact of community currencies. However, due to visa application issues, I was unable to travel to Sicily, the planned […]