The last two weeks have still felt a bit manic, with the first 2-day intensive (Exclusion & Inequality aka Toolbox) and prepping for the second (Postdigital Society). I’ve had to introduce myself so many times I think I might just write a short bio and store it somewhere so I can copy and paste it […]

A recap of last week’s topic: Welcome back! In last week’s blog, I reflected on soft skills assessments, self-awareness and much of what happens in my internal environment. I finished off with a thought on creative constraints- you can revisit this concept in Aadil Vora’s Ted talk here. Questions don’t always have answers This week’s […]

Week 3, Day 16 – Welcome to back to my wee blog & first reflections concerning the final project Hello! How is everyone? I hope you have all enjoyed the intensive days as much as I have and while I certainly need a bit of time to digest all the new information, I enjoyed learning […]

It took me a good few weeks to fully find my way around Edinburgh. To understand the way the bridges, streets and closes are connected. I’ve enjoyed navigating with no technology, getting lost and finding new exciting places. It’s always a fun “aha” moment when I’m wandering in a new area, and a street I […]

  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 […]