A wonderful travel I have spent 10 days in Edinburgh. When I first arrived here, I felt nervous about the academic study and life I thought there would be many challenges waiting for me because I have never lived in a country where English is the native language.   As I took part in more […]

Hi everyone! I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reading through all your submissions for this week. I found myself contemplating a lot about my interest and passions during welcome week and week 1. One thing I have found is that I am overwhelmed and confused about where to go with my research topic after being away from school […]

How did I end up on the wrong train? My journey to EFI was nothing I could have imagined but the fact that I’m here echoes the intentions I had as an idealistic freshman studying sociology and psychology 31 years ago. At graduation, I had no applicable skills (or vision) to forge an intentional future, […]

Hello! I will start by saying my life motto is fake it until you make it.  Make of that what you will. A quick introduction to me before I get into the knitty gritty.  My name is Kate Sparks.  I grew up in LA (Pasadena, CA to be more specific) with two brothers, two parents, […]

The change in my attitude When I know I have to write a blog on the sharing platform, I felt nervous because I haven’t done such a thing as keeping a diary and even it would be shown to my teachers and classmates, although my major in my undergraduate is about social media. But I […]

“What is this thing?” Good morning/afternoon/evening from Changzhou, China. This week—my first at the University of Edinburgh—has been an exciting one filled with figuring out where everything is (virtually since I’m commuting from across the planet). I began this week thinking I had a whole year before I really needed to start honing in on […]

Greetings!   Welcome to my blog for Knowledge Integration and Project Planning: Data, Inequality and Society and thank you very much for the viewing!   This is my first blog for the whole project! This project from Edinburgh Future Institute aims to provide students with a space to structure and reflect on our learning throughout […]

  A warm welcome to you! Welcome to my very first Knowledge Integration and Project Planning (KIPP) blog. As well as forming a key component of my Masters Degree Programme in Data Inequality and Society, this space offers a welcomed opportunity for me to regularly pause, reflect, recalibrate, share and learn.   There is no […]

Welcome to my little KIPP Blog everyone & hello there, visitor from the World Wide Web! Welcome to my Knowledge Integration and Project Planning Blog which is part of a university course and a space for me to reflect on my learning and skills. It will help reinitiate why I’m doing this masters, how the […]