In the course Insights Through Data (ITD), we discussed the topic of data ethics. When conducting research and handling data, ethics is one of the most important areas to think about. In the group breakouts, we were asked to consider if something is legal, does that make it ethical?  Our group said no, as did […]

As I have mentioned, I want to combine my undergraduate major with inequality, so I have been looking for the relationship between data and inequality. As I was looking for information on it, I realised that older people left behind by the digital wave were also well worthy of our attention. Today’s societies in China […]

As I mentioned in week four, my previous direction was to study income inequality between urban and rural areas in China. However, as I was reading the literature, I noticed the phenomenon of financial exclusion. Financial exclusion is a phenomenon in which some disadvantaged groups in economic activity, such as micro and small enterprises and […]

Hi everyone! This blog is going to discuss some outlooks of my final project. As time goes by, the direction of my final paper is gradually clear. After completing the exclusion and inequality assignment and further research, I believe that algorithms brought by big data have brought more or less inequality to the world. However, […]

Today is remembrance day in the UK and it made me wonder about whether this was the future my grandparents and their generation hoped for at the end of the Second World War. Is the state of this world one they felt proud to fight for? In the UK many great things came out of […]

Hi everyone, I hope everyone had a great week in the past week 6! I finished my Exclusive and Inequity final paper during the past week. I really enjoy the process that make my paper perfect! I mainly focus on the economic globalization in my paper. During the process searching materials, I learnt a lot, […]

Hello everyone, quick drop-in from my side since my to-do list is growing and growing today. However, I wanted to briefly talk about a talk I have been to yesterday called “Half Earth Socialism” and was part of the First Breath Series organised by EFI & reflect on what I can take away from it. […]

After learning more about inequality in weeks 5 and 6, I found myself more interested in economic inequality. One of the first things I set out to do was look at the tax code and income inequality. In my last paper, I analyzed the relationship between corporate income tax and income inequality, and took the […]

Wow is it already week 7? I have definitely been thinking more about my project these past two weeks as I participated in two intensives – Indigenous Futures and Neuropolitics of Decision Making. Writing my Exclusion and Inequality essay also provided me with some food for thought.  As you may recall one of the project […]

  Last blog, I said I have different direction about my final project. Thanks for the suggestions from Hanyu and Theresa, which inspired me. And now I want to pay attention to the intinal topic that is about mental health of university students during the campus lockdown caused by Covid-19 in China. Inspiration from the […]