Reading – week one
After a relatively relaxing holiday period, and only moderate amounts of guilt that I wasn’t getting on with more reading, I’m now back at work and really getting started on my PhD. I’ve done (almost!)...
View ArticleOn data and (not) trusting my own judgement
Today I’m having a go at collating publicly available data to put into the doughnut framework for my case study countries. But I’ve actually already done this: for my proposal, I pulled together what I...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament Info(less) Graphic
I saw this image on facebook, on the European Parliament’s page. They describe it as an “infography” but I would argue that it is just a pretty picture with some statistics written on. European...
View ArticleUp goer five
Inspired by xkcd, there is now a website where you can attempt to explain a complex concept using only the 1,000 most common words. Here’s my attempt to explain my PhD research (please excuse the use...
View ArticleIntro to cis and why having to write this annoys me
This post has been moved to my other blog at http://cisisnotadirtyword.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/intro-to-cis-and-why-having-to-write-this-annoys-me/
View ArticleA terrible use of data
Last week, I got into a bit of a heated discussion with an admin on the facebook Vegonews[1] page. They had shared a graph, attributed to the website www.diseaseproof.com (though I’ve been unable to...
View ArticleFuture Connections conference
Last Thursday and Friday I went to the Future Connections conference, run by and for PhD students, hosted here at the University of Edinburgh. The conference, now in its second year, aims to bring...
View ArticleNote to followers of this blog
Hello lovely followers! I originally started this blog with the intention of documenting my PhD, but have been increasingly distracted by ranty feminist stuff. So I’ve decided to split my blog in two,...
View ArticleTraining at Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
This week I’ve been attending some courses at the SGS Social Science school, a two-week block of classes hosted here at Edinburgh Uni for social science graduate students. Last week was practical...
View ArticleElinor Ostrom’s framework for analysing social-ecological systems
Ostrom, E. (2009). A general framework for analyzing sustainability of social-ecological systems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5939), 419–22. doi:10.1126/science.1172133 This paper identifies ten key...
View ArticleThe Malawi famine of 2002, and issues of access.
As I am working alongside a project exploring food security, and will have my case study in Malawi, I’ve been doing some background reading about food security in the country, including the paper: The...
View ArticleFrustrated and confused
Going down the livejournal blog route today… I’ve had a pretty frustrating week, PhD-wise. Partly it is due to having moved my working days around, so that I have been alternating work days and study...
View ArticleProjects to date
A selection of crochet projects I’ve completed during 2012 Baby blanket crocheted from granny squares with lettering detail Baby blanket crocheted from granny squares with lettering detail and hand for...
View ArticleDrum hat
A drum hat is mostly just a large flat circle, to keep the skin of a drum warm and dry. I had this beautiful wool with a gradually changing colour which I wanted to use. I started by crocheting a very...
View ArticleDinosaur triangle bean bag
Some time ago, I found a single duvet cover and pillow case set in a charity shop with DINOSAURS on it. Despite not owning (and having no intension of owning) a single duvet, I couldn’t resist this...
View ArticleDon’t be a Dick cross-stitch
Originally posted over at my ranty feministy blog, Don’t be a Dick cross-stitch.
View ArticleOlive’s Blanket
My first “real” crochet project (I made a hat and scarf before this but used horrible acrylic wool and will never wear them!). Made using a series of granny squares and patterns for letters from this...
View ArticlePreston Roller Girls banner
Very basic banner for my roller derby team, Preston Roller Girls. Hopefully some of my more artistic teammates will help me decorate it! Made out of an old sheet and cut up pillowcases
View ArticleCross-stitch: My Feminism will be Intersectional…
…or it will be Bullshit! With all the credit in the world for coining such a brilliant phrase, and also for improving the intersectionality of my own feminism, to Flavia Dzodan, who I dearly hope is...
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