What is the estimated environmental impact* of my everyday use of the UAL digital tools and services, as an academic staff member of UAL (LCF/LCC)? . *in terms of GHG emissions / kilograms of CO2e
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Presentation Slides
ARP Presentation slides as .pdf ARP presentation slides as .pptx (NB. The design in PowerPoint changed a little when converting from Apple Keynote, apologies, use pdf for stylistic reference)
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Reflections
Reflections on the project as a whole. There are a number of things which were interesting and at the same time a number of things which frankly could have been either done in a different way, or perhaps even not at all. . Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,the courage to […]
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Actions
— 01 — I am planning to do some sort of staff development where I teach, share, and disseminate the knowledge about how to do a minor data audit to disseminate my experience, and to encourage a degree of understanding to do with our digital impact. It would also be a way to communalise the […]
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Protected: Raw Data
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Findings
FOR THE RAW DATA, PLEASE SEE THIS PAGE 1 A VERY ROUGH ESTIMATE OF CO2e FOR SAMPLE PERIOD . Looking at Figure 2, I used the 17g CO2e ‘long email’, as I anecdotally perceive (after briefly looking through all 335 emails) that the vast majority of emails received were quite long and thought-through — I […]
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Data collection methods and tools
THEORETICAL POSITIONING . METHODS AND TOOLS . SAMPLE PERIOD AND RATIONALE . DATA COLLECTION METHODOLOGY STAGE 1 1 — Filter the email box for date range, in this example: 6 Dec 2024 2 — Go sequentially through this list of emails, and if the email chain is obvious, mark down recipients in spreadsheet (see STAGE […]
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Literature Review & Rationale:
The Environmental and Social Impact of Digital Technologies and Data Centres The environmental and social impact of digital technologies, data centres, and digital devices is becoming an ever increasingly intersectional problem, with pledges for impact reduction and resilience being made at all scales: global aims (UN, 2024); national aims (UKGOV, 2024); and sectoral aims (UniversitiesUK, […]
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Ethics Forms
ETHICS FORM DRAFT FEEDBACK REFLECTIONS Feedback I received was generally to to with refining my research method away from a term which is both contested in terms of its validity more generally in social sciences, but more specifically is the research method autoethnography really what I intend to do?Relfexivity yes, but journaling about my lived […]
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Action Plan
Below is a collection of various things I used, amended and devised for my action research project. . ACTION PLAN CHECKLIST These are my timelines, as Gantt charts. One is the old one, and then the revised plan, once I had received my EC. Below is my initial mind map, gathering ideas and reflecting on […]
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Positionality Statement
Both in research and outside, I recognise my positionality as a white, cis male, born and raised in the UK with a British passport, and first language English. These privileges shape how I see and engage with the world, including my academic work, and artistic and design practices. My formal education, including an MA from […]