I have been keeping this under wraps for quite some time now, but I am super proud to announce that I am one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 awardees for my contributions towards making the internet a safer, fairer place. I will be jetting off the Los Angeles for the celebrations in September…
Category: IBD
Keeping things balanced
I have just looked back and I can barely believe it was over 18 months ago since I decided I wanted to take a more active role in managing my Crohn’s and not simply relying on medication. So, I have to say that I have really enjoyed the journey so far. I have learned so…
Research presentation overview, April 2017
Read time ~8 mins At the Horizon CDT retreat last week I delivered a presentation about my research interests to some of my comrades as well as various academics who were either my supervisors, the CDT directors or, other people’s supervisors. Like with most of my presentations I just get stuck in with building some…
Free Health Apps
* Full Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I am a healthy sceptic/critic of privacy policies. My PhD research focuses on notions of informed consent and data trade-offs. I recently read this post by Jen that reviews the Gut Health Storylines app. A mobile application by Self Care Catalysts (SCC) for people living with…
Juicing with Turmeric
After whining about not being able to find turmeric root (although I hadn’t exactly gone out my way to find it), a friend who regularly goes to her local market picked me up a couple of roots for me. Having read a lot about the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric, I wanted to give it a…
Creative, fun and intense …juice
I’m trying some new mixes for juices that pack a punch, perfect for kicking you back into your rhythm. I was not feeling it today, but I thought that I gotta do something to help me get my groove back. So I do what I normally do and went to the gym. With the January…
Beet Boost
I recently grabbed a ‘boost’ juice from Benugo and I loved the concept of having a mini pick-me-up shot of goodness. Sometimes I struggle with fibrous foods and juicing is a sure way of getting those nutrients in. So I took the elements of the Benugo boost shot I had (beetroot lemon and ginger), mixed…
IBD Awareness Week 2016
This week (1-7th December) Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) advocates are making the condition visible for IBD Awareness Week. I am writing this after having a nap this afternoon and while this isn’t unusual for a student (it still feels weird writing that again), there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t have to…
DML Ignite
In the very likely event that I don’t make myself clear in my ignite at DML …….. Today I talked about the Inflammatory Bowel Disease community, in which there is a culmination of people from different backgrounds who live on a day-to-day basis with Crohn’s or Ulcerative Colitis. It’s not considered a ‘rare’ disease, but…
Self-surveillance and memory
I often talk about the idea of surveillance and ‘dragnets’ and often I am talking about other people surveilling us. What I have been thinking about recently is our ability to self-surveil and interpret. Something that the digital affords is memory: transactions and files are stored in a binary computer readable format that can be…