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EwanVid

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Hi, I’m EwanVid (Ewan for short) and I live in Glasgow, Scotland, although my home town is Newburgh, Aberdeen shire

I’m Wikimedian In Residence at The University of Edinburgh. The project page for the residency is located here. Wikipedia: University of Edinburgh

About me

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  • I have an MA in English (Literature & Language) & Modern History from University of Glasgow
  • A postgraduate diploma (PgDip) in Software Development from Glasgow Caledonian University
  • A PGDE in English & Media Teaching from University of Strathclyde.
  • I also hold a TEFL certificate from I to I and have undertaken short courses in creative writing & screenwriting.

My example lists

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I enjoy the following activities

  1. Reading
  2. Hiking
  3. Swimming
  4. Cycling
  5. Watching football

Things I Like

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I love reding, music, history, cinema and literature, and this all feeds into my regular day job of teaching of English & Media Studies. I’m interested in all kinds of stories (movies, books, plays) and create my own stories from time to time on my blogsite. Above all, I’m passionate about the idea of lifelong learning and broadening your horizons. Hence why I’m here and why I’m trying to learn how to play the mandolin (boldly)

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I work at the University of Edinburgh

My favorite authors include: David Mitchell, Paul Auster and Kurt Vonnegut

My example citation

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I read an interesting article about Bletchley codebreaker, Rozanne Colchester, today.[1]

I also read an article about a knowledge-based search engine[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Women spies in the second world war: "It was horrible and wonderful. Like a love affair"". the Guardian. 2010-11-07. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ Milne, David N.; Witten, Ian H.; Nichols, David M. (2007-11-06). "A knowledge-based search engine powered by wikipedia". Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management. CIKM '07. Lisbon, Portugal: Association for Computing Machinery: 445–454. doi:10.1145/1321440.1321504. ISBN 978-1-59593-803-9.