Edinburgh Science Festival takes place from Saturday 4 to Sunday 19 April 2020.
The theme this year is ElementaryHere are my top five picks of events from each of the ancient classifications of earth, fire, air and water. As some of the ancient civilisations did they have added a new fifth element, aether, to represent information.
Join the Science Festival this April when they have something for everyone in addressing the biggest global challenges, while looking for a sustainable future.
- Earth: Population Facts or Fake News
- Saturday 4 April 2020, 3pm
- 90 minutes, £9, £7 (early bird), #SCIFIVE £5 (students and teachers)
- Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland
- Fire: Climate Sickness
- Saturday 11 April 2020, 12.30pm
- 90 minutes, £9, £7 (early bird), #SCIFIVE £5 (students and teachers)
- Auditorium, National Museum of Scotland
- Aether: Deep Dive into Deepfakes
- Saturday 18 April 2020, 5.30pm
- 1 hour, £9, £7 (early bird), #SCIFIVE £5 (students and teachers)
- Lomond Room, Pleasance
- Air: Roads Re-Imagined
- Tuesday 14 April 2020, 5.30pm
- 1 hour, £9, £7 (early bird), #SCIFIVE £5 (students and teachers)
- Upper Hall, Pleasance
- Water: Exploring the Five Deeps
- Friday 10 April 2020, 7pm
- 2 hours, £9, £7 (early bird), #SCIFIVE £5 (students and teachers)
- Biosphere, Dynamic Earth
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
