From April 10th to 14th, the long-awaited Humanities and Social Sciences Week finally began. Despite a one-year postponement due to the pandemic, students and teachers’ enthusiasm for the upcoming activities remained strong. SCIE has a long history of holding Humanities and Social Sciences Week annually, encouraging students to share their passion for the subjects and […]
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Alan 2020 graduate of SCIE, studying at University College London In the blink of an eye, I have been studying and living in London for nearly a whole year. Compare to when I first arrived, I have become less anxious and calmer. The second academic year at UCL was my first time experiencing studying abroad,
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How I overcome my first year in university: After few months since my arrival in Bristol, I gradually felt my life was like a spinning gyro. I felt I was falling into this eddy: no new progress, less and less motivation of life. From time to time, I became very emo when going to bed.
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On May 9th, 2023, KingLead China International School Competitiveness Top 100 · 2023 is officially released. This year is the fifth consecutive year that KingLead releases international schools rankings. Due to the differences in undergraduate admission between the United States and the United Kingdom, the TOP 100 competitive international schools in China is divided into two lists: Enrollment to
Winston Zhang 2020 graduate of SCIE, studying at University College London Not only does SCIE give me chance to leave traditional school, but also it provides more options for my future. During the first few months, I didn’t get so much homework so that I can have more time to find out my interest. The
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Wu Yunxi(Victoria) 2020 graduate of SCIE, studying at Hongkong University The four-year high school life was so wonderful and short. Four years ago, SCIE was just a small school in Shuiwei village. Although the environment was far worse than the current campus, it made students feel very comfortable and warm. After I entered the school,
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Harper 2020 graduate of SCIE, studying at University College London “Causes formed in the past will be manifested as effects in the present.” I was taught by this saying at a well-being session before the finals at Grade 10. However, it was not until three years later, when my application season came to an end,
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G1 Physics Enrichment is a fun and engaging course that involves making projectors from scratch. Everyone participates in crafting projectors from raw materials including cardboard, lenses, paper, straws, etc. The goal of this course is to enrich students with knowledge in physics, and to build student’s leadership and communication skills. Our teacher provided us with
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The results of the 2023 UK Chemistry Olympiad (UKChO) have been announced and our school has performed exceptionally well. Out of the 87 students who earned awards, 39 students were awarded the Gold Medal, 35 students were awarded the Silver Medal, and 13 students were awarded the Bronze Medal. We are pleased to see such success, and we
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To celebrate World Book Day in April, SCIE Library hosted the SCIE World Book Day event on April 20, 2023. Although the morning weather was slightly gloomy, it didn’t stop me from participating in an event I’d been eagerly awaiting. My English teacher, dressing as Forrest Gump, also constantly reminds me of today’s activities with
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My essay is on the recent development of China’s mental health care system and how it can help address this question. Though, I actually parried the question raised by the prompt, and I did not in the end emphasise too much that more care should be devoted to the socially vulnerable. Rather, I intended to underscore the complexity and ambiguity in any employment of these two notions — “socially vulnerable” and “responsibility” — in the concrete working of society. Through my study I discovered that the train of legislative efforts made in the 1980s to 2000s to legally recognise, to enhance public knowledge of, and to erect new asylums for, “the mentally ill,” in fact coincided spatiotemporally with government efforts in putting new agendas of foreign policies and city development to work. Thus, the recent development of China’s mental health care, from scratch to full maturity, is not solely the consequence of “humanitarian effort,” but also of some other ulterior motives. In my conclusion, I hinted that any answer to this question would entail empirical investigation into the concrete working of social institutions, and depending on the nature of this “socially vulnerable” group, claims of “responsibility” may be leveraged as veils for other purposes.
Before starting my research I did not by then have a well-formed hypothesis, but I did have Michel Foucault’s intriguing study on madness in mind. Due to the rather peculiar nature of the object of my study, I was not able to apply the sociological theories (Marxism, Functionalism, e.g.) I learnt in class to my own research. I must thank my sociology teacher for his encouragement and provision of many textbook resources and classical studies done in the field of mental health care. In addition to that, he prepared a statement of the school for my application to conduct short interviews at a local mental health hospital — this application, however, though quite expectedly, sank into oblivion — without his help this project would be very difficult.
I made a documentary “The Definition” about the situation of elderly in Shenzhen to enter this competition. As I have some previous knowledge in filmmaking, learning from TBU studio, I though it would be meaningful if I combined my filmmaking skills with sociology knowledge. In the meanwhile, after learning the very first chapter of sociology, The Family, I found out that the situation of elderly in the UK is different from that of elderly in Shenzhen. For instance, elderly have the responsibility taking care of their grandchildren and dance in the park for entertainment is distinctive in China. Therefore, I decided to make a documentary to record the interesting culture.
I learnt a lot during the preparation for the competition. I learned a lot about how to carry out an individual primary research when I was filming “The Definition”, which helps a lot in my current sociology study. Also, I understood sociology theories better. For instance, postmodernism used to be only a vague theoretical perspective for me, yet it amazed me knowing that elderly people participate actively in public activities can be considered as view of postmodernism.
Most importantly, I realized filmmaking can make some impacts on people, portraying problems of society. Experience of BSA opened my eyes and led me rethink about my future major in college. I want use my skills and knowledge to help more people, so I will probably try a major with humanity and filmmaking combined instead of pursuing the dream of being an artist alone.
Learning sociology gives me a new perspective in seeing how the world works, and it also lets me care more about the vulnerability in the society. Thank you to my sociology teacher, Richard Driscoll, who gave me lots of inspiration such as filming the dancing in the park, which is interesting to British people, and recommenced lots of sociological books about the elderly.
By listening to his advice, “The Definition” eventually divides into two parts: one is about the elderly in nursing home and the other is about people dancing in the park. Also, there is many interviews in the documentary to give a more well-rounded perspective.
I would like to thank my Math teacher Michael Jin and my friend Franchaska, who helped me with the voice over. Also, thanks to my family members, especially my dear grandmother, who gave me lots of insights related to the issue of elderly.
I made this documentary just before the deadline, thus it’s not so perfect. I’ll probably elaborate some shots and reedit it in the future.
If you are interested, you can click the link below and watch it.
Teng Xun Video：https://v.qq.com/x/page/u0862usad2v.html
Bilibili：https://www.bilibili.com/video/av38188271?from=search&seid=10452775157822232568
