‘Place’ and ‘Path Dependence‘ matter- Non-academic: your location and your lived experiences shape the ‘person’ you are.
A-LEAF (Legacy) was started due to a meeting of two MSc Social Innovation graduates. I-David had a seat (2022/23) on the Scottish Government’s Human Rights bill lived experience board, because of ‘Place‘; Alliance Scotland membership & ‘Path Dependence‘; Medulloblastoma childhood cancer.
Yes, I had a brain tumor (Medulloblastoma) at the age of four. I also had a stroke at about the same age. As a result, there are things I cannot do.
Instead of focusing on what I cannot do, let us focus on what I can do. I can:
- work. And have done so since the age of 17.
- Complete two undergraduate degrees.
- Complete an MSc in Social Innovation.
- Walk the West Highland Way.
- Start my own company.
- Boxfit (badly).
- non-academic research.
- come up with innovative ideas
My YouTube video(s)
Blog posts tell a story.
My education: P1 to MSc graduate.
Given that Nature and Nurture are equal components of the Scottish government’s curriculum for excellence, it is essential not to forget my pre-medulloblastoma diagnosis years. Of which there were four. I was born on Saturday, May 7, 1983, at 23:00 in Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital. Unknowing to me then, I would spend the majority of…
David M Howie 