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So the best thing

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to study at Global Sustainable Development for myself is

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that actually I got the chance to meet

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people from all over the world.

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It's very diverse. It's a very diverse cohort.

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And also the design of the module,

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it was very interdisciplinary.

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So I got the chance to choose whatever,

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whatever I want to explore.

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So it's a really fun experience to study there.

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So the organisation

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that I've been running is called Impact Travel.

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So it's a social enterprise based in China,

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which is focusing on public advocacy and sustainability.

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So where I was running it actually,

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I felt very challenging, one year ago,

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so I decided to take a break.

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So I found this program at Warwick

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and I took it to try to refresh myself

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and to have a new perspective of thinking about

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driving real change.

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There was one which is very interesting for me,

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it's about personal methodology

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for transformation in nowadays.

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So it's pretty much focusing on helping students

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to get a really good self-reflection about who you are

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and what kind of change you want to do,

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and to identify yourself

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and to understand what your strength is

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and how you're gonna achieve that based on your strengths.

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So we had the chance to do a self

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reflective journal every week.

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It's very challenging,

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but now thinking back, it's very helpful for me to

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you know, really digest what I've learned from papers,

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from seminars.

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The academic community at Warwick,

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I think they are very approachable, first of all, because

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whenever we have, myself, have some academic questions,

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or doubt, every time I just reach out to my supervisors

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and professors, they always give me some

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different opinions and also at the same time are critical.

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And they try to encourage me to think out of the box

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and also especially to challenging

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the current discourses.

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So I think it's very innovative

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and to some extent it's very bold.

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So it allows you to try new things and experiment.