When I first started thinking about where to go after my Bsc in Geography about four years ago in Spain; it soon became clear that I was up for a new challenge. Being immediately impressed by this beautiful city of Edinburgh; I quickly moved in full of with excitement and anticipation of what was to come.
It was this summer I came across an advert published on Adopt an Intern website.
‘Wow! A GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Intern vacancy,’ I said, ‘what a fantastic opportunity to put my skills into practice!’
However that wasn’t the only reason for me to apply. As soon as I started reading about EVOC I felt really enthusiastic about the organisation, as becoming a part of it would allow me contribute to a social project.
And it happened – in October 2014 I was ‘adopted’ by EVOC!
As a lover of maps, I believe cartography serves as a linkage between places and people. My mapping work is focused on Older People, and as a geographer I’m aware of demographic change and its resulting challenges. Living Well in Later Life’s aim is to promote resilient, sustainable and inclusive communities in Edinburgh, and my mapping will help to support that.
Mapping features such as Day Centres, Preventative Services or dementia are among my targets.
Spatial Analysis can visualise data in a more comprehensible way and helps to reveal spatial relationships, which I believe can be used to improve services for communities. Its data outcome hopefully will serve as a base to redesign strategies, which will meet the needs of such a vulnerable sector in the future. Moving forward provide to a more preventative approach, and a connected community that is cared for and supported.
The final output of my research is to create a public interface which will make useful and relevant data accessible to all those who require it at any time in a user-friendly environment.
I’m definitely honoured to put together into a map the anonymous people’s effort such as carers, volunteers whose dedication contributes to a better community and world. Thanks to them.
I want to say thanks to EVOC team too for their warm welcoming, special mention to Ian Brooke and also Caroline Clark for looking after me during this internship. I’m really happy to be part of this valuable experience in which I’m sure I’ll learn a great deal.
The adventure has started, here we go!
Isa Cayon
GIS Intern
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