The Binks Hub is a partnership between communities, artists, and academic staff

We conduct arts-based, participatory research at the University of Edinburgh. 

A core team of staff at the University of Edinburgh co-ordinate the hub, including our three co-directors, our research fellow, and our research and impact manager. The team is advised by an Internal Expert Steering group and collaborate closely with an External Stakeholder Advisory group.   

Core team

Dr Marisa de Andrade

Co-director of the Binks Hub // Associate Director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry // Programme Director of the MScR Health Humanities and Arts

Marisa uses “traditional” and (post)-qualitative methodologies to situate arts at the helm of strategic decision-making across multiple sectors including health and social care, employability, education and social justice.

Email: marisa.deandrade@ed.ac.uk

Helen Berry

Binks Hub PhD student

Helen is supported by the Binks Hub PhD Studentship to explore the meanings and value given to research co-production by different actors. Before beginning her PhD, Helen worked across sectors in Scotland in wide-ranging roles including monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), applied research and policy.

Email: helen.berry@ed.ac.uk

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Dr Emma Davidson

Co-director of the Binks Hub // Lecturer in Social Policy and Qualitative Methods

Emma is a qualitative researcher who draws on methods that help understand people and their lives from their own vantage points. Areas of research include youth transitions, social inequality and community identity.

Email: e.c.davidson@ed.ac.uk

Kirstin Lamb

Binks Hub Project & Communications Administrator

Kirstin supports the team in delivering the Binks Hub communications, including the website, events, newsletter, social media, and other resources. She has a professional background in publishing, with interests in children’s books, accessibility and empathy-building.

Email: kirstin.lamb@ed.ac.uk

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Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh

Co-director of the Binks Hub // Senior Lecturer in Social Work

Autumn is a qualitative research and social work practitioner. Her teaching and research interests are focused around relationship-based practice, care experience, creative methods, social justice and transitions, and social work skills.

Email: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk

Ellen Saffrey Stuart

Binks Hub Research & Impact Manager 

Ellen supports the team in planning and organising research, knowledge exchange and training activities, with a focus on the impacts in the communities involved.

Previously Ellen worked on the Scottish Covid-19 Inquiry’s Let’s Be Heard project, and prior to that at the London Museum, leading audience research and evaluation and supporting the development of participation strategies for the new London Museum and the Museum of London Docklands.

Email: e.saffreystuart@ed.ac.uk

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Dr Jimmy Turner

Binks Hub Research Fellow

Jimmy works with the Binks Hub team to develop participatory research using artistic and creative methods. An anthropologist focusing on Intersectional Gender Studies, they have most recently collaborated with Brazilian academics, NGOs, and artists to investigate ‘Masculinities Otherwise’ in Rio de Janeiro through graffiti, dance and contemporary art.

Email: jimmy.turner@ed.ac.uk

If you’ve got a question for any of the team you can contact them using the email addresses above. Alternatively, get in touch with us by emailing binks[at]ed.ac.uk