Conversations about how violence affects young people often focus on statistics, trends and immediate responses. Less often do we stop to consider how young people themselves want to have these conversations, or whether conventional ways of asking questions always create the right conditions for sharing experiences and co-producing the solutions young people themselves want to […]
Challenging childism: Children as cultural and political actors by Emma Davidson and Fiona Morrison In 2025, a collaborative project brought together researchers, cultural institutions, artists, and children’s rights organisations to explore childism, a framework that challenges the structural marginalisation of children rooted in adultist assumptions about children’s competence, voice, and value. The project was galvanised
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A guest blog from our Co-Director Emma Davidson and researcher Helen Berry. From 19th-22nd May we opened ‘Come Away In’, an exhibition developed collaboratively with members of the Poverty Truth Community (PTC), and generously hosted by the Byres Community Hub, University of Glasgow. It brought together stories, objects, artwork, photographs, soundscapes, the Digital Quilt (an interactive
A guest blog from Dr Vanessa Montesi, Public Engagement Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH). My research on spouse migration and its representation in the arts started by accident in 2022, after marrying my British husband and failing to move quickly with him to the UK. After the fifth month
A report from an IntoUniversity session with the Binks Hub, Social Policy, Lothian Health Services Archive, and University of Edinburgh Heritage Collections. We recently welcomed a group of young people and their parents and carers to the University of Edinburgh for a session exploring the social sciences, archives, and creative practice. These families were visiting
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A guest blog from our Research Fellow, Jimmy Turner. Sometimes in academia you find yourself working on a project that really captures your soul, and comes to feel less like work than it does a calling. I have been lucky enough to find myself working on such a project a few times in my fifteen-year
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A blog from our PhD Researcher, Helen Berry. This post is based on an eight month long collaboration between Helen and Community Knowledge Matters, a Scottish network bringing together people and organisations interested in community-led research. Intersecting with the network’s interests and values, this work was part of Helen’s doctoral research exploring how people and
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A blog from our Co-Director Autumn Roesch-Marsh. Lean on me, when you’re not strongAnd I’ll be your friendI’ll help you carry on – Bill Withers, 1972, Lean on Me Most of us will recognise the lines above from the popular 1972 song Lean on Me. And most of us will relate. Friends are an essential
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The half-day seminar, ‘Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development’, was organised by the Binks Hub and REALITIES team and took place on 3rd December 2025. The session brought together academics, policymakers, practitioners and students to consider how different aspects of criminal justice have been and may continue to be reframed. We started with an introduction to
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Our popular reading group, hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Jimmy Turner, is back for the new academic year. We are pleased to share the return of our creative research methods reading group! If you are new to the reading group, it is open to all and will focus on
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