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Til’ Debt Do Us Part: Participatory methodologies for studying the impacts of hostile policies on cross-border families in the UK … and their potential to articulate powerful critiques and alternative future visions

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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 […]

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Exploring inequality through the University of Edinburgh Archives

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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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Exploring research co-production with co-productive values

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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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Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development

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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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Poetry, multiple sclerosis and me: novel ways to share lived experience of neurological conditions

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A guest blog by Dr Georgi Gill, visiting fellow at the University of Edinburgh. This blog is in part drawn from Georgi’s introduction to poeMS: an anthology by people living with multiple sclerosis. Finding poetry through the (brain) fog How we do we communicate our experiences of chronic illness to others? Not just the medical

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From Garden to Well-being: Reflections on Horticultural Interventions in Scottish Care Homes

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A guest blog from Zoey Wang, a graduate of MSc Global Mental Health and Society at the University of Edinburgh. When I first started writing my dissertation, I hadn’t anticipated how often I would find myself reflecting on the idea of a “garden” – not just as a beautiful space, but as a form of

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The Art of Assembly: Collage as a Research Method

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In Autumn 2025, the Binks Hub partnered with artist Clementine Carriere to deliver a vibrant four-part collage workshop series at Edinburgh Futures Institute. The sessions ran monthly from September to December, offering an in-depth exploration of collage as a creative and research tool. Each two-hour workshop focused on a distinct theme: Introduction: The history and

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