On the 3rd September 2025 at InSpace in central Edinburgh, the Binks Hub staged its largest exhibition yet, Poverty, precarity and community empowerment: Who decides? The exhibition was a showcase of the research outputs produced by ourselves and our partners across a wide range of projects which drew upon a methodology of participatory social research […]
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Our popular reading group, hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh, is back for the new academic year. We are pleased to share the return of our creative research methods reading group! Due to popular demand, after running throughout the 2024-25 academic year, the reading group will return this semester –
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A blog from our Co-Director Emma Davidson. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Queensland as part of their symposium exploring the challenges and opportunities for embedding industry and community partnerships for social policy impact. I was there to share a little about the journey of the Binks Hub and
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A blog from our Co-Director Emma Davidson. This post is based on a presentation Emma gave at the Social Policy Seminar on 21st March 2025, which asked: what might it mean to slow down the pace of research? How can we centre care, creativity, and collaboration in our ways of working, especially when working with
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Understanding friendship support for care experienced people Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (Staf), in partnership with a team of care experienced researchers, throughcare and aftercare workers, and staff from the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, invites practitioners working with care experienced people to share your insights on friendship support via an online survey. About the
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Over the past year, the Binks Hub has been working in partnership with the Poverty Truth Community (PTC) to co-create a digital quilt – one that showcases their work in advancing change for people experiencing poverty. This blog offers an update on our collaborative journey so far. Introducing the Poverty Truth Community “Nothing about us
A guest blog from Robin Alexander, the Global Data Fellows Programme Manager at Childlight. The Childlight Global Data Fellows (GDF) Residency is a flagship initiative of Childlight – a Global Child Safety Institute. Founded by the Human Dignity Foundation and hosted by The University of Edinburgh, Childlight uses the power of data to drive sustainable,
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A guest blog from Marissa Salvaterra, a student of the MSc in Global Mental Health and Society at the University of Edinburgh. I initially pursued the Poetry for Wellbeing project to learn about the inner workings of a phenomenon that I had long observed as both a poet and a poetry enthusiast. What is it
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‘Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change’ – Audre Lorde, Poetry is Not a Luxury Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Professor Sam Illingworth recently ran three Poetry for Change and Activism workshops with The Binks Hub. The purpose of
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A blog post by Autumn Roesch-Marsh, Co-Director of the Binks Hub, and Christina McMellon, Senior Research Fellow. Today we had the privilege of going out to meet with Tim, John, Lorna, Heather and Claire from the community research team for the ‘Our Experiences, Our Voices, Our Stories’ project in Midlothian. The Binks Hub, alongside partners
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