Blog post by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack On May 31st, the Citadel Youth Centre and the Binks Hub joined forces on their “New Direction for Youth Led Practice, Research and Policy” event. Attended by people from both academia and the third sector, the day was aimed at bridging the gap between academic research […]
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Our mission at the Binks Hub is to co-create research for human flourishing. And as we move into our second year of work, we’re keen to explore further different academic, practice and artistic perspectives on the concept of ‘human flourishing’. To help us shape our vision of what human flourishing might look like – and
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A collaboration between Binks Hub co-director Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh, Dr Arianne Critchley (University of Stirling), Sam Tongue (the Scottish Poetry Library), the Scottish Association for Social Work (SASW), poets, and social workers across Scotland has resulted in a new “Poetry for Wellbeing” toolkit for social workers. The toolkit offers a practical guide to running your
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Congratulations to Binks Hub co-director, Marisa de Andrade, for jointly winning the 2023 Qualitative Book Award for her most recent book! The award recognises a work that makes a major contribution to the study and practice of qualitative approaches. The panel said of the book: “In her book, Marisa de Andrade intertwines fantastical realities based on
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We’re pleased to be partnering with charity People Know How on a new research project looking at their digital inclusion work – a research project their volunteers will be trained to conduct themselves. The Binks Hub have partnered with People Know How to secure funding for a project on digital inclusion and exclusion. While existing
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The Binks Hub is pleased to announce our participation in the INCLUDED Project, which will investigate the ways in which we can facilitate the participation in research of people living with advanced dementia as co-researchers. The project will be led by Dr Frankie Greenwood from Edinburgh Centre for Research on the Experience of Dementia (ECRED),
A blog post from Dr Catherine Maternowska, Professor of Violence Prevention for Young People Violence against Children (VAC) is a big, global problem—over 1 billion children (which translates to over 50% of all children aged 2-17 years old) have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual violence in the past year. The good news is that the
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A blog post from PhD student Charlotte Zealley Arguably, the biggest challenge of a PhD is its solitary nature. Only I can write my thesis, and only I will lie awake at night fretting over how to wrangle my research into a coherent narrative. On the face of it there isn’t much space or time
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A blog post from Marianna Hay, Co-Director at Take Note and Founding Director of Orchestras for All What is the difference we’re trying to make with this project? How do we know our project is having a positive impact on people’s lives? What evaluation techniques can we use to measure this change? Questions like this
Creative Evaluation Practice: Putting evaluation at the core of your activity Read More »
A blog post from Claire Wu As a third year Sociology with Quantitative Methods student, I undertook the 2022 Q-step Summer Work Placement at the Binks Hub under the supervision of Dr Jimmy Turner. During this six-week placement, I conducted a small social research project investigating the participation of academics in the Edinburgh International Book
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