The Binks Hub blog

A new reading group hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. This reading group, open to all, will focus on creative

In Summer 2024, Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) officially opened its doors to the public after several years of intense, multi-million-pound redevelopment and restoration. It gives

A blog post from Dr Jimmy Turner, Research Fellow of the Binks Hub. In this post I would like to introduce you to one of

A blog post from Anna Tudos, one of the recipients of the Binks Hub 2022 scholarships and a graduate of the MScR Health Humanities and Arts

A blog post from Helen Berry, Binks Hub doctoral researcher. At the end of March 2024, the Binks Hub partnered with the Third Sector Research Forum

This Saturday 15th June, the communities of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny, together with the Ripple Project and the Binks Hub, were proud to launch their

We are absolutely thrilled to introduce you to the new Binks Hub advisory group. Bringing together a combination of artists and individuals from community, governmental

We’re very pleased to announce that the Binks Hub will be sponsoring the 2024 International Creative Research Methods Conference (ICRMC), organised by Helen Kara. After

Earlier this year, we partnered with Edinburgh College of Art and the Reid School of Music on the 2023 UNESCO Week of Sound. We ran

A blog post from Prof. Catherine Maternowska, Honorary Professor of Violence Prevention for Young People at the University of Edinburgh. On a chilly Sunday morning

A warm welcome to our new Binks Hub PhD student Helen, who has written this blog post to introduce the research she’ll be conducting for

Interview and article by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack as part of our series on human flourishing, following our human flourishing symposium in June

Interview and article by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack as part of our series on human flourishing, following our human flourishing symposium in June

Interview and article by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack as part of our series on human flourishing, following our human flourishing symposium in June 2023. How

Interview and article by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack as part of our series on human flourishing, following our human flourishing symposium in June 2023. The

Interview and article by Binks Hub student intern Brigid McCormack as part of our series on human flourishing, following our human flourishing symposium in June

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

My name is Mary McBain, and I am an MSc by Research candidate in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Under the supervision of Dr

PhD student Neil Hume reflects on a community forum held by the Binks Hub in Craigentinny Commity Centre in December 2021.  “Wrap up warm” we

This visual blog post follows the installation and opening of an exhibition of contemporary art, written for us by Dr Laura Harris. A highly stylized

Rebecca Rees reports on a study into the impacts of Scottish Book Trust’s book-gifting programmes Bookbug and Read, Write, Count We all know that children

We’re so excited to have officially launched the Binks Hub – a new research hub at the University of Edinburgh that unites academics, artists, and

A Binks Hub beginning How does a new university-based research hub begin to collaborate with community organisations? How does participation begin? These questions have been