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 and aestheticised space, the art gallery repays visual methods. However, the public face of the gallery – its exhibitions – are only the most conspicuous part of the labour and

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 catch every bug going at nursery and school. But Scottish Book Trust (SBT) are keen to know whether children in Scotland caught one particular bug: the reading bug. SBT’s Book

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 communities to tackle inequalities and make a real difference to people’s lives. To launch the hub, we did exactly that: bringing together university staff, artistic and community organisations, by getting

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 at the forefront of our minds in these first months since the Binks Hub formed in January 2022, and the answer seems to us to be ‘slowly and carefully’. Our