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 […]
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
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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A guest blog from Marie Larsson, a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. After curating my first poetry exhibition I have a deep, new-found appreciation for sticky-backed velcro strips. And just how much effort goes into hanging one picture on a wall – let alone a whole roomful. And, most of all, for colleagues,
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A blog by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh On 10th November 2025, the Binks Hub ran a workshop at Moray House School of Education on the topic of working creatively with ethnic minority children. The day was developed by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh, Co-Director of The Binks Hub, in partnership with her former student Robina Rubin. The afternoon
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A guest post from anna osarose, a PhD student at the University of Surrey. When I first encountered Maureen Blackwood’s short film Home Away from Home (1993), I didn’t use the language of ‘radical love’ or ‘rest as resistance’, but what I did feel was a need to slow down and sit with the pain of
Slow Research as Radical Love, Rest and Resistance in Black British Women’s Film Read More »
A guest blog from Charlotte Day, a student of the MSc in Global Mental Health and Society at the University of Edinburgh. If it were not for a long-time friend of mine breaking my heart, I would not have begun an MSc at the University of Edinburgh. This painful experience further inspired the argumentative thread
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On Wednesday 1st October 2025, the Binks Hub extended an invitation to policymakers, practitioners, and researchers interested in re-imagining fresh futures by posing the question: Can (and should…) we weave planetary health thinking more deeply into the fabric of our public health systems? Planetary health as public policy emerged almost a decade ago with the
Planetary Health is Public Health: Reimagining the Future Together Read More »
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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