Our popular reading group, hosted by The Binks Hub and led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh and Jimmy Turner, is back for the new academic year. We are pleased to share the return of our creative research methods reading group! If you are new to the reading group, it is open to all and will focus on […]
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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
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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
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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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