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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A blog from our Co-Director Emma Davidson. Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Queensland as part of their symposium exploring the challenges and opportunities for embedding industry and community partnerships for social policy impact. I was there to share a little about the journey of the Binks Hub and
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A blog from our Co-Director Emma Davidson. This post is based on a presentation Emma gave at the Social Policy Seminar on 21st March 2025, which asked: what might it mean to slow down the pace of research? How can we centre care, creativity, and collaboration in our ways of working, especially when working with
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Understanding friendship support for care experienced people Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum (Staf), in partnership with a team of care experienced researchers, throughcare and aftercare workers, and staff from the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, invites practitioners working with care experienced people to share your insights on friendship support via an online survey. About the
Friendship Focused Support Research – Practitioner Survey call-out Read More »
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