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30/03/2023

Binks Hub co-director wins 2023 Qualitative Book Award

Congratulations to Binks Hub co-director, Marisa de Andrade, for jointly winning the 2023 Qualitative Book Award for her most recent book!
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30/03/2023

New ‘citizen researcher’ training for volunteers with People Know How

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 their volunteers will be trained to conduct themselves.
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13/02/2023

New Binks Hub Project – INCLUDED: exploring ways to include people with advanced dementia as co-researchers through the arts

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 in research of people living with advanced dementia as co-researchers.

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19/12/2022

Ushering in (Young) Citizen Science: A Data Collaborative Project

Violence against Children (VAC) is a big, global problem—over 1 billion children (which translates to over 50% of all children aged 2-17 years old) have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual violence in the past year.

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09/11/2022

Collaboration as a PhD student: My experience of a Collaborative Studentship (so far!)

Arguably, the biggest challenge of a PhD is its solitary nature. Only I can write my thesis, and only I will lie awake at night fretting over how to wrangle my research into a coherent narrative.

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09/11/2022

Creative Evaluation Practice: Putting evaluation at the core of your activity

What is the difference we’re trying to make with this project? How do we know our project is having a positive impact on people’s lives? What evaluation techniques can we use to measure this change?

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07/11/2022

Academic Involvement in the Edinburgh International Book Festival

As a third year Sociology with Quantitative Methods student, I undertook the 2022 Q-step Summer Work Placement at the Binks Hub under the supervision of Dr Jimmy Turner.
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27/09/2022

Getting warmed up in Craigentinny

PhD student Neil Hume reflects on a community forum held by the Binks Hub in Craigentinny Commity Centre in December 2021.

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27/09/2022

The Importance of the Facilitatory Role in Participatory Research Practices

My name is Mary McBain, and I am an MSc by Research candidate in Music at the University of Edinburgh. This blog was written as part of the Participatory Research: Process and Practice workshop run by the Binks Hub.
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31/08/2022

The opening of an exhibition: a photo essay

This visual blog post follows the installation and opening of an exhibition of contemporary art, written for us by Dr Laura Harris.
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29/06/2022

Did the children of Scotland catch the reading bug?

Rebecca Rees reports on a study into the impacts of Scottish Book Trust’s book-gifting programmes Bookbug and Read, Write, Count.
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15/06/2022

The Binks Hub launch exhibition

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.