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We are a network of academics, researchers, community orgs and practitioners using creativity and the arts to co-create research that makes a difference to people’s lives. Based in @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. Find out more: https://binks-hub.ed.ac.uk
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Join The Binks Hub for their weekly Creative Research Methods Reading Group 📙, held every Thursday throughout November.

Open to all, the group focuses on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.

📅 13, 20, 27 November
⏲️ 09:15 - 10:15am
📍 Online
ℹ️ https://edin.ac/43jdqh5
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Every child deserves the magic of books. ✨📚 But for too many families this winter, books will feel like a luxury they can't afford.

Donate to our Christmas Appeal today to give the magic of books to children and families accessing food banks this festive season. 🎄
Scottish Book Trust
We are a national charity bringing the benefits of reading and writing to everyone in Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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If you're interested in work on friendship and care, don't miss out on this conference next week - our Co-Director @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social and @stafscot.bsky.social are launching their resources. Watch this space for more soon! #AcademicSky
aroeschmarsh.bsky.social Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social · 6d
We are launching our care experience and friendship respurces at this conference next week - the whole team are really excited #cocreation #socialwork - still some
Places if you want to come along www.staf.scot/event/staf-n...
Staf National Conference 2025 - 11/11/2025 10:00:00
Tuesday 11 November 2025 | 10am to 4pm | Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
www.staf.scot
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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spacebroomhouse.bsky.social
Our Youth Befriending volunteers love befriending because...

'It's so much fun and rewarding.'

Learn more about being a youth befriender (link in bio) and join our award-winning team of volunteers making a real difference to the community.

#YouthBefriending #BefriendingWeek #Space #BroomhouseHub
Dark blue background with white rectangle in centre. Befriending Week logo in upper right corner. Space and Befriending Networks logos in lower right and left corners. Text in centre reads: 'I love befriending because... It's so much fun and rewarding.'
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Wondering what to expect from our PG Virtual Open Days? Join us on 19 - 21 November:

✔️Live presentations + Q&A sessions with our Programme Directors
✔️Conversations with current students
✔️Insights into interdisciplinary learning at Edinburgh Futures Institute

Register 👉 www.edin.ac/pg-opendays
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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It was a pleasure to co-curate this exhibition with @povertytruthscot.bsky.social and others - catch up on this event via the recap on our blog! ✨

Read here: binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/poverty-prec...
November 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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⚖️Reframing Criminal Justice

Dec 3rd | @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Join us for a half-day seminar on creative, community-led justice reform and explore lived experience shaping policy, research and practice. Open to researchers, practitioners & the community-all welcome!

More: edin.ac/4p684yn
Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development Seminar A half-day event on criminal justice, hosted at EFI by The Binks Hub and REALITIES. Join us for an inspiring seminar on reframing criminal justice. The Binks Hub and REALITIES are excited to welcome attendees to a half-day event exploring and championing change within the Scottish criminal justice system. Linking to our Easter Ross and North Lanarkshire Hubs, as well as to our Release Reimagined workstream, REALITIES has explored, worked with, and championed change within the Scottish criminal justice system. REALITIES (Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems) in Health Disparities is a transdisciplinary UKRI funded project which explores how we might re-imagine the health and social care systems so that they might better respond to the needs of the communities who use them. Whether it is through the creation of theatre pieces, the advocating for accreditation workshops, or the creation of safe spaces to create art and build community, the findings from the project have far-reaching and exciting outputs that will be shared in the seminar. In particular, we will invite attendees to discuss and brainstorm about what this may suggest about the future of criminal justice policy, research and/or practice. Open to researchers, practitioners, and community members, everyone is welcome to connect and learn.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Our last writing retreat of the year is this month! Join us for a relaxed, creative space to work on your writing. Open to all ✨

Find out more and sign up here ➡️ edin.ac/3ZUl6o8

@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uoe-cahss.bsky.social @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social
Binks Hub Writing Retreat [online]
Hosted online, these will be relaxed sessions with writing prompts and a chance to share and discuss writing goals.
edin.ac
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📣New on the blog

Charlotte Day, student of MSc Global Mental Health & Society @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, shares a personal and thought-provoking reflection on friendship, care and risk in social work. Her dissertation challenges how we think about relationships.

Read here: edin.ac/3LldQNM
Collage image created by Charlotte Day, as inspiration for her dissertation. It features mostly red-coloured images, from nature, with words/phrases torn from headlines including "Building togetherness", "labout of love", "Journey into the light" and "A tender balancing act".
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
✨ What if repair could be poetic not just practical?

Join us for a full-day workshop in collaboration with Utopia Lab @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Wed 4 Dec | 10am–4pm

Book: edin.ac/3L2k7Ot

Bring a broken object and explore how poetry, sculpture & storytelling can help us mend what matters.
The Poetry of Art and Impractical Repairs What can we do when the breakage of a precious object requires and emotional more than a physical repair? Join Jennifer Williams, Josephine Balfour-Oatts and Jimmy Turner for a day-long Utopia Lab exploring the potential of the use of poetry, creative writing and sculpture to effect reapirs of broken and damaged objects, attending to feelings and sentiment as much as to practical fixes. Thursday 4th December, 10am-4pm, Edinburgh Futures Institute
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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bigissue.com
Kinship care supports thousands of children raised by relatives when parents can’t look after them — but what happens when they turn 18?
Lack of post-18 kinship care support has almost driven me back into homelessness
www.bigissue.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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aroeschmarsh.bsky.social
This festival looks even better than ever this year pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Programme - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
pushtheboatout.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
⚖️Reframing Criminal Justice

Dec 3rd | @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Join us for a half-day seminar on creative, community-led justice reform and explore lived experience shaping policy, research and practice. Open to researchers, practitioners & the community-all welcome!

More: edin.ac/4p684yn
Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development Seminar A half-day event on criminal justice, hosted at EFI by The Binks Hub and REALITIES. Join us for an inspiring seminar on reframing criminal justice. The Binks Hub and REALITIES are excited to welcome attendees to a half-day event exploring and championing change within the Scottish criminal justice system. Linking to our Easter Ross and North Lanarkshire Hubs, as well as to our Release Reimagined workstream, REALITIES has explored, worked with, and championed change within the Scottish criminal justice system. REALITIES (Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems) in Health Disparities is a transdisciplinary UKRI funded project which explores how we might re-imagine the health and social care systems so that they might better respond to the needs of the communities who use them. Whether it is through the creation of theatre pieces, the advocating for accreditation workshops, or the creation of safe spaces to create art and build community, the findings from the project have far-reaching and exciting outputs that will be shared in the seminar. In particular, we will invite attendees to discuss and brainstorm about what this may suggest about the future of criminal justice policy, research and/or practice. Open to researchers, practitioners, and community members, everyone is welcome to connect and learn.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
🌍 Planetary Health is Public Health 🌱

How can we reimagine the future of health through community, creativity, and care?

Explore our latest blog from The Binks Hub - read more here: edin.ac/3JwkvUI
Planetary Health is Public Health: Reimagining the Future Together – The Binks Hub
edin.ac
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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opfs.org.uk
Too many children are being let down by a system meant to protect them.

Our report with @fifegingerbread.bsky.social & @ipprscotland.bsky.social sets out how to change that.

👉 opfs.org.uk/betterforeve...
#TransformingChildMaintenance
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
How can communities shape responses to poverty and precarity?

Our latest blog reflects on our largest exhibition of participatory social research. Showcasing creative collaborations from quilts to collage, learn how we're working to transform research and policy.

Read the blog: edin.ac/4hE084S
Image of InSpace on the day of the event, with people looking at exhibitions and a large projector showing 'Poverty, precarity and community empowerment: Who decides?'
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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iaponline.bsky.social
In our latest blog, Arusa Qureshi speaks with IAP Associate Artist Kirsty Biff Nicolson about #WeDreamHere - exploring queer spaces, imagination, and freedom through performance.

Read it here → bit.ly/WeDreamHere

#QueerArt #WeDreamHere #Performance #CreativeCommunity

📸 Tiu Makkonen
Five people sitting on a floor in a rehearsal room.
October 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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📚 Our Creative Research Methods Reading Group is back!

Join us each week to explore bold, imaginative approaches to research. Open to all curious minds - come read, reflect and connect ✨

Find out more and view the upcoming readings: edin.ac/4okZAmj
Creative research methods reading group Our popular online reading group for creative research methods is back for a new semester! Each session we will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research. The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods. We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings, but this is not required. You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group, but you should have an interest in creative methods. Open to all.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
📚 Our Creative Research Methods Reading Group is back!

Join us each week to explore bold, imaginative approaches to research. Open to all curious minds - come read, reflect and connect ✨

Find out more and view the upcoming readings: edin.ac/4okZAmj
Creative research methods reading group Our popular online reading group for creative research methods is back for a new semester! Each session we will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research. The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods. We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings, but this is not required. You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group, but you should have an interest in creative methods. Open to all.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
We're so excited that @amalelmohtar.com will be creating an exclusive serialised short story for our newsletter during Book Week Scotland from 17 to 23 Nov 📚

Make sure you sign up to our newsletter to receive each installment!

www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-sc...
Book Week Scotland: Amal El-Mohtar in your inbox
Sign up to receive an exclusive serialised story from Amal El-Mohtar during Book Week Scotland.
www.scottishbooktrust.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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scotbpocwriters.bsky.social
Do you write:

• SFF/speculative fiction
• Games - digital, RPGs, tabletop, etc
• Scripts for film, TV, radio, or podcasts
• Comics - print or digital

...and want some inspiration? Then check out this Saturday's workshop on (super)heroic worlds!
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org/building-sup...
Building (Super) Heroic Worlds with Etienne Kubwabo
An in-person writing workshop about turning ordinary surroundings into superheroic worlds.
scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🎨 A Day of Creativity at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 🎨

Ease into the day with our writing retreat – a welcoming space to reflect & write. Book: edin.ac/4kYPZ2J

Later our friends at Zine Team are hosting a hands-on workshop – create & collaborate! Book: edin.ac/4nKgGtW

Come for one or both!
Binks Hub Writing Retreat
Hosted at EFI, these will be relaxed sessions with writing prompts and a chance to share and discuss writing goals.
edin.ac
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
thebinkshub.bsky.social
🎨 A Day of Creativity at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 🎨

Ease into the day with our writing retreat – a welcoming space to reflect & write. Book: edin.ac/4kYPZ2J

Later our friends at Zine Team are hosting a hands-on workshop – create & collaborate! Book: edin.ac/4nKgGtW

Come for one or both!
Binks Hub Writing Retreat
Hosted at EFI, these will be relaxed sessions with writing prompts and a chance to share and discuss writing goals.
edin.ac
October 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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edinburghdiamond.bsky.social
FORUM issue 36 is now live!

The issue explores the family in arts & culture. The intractability of this theme threads web-like through the articles, and is also picked up poetically and reflectively by two guest contributors: Carl Alexandersson and Siân MacGregor.

journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/issue/...
A blurred spider web.
October 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Come write about the body!

Praise for Julie - 'I am usually not one to choose the highest scores across the board, but I was really impressed by the tutor, the diverse examples, the exercises and the 'spirit' and depth of our discussions.'

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-body-i...
Online poetry workshop Link in text
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM