Outwith was lucky enough to wrangle their way into this exhibition - and what an exhibition it was! A beautiful display of some amazing participatory research projects.

Our first @uoe-sps.bsky.social social policy seminar of the semester is on Friday 3rd October. We welcome Gerry McCartney from UoGlasgow. All welcome: www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Want to learn how? Come along to our all new Research Data Service Workshops: library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup....

Working Creatively with children & young people from minority ethnic backgrounds✨ 10 Nov | 2pm | Charteris Land Join us for an engaging workshop exploring creative & collaborative approaches - expect rich discussion, resource sharing & space to reflect on your own practice More: edin.ac/4gsx9jI

Thrilled to share this dynamic event coming up with @iashedinburgh.bsky.social✨ ‘The Pill. Angry Chuckles’ is a poetry exhibition capturing contraceptive experiences, paired with a roundtable exploring creative methods and sexual health research. 26 Sep | 5-7pm | IASH More info: edin.ac/3HGUcu9

🌍 How can we weave planetary health into public health research, policy and practice? Join us for a half-day seminar at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social 🗓️ October 1st, 10am Explore the power of green prescribing and community-led approaches to health and wellbeing! Register: edin.ac/4mdx4BB

Fife Gingerbread demands better. Families deserve fair social security, decent jobs, and real investment in their communities. We’re proud to stand with #WeDemandBetter – join the march & rally on Sat 25 Oct in Edinburgh. 👉 scotland-demands-better.com @povertyalliance.org

⭐Doors Open Day 2025 at Edinburgh Futures Institute⭐ 🗓️ Saturday, 27 September | 10:00 to 16:00 Join us on Doors Open Day 2025! Meet our staff, students and partners and discover how they are shaping better futures for all. 👉 Free entry! See the full programme efi.ed.ac.uk/event/doors-...

What a day!! The @thebinkshub.bsky.social had a glorious day of exhibition and celebration- listening and learning with our wonderful community collaborators

We are so excited to be exhibiting alongside our project partners at @inspacegallery.bsky.social today! Featuring artworks from @povertytruthscot.bsky.social, Midlothian Voices, Artlink, Outwith @edopenresearch.bsky.social and The Ripple ✨

📣📣This is tomorrow! Please come along and explore the amazing collaborations with our project partners - and share!

Please visit us and our project partners at Inspace on 3rd September! Exhibition details below 👇

@thebinkshub.bsky.social night out at the Edinburgh Book Festival talking about this book and first person narrative with Xiaolu Guo

📣Calling all changemakers Join the Young Women Lead AI Resource Hub Launch for a powerful afternoon of insight & inspiration! Hear from the brilliant minds behind the hub, explore how AI impacts gender & connect with leaders. Sat 23 Aug | 1:30pm | City Art Centre Book: www.trybooking.com/uk/FCPA

Find out more about our writing retreat sessions and sign up here➡️https://edin.ac/3ZUl6o8 #AcademicSky @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @uoe-cahss.bsky.social

POVERTY, PRECARITY & COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: WHO DECIDES? Join us and our incredible community partners for an exhibition exploring poverty and precarity 🗓️ Sep 3rd 📍 Inspace 🕐 Drop-in, 1pm–4pm With collaborations from: ✨ Ripple Project ✨ Poverty Truth Community ✨ Our Voices ✨ Artlink ✨ Outwith

Join us at the 2025 Edinburgh festivals! We are thrilled to support exciting events in three of the city’s major festivals: Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh International Book Festival and the Edinburgh Art Festival! Read more about our supported events ⤵️ edin.ac/40WccXZ

It's really exciting to see that the fantastic Co-Production Futures Inquiry has published a report outlining many of the challenges facing participatory research - and some of the experimental solutions institutions are trying out! Well worth a read! orda.shef.ac.uk/articles/rep...

POVERTY, PRECARITY & COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT: WHO DECIDES? Join us and our incredible community partners for an exhibition exploring poverty and precarity 🗓️ Sep 3rd 📍 Inspace 🕐 Drop-in, 1pm–4pm With collaborations from: ✨ Ripple Project ✨ Poverty Truth Community ✨ Our Voices ✨ Artlink ✨ Outwith

"what a brutal lesson is being taught day after day to a quarter of Scotland’s children: that it’s somehow acceptable that they not.. feel safe and secure as children should" A powerful guest blog from Andrea Bradley of @eis_union #ScotlandDemandsBetter www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-t...

📣🎉🌟Boost Fund - open today! For community-led organisations across Scotland supporting local people affected by poverty or disadvantage. ➡️£500-£3,000 to constituted groups & charities w/ an annual income of £50,000 or less ➡️£250-£1,500 for unconstituted groups www.corra.scot/grant...

As part of my work as Co-director of the @thebinkshub.bsky.social I have been working to up my game in terms and the technical side of using arts engaged methods. So have been on a fantastic 4 day printmaking course with my colleague Dr Jimmy Turner @edinburghprints.bsky.social

📬 Our next newsletter is about to land in inboxes! Don’t miss out on this month’s edition - featuring project updates, recent reflections and exciting upcoming events. 👉 Sign up now: edin.ac/3J4FEVn

🌍 Just 75 days to go until the International Creative Research Methods Conference – happening in #Manchester and online this September! Join us from wherever you are! 📅 Mon 8th - Tues 9th Sept 2025 🔗 www.creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC25 #CreativeResearch #CRMethods

Last week we were delighted to collaborate with the Ripple on an exhibition at @scotparl.bsky.social titled ‘The Ripple Project: Manifesting the Future of Lochend, Restalrig and Craigentinny’ ✨

Join us this Friday for a very special Women Making It for Scottish Refugee Festival with artist Saffa Khan. Together, we will celebrate the threads that bind us—past, present, and future. Find out more & register here: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/women-...

We are honoured to be exhibiting our co-created artworks with the Ripple Project at the Scottish Parliament this week! #CreativeMethods #AcademicSky #CreativeResearch #Community

🌿 Share your insights! Join an online focus group on gardening and mental health - we are looking for participants who have worked in residential care with older people. Hosted by Trellis & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Find out more and sign up here: www.trellisscotland.org.uk/upcoming-eve...

Into research? Got questions that spark curiosity? Check out the Research Methods Rendezvous (RMR) – a free online event from @ncrm.ac.uk to turn ideas into impactful projects 🧠 I wonder... – 10 Sept 🔧 How can we... – 29 Oct 💬 7-week collab in between 📝 Apply by 2 July: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/RMR/

✨Creative Writing and the Research of Healing – Taster Session✨ Mon 23 June | 1-3pm | Moray House Quad Join Josephine Balfour-Oatts and Rhiannon Bull for a hands-on session exploring how creative writing can support healing. No prior experience needed! Register: edin.ac/3SGZF68

In celebration of #RefugeeWeek the Citizenship and Migration Research Network, the One Health FIELD Network, and Edinburgh Global have co-organised an exhibition of vibrant Syrian artwork, showing all week in the Chrystal Macmillan building foyer ✨ @refugeeweek.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social

This is today! It's not too late to sign up to this online session on zine-making, check it out below 👇

This is TODAY 📣

How Should Health Researchers Care for Participants? A Creative Writing Event✨ 10 Jun | 10-12pm | @scotstorycentre.bsky.social Join a unique blend of sociology, storytelling and imagination! Explore what care means in health research and dive into a creative writing session More: edin.ac/45yvMgb

🎨✨ Zine-making & the Research of Community – Taster Session ✨🎨 Mon 16 June | 2-4pm | Online Curious about how creativity can shape research? Join us for a session exploring zine-making as a research method, led by Dr Jimmy Turner. No experience needed! Register: edin.ac/3SzVRDM

One of Outwith's Partners (PiPs) is at it again with a great workshop. If you're interested in mixing creativity, participation, and research, why not join Jimmy and the Binks Hub for a Zine making workshop?

🎨✨ Zine-making & the Research of Community – Taster Session ✨🎨 Mon 16 June | 2-4pm | Online Curious about how creativity can shape research? Join us for a session exploring zine-making as a research method, led by Dr Jimmy Turner. No experience needed! Register: edin.ac/3SzVRDM

Join our research seminar - 'Putting the family into employability support: Fife Gingerbread's Family Approach Project'. 📆Thu 19 June | 🕑12-1pm | Online This research showcases that family-focused support boosts parents’ employability and benefits children too. Register: edin.ac/4mL0AQV

This is TODAY! The Method is Listening: Sounding Out Reproductive Resistance 🗓️6 June | 🕛12–1:30pm 📍 Violet Laidlaw Room, CMB Dr Liz Gre introduces Endarkened Co-Composition, a method rooted in Black feminist theory, reimagining how we listen, witness and co-create knowledge. Book: edin.ac/4dQ0jbl

@spacebroomhouse.bsky.social is proud to take part in #VolunteersWeek 2025. 🏆 buff.ly/4fGsvY2 We firmly believe connections are key to building communities. Every one of our 250-plus #volunteers play an important role in making that happen. Find out more on our website: buff.ly/S5nTDS3

Our colleagues are hosting a discussion on the application of sociology to arts and health, marking a year since the PATHS (Public Health, Arts, Theory, Sociology) Research Group was founded! 📆Friday 4th July, 12-1:30pm 📍Evolution House, ECA More info & tickets here: edin.ac/4dJXnNo

“To see art and community bringing life back into a space is always magical.” Mike McKenzie brings his debut album to Hidden Door to perform it for the first time live with a band! 🌟 🎟️ hiddendoorarts.org/why-bands-ar... #MikeMcKenzie #HiddenDoor2025 #DebutLive

Our Co-Director Emma Davidson is speaking at a social policy seminar on youth employment! 📆Monday 23rd June 🕑10.30am-12pm 📍EFI, room 4.35 Book and find out more here: edin.ac/43BiyN1 @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social @haylesben.bsky.social #AcademicSky

We're delighted to be taking part in today's Impact Festival at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, sharing our experience of creating meaningful change through research. Hope to see some university colleagues there!

Flagging a funded PhD from our friends @uofglasgow.bsky.social 🎓 Explore The Art in Healthcare Collection + how creativity shapes healthcare histories and supports wellbeing. Register interest by 29th May! Check it out if you're into arts in health or creative research: edin.ac/4mpTMrL

⏳Last chance to participate!⏳ Are you co-producing research with communities of place, interest or experience in Scotland? You can contribute to our PhD student's research by sharing your experiences of research co-production through an online survey. DM for info! More here: edin.ac/3QeSO2B

I work for Scottish Book Trust and we’re running a survey for parents/teachers/kids book enthusiasts about how they find books for kids. I’d be enormously grateful if anyone can spare 5-10 mins to share their thoughts. #KidLitUK forms.office.com/e/EdVhWA0T0n

⏳Last chance to participate!⏳ Are you co-producing research with communities of place, interest or experience in Scotland? You can contribute to our PhD student's research by sharing your experiences of research co-production through an online survey. DM for info! More here: edin.ac/3QeSO2B

Don't miss this public engagement event exploring how children and young people decolonise daily life, told through sociological fiction grounded in research. Tickets & info: edin.ac/4jqxPXz @uoe-sps.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social