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Planetary Health Seminar Animation
An animation by the talented artist Lea Pietrzyk, summarising the conversations and topics covered at the Planetary Health Seminar in October 2025, co-hosted between REALITIES and the Binks Hub. Led [...]
Why Participatory Action Research Resonates With Me
By Deborah McArthur Deborah McArthur is North Lanarkshire Council’s Arts Development and Engagement Manager, as well as the community-embedded researcher for REALITIES North Lanarkshire Hub. This hub is foundational hub [...]
Co-creating knowledge that is diverse, inclusive and collective: Reflections on community-engaged research
By Andrea Rodriguez Lecturer of Dental Public Health and Social Psychology, School of Dentistry, University of Dundee REALITIES researcher ‘Are you the researcher, or are you a participant like me?’ [...]
A Mirror of Policy and Culture–In Between Death: Embodied research through performative vignettes of the mourning after the 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI)A Mirror of Policy and Culture–In Between Death: Embodied research through performative vignettes of the mourning after the 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI)
A Mirror of Policy and Culture–In Between Death: Embodied research through performative vignettes of the mourning after the 8th European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI)
By Kata Cots Pettit 30.06.2025… Part 1: The Fire In the frosty month of January, I returned to Edinburgh for a visit after fifteen years since I had lived there. [...]
Navigating academic systems alongside our reimagining of health systems
By Alexandra Jundler Amidst the reading, writing and researching that takes up much of my time as a research fellow for REALITIES, the administrative bureaucracy is pervasive in a way [...]
Fading stories of modernity and the rise of planetary health
by Scott Davis Each weekend, I slip my handheld radio onto my belt loop and begin work at my local authority’s leisure centre reception desk. The job helps to supplement [...]