Towards an International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine, 11 May 2012

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin_hcri

All are welcome to attend this joint event Towards an International Political Sociology of Health and Medicine, 11 May 2012, which we are co-hosting with The University of Sussex, Brighton.

Registration for this event (to be held at University of Sussex) is free, and will be on a first-come-first served basis as spaces are limited. To register, please contact Laura Dingle at the Centre for Global Health Policy, Sussex, at: globalhealthpolicy@sussex.ac.uk

With some notable exceptions, the study of health has historically suffered a strange neglect in the field of International Relations. At the same time, studies of the sociology of health and medicine have often not engaged directly with the international political dimensions of heath and medicine. Continue reading →

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New release of PhD studentships

Posted on May 2, 2012 by admin_hcri

HCRI is delighted to announce 2 more PhD studentships for students wishing to commence study September 2012.

Interfaces between international and local actors in peacebuilding contexts (1 studentship)
The candidate will conduct research under the guidance of Prof. Oliver Richmond who is particularly interested in candidates who will develop semi-ethnographic research methods in order to understand how ‘peace formation’ occurs at the grass roots level, and how this impacts upon the state and upon donors in specific contexts. Cases where the UN has been involved via an integrated peacebuilding mission are especially welcome.

Global Health and Medical Education (1 studentship)
HCRI in partnership with the University Hospital of South Manchester (UHSM) invite applications from candidates wishing to conduct research on issues related to global health, broadly defined, with a specific focus on health provision in areas affected by humanitarian crises or violent conflict. The successful candidate will be supervised by Professor Tony Redmond, HCRI Deputy Director

Learn more about these PhD opportunities at HCRI 

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HCRI welcomes Professor Oliver Richmond

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin_hcri

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Oliver Richmond who joins HCRI as Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies.

Oliver’s primary area of expertise is in peace and conflict theory, and in particular its interlinkages with IR theory. Recently, he has become interested in local forms of critical agency and resistance, and their role in constructing hybrid or post-liberal forms of peace and states (see A Post-Liberal Peace, 2011). He is editor (with Roger Mac Ginty) of the new Taylor and Francis journal Peacebuilding.

Oliver is currently co-directing and involved in several major research projects, funded by a range of research councils and donors. He has received several major grants, including from the Leverhulme Trust, two EUFP7 grants, an EU Marie Curie for post-doctoral support, two grants from the British Academy, as well as UNU, the Carnegie and Nuffield Trusts (for fieldwork and for further post-doctoral support).

 

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HCRI and Dept of Social Anthropology announces workshop and new student masterclass ‘Biopolitics and Humanitarian Citizenship’ 16 & 17 May 2012

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin_hcri

This workshop will provide an in-depth intellectual exchange on theory and practice in relation to humanitarian citizenship and forms of biopolitical control. It exploits the opportunity of having Professor Steven Robins here in Manchester as a visiting Hallsworth Fellow. A distinguished scholar in the field, Prof Robins is based in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch.

A separate student masterclass will give PhD and MA students from the department of social anthropology, HCRI and related fields an opportunity to engage in debate and       discussion with the speakers.

Visit HCRI website for further details and to register your place

 

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HCRI announces new conference ‘New Frontiers for Peacebuilding: Hybridity, Governance, and Local Agency’ 13-14 September 2012

Posted on March 13, 2012 by admin_hcri

This conference inaugurates a new academic journal Peacebuilding, and a new policy-scholar network, the International Association for Peace and Conflict Studies. Registration is £20 for employed academics and free for postgraduate students. View http://www.hcri.ac.uk/events/ for the call for papers and further information

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HCRI welcomes Professor Roger Mac Ginty

Posted on March 1, 2012 by admin_hcri

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Roger Mac Ginty  who joins HCRI as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Roger’s main research interests are in peacemaking processes in civil war, political violence and post-war reconstruction. His latest book, ‘International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace’ was published by Palgrave in June 2011. He edits a book series from Palgrave entitled
‘Rethinking Political Violence’ and will be editing a Taylor and Francis journal entitled ‘Peacebuilding’ to be launched in 2013. This journal will be co-edited with Oliver Richmond who we’re delighted to say will also be joining HCRI (in April 2012) as Professor of International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies.  For 2011 and 2012 he is on research leave courtesy of a EU FP7 grant in order to work on the project ‘The role of governance in the resolution of socioeconomic and political conflict in India and Europe’. In the Fall semester 2011 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has conducted field research in Bosnia, Croatia, Northern Ireland, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Lebanon
and New Zealand.

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Yet more PhD studentships at HCRI – now including peacebuilding call

Posted on March 1, 2012 by admin_hcri

HCRI is delighted to announce 4 more studentships for students wishing to commence study September 2012. Application deadline 16 April 2012.

2 are open call click here, and 2 relate to the following project area ‘Interfaces between international and local actors in peacebuilding contexts’ click here

Click here to learn more about completing a PhD with HCRI and see what our current PhD students are studying here

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From Rebel Governance to State Consolidation – new paper on political dynamics in Eritrea by HCRI’s Director of Research

Posted on February 27, 2012 by admin_hcri

Tanja MullerDr Tanja Müller, HCRI Director of Research, publishes new paper which discusses Eritrea as a contemporary case of state-making grounded in war, a fact that has resulted in the emergence of one of the ‘hardest’ states in sub-Saharan Africa. Click here to access paper http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718512000346

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HCRI’s Prof James Thompson hosting In Place of War closing event, 15 March 2012

Posted on February 27, 2012 by admin_hcri

HCRI’s Professor James Thompson, and Director of the In Place of War project http://www.inplaceofwar.net/ is a key panel member at the closing event for this initiative on 15 March 2012. This special event combines a drinks reception, film screening, book launch and seminar session. To book your place simply visit http://inplaceofwarclosing.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C

 

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HCRI’s new intercalated BSc in Global Health is welcomed by medical student community

Posted on February 27, 2012 by admin_hcri

The University of Manchester’s student newspaper The Mancunian welcomes HCRI’s new Intercalated BSc in Global Health http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2012/02/23/new-degree-programme-mixes-medicine-with-politics/

This exciting new programme mixes emergency medicine and disaster relief with political science.  The course is open to any medical students who wish to take a year out of their MBChB to enhance their broader education. Further details about this exciting new programme which commences September 2012 are available here http://www.hcri.ac.uk/study/bscgh/index.htm or contact Programme Director Dr Barni Nor barni.nor@manchester.ac.uk with any specific queries

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