A Year in Lockdown: New graduate perspective
Written by Juliette Flach, 2020 BSc International Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response graduate It’s now been just over one year of lockdown, and so I thought this might be a good opportunity to reflect on some of the highs and lows of the last 365 days....
read moreWomen’s History Month 2021: Women after the Bolshevik Revolution: Equality and Independence? A brief introduction to the role of Women in the early Soviet Union.
Hanna Matt, 2nd year PhD candidate, HCRI In honour of Women’s History Month, I wanted to talk about gender equality and the role of women in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. This topic was instrumental in shaping my journey as a researcher; I first became...
read moreHCRI Alumni: 10 things I learnt from writing my dissertation
Thinking about your dissertation may seem a little daunting at first, but students at HCRI always rise to the challenge to produce an original piece of research on a topic they care about. To guide you through this process, our alumni Anna Llewellyn, Charlotte...
read moreResearching experiences of gender and sexual minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Billy Tusker Haworth Pronouns: he/him or they/them Lecturer in International Disaster Management Equality, Diversity & Inclusion representative Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester Email: billy.haworth@manchester.ac.uk...
read moreGlobal mental health – from the impact of war and displacement to barriers accessing mental health support
We all have mental health, but not everyone has access to mental health support or is aware of how mental health conditions impact people's lives. In reference to World Mental Health Day, the President of the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) said: "Mental...
read moreHow to choose a dissertation topic in International Disaster Management, Humanitarian Response and Global Health
Dr Jessica R Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies & Undergraduate Programme Director The start of the new academic year is upon us. For those of you entering your final year of your undergraduate degree, dissertations will be making its presence felt. For...
read moreHappy 12th Birthday HCRI: Celebrating achievements over the past year
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) was founded 12 years ago in August. Since then it has gone on to educate hundreds of students, publish high-impact research, and form innovative partnerships within the humanitarian sector. "2019-2020 has been a...
read moreThe Lessons of History?
Darren Walter, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health, HCRI Ken Hines, Retired GP and Pre-hospital Care Doctor, Librarian Disaster Resource Centre https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1318839/beirut-explosion-latest-lebanon-news-explosion-video-cause-bbc-newsnight...
read moreHCRI Summer Reading List – collated by staff and students
As academic activity quietens down over summer (at least for our students anyway!), we’ve pulled together some of our most recommended books, blogs, articles, documentaries, podcasts and films that cover some of the themes our courses look into. Our top 5 picks are:...
read moreCelebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Kirsty
Kirsty Lowe is a midwife and Global Health MSc student. She shares how her experience of being deployed by UK-MED with the UK Emergency Medical Team to the Diphtheria outbreak in Bangladesh inspired her to study the course. What course did you choose to study at the...
read moreWorld Refugee Week: A discussion with Dr Rubina Jasani on empowering asylum-seeking women
During World Refugee Week 2020, we interviewed Dr Rubina Jasani to find out more about her collaborative partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST), the challenges refugee and migrant women face in the COVID-19 crisis and the limits of self-advocacy. We...
read moreHCRI involved in university-wide project recommending ways of recovering from COVID-19
HCRI’s Dr Nathaniel O’Grady, Dr Ayham Fattoum, and Professor Duncan Shaw have been working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team of academics from the University of Manchester looking at COVID-19 recovery. The recently published ‘How can society recover from...
read moreLocal Resilience Forums and Emergency Planning: An interview with Professor Duncan Shaw
Duncan Shaw is Professor of Operations and Critical Systems at The University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School, and honorary professor at HCRI. As a leading expert in the field, his research led the formation of the international standard ISO 22319,...
read moreDecision-making at a time of great uncertainty
Continued uncertainty around COVID-19 demands more qualitative modelling, says Dr Ayham Fattoum, Lecturer in Disaster Operations Management at HCRI. In the wake of countries adopting such a broad range of measures to control COVID-19 in recent months, there are...
read moreVolunteering for asylum seekers in Northern Greece: a guiding tool in my masters’ degree in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response
The blog has been written by Inès Decoster, who is one of our Taught Master's bursary winners for the MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response programme at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). The blog relates to his 3 month volunteering...
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