Happy 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...
read moreHow can society recover from COVID-19?
Drawing on evidence from other crises civic leaders need to already start planning for society’s recovery from COVID-19, says Dr Joy Furnival, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management at the university’s Institute for Health Policy and Organisation. HCRI academics...
read moreA global outlook: Humanitarian insight within COVID-19 clinical research
As with many academics Professor Paul Dark wears a number of different hats including clinician and humanitarian. It’s through these combined disciplines that he is often looking at the wider impact his research can have. Greater Manchester’s response to COVID-19 In...
read moreCelebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Sophia
We interviewed Sophia to tell us about her journey to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), and what it’s like to be deployed by UK-Med as a nurse responding to emergencies overseas. Sophia Turner, a humanitarian nurse in Emergency Medicine and...
read moreConnecting Humanitarianism to the Next Generation – the rise of Humanitarian Educators
This blog has been written by Amanda McCorkindale, Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Global Health at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). To mark the launch of HCRI’s new online CPD in Humanitarian Education, Amanda blogs about how young people...
read moreBridging the gap between refugees and healthcare services in Manchester during our time on the Global Health iBSc
This blog has been written by Danielle Hartland and Louis Clarke with regards to their year spent studying the Intercalated BSc in Global Health and experience working with the refugee and asylum seeker community in Manchester. After completing our third year as...
read moreMy Journey from North Carolina to Studying Disasters in Manchester
This blog has been written by Jacob Graham, who is one of our Taught Master's bursary winners for the MSc International Disaster Programme at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). I arrived in Manchester to start the MSc International Disaster...
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