23 April 2020 | Fieldwork, MSc IDM, Student blogs
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...
4 April 2019 | Fieldwork, Student blogs
In January, a group of masters students from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute presented 18-year-old South Sudanese footballer Joseph Muyang with signed Manchester United gear, provided by the Manchester United Foundation. The following post is written...
1 March 2019 | Fieldwork, Student blogs
We have three blogs which have been published by various third year undergraduate students on the research field trip in Mumbai at the beginning of January. The first blog was published by Olivia Harper: The research visit to Mumbai, in collaboration with Tata...
25 January 2019 | Fieldwork, Staff blogs
This blog has been published by Dr Jessica Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. The blog discusses the research field trip in Uganda which took place at the start of January. For the past ten days, seventeen of our postgraduate students studying on our MA...
28 August 2018 | Fieldwork, Student blogs
After a year and a half of preparing for my fieldwork in Malawi, which consisted of many late nights sat at my computer, reading, writing, re-writing, and drowning in ethics applications, I finally arrived in Lilongwe in April, and am now coming to the end of what has...
