28 September 2020 | BSc IDMHR, MA HCR, MSc IDM, Online DMRRR, Online Global Health, Staff blogs
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...
27 August 2020 | Alumni Spotlight, COVID-19, Events, News, Staff blogs, Student blogs, Student spotlight
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...
16 July 2020 | Online Global Health, Student spotlight, Uncategorized
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...
30 April 2020 | MA HCR, Student blogs
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...
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...
21 April 2020 | Student blogs
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...
