21 April 2021 | COVID-19, Student blogs, Student spotlight, Uncategorized
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....
31 March 2021 | Student blogs, Uncategorized
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...
14 October 2020 | COVID-19, Uncategorized
Dr Jessica Hawkins reflects on Uganda’s early response to COVID-19 in conversation with Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA alumni and Director of Communications for USAID’s Better Outcomes for Children and Youth, Sarah Lagot Odwong. On the...
10 October 2020 | Staff blogs, Uncategorized
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:...
10 August 2020 | Staff blogs, Uncategorized
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...
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...
