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Master’s student representative for the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute Hanna Matt has won this year’s University of Manchester Students’ Union award for ‘Student Rep – Biggest Engagement with Feedback’. Hanna was nominated by peer...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is marking the third successful outing of its annual Young People in Humanitarianism conference. The full-day event was attended by a delegation of schoolchildren a...

The toolkit will focus on simulating disaster events in real time from the perspective of key actors. Students will be able to analyse primary data from images, GIS data and policy documents to produce a response strategy which dynamically res...

Funded by the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO), TEAMS is a project that aimed to develop, pilot and assess a standardized, validated and cost-effective training package focused on operational training for Emergency ...

SIMEX Series is comprised of operational and live-controlled simulation exercises, which focus on emergency response scenarios. The exercises rely on player participation, through which HCRI students had the opportunity to act out certain role...

On 20 September 2017, the ‘biggest storm in Caribbean history’ Hurricane Maria struck the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico causing over US$30 billion in damage. But what happened after the storm passed? How did the people recover and what were the...

The Mapathon involved the volunteers tracing 20,000 features (roads, huts, buildings, etc) to the poorly-mapped region of Acholi in Uganda on satellite photographs. The open source mapping aimed to contribute to an ongoing project coordinated by D...

To mark the launch of a new programme, humanitarian and academic experts from three leading organisations met last week at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) for a thought-provoking panel discussion. Vickie Hawkins, Executive Dir...

A HCRI researcher has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis award by the International Council for Canadian Studies. Antoine Burgard's winning thesis is titled A new life in a new country': trajectories of young Holocaust survivors to Canada (194...

Two academics from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) have been shortlisted in the Social Responsibility award category of The University of Manchester's Making a Difference Awards 2019. Dr Rubina Jasani and Dr Jenna Murray de...

Amy Hughes, Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response at HCRI, is due to speak at the Behavioural and Social Science Research in Extreme and Adventurous Settings Conference in Manchester this week. The one-day conference has been organised ...

Staff and students from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute went on two research field trips abroad at the beginning of January. Seventeen postgraduate students from our MA Humanitarianism and Conflict Response and MSc International ...

Dr Birte Vogel, Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at The University of Manchester, has won a six-month GCRF QR Fund grant worth £65,000. She won the grant with Ken Mcphail and Lara Bianchi from AMBS for a project that looks at the adoption of...

The University has honoured Emeritus Tony Redmond, a world-leading specialist in emergency medicine Tony was born in Manchester and qualified in Medicine from this University. He subsequently trained in Accident and Emergency Medicine and was appo...

Dr Rony Brauman, HCRI Director, has won the 2018 Albert Thibaudet Award for his book 'Guerres humanitaires? Mensonges et intox' (Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing). He will be presented with the award on Friday 21st June at Centre Panthéo...

In celebration of their 10 year anniversary, HCRI is launching a programme of events commencing in May 2018. The inaugural event will take place on Wednesday, 16 May, with a screening of PILI. PILI is a ground-breaking collaboration between filmm...

Professor Tony Redmond, co-founder and co-director of HCRI, was awarded the Special Lifetime Achievement Award at The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards on Tuesday evening, for his outstanding services to emergency medical aid and th...

Dear colleagues and friends, It is with deep sadness to hear that our friend and ex-colleague Bernard Siambabala Manyena passed away suddenly in Harare last Friday. Bernard Manyena joined the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at Manches...

Dr Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, a Visiting Scholar at HCRI, has published a new book. Dr Desgrandchamps’ book, entitled L’humanitaire en guerre civile: La crise du Biafra (1967-1970) (Humanitarian aid in civil war: The crisis of Biafra (1967-1970))...

Dr Eleanor Davey, Director of Postgraduate Research at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), has won the International Ethics Section book prize for 2017, for her book: ‘Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and t...

Allegations of misconduct and unethical behaviour by Oxfam staff during its response to a humanitarian crisis in Haiti in 2011 and other behaviour by some working in the humanitarian aid sector has raised serious concerns about public trust and accou...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute are collaborating with the School of Nursing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to deliver a new online Master's programme in Disaster Management. The programme is titled: Disaster Management: ...

The Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute and its affiliates have produced a video in response to the January 2018 attacks on Save the Children in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. On the 24th January 2018, militants affiliated with Islamic State lau...

The Journal of Humanitarian Affairs is an exciting new open access journal hosted jointly by The Humanitarian Affairs Team at Save the Children UK, and Centre de Réflexion sur l'Action et les Savoirs Humanitaires MSF (Paris) and the Humanitarian and ...

UK-Med is currently supporting the UK-EMT deployment to the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to assist with a recent outbreak of the Diphtheria disease. At the request of the Government of Bangladesh and the World Health Organisation, the EMT ...

In light of Tuesday’s earthquake in Mexico, Professor Tony Redmond - director of The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute - discusses what international assistance to the disaster may be required. ...

To mark World Humanitarian Day, Allard Duursma of The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute has written about research which attempts to explain acts of violence against aid workers and peacekeepers. ...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have signed a unique partnership with the international medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in order to deliver an educati...

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness has died at the age of 66. The IRA leader turned peacemaker worked at the heart of the power-sharing government in Northern Ireland, and became deputy first minister in 2007. Here, Professor Roger Mac Ginty of The Univer...

Two former Manchester students have been presented with awards by the University in recognition of their world-leading leading roles in humanitarian aid and emergency response. ...