Articles tagged with 'hcri' | University of Manchester

Tell us about your research focus on mobilities concerning contentious mobilities, vital mobilities, climate discourse, and climate pricing. In my current research, I focus on vital mobilities - movements that impact life chances. These are ext...

Visual Settle in for some synapse-kindling, world view-challenging content courtesy of The University of Manchester's Lockdown Lectures, featuring insights from the Faculty of Humanities' David Olusoga, Gary Younge and Michael Wood. Watch now. ...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute’s Director of Research, Dr Larissa Fast, has worked with The Imperial War Museum North’s (IWM North) to develop their new exhibition Aid Workers: Ethics under Fire, which opened on 2 October 2020. Lari...

From the First World War to the present day, countless lives have been affected by conflict, resulting in ordinary people making the difficult decision to flee their homes - this is the focus of a major new exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum ...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute’s (HCRI) Emeritus Professor and Founder of UK-Med, Professor Tony Redmond OBE, has recently been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd), Faculty of R...

In an interview with HCRI, Catherine Arthur talks about her three-month field research in Timor-Leste, the importance of street art in peacebuilding, and the role of symbols in contexts of peace and conflict. To learn more about the history of Tim...

Incoming third-year International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response student Marcell has been spending his summer establishing Revolution West Midlands, an initiative aimed at empowering, educating and mobilising everybody in the UK agains...

The UN recognises World Humanitarian Day as a celebration of frontline humanitarians, risking their lives to give aid to the most vulnerable people in the world. It is also a day to acknowledge the importance of not only fieldwork but also of those p...

Every year, HCRI honour the students with the highest dissertation mark for International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) and intercalated Global Health (GH) respectively. This year the winners of the Outstanding Dissertation Aw...

HCRI student Ben is in the final year of his PhD, which examines the ways aid organisations are operating in insecure environments, focusing particularly on remote forms of humanitarianism in Syria. He took some time out in Autumn 2019 to intern with...

The two winners are Yared Alemu from Ethiopia studying Humanitarian and Conflict Response MA full-time in October, and Patrick Magona from Uganda, studying the Global Health MSc. The Equity and Merit Scholarship will open for applications on 1 Aug...

The aim of the HCRI Policy Brief Series is to disseminate cutting edge academic research in an accessible and meaningful way, engaging with policymakers, governments, humanitarian practitioners and the general public. We acknowledge that a gap still ...

The unexpected ending to the academic year has impacted the studies, social life, and summer of all of our students, including our graduating class, who have spent three years contributing to the environment of our institute, the wider university, an...

The virtual celebration for the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures will take place at 3pm on Tuesday 28 July and will be available to view on the SALC YouTube channel. The celebrations will stay online following the event, therefore any students ...

The part-time virtual academic programme, a sister to HCRI’s face-to-face International Disaster Management Masters course, is responding to an increasing demand within global disaster and resilience space. The course recognises the importance of dis...

During the University of Manchester Student Union awards Humanitarian and Conflict Response MA student, Hatty Ruddick, swept up two awards – Campaigner of the Year, and Most Persuasive Campaigner of the year. In the same week, Hatty was elected to th...

A May 2020 report published by Dr Larissa Fast and Christina Bennett for the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), From the ground up: it's about time for local humanitarian action, brings together two years of research about local humanitarian action. ...

 Dr Rubina Jasani discussed 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 begin by asking Rubina about her involvem...

HCRI staff and students have spent the last few weeks reflecting on the events happening both in the UK and the USA, including the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and listening to the wider debates this has opened up around racism, whit...

HCRI  have summarised the highlights and latest research contributions below. COVID-19 Recovery Drs Nathaniel O’Grady, Ayham Fattoum and Professor Duncan Shaw are part of a multidisciplinary project involving academics from across the universi...

In a new blog series, HCRI celebrates the role of nurses and midwives in humanitarianism by speaking to alumni and partners: Sophia Turner, an International Disaster Management MSc student, told us what it's like to be deployed as a nurse overseas...

Dr Billy Tusker Haworth’s important research, teaching approach and support of students, along with his championing of LGBTIQ+ rights and equality, diversity and inclusion within and outside of the University community, has earned him a nomination fo...

In this fully-online programme, educators are given the opportunity to explore theories and practices of humanitarianism in a globalised world and how to teach this across multiple disciplines, including social sciences, history, geography, and r...

Professor Peter Gatrell from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester is one of five authors to have their books shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize. His book titled The Unsettlin...

The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has supported the inaugural Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo) North West event, bringing practitioners together to discuss global health expertise. The ga...

Sarah Lagot Odwong, a Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA graduate has been included in Uganda’s Sunday Vision Top 40 Under 40. The list recognises outstanding managers/leaders who act as a beacon to their peers and whose work has led to posi...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) has been re-designated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Conflict Analysis and Programming. Over the next two years, HCRI will work closely with colleagues at the WHO headquarters in Geneva,...

The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester will be launching a new CPD unit in Humanitarian Education in summer 2020. The course is designed to support educators in engaging with humanitarian topics, fr...

HCRI are inviting applications for a lectureship in responses to the climate crisis for the first time in the Institute’s history. The lectureship is part of an expansion in the Institute designed to build upon existing strengths around the inters...

A trio of undergraduate students have successfully set up an HCRI university society on campus. Committee organisers Holly Vipond, Matilda Shannon and Sarah Hilton-Watts identified that unlike other institutes and courses across The University, HC...