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2022
17
May
2022
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10:48
Europe/London
Words For Your World: HCRI School Writing Competition Winners Announced Soon with Special July Event
The deadline to enter the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute’s “Words For Your World” school writing competition is now closed and winners will be notified by the 27th May. The competition received over 100 entries, from across the country,...
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13
May
2022
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09:00
Europe/London
A member of staff from The University of Manchester has completed a marathon cycling challenge, raising over £3000 for UK-Med’s Ukraine Appeal in the process....
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05
April
2022
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16:42
Europe/London
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) will host its annual Careers in Humanitarianism Day on 29 April 2022 in University Place. It is set to be an exciting day, with a plethora of speakers from organisations such as Save the Childr...
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30
March
2022
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09:00
Europe/London
A member of staff from The University of Manchester is set to cycle around the entire circumference of The Netherlands – 1400km in total – to raise funds for UK-Med’s Ukraine Appeal....
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10
March
2022
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11:31
Europe/London
A humanitarian charity based at The University of Manchester has launched an urgent Ukraine Appeal, as it seeks to raise money to provide emergency medical aid for the millions of people displaced by the Russian invasion of the country....
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10
February
2022
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13:12
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Dr Anisa Jafar has been named as Young Researcher of the Year by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)....
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26
January
2022
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14:21
Europe/London
UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.2022 is the fifth year that Manchester has celebrated Internation...
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2021
21
December
2021
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12:35
Europe/London
FeaturedKathputli Utsav – A Festival of Traditional Indian Arts’ took place on Wednesday, 23 February 2022 in celebration of UNESCO International Mother Language Day and in partnership with Creative Manchester, the Humanitarian Conflict Response Inst...
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09
December
2021
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12:02
Europe/London
The University of Manchester has launched a national climate writing competition for young people in the aftermath of the recent COP26 conference in Glasgow.
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19
October
2021
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14:54
Europe/London
A new report from The University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, UK-Med and Save the Children is calling for the climate emergency to be treated as a humanitarian crisis.
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17
September
2021
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15:45
Europe/London
Greater Manchester humanitarian organisations benefited the lives of more than five million of the world’s most vulnerable people in 2020, it has been revealed.
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27
August
2021
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11:12
Europe/London
We are delighted to announce that Larissa Fast, Professor of Humanitarian and Conflict Studies, has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the University of Manchester’s Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).Professor Bertrand ...
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14
July
2021
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11:02
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is a proud Silver Supporter of the Manchester International Festival, as such we are working collaboratively on a number of flagship events as part of MIF21. Both students and academics are involved in the Festival, which...
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13
July
2021
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12:51
Europe/London
Big Ben Lying Down with Political Books is a monumental participatory artwork at this year’s Manchester International Festival by Argentinian artist Marta Minujín. The installation, featuring a 42-metre structure of London’s iconic Big Ben clock towe...
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07
July
2021
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14:10
Europe/London
Thomas returns to The University of Manchester, where he spent five years as Professor of Musicology and Head of the Division of Art History, Drama and Music. He has also held posts at Bangor University, the University of Frankfurt and the University...
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29
June
2021
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16:51
Europe/London
During her PhD, Margot studied the history of United Nations peacekeeping missions during the Cold War period and the colonial legacies perpetuated by the missions. Her thesis 'Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: UN Peacekeeping Missions and the Formation of th...
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20
May
2021
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12:17
Europe/London
Over the past year, academics including David Powell, Drs Nat O’Grady, Ayham Fattoum and Professor Duncan Shaw from HCRI, and colleagues at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), have shared global learning, best practice and research findings t...
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16
March
2021
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09:42
Europe/London
Methods for Change is a project funded by Aspect and Research England that shares creative research methods used in the social sciences with the broader community, including government and NGOs, to support innovative research and enact positive socia...
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25
February
2021
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16:41
Europe/London
PhD student and alumna of the International Disaster Management MSc at HCRI, Nicola Jones, discusses stigma narratives in HIV public health policies, her work with the Terrence Higgins Trust, and researching HIV health services and disaster relief ai...
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08
February
2021
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16:48
Europe/London
Many students from HCRI’s courses go onto varying careers in humanitarianism. It can be difficult to get paid experience in the sector as a student, and volunteering is highly valued by employers, showing dedication and initiative, as well as insight...
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21
January
2021
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11:00
Europe/London
The Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare (RIAH) project, led by Drs Larissa Fast, Róisín Read, Stephanie Rinaldi and Professor Bertrand Taithe at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), has launched a new website.The RIAH ...
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20
January
2021
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12:38
Europe/London
As part of International Mother Language Day 2021, an event which celebrates the nearly 200 languages spoken in Manchester and the cultural diversity within the city, Creative Manchester is delighted to be coordinating a number of online events that ...
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2020
16
December
2020
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10:13
Europe/London
All of the students who’ve completed their Masters, during the added challenges and unpredictability of a global pandemic, should be extremely proud of themselves. Within HCRI, this year’s dissertations highlight not just the breadth of topics within...
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15
December
2020
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09:58
Europe/London
For anybody completing their Masters in 2020, a significant amount of their studies has taken place against a backdrop of COVID-19, uncertainty, and unexpected challenges. Despite this, the standard of work produced by HCRI’s students across all of t...
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11
December
2020
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13:38
Europe/London
In an interview with HCRI, Undergraduate Programme Director and Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies, Jessica Hawkins, shares her approach of using historical sociology in her research, state formation in Uganda, and mental health considerations for work...
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07
December
2020
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12:46
Europe/London
Dr Billy Tusker Haworth received the funding from the University of Manchester’s Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) for his research into experiences of gender and sexual minorities during the COVID-19 pan...
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25
November
2020
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14:50
Europe/London
The project has been part-funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, and brings together specialists from AMBS, the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and The University of Manchest...
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28
October
2020
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14:54
Europe/London
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...
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05
October
2020
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15:06
Europe/London
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...
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29
September
2020
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09:02
Europe/London
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 ...
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