Articles tagged with 'hcri' | University of Manchester

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...

An innovative new digital installation exploring the humanitarian crisis and on-going conflict in Yemen is set to come to The University of Manchester on 9 October. The people of Yemen are facing what is described by the UN as the ‘world’s worst’ ...

HCRI were pleased to grant the Outstanding iBSC Dissertation award to Julia Kiemble-Gabbay and the inaugural Citizenship Award to Olivia Harper. The award recognises Julia’s achievement on completing her Intercalated BSc Global Health disserta...

HCRI colleagues participated over the weekend in Bluedot 2019, the annual music, science and culture festival at Jodrell Bank. HCRI’s stall provided a multimedia graphic novella experience and colouring station based on After Maria: Everyday Recov...

Graduation week became more special as HCRI’s initial cohort of BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response became the first-ever graduates of the course. To acknowledge the special occasion, Dr Gemma Sou, Programme Director, a...

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 ...