by Humanities Web Team | Feb 1, 2016 | Student blogs
Manchester Calling Staff blogs Student blogs About By Ahmed Idris @ugasow On 6th January 2015, a sad story from Northern Kenya caught the attention of Kenyans and kept tongues wagging. A man is alleged to have stabbed his wife, Fatuma Ibrahim, several times leaving a...
by Humanities Web Team | Feb 1, 2016 | Staff blogs
Manchester Calling Staff blogs Student blogs About by Dr. Tammam Aloudat (Deputy Medical Director, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Switzerland) The past weeks have seen Madaya, a town in Syria, reach the news headlines for a few brief days, and then fall into oblivion...
by Humanities Web Team | Jan 8, 2016 | Staff blogs
Manchester Calling Staff blogs Student blogs About by Jessica Hawkins Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies @HawkinsJessicaR Taking students on fieldwork can present a minefield of ethical and practical challenges (see Roger Mac Ginty’s blog on this). This is multiplied...
by Humanities Web Team | Dec 18, 2015 | Student blogs
Manchester Calling Staff blogs Student blogs About by Rose Pescod Storm Desmond, which brought record levels of rainfall to Northern England and Scotland over the weekend beginning the 4 December, is estimated to have caused the flooding of 2,000 properties and left...
by Humanities Web Team | Nov 23, 2015 | Staff blogs
Manchester Calling Staff blogs Student blogs About Pierre Fuller Web searches remain the predominant avenue for non-academic researchers seeking historical data or contextualisation. Yet online searches on the major topics that I have been researching and publishing...