by HCRI | May 27, 2026 | Staff blogs
This post was written by Dr Jessica Hawkins (HCRI) and Dr Helen Underhill (GDI) about a recent session as part of the HCRI module ‘Conceptualising the Camp’, which explores the historical sociology of refugee camps. Camps have been described as...
by HCRI | May 1, 2026 | Staff blogs
This post was written by Dr Martin Parham (Lecturer in Disaster Management) about a recent student field trip to Sicily, for the module ‘Understanding Environmental Hazards’ on HCRI’s MSc in International Disaster Management (module list). When...
by HCRI | Apr 27, 2026 | Staff blogs
This piece by Dr Philip Proudfoot (Institute of Development Studies), Helene Juillard (Key Aid Consulting), and Prof Bertrand Taithe (HCRI), for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency project. The humanitarian sector is losing its memory. Funding cuts, closures, and the...
by HCRI | Mar 5, 2026 | Staff blogs
This piece by Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Change at HCRI, was originally published in the series Making Vulnerability Work with PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Vulnerability is not a description; it is a decision. In...
by HCRI | Nov 6, 2025 | Staff blogs
This article by Flora Chatt was originally posted on the website of HCRI’s Developing Humanitarian Medicine project. The theme of this year’s World Digital Preservation Day is Why Preserve? For the archives of humanitarianism (where I work, as the...
