by HCRI | Oct 3, 2025 | Staff blogs
This piece by Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Change at HCRI, was originally published in Wicked Stars: A Zin to Trouble Disaster Studies. Fields of study are sites of inheritance. We draw upon our ancestors and elders to tell our stories. We build...
by HCRI | Sep 3, 2025 | Staff blogs
HCRI Office has put together a collection of careers-related resources, for students looking to build or enhance their employability in the humanitarian sector. To follow up on anything, please contact hcri@manchester.ac.uk or HCRI’s Employability Lead Dr...
by HCRI | Sep 1, 2025 | Staff blogs
How can disaster governance be made more democratic? What role do disaster memories play in making future disaster response more just and accountable? In April 2025, to mark the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Nepal earthquakes, which claimed over 9000 lives and caused...
by HCRI | Aug 1, 2025 | Staff blogs
This piece, by HCRI’s Dr Costanza Torre, was originally posted on the Developing Humanitarian Medicine project’s blogsite. The chronic nature of crisis and the inadequacy of resources allocated to humanitarian operations can hardly be defined as new problems....
by HCRI | Jun 2, 2025 | Staff blogs
This piece, by HCRI’s Dr Nimesh Dhungana (Lecturer in Disasters and Global Health), was originally published in The Conversation. An earthquake that struck south-east Asia in late March is thought to have killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, a country...
