This blog was written by Julian Tower, first-year BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response student at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). The blog was part of an assessment for the Introduction to Disaster Management module....
Category: COVID-19
A Year in Lockdown: New graduate perspective
Written by Juliette Flach, 2020 BSc International Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response graduate It’s now been just over one year of lockdown, and so I thought this might be a good opportunity to reflect on some of the highs and lows of the last 365 days....
Researching experiences of gender and sexual minorities during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Billy Tusker Haworth Pronouns: he/him or they/themLecturer in International Disaster ManagementEquality, Diversity & Inclusion representativeHumanitarian and Conflict Response Institute,University of ManchesterEmail: billy.haworth@manchester.ac.ukWebsite:...
COVID-19 in Uganda – reflections on its early response
Dr Jessica Hawkins reflects on Uganda's early response to COVID-19 in conversation with Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA alumni and Director of Communications for USAID's Better Outcomes for Children and Youth, Sarah Lagot Odwong.On the 13th of March, the...
Happy 12th Birthday HCRI: Celebrating achievements over the past year
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) was founded 12 years ago in August. Since then it has gone on to educate hundreds of students, publish high-impact research, and form innovative partnerships within the humanitarian sector."2019-2020 has been a...
HCRI involved in university-wide project recommending ways of recovering from COVID-19
HCRI’s Dr Nathaniel O’Grady, Dr Ayham Fattoum, and Professor Duncan Shaw have been working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team of academics from the University of Manchester looking at COVID-19 recovery. The recently published ‘How can society recover from...
Local Resilience Forums and Emergency Planning: An interview with Professor Duncan Shaw
Duncan Shaw is Professor of Operations and Critical Systems at The University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School, and honorary professor at HCRI. As a leading expert in the field, his research led the formation of the international standard ISO 22319,...
Decision-making at a time of great uncertainty
Continued uncertainty around COVID-19 demands more qualitative modelling, says Dr Ayham Fattoum, Lecturer in Disaster Operations Management at HCRI. In the wake of countries adopting such a broad range of measures to control COVID-19 in recent months, there are...
How can society recover from COVID-19?
Drawing on evidence from other crises civic leaders need to already start planning for society’s recovery from COVID-19, says Dr Joy Furnival, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Management at the university’s Institute for Health Policy and Organisation.HCRI academics...
A global outlook: Humanitarian insight within COVID-19 clinical research
As with many academics Professor Paul Dark wears a number of different hats including clinician and humanitarian. It’s through these combined disciplines that he is often looking at the wider impact his research can have. Greater Manchester’s response to COVID-19In...
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