Authors: Marielle Dick, Eve Henley and Jasmine Mortimer, postgraduate students at HCRI, who participated in a research visit to Uganda as part of the module ‘Researching Responses to Displacement’ (HCRI 60061). Before embarking on our research trip to situations...
Category: Fieldwork
On the First Encounter of Volcanic Affects and Memories in Malalcahuello (Chile)
This article was written by Francisca Vergara-Pinto, a PhD Candidate at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester. More on her research here Photos by Jorge Romero and Francisca Vergara-Pinto. A meeting of the local and scientific...
Reflecting upon fieldwork in Uganda: Navigating challenging conversations in research settings
Authors: Sophie Lennox and Holly Vipond, postgraduate students at University of Manchester (UoM), who attended a research visit to Uganda as part of the HCRI module 'Humanitarianism and Displacement' (HCRI 60061) Photography credits: Tapiwanashe James, En Xi Lim,...
Sport, mental health, and refugees
Authors: Finley Allott – MA Humanitarianism and Conflict Response student; Dr Jessica Hawkins – Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. Photo credits: Tapiwanashe James, Jessica Hawkins, En Xi Lim In January 2023, seventeen postgraduate Master’s students studying at...
Libya: the forgotten ones
Michaël Neuman spent ten days in Libya with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in detention centres for migrants. From his stay, he brings back the following impressions that illustrate the gloomy situation of the people who are held there, for months or...
Volunteering for asylum seekers in Northern Greece: a guiding tool in my masters’ degree in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response
The blog has been written by Inès Decoster, who is one of our Taught Master's bursary winners for the MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response programme at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). The blog relates to his 3 month volunteering...
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Sophia
We interviewed Sophia to tell us about her journey to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), and what it’s like to be deployed by UK-Med as a nurse responding to emergencies overseas.Sophia Turner, a humanitarian nurse in Emergency Medicine and...
Joseph’s story
In January, a group of masters students from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute presented 18-year-old South Sudanese footballer Joseph Muyang with signed Manchester United gear, provided by the Manchester United Foundation.The following post is written...
Practical Approaches to Research in Fragile Environments: A Research Visit to Mumbai
We have three blogs which have been published by various third year undergraduate students on the research field trip in Mumbai at the beginning of January.The first blog was published by Olivia Harper:The research visit to Mumbai, in collaboration with Tata Institute...
Researching the Legacies of War in Uganda with our Postgraduate Students
This blog has been published by Dr Jessica Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. The blog discusses the research field trip in Uganda which took place at the start of January.For the past ten days, seventeen of our postgraduate students studying on our MA...
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