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...
Category: Staff blogs
Beyond the Ethics Board: Strengthening continued ethical practice in qualitative research
The Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) is hosting training workshops with the aim of enhancing responsible research practice, by promoting consistent, ethically sound practice across social science and humanities disciplines as part of University's...
Why Humanitarian Evidence Summaries are Essential in Turbulent Times
This piece by Dr Luke Kelly, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at HCRI, was originally published in K4DD. Humanitarianism is a broad field that has developed considerably since the 1990s. Accompanying this growth has been a proliferation of researchers seeking to...
Kill Your Ancestors, Choose New Elders
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...
Employability resources for students
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 Patrick...
Reflecting on key lessons learned from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes
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...
A New Conversation on Non-Communicable Diseases
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. Yet,...
Disaster authoritarianism: How autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes
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 ruled by...
Multimedia from our events programme
Our latest events... HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025: Prof. Marsha Henry, Queen's University Belfast Prof Henry spoke to the title 'Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings: On the Urgency of Critical Theories in Humanitarian Studies and Practice'. Some of...
Careers advice: Top tips for gaining experience while studying at HCRI
The University's Careers Service have prepared some handy tips about gaining experience and researching roles, before embarking on a career in the humanitarian or development sectors. Thank you Careers Service! Gaining Experience Humanitarianism and international...
