Category: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...