We all have mental health, but not everyone has access to mental health support or is aware of how mental health conditions impact people's lives.In reference to World Mental Health Day, the President of the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) said: "Mental...
Category: Staff blogs
How to choose a dissertation topic in International Disaster Management, Humanitarian Response and Global Health
Dr Jessica R Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies & Undergraduate Programme Director The start of the new academic year is upon us. For those of you entering your final year of your undergraduate degree, dissertations will be making its presence felt. For...
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...
The Lessons of History?
Darren Walter, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health, HCRIKen Hines, Retired GP and Pre-hospital Care Doctor, Librarian Disaster Resource...
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...
Connecting Humanitarianism to the Next Generation – the rise of Humanitarian Educators
This blog has been written by Amanda McCorkindale, Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Global Health at the Humanitarianism and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). To mark the launch of HCRI’s new online CPD in Humanitarian Education, Amanda blogs about how young people...
Barbudans are resisting disaster capitalists
This blog was written by Gemma Sou, Lecturer in Disaster Studies. It was commissioned and originally published in the New Internationalist.In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Gemma hears the views of Barbudans who accuse the Antiguan side of the government of...
Academic Spotlight: Dr Darren Walter
Dr Darren Walter is the online programme director and is Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health at the Humanitarian Conflict and Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester. Darren is also a consultant in Emergency Medicine at Wythenshawe...
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