Category: Staff blogs

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 Ayham...

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....

Multimedia from our events programme

Our latest events...   Young People in Humanitarianism Conference (22nd May 2026) HCRI hosted its annual youth conference, welcoming students from four local high schools for a simulation exercise about disaster preparedness and response. The event – titled the...

Feeling Notes, by Dr Omer Aijazi

The article is by Dr Omer Aijazi, Lecturer in Disasters and Climate Crisis at HCRI and author of Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir. Here, he rethinks field notes as “feeling notes” and considers the possibilities that this shift in thinking might...

Introducing the Humanitarian Archive

This article was originally posted on the Rylands Blog, which features news from the John Rylands Research Institute and Library (here). It is written by Flora Chatt, an archivist working on HCRI's new Developing Humanitarian Medicine research project (here).  ...

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...

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