Darren Walter, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health, HCRIKen Hines, Retired GP and Pre-hospital Care Doctor, Librarian Disaster Resource...
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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...
Academic Spotlight: Dr Antoine Burgard
Antoine Burgard is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at HCRI. He has recently been appointed to the role of Lecturer in Contemporary History of Humanitarianism and Disasters, which will begin in January 2020.Before completing a PhD in History from Université Lumière...
Academic Spotlight: Dr Rubina Jasani
Dr Rubina Jasani is a Programme Director for the Intercalated BSc in Global Health and Lecturer in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response at HCRI. Rubina convenes Anthropology of Violence and Reconstruction and Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian...
Academic Spotlight: Dr Nat O’Grady
Dr Nat O’Grady is Postgraduate Research Director and Lecturer in Human Geography and Disaster at HCRI. Nat is a geographer with an interest in how technological innovations influence the geo-politics of security and governance.“For me security is a way to understand...
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