This blog has been published by Dr Jessica Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. The blog discusses the research field trip in Uganda which took place at the start of January.For the past ten days, seventeen of our postgraduate students studying on our MA...
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New Emergency Infrastructures: An Insight from New York
This blog is published by Dr. Nathaniel O'Grady, who will be joining HCRI as a lecturer in Human Geography and Disasters from January 2019. The blog discusses his recent fieldwork in New York City.Digital data bear an ever-increasing prevalence across emergency...
Political Symbols: Representing Kaleidoscope Nations
This blog was written by Dr. Catherine Arthur, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies. It summarises her recent book publication: Political Symbols and National Identity in Timor-Leste.Symbols of identity – flags, hero figures, emblems of nationhood – are the central glue...
The economic side effects of peacekeeping and humanitarian interventions: Intervention gentrification and everyday economics
This blog was written by Dr Birte Vogel, Director of Teaching and Learning at HCRI. It summarises her recent publication in Civil Wars journal. What happens to local communities and neighbourhoods when a large group of international aid workers, peacekeepers or...
Getting behind everyday indicators
This blog was written by Professor Roger Mac Ginty, Lecturer in Peace and Conflict studies at HCRI. The original blog can be found on his website. I don’t think I have seen as many large construction cranes as I have seen towering above Manchester at the moment. There...
HCRI 10 Year Anniversary and PhD Symposium
This blog was written by Megan Turner, HCRI Communications and Administrative Assistant.May 2018 was a special month for HCRI, most notably for the launch of our 10 Year Anniversary. To celebrate a decade of HCRI, this year will see a large programme of events that...
New economic geographies and old conflict dynamics: trade in the border region of India, Pakistan and China
This blog was written by Dr Birte Vogel, Director of Teaching and Learning at HCRI.@birtevogel_How do economic interactions impact on peace or conflict and vice versa? This is the central question of a new project I am working on with partners from O.P. Global...
International EMT Training Programme: West China Hospital of Sichuan University
This blog was written by Dr Andrea Bartolucci, Research Associate at HCRI. Andrea is working on the HCRI EMT program within the WHO Global EMT Initiative. His research aims to support the development of a training curriculum for EMT with reference to WHO Global EMT...
NEEDS 2018: Northern European Emergency and Disasters Studies Conference
This blog was written by Bart Veneman, a student on our MSc International Disaster Management Programme. NEEDS 2018: Northern European Emergency and Disasters Studies Conference21-23 March 2018 - AmsterdamBetween the 21st to 23rd of March 2018, the upper floor of the...
When the lights go out after disasters: the disproportionate burden on women
Written by Dr Gemma Sou, Lecturer in International Disaster Management.@gemmasouAfter Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20th 2017, the media kicked into frenzy mode and recounted the devastation brought by the grade 5 Hurricane. This was...
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