This blog has been written by Dr Jessica Hawkins and Dr Rubina Jasani relating to the postgraduate module, 'Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Humanitarian Crises' available on the MA Humanitarianism and Conflict Response and MSc International Disaster...
Category: Staff blogs
Seeing theory in practice: HCRI students participate in SIMEX, the UK’s largest annual international disaster response exercise
Blog edited by: Dr Billy Tusker Haworth and Dr Stephanie Rinaldi.Contributors: Rachel Cass (RC), Anna Fraine (AF), Hanqi Liao (HL), Morgan Payne (MP), and Eliza Van Overschelde (EVO).Every year organisers from several UK agencies conduct the SIMEX Series disaster...
Mapping together for improved healthcare delivery: the HCRI humanitarian mapathon, 2019
This blog has been written by Dr Billy Haworth, Lecturer in International Disaster Management. The blog discusses the Humanitarian Mapathon which took place in March and contributed to creating the first ever detailed map of Uganda to help deliver healthcare and...
Bodies and Affects as Security Devices in and amongst Complex Emergencies
This blog has been published by Nat O'Grady, Lecturer in Disaster Management. The blog coincides with his recent publication, 'Designing affect into security: shared situational awareness protocols and the habit of emergency response'.In the strategies and rationales...
iBSc Campaign Video Success
This blog has been written by Jenna Murray de Lopez on the Intercalating BSc in Global Health and the videos have been produced by students as part of their course assessment.Each year at HCRI we welcome 3rd and 4th year medical students from across the UK (and...
Researching the Legacies of War in Uganda with our Postgraduate Students
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...
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...
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