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...
Category: Student blogs
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...
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Kirsty
Kirsty Lowe is a midwife and Global Health MSc student. She shares how her experience of being deployed by UK-MED with the UK Emergency Medical Team to the Diphtheria outbreak in Bangladesh inspired her to study the course.What course did you choose to study at the...
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Sophia
We interviewed Sophia to tell us about her journey to the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), and what it’s like to be deployed by UK-Med as a nurse responding to emergencies overseas.Sophia Turner, a humanitarian nurse in Emergency Medicine and...
Bridging the gap between refugees and healthcare services in Manchester during our time on the Global Health iBSc
This blog has been written by Danielle Hartland and Louis Clarke with regards to their year spent studying the Intercalated BSc in Global Health and experience working with the refugee and asylum seeker community in Manchester. After completing our third year as...
My Journey from North Carolina to Studying Disasters in Manchester
This blog has been written by Jacob Graham, who is one of our Taught Master's bursary winners for the MSc International Disaster Programme at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI).I arrived in Manchester to start the MSc International Disaster...
Student Spotlight: Joudy Habash
Joudy Habash is a student on the BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response programme. Originally from Syria, he moved to the UK in 2015 and started looking for opportunities to work or study in the area of humanitarianism, which led him to HCRI....
Disaster recovery: An opportunity for corruption?
This blog was published by Stefano Piscitelli, MSc International Disaster Management student at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). It was published due to being an assessment piece of the highest calibre amongst the cohort in the Rethinking...
In the Shadow of Grenfell: Silence speaks louder than words
This blog was published by Eloise Jones, second year BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response student at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). It was published due to being an assessment piece of the highest calibre amongst...
Student Spotlight: Kate Ness
Kate is an MSc in International Disaster Management student. Originally from Scotland, Kate moved to Manchester in 2019 to start her degree. Below she discusses her motivations for studying and her volunteering work in Manchester.Towards the end of my undergraduate...
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