The blog has been written by Helen Jones, who is a first year student on the BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response. As part of her assessment on the module International Disaster Management, she was asked to write a blog post of a 1000 words...
Category: Student blogs
Discrimination and Disasters: The experiences of women in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami
The blog has been written by Mathilda Shannon, who is a first year student on the BSc International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response. As part of her assessment on the module International Disaster Management, she was asked to write a blog post of a 1000...
Pecha Kucha: 20 images. 20 seconds. 1 chance.
This blog has been published by Ben Pollock and Melissa Colak (current postgraduate students in International Disaster Management) who arranged the Pecha Kucha event last month, in collaboration with colleagues in the HCRI faculty and office. A big thanks to Billy...
Practical Approaches to Research in Fragile Environments: A Research Visit to Mumbai
We have three blogs which have been published by various third year undergraduate students on the research field trip in Mumbai at the beginning of January.The first blog was published by Olivia Harper:The research visit to Mumbai, in collaboration with Tata Institute...
Taking action against Immigration Detention in the UK: Reflections on an Evening Symposium
This blog has been published by Dr Louise Tomkow and Isabelle Kidder who both study at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester. Dr Louise Tomkow is a Geriatric Registrar in the Northwest deanery and a PhD researcher exploring...
An interview with Mr Chad Simpson, Graduate Contingency Planning Officer at Westminster City Council, London, and former MSc International Disaster Management student at HCRI.
This blog has been published by Dr Billy Tusker Haworth, Lecturer in International Disaster ManagementEmail: billy.haworth@manchester.ac.ukTwitter: @BillyTusker Billy: What does your role at Westminster City Council involve?Chad: I’m a Graduate Contingency Planning...
WAST PEER Research Project Graduation
This blog has been published by Sarah Lagot, one of our postgraduate students. The blog discusses No Recourse! Project Launch and Graduation which took place earlier this month.On 5th December 2018, the inaugural cohort of 10 researchers from the WAST PEER Research...
Child Soldiers of the 21st Century
This blog post was written by Amy Hook who is currently enrolled in our MA in Humanitarian and Conflict Response. The news that armed groups in South Sudan released more than 200 child soldiers in April was gratifying. Since violence arose between the government and...
The Emotional Burden of Research
After a year and a half of preparing for my fieldwork in Malawi, which consisted of many late nights sat at my computer, reading, writing, re-writing, and drowning in ethics applications, I finally arrived in Lilongwe in April, and am now coming to the end of what has...
Dissertation reflection: counterfeit drugs in Thailand
This blog was written by Dan Turley, a student on the intercalated BSc in Global Health at HCRI. Find out more information about the iBSc in Global Health here. For my dissertation submitted to the HCRI for the Intercalated BSc in Global Health, I investigated the...
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