Category: Student blogs

Rubina is a student on our online course in Global Health. She lives in Australia and has worked at Australian Red Cross for over five years in a number of roles including supporting asylum seekers and managing food security and nutrition education programmes for...

by Rose Pescod, MSc International Disaster Management Predominantly it had been the media, in particular images published by the media, that had informed me of the terrible conditions endured in refugee camps globally. So it was with some trepidation that I made the...

by Thea Soltau, HCRI MA Humanitarianism and Conflict ResponseI live in the Calder Valley. Last semester at HCRI it would have taken me a little while to explain where I live to most students. On the 26th December 2015 as the severe flooding made headline news I only...

By Ahmed Idris @ugasowOn 6th January 2015, a sad story from Northern Kenya caught the attention of Kenyans and kept tongues wagging. A man is alleged to have stabbed his wife, Fatuma Ibrahim, several times leaving a knife stuck in her skull. The story is summarized in...

by Rose PescodStorm Desmond, which brought record levels of rainfall to Northern England and Scotland over the weekend beginning the 4 December, is estimated to have caused the flooding of 2,000 properties and left 60,000 homes without power. Following the devastating...

Vincent Fevrier, @FevrierVincentIm a current student of International Disaster Management at the HCRI, and on 14 September, I presented my dissertation research at the Quest for Humanitarian Effectiveness conference run by HCRI, Save the Children, and under the...

The more personal the statement can be the better! Admission tutors read a lot of statements so think about how to personalise it to ensure it is individual and stands out. It is important to let your personality in and to use your own voice. To that end avoid...

Rosanna Eastman Rosanna is a 2014-15 MA student in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response in the HCRI.The Model United Nations was an optional part of my Case Studies module at HCRI for my MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response., I decided to take part in it...