What did you study at college?I studied English Literature, History and Geography at college.Why did you choose International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) rather than another course?Originally I was going to apply for a course in International...
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Joseph’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?At college, I did the International Baccalaureate so in total I studied six subjects. My favourites were Anthropology, History and Chinese.Why did you choose International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response (IDMHR) rather than...
Anna’s thoughts on the Global Health BSc
Anna is a third-year medical student at the University of Manchester who intercalated on the BSc in Global Health in 2015-16.Why did you decide to intercalate on the iBSc?Before attending Manchester to study medicine I had heard that medical schools often allowed you...
Reflections on an inspirational research trip
by Jisun Park, HCRI alumnus.Wrapping up a year of my life at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), I was packing my luggage to leave Manchester and all kinds of memories from this city went through my mind like a flash. From the articles that I had...
Why Rubina chose to study online
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...
Media matters: how should we talk about suffering?
by Gurdev SinghWhen David Cameron used the word “swarm” to refer to Europe's refugees in 2015, a national conversation was sparked around the way in which “we” here in Britain (and in the Western world at large) talk about people from other parts of the world who are...
Gihembe Refugee Camp, Rwanda
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...
From Yorkshire to Uganda: Exploring flooding responses and the possibilities of partnership learning
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...
Of Citizenship, Constitutions and Equitable Health Care in Kenya: The Plight of North Eastern Kenya
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...
Storm Desmond: A multi-organisational response
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...
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