In recognition of today’s Volunteer Week theme of ‘Power of Youth Day’, we reflect on the real-world experiences Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) students and alumni have had as Project Trust volunteers.Project Trust, an Educational Charity, has...
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A Year in Lockdown: New graduate perspective
Written by Juliette Flach, 2020 BSc International Disaster Management & Humanitarian Response graduate It’s now been just over one year of lockdown, and so I thought this might be a good opportunity to reflect on some of the highs and lows of the last 365 days....
Women’s History Month 2021: Women after the Bolshevik Revolution: Equality and Independence? A brief introduction to the role of Women in the early Soviet Union.
Hanna Matt, 2nd year PhD candidate, HCRIIn honour of Women’s History Month, I wanted to talk about gender equality and the role of women in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. This topic was instrumental in shaping my journey as a researcher; I first became...
COVID-19 in Uganda – reflections on its early response
Dr Jessica Hawkins reflects on Uganda's early response to COVID-19 in conversation with Humanitarianism and Conflict Response MA alumni and Director of Communications for USAID's Better Outcomes for Children and Youth, Sarah Lagot Odwong.On the 13th of March, the...
Global mental health – from the impact of war and displacement to barriers accessing mental health support
We all have mental health, but not everyone has access to mental health support or is aware of how mental health conditions impact people's lives.In reference to World Mental Health Day, the President of the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) said: "Mental...
The Lessons of History?
Darren Walter, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health, HCRIKen Hines, Retired GP and Pre-hospital Care Doctor, Librarian Disaster Resource...
Listening to the voices of young refugees: Dr Antoine Burgard
Dr Antoine Burgard is a lecturer in contemporary history of humanitarianism at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. In recent years, refugee children and adolescents have been at the centre of humanitarian discourses and media representations about...
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...
The impact of COVID-19 on clinical practice and research: perspective from the RECOVERY trial
Anisa Jafar, an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer at HCRI, is directly managing COVID-19 patients as an emergency medicine doctor but also as part of her involvement in the recruitment of the Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial at the Manchester...
Volunteering for asylum seekers in Northern Greece: a guiding tool in my masters’ degree in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response
The blog has been written by Inès Decoster, who is one of our Taught Master's bursary winners for the MA in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response programme at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). The blog relates to his 3 month volunteering...
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