Published articles in the ‘Injury’ international journal
Some recent papers from HCRI's collaborative project with the Red Cross have been published in the May edition of 'Injury', an international journal dealing with trauma care and accident surgery. Are prehospital deaths from trauma and accidental injury preventable? A...
University of Manchester takes lead on new standard for disaster volunteers
Charities, businesses and community groups across the world will be able to streamline and improve their response to emergencies and disasters, thanks to a new International Standard initiated at the University of Manchester.The standard, developed by an international...
The Manipulation of Aid
By Dr Eleanor Davey.A small but vigorous cottage industry has grown up around the instrumentalisation of humanitarian aid. It sustains both researchers and journalists. Perhaps the most pointed in the latter category is the Dutch writer Linda Polman, whose book...
Policy déjà vu – all over again
By Professor Roger MacGinty. It might be a function of my advancing years, but I have noticed a set of policy-driven debates coming around again. These were debates that occupied scholars and policy-makers twenty years ago and they are now back again. Here are a few...
Humanitarianism in Practice: research visit to Rwanda and Uganda
by Adil Mohammed.In January 2017, I had the pleasure to accompany 24 of our masters’ students to Rwanda and Uganda on a research visit to explore humanitarianism in action. The aim of the visit was to give students from our 3 masters’ pathways fieldwork experience in...
Michael’s experience studying for an intercalated BSc
One of the highlights of the course has been the final assessment of the Introduction to Global Health module which was a panel debate looking at the United Nations Post-2015 Development Agenda. Our groups were each assigned a role, playing the parts of different...
HCRI students Heidi and Isabelle reflect on their time as Project Trust Volunteers
IsabelleWhat inspired you to get involved with Project Trust?I always knew I wanted to take a year off after my A-levels as I wanted a bit of a break from education, but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. When Project Trust did a talk at my school I knew straight away...
Emergency and Disaster Medicine Research Scientist sentenced to death in Iran
Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a highly respected physician, teacher, scientist and humanitarian was arrested on April 25 and detained in Evin Prison, Iran and has been informed that his punishment will be execution.Issues of "fake news" seem to dominate the headlines these...
UK Emergency Medical Team simulation exercise
By Professor Tony Redmond OBE. Tony is the Director of UK-Med, an NGO which provides emergency medical assistance in disaster situations, and Deputy Director and Professor of International Emergency Medicine at HCRI.Training to respond to sudden onset large-scale...
Heather’s thoughts about the International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response BSc
What did you study at college?I studied A-Levels in Geography, Sociology and English Language.Why did you choose International Disaster Management and Humanitarian Response rather than another course?I chose this course because I wanted to study a course that was...
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