Trump and the academic and policy bubble
by Professor Roger Mac Ginty.The pollsters got it very wrong. So did the experts. But then the experts and pollsters have been getting it wrong for some time. British general election: wrong! Brexit referendum: wrong! Colombian peace accord referendum: wrong! Trump...
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...
World Health Organisation Emergency Medical Teams project in partnership with Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
HCRI is launching a project in collaboration with Hong Kong Academy of Medicine based around the World Health Organisation (WHO) Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) Initiative. The collaboration will accelerate the development of an international accreditation and...
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...
What next for Syria?
You can view more details about the event and register a free place at nextforsyria.eventbrite.co.uk If you are unable to attend, the event will be live streamed on this page.Blog posts and articlesHCRI student Fakhri Mansour asks: Has the international community...
The UN’s (Wonder) Woman Problem
by Dr Róisín Read.24 October marks United Nations Day and, as my colleague notes, there is much to admire in the UN, alongside some of its more problematic elements. Unfortunately, this blog is about one of those problems, specifically, the UN’s woman problem.This...
Two cheers for the UN
by Roger Mac Ginty, HCRI Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.United Nations Day is 24 October. It is easy to criticise the UN. Where shall I start? Slow decision-making, weak leadership, expensive, often focused on conflict manifestations rather than conflict...
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...
HCRI Inaugural Lecture 2016: John Borton – The 20 Year Life of Merlin 1993-2013
John Borton, Senior Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and HCRI Honorary Lecturer, delivered our 2016 Inaugural Lecture. He spoke about the history of Medical Emergency Relief International (Merlin).Merlin was founded by three friends in...
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...
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