Professor Roger Mac Ginty’s Inaugural Lecture Now Available Online
Last month, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies Roger Mac Ginty delivered well attended HCRI inaugural lecture. We're pleased to announce that a recording of the lecture is now available to watch online via the HCRI Youtube channel.Titled Everyday Peace: the...
Dr. Amy Hughes leading medical team in the Philippines
HCRI Lecturer in Emergency Response Dr. Amy Hughes is currently in the Philippines as leader of the team of 12 medical and surgical staff that has been deployed by the Department for International Development.Speaking to The Plymouth Herald, Amy explained that "the...
Professor Bertrand Taithe speaks to BBC on “compassion fatigue”
Speaking to BBC Warwick, HCRI Director of External Affairs Professor Bertrand Taithe has given an interview in which he talks about "compassion fatigue", its application to charity donations and the role of the media in supporting aid campaigns. Listen to Professor...
Q & A from city devastated by Typhoon Haiyan
Christine Cassar is taking a PhD in Humanitarianism and Conflict response at The University of Manchester. She is currently with Disaster Aid International in the Philippines, and is just back from a four day assessment trip to the devastated city of Ormoc and...
Professor Tony Redmond to lead medical and surgical team deployment
HCRI Deputy Director Professor Tony Redmond is to lead a government aid team in the Philippines, as part of the international response to Typhoon Haiyan which struck the islands and parts of north Vietnam on the 8th November. The UN reports that 11 million people may...
Dr. Paul Kailiponi interviewed on Philippine relief efforts
In the wake of the destructive Typhoon Haiyan which swept the Philippines and north Vietnam last week, Lecturer in Disaster Management Dr. Paul Kailiponi has been interviewed on radio and television for his thoughts on the challenges in coordinating relief efforts....
Dr. Anisa Jafar to give Speaker Series Seminar this week
On Wednesday 2nd October, Academic Clinical Fellow in Emergency Medicine and HCRI Honorary Research Fellow, Dr. Anisa Jafar will give the first Speaker Series Seminar of 2013/14. The seminar will focus on Dr. Jafar's experiences of working to further humanitarian...
HCRI Inaugural Lectures to be delivered in the coming months
HCRI is delighted to announce the dates and times of the inaugural lectures to be given by Professor Roger Mac Ginty and Professor Oliver Richmond, our two Co-Directors of the MA in Peacebuilding programme.In his inaugural lecture, Professor Roger Mac Ginty will focus...
New Publication: The Making of the Modern Refugee by Prof. Peter Gatrell
HCRI Professor of History Peter Gatrell has written a new book: The Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century, which examines how the idea of refugees as a 'problem' embedded itself in the minds...
MA Programme Welcome Packs, 2013/2014
If you have accepted an offer to study with HCRI on one of our 2013/14 MA programmes, you can find a series of useful documents below to help prepare you for Welcome week and how your programme will be structured. You might also be interested in the University's own...
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