HCRI welcomes Professor Roger Mac Ginty
We’re delighted to welcome Professor Roger Mac Ginty who joins HCRI as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.Roger’s main research interests are in peacemaking processes in civil war, political violence and post-war reconstruction. His latest book,...
Yet more PhD studentships at HCRI – now including peacebuilding call
HCRI is delighted to announce 4 more studentships for students wishing to commence study September 2012. Application deadline 16 April 2012. 2 are open call click here, and 2 relate to the following project area 'Interfaces between international and local actors in...
From Rebel Governance to State Consolidation – new paper on political dynamics in Eritrea by HCRI’s Director of Research
Dr Tanja Müller, HCRI Director of Research, publishes new paper which discusses Eritrea as a contemporary case of state-making grounded in war, a fact that has resulted in the emergence of one of the ‘hardest’ states in sub-Saharan Africa. Click here to access...
HCRI’s Prof James Thompson hosting In Place of War closing event, 15 March 2012
HCRI's Professor James Thompson, and Director of the In Place of War project http://www.inplaceofwar.net/ is a key panel member at the closing event for this initiative on 15 March 2012. This special event combines a drinks reception, film screening, book launch and...
HCRI’s new intercalated BSc in Global Health is welcomed by medical student community
The University of Manchester's student newspaper The Mancunian welcomes HCRI's new Intercalated BSc in Global Health http://www.student-direct.co.uk/2012/02/23/new-degree-programme-mixes-medicine-with-politics/ This exciting new programme mixes emergency medicine and...
Want to work for HCRI? We need a Lecturer in Global Health (12mth maternity cover post)
HCRI is currently looking to recruit a Lecturer in Global Health to provide maternity cover (12 month fixed term)Â for our colleague Dr Barni Nor. Click here to find out more Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of...
Landmark partnership: HCRI collaborate with IFRC to develop new online PG Cert in Global Health for humanitarian professionals
This pioneering collaboration between HCRI at The University of Manchester and the IFRC means we can deliver practical and affordable online postgraduate teaching in global health to the humanitarian sector around the world.This online programme covers issues...
HCRI’s Director of Research publishes new paper
HCRI's Director of Research, Dr Tanja Müller publishes new paper The ‘German children’ of Mozambique:long-term legacies of a socialist educational experiment. Tanja's latest article is on citizenship formation and socialist-inspired values based on ethnographic...
A game of hide and seek: gendered ethnographies of the everyday state after communal violence in Ahmedabad, Western India
HCRI's Dr Rubina Jasani's latest paper analyses the gendered experience of the state for the Muslim survivors of violence in Gujarat in 2002. In examining memories of loss and suffering, this paper shows the contrasting and shifting ways in which the state is...
Madness in International Relations – new book from HCRI’s Dr Alison Howell
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects. View...