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...
World Refugee Week: A discussion with Dr Rubina Jasani on empowering asylum-seeking women
During World Refugee Week 2020, we interviewed Dr Rubina Jasani to find out more about her collaborative partnership with Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST), the challenges refugee and migrant women face in the COVID-19 crisis and the limits of self-advocacy.We...
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...
Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife 2020: Meet Gloria
We interviewed Gloria, a Global Health MSc alumni, about her career and what it was like to transition from nursing to midwifery.Gloria Ling Lee, a registered nurse (RN) and midwife (RM) from Hong Kong, volunteered in the 2015 Nepal Earthquake with the International...
HCRI involved in university-wide project recommending ways of recovering from COVID-19
HCRI’s Dr Nathaniel O’Grady, Dr Ayham Fattoum, and Professor Duncan Shaw have been working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team of academics from the University of Manchester looking at COVID-19 recovery. The recently published ‘How can society recover from...
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...
Local Resilience Forums and Emergency Planning: An interview with Professor Duncan Shaw
Duncan Shaw is Professor of Operations and Critical Systems at The University of Manchester’s Alliance Manchester Business School, and honorary professor at HCRI. As a leading expert in the field, his research led the formation of the international standard ISO 22319,...
Decision-making at a time of great uncertainty
Continued uncertainty around COVID-19 demands more qualitative modelling, says Dr Ayham Fattoum, Lecturer in Disaster Operations Management at HCRI. In the wake of countries adopting such a broad range of measures to control COVID-19 in recent months, there are...
Libya: the forgotten ones
Michaël Neuman spent ten days in Libya with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in detention centres for migrants. From his stay, he brings back the following impressions that illustrate the gloomy situation of the people who are held there, for months or...
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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