Global mental health – from the impact of war and displacement to barriers accessing mental health support
We all have mental health, but not everyone has access to mental health support or is aware of how mental health conditions impact people's lives.In reference to World Mental Health Day, the President of the World Federation of Mental Health (WFMH) said: "Mental...
How to choose a dissertation topic in International Disaster Management, Humanitarian Response and Global Health
Dr Jessica R Hawkins, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies & Undergraduate Programme Director The start of the new academic year is upon us. For those of you entering your final year of your undergraduate degree, dissertations will be making its presence felt. For...
Happy 12th Birthday HCRI: Celebrating achievements over the past year
The Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) was founded 12 years ago in August. Since then it has gone on to educate hundreds of students, publish high-impact research, and form innovative partnerships within the humanitarian sector."2019-2020 has been a...
The Lessons of History?
Darren Walter, Senior Lecturer in Emergency Global Health, HCRIKen Hines, Retired GP and Pre-hospital Care Doctor, Librarian Disaster Resource...
HCRI Summer Reading List – collated by staff and students
As academic activity quietens down over summer (at least for our students anyway!), we’ve pulled together some of our most recommended books, blogs, articles, documentaries, podcasts and films that cover some of the themes our courses look into.Our top 5 picks...
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...