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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · 21h

📢 Join us for the HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025 with Prof. Marsha Henry: “Intersectional Beginnings and Abolitionist Endings.”

📅 Wed 19 Nov | 🕓 4 – 5:30pm GMT

Explore critical theories reshaping humanitarian studies.

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HCRI Landmark Lecture 2025

This year's Landmark Lecture will be given by Prof. Marsha Henry, Queen's University Belfast.

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · 15d

Proud to share that @leverhulme.ac.uk & @wellcometrust.bsky.social are combining support for our new 12-month Humanitarian Archive Emergency programme.

📚 Aimed at protecting and rescuing endangered archives and datasets
🤝 Establishing ethical triage frameworks & international collaborations

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust Combine Support

Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust combine support for the Humanitarian Archive Emergency (HAE) project based at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at The University of Manchester. This...

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · 26d

📢New ESRC project

HCRI's Dr Antoine Burgard will lead “Who is a child? Determining age in British & French border policing, 1918–present” (2025–28).

The project explores how age shapes migration laws, policies & experiences.

Who is a child? Determining age in British and French border policing, 1918 to the present | Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute | The University of Manchester

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Sep 1

How can disaster governance be made more democratic? What role do disaster memories play in making future disaster response more just and accountable?

HCRI's @nimeshdhungana.bsky.social and Accountability Lab reflect on key lessons learned from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes🇳🇵💡

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 12

🚨 New from RIAH!

Two brand-new Conflict & Health publications are here 📄✨

📰 Explore the latest insights in global health & humanitarian research:

🔗 riah.manchester.ac.uk/articles/rep...

Our Research – RIAH – Researching the Impact of Attacks on Healthcare

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Faculty of Humanities @uomhums.bsky.social · Aug 5

Now in its sixth year, #SouthAsianHeritageMonth returns with the theme ‘Roots to Routes’, exploring the journeys and identities of people with South Asian roots.

Dr Omer Aijazi from @hcrinstitute.bsky.social explores this year's theme👉 sites.manchester.ac.uk/humanities-b...

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Routes of Repair

In Kashmir’s fractured valleys, where ancestral lands are stitched together by memory more than maps, Dr. Omer Aijazi traces the quiet power of repair. His journey, rooted in Pakistani heritage and ro...

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 5

🇳🇵 Now also available in Nepali: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 10

📣 New policy brief: The Ethics of Research Collaborations in Conflict and Disaster Settings

❓Researchers in Nepal, Colombia & the Balkans reveal gaps between formal ethics & lived realities in the field, shaped by colonial legacies & unequal power.

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌍 Two new edited volumes featuring HCRI's Prof. Bertrand Taithe are set to be published with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🧵 Humanitarian Handicraft: History, Materiality and Trade.
💉 Medical Care and Intimacy in the Long Second World War, 1931–1953.

🔗 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press is known globally as a publisher of Humanities and Social Sciences research. We currently publish over 170 books each year, as well as seven journals.

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 24

🇪🇸 Now also available in Spanish: documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx...

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 10

📣 New policy brief: The Ethics of Research Collaborations in Conflict and Disaster Settings

❓Researchers in Nepal, Colombia & the Balkans reveal gaps between formal ethics & lived realities in the field, shaped by colonial legacies & unequal power.

🔗 tinyurl.com/2xhbd5pw

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎓 Celebrating Outstanding Student Citizenship at HCRI!
This grad season, we’re honouring 3 amazing students who’ve gone above & beyond in making a difference 💫

👏 Maisy Wood
👏 Selim Iyidirli
👏 Bradley Williams

Read their stories + staff tributes 👉
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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 22

New study shows nearly half of hospital patients in Malawi and Tanzania have multiple health conditions, highlighting a major under-recognised health burden.

@hcrinstitute.bsky.social Prof Paul Dark is contributing to this vital research as part of the Multilink consortium.

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New study shows almost half of hospital patients in Malawi and Tanzania have multiple health conditions

The Multilink Consortium, a NIHR-funded partnership between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 21

Northern Heart, Global Reach

“Families are torn apart; lives and livelihoods are lost.” — Nika Kokareva, MAG Ukraine

At Global Manchester, powerful stories from Ukraine to Gaza revealed the human cost of war — and the urgent need for humanitarian support.

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Pedro Silva Rocha Lima @pedrosrlima.bsky.social · Jul 14

Bittersweet farewell to my job at @hcrinstitute.bsky.social this month, especially after seeing some of my students graduate today! A sincere thanks to great colleagues, and to Manchester, where I did my PhD and where I got my first lecturer role. Exciting new things coming in October! 👀

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎓 Happy Graduation Day to all the incredible HCRI students! 🌍✨ Today, we celebrate your achievements and the amazing impact you'll continue to make in the world. Congratulations, graduates! 🎉 #HCRIGraduates #ClassOf2025

HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 10

📣 New policy brief: The Ethics of Research Collaborations in Conflict and Disaster Settings

❓Researchers in Nepal, Colombia & the Balkans reveal gaps between formal ethics & lived realities in the field, shaped by colonial legacies & unequal power.

🔗 tinyurl.com/2xhbd5pw

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Omega Research Foundation @omegarf.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Omega Research Foundation @omegarf.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌍Last week, we were proud to join #GlobalManchester partners for “Northern Heart, Global Reach” celebrating Manchester’s global role in humanitarian & #HumanRights work.
📣We shared our research on law enforcement equipment & our work to prevent torture.
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Global Manchester: Celebrating Manchester's Humanitarian and Human Rights Organizations - Omega Research Foundation

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Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) @k4dd.ids.ac.uk · Jun 30

Many donors are increasingly including restrictions on aid financing. In this report, Kristina Tschunkert from @hcrinstitute.bsky.social explores how aid conditionality is evolving.

Download here: k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/shi...

Shifting Sands: The Evolving Landscape of Aid Conditionality and its Effects

This report examines how aid conditionality has evolved since 2010, and explores the rise of new donors like China, who offer fewer conditions.

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HCRInstitute @hcrinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 UoM experts are cited in the latest @houseofcommons.parliament.uk IDC report on humanitarian access & international law.

Featuring academics from @milcmanchester.bsky.social & ‪@hcrinstitute.bsky.social‬.

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#HumanitarianLaw #UoMResearch #IDCReport

Humanitarian access and adherence to international humanitarian law - Committees - UK Parliament

International humanitarian law includes important rules to facilitate the passage of humanitarian relief such as food, clothing and medical supplies as well as rules on the protection of humanitarian ...

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 26

Starting off the second day with Roundtable 4: (How) Can humanitarians disrupt NCD drug and diagnostics markets? Drugs, Medical Marketplaces, and Patient Groups, chaired by Dr Janelle Winters and Dr Chimwemwe Phiri.

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Kicking off Roundtable 2: The Pragmatics of Chronicity: Practitioners’ Perspectives on the Challenges of Managing NCDs in Displacement Contexts (chaired by Dr. Peter Gutwa).

Key questions: How do NCDs manifest uniquely in displacement settings? How do interrupted systems affect chronic care?

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Dr. Pesh Muwanguzi ( @hcrinstitute.bsky.social ) : mental health and NCD care suffered because units and 'star' healthcare staff were redeployed for Covid treatment in Uganda. In the future, Pesh called for NCDs to be integrated into emergency preparedness within its own planning pillar.

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Roundtable 1: What Future for ‘Chronic’ Emergencies? Challenges and Possibilities of NCD Management in Humanitarian Contexts is chaired by Jemaiyo Chabeda (Medical anthropology Analyst, MSF Eastern Africa) and Bertrand Taithe.

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Professor Darren Walter: The LEAP summer school in Kisii University started from the aspiration to combat the Euro-centric nature of the LEAP MSc programme on humanitarian practice. Kisii was selected as the host for many reasons, not least that Kisii is the lead county for health in Western Kenya.

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bertrand Taithe has recognised that this conference is the product of a long partnership between Kisii University and The University of Manchester, along with Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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Developing Humanitarian Medicine (DHM) @dhm-manchester.bsky.social · Jun 25

Opening remarks from Kisii University: this conference brings together delegates from four continents in the hope that our discussions can have an impact on the value accorded to NCD prevention in Kisii and further afield.

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