Global Health and Humanitarianism 

offered by University of Manchester

Tim Jacoby completed his PhD and an Economic and Social Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He joined the Institute for Development Policy & Management at the University of Manchester in 2003 where he is now a professor and co-founder of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. His research has focused on state development in Turkey as well as broader topics related to political violence, civil society, Islam, nationalism and post-conflict reconstruction. He has published more than 25 articles in international journals and acted as guest editor for Disasters, International Studies Review, Middle East Critique, Progress in Development Studies and the Journal of Peasant Studies. He is also author of Social Power and the Turkish State (Frank Cass, 2004), Disaster Management and Civil Society: Earthquake Relief in Japan, Turkey and India (I.B. Tauris, 2005, with Alpaslan Özerdem), Understanding Conflict & Violence: Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Approaches (Routledge, 2008), Peace in Turkey 2023: The Question of Human Security and Conflict Transformation, (Lexington, 2013, also with Alpaslan Özerdem) and The NGO-Military Complex in Afghanistan (MUP, 2016, with Eric James).

Dr Amy Hughes is a Clinical Academic Lecturer in Emergency Response at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI), University of Manchester. She is heavily involved in the development of the UK International Emergency Trauma Register and training of its clinicians. The UKIETR aims to provide a structured approach to training of medical teams deploying to disasters to ensure a governed, co-ordinated, clinically competent and guided approach to medical care in disasters. The UK team has recently returned from Typhoon Haiyan. Amy is also completing a PhD – ‘The Role and Training of Foreign Medical Teams in Sudden Onset Disasters.’ She is course convener for the Emergency Humanitarian Assistance module and contributes to the Global Health Diploma. Clinically, Amy is an Emergency Medicine and Pre-Hospital Care clinician, having recently finished working with London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service prior to which she worked with Medecins Sans Frontier in post-conflict Northern Sri Lanka. She has completed the Diploma Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (Liv) and European Masters in Disaster Medicine.