‘Global Health: On the Racial Immunologics of Humanitarian Organizations’ is the second seminar of our 2021/22 series. The session included a discussion with Adia Benton, who expands on a theory of racial immunologics introduced in her essay, “Racial immunologics and the Ebola Response in West Africa,” to further
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‘The realities of Covid-19 in Yemen, 10 years after the Arab Spring’ is the second webinar of our 2020/21 Seminar series. The session included a discussion with Abdi Ismail about the effect of Covid-19, the continuing humanitarian crisis and how the international community is combating the conflict. Followed
Expanding the Rules of Engagement In sector jargon, the concept of “community engagement” (CE) refers to a process of interaction and exchange between an aid agency and a community. To my ear, that sounds more like gathering intelligence, or conducting market research. Closer to a modern day ‘getting
In today’s post, Tayba Ahmed, a present a VCD student sat with a former VCD alumnus to discuss their experiences working in the humanitarian sector. Naturally, the discussion turned into a Q&A, centred on some of the developmental perks and challenges of working for both bigger organisations and
The second episode of the Humanitarian Hub Podcast, is now live! In this episode of the SOAS Humanitarian Hub Podcast, Jake Tacchi talks with Amy Joce, a 3rd year undergraduate student at SOAS. Amy, who was studying Development Studies, has just completed a dissertation exploring sexual exploitation within
Amy, a final year undergraduate student, begins our “student voices series” by talking to us about her dissertation on the #MeToo movement in NGOs. She discusses how this movement involving women who endured sexual abuse and assault in Hollywood gained traction globally and eventually seeped its way through