Aims of the Humanitarian Institute
- Concentrate the internationally established, highly successful, but presently dispersed expertise at UCL, providing a focus for UCL's activities, with its breadth of disciplinary emphasis
- Promote cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, integrated with education and translation into practice in a co-produced approach, sharing knowledge and values with global humanitarian agencies, entrepreneurs, communities, civil society and policy makers
- Nurture key humanitarian research themes
- Support innovative humanitarian research ideas, especially from early career researchers
Research Themes for UCL's Humanitarian Institute
- Social transformation to address global inequalities
- Conflict, humanitarian ethics and justice
- Border zones and diplomacy
- Migration
- 21st century technology for humanitarian issues
- Environmental and health disaster reduction
- Emergency planning and response
- Economic costs of humanitarian crises and migration
- Women's health, global health
- Equity of access to health care
- Sustainable development goals
- Built environment
- Safer schools and hospitals
- Co-producing knowledge
- Humanitarian statistics and operational research
- Social and cultural capital
- Historical perspectives
Education
The Humanitarian Institute aims to develop an education programme both for members of UCL and for our partners. This includes:
- Establishing teaching on integrated responses to humanitarian issues in the global citizenship and summer schools initiatives
- Outreach to local schools and communities
- Continuing executive development courses for global leaders and policy makers
Early Objectives
- Co-ordinate cross-UCL bids for major research council ODA funding programmes
- Lead discussion forums developing humanitarian themes and a network across UCL
- Establish teaching on integrated responses to humanitarian issues
- Scope technological and organisational solutions addressing migration, its drivers and outcomes
- Deliver continuing executive development courses
- Forge partnerships with universities, corporate sponsors and humanitarian agencies, internationally