This course offers an exciting opportunity to learn about environmental and manmade hazards, vulnerability and risk, planning and logistics, disaster response and crisis management. You’ll develop your skills as a confident, professional emergency planner and responder, able to manage people and situations in the field.
Uniquely to Portsmouth, students take part in SIMEX, the UK’s largest annual disaster response simulation exercise – for responders and agencies to practise and learn from disaster response.
You’ll graduate with the skills needed for a successful career in emergency planning and disaster management and response, either in the governmental or non-governmental sectors, anywhere in the world. You’ll also get transferable skills in project planning, reporting, data analysis and communication, putting you in a strong position to pursue a career in other industries.
Qualifications or experience
English language requirements
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When you graduate, you’ll have the knowledge and practical skills needed for a career in the emergency planning, crisis management or disaster response sectors anywhere in the world. The research and analytical components of the course, will support you in applying research positions, for example at PhD level.
Graduates of this course have gone into areas such as:
On this course, you’ll study four core modules and one optional module.
Optional modules in this year include:
Postgraduate research opportunities at the University of Portsmouth PhD and Doctoral programmes at a university as ambitious as you. “The opportunity...