Masters Degree Description
Learn how to assess risks, vulnerabilities and capacity in complex contexts and develop sector-relevant skills to enhance humanitarian response, participatory approaches, accountability and organisational change.
Key course content includes:
- Opportunities to take part in simulated disaster response scenarios in our immersive Simulation Centre.4
- Preparation to understand the concepts, theories, policy and practice within the areas of risk, humanitarian practice, development, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation so that you are better able to evaluate the activities of NGOs, government organisations, multilateral agencies and institutions and drive necessary transformation.
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Entry Requirements
A 2:2 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. Applicants with a lower class of degree and/or professional experience only will be individually considered and will usually be interviewed prior to being offered a place on the course.
Fees
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Programme Funding
A range of financial support is available for postgraduate study including loans, flexible payment options, discounts and scholarships.
Student Destinations
On successful completion of this course, you will have knowledge of:
- risk, its components and influencing factors, approaches to assessment, and prioritisation and organisational role in planning, managing and recovering from humanitarian crises and disasters
- policy and approaches for mitigating, preparing for, managing and recovering from crises, conflict and disasters for responding agencies, organisations and affected communities
- approaches to assessing complexity and interaction and developing, monitoring and evaluating resilience in processes, systems, organisations and communities at risk from known and emergent threats in a sustainable way
- stakeholder analysis and multi-stakeholder engagement, communication, co-operation and governance in all aspects of policy and strategy development, implementation and management, at all scales in disaster contexts
- challenges and approaches for information management, evaluating uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity in knowledge, appropriate and defensible decisions for managing complex disaster situations
- issues and challenges at the forefront of research and practice in disasters and resilience.
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