Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 2 years part-time - September start
This course focuses on complex security-related challenges faced by law enforcement, governments and businesses, how these can be understood and how they can be mitigated to help keep people safe.
Protective security and resilience is an important and influential consideration in the counter terrorism, security and resilience disciplines, particularly in relation to public spaces, venues and critical infrastructure protection.
This course is designed to help you to:
gain advanced knowledge and practical tools in protective security and resilience, directly applicable to government and organisational security roles
engage in a holistic, 'whole systems' approach to addressing physical, cyber and personnel risks through innovative, research-led teaching
benefit from flexible delivery tailored for working professionals, enabling career progression and enhanced expertise through peer learning and operational insights.
Start date:
Please use the official Coventry University website as your main source of information as our courses are subject to change throughout the year.
A minimum of a second-class honours undergraduate degree (minimum of 2:2) or equivalent with an appropriate government, military, law enforcement, security or resilience background.
If you are already a practitioner, you will have the opportunity to broaden your professional network, which is very likely to be useful to you in the workplace, whilst also gaining a formal accredited postgraduate qualification, which may be required for further progression in your career.
If you are an individual with an interest in protecting crowded places, critical infrastructure and risk mitigation and resilience, this course can help equip you with the skills and knowledge necessary to enter into jobs within a broad spectrum of organisations. These could include law enforcement, government, private security organisations, international non-government organisations and also academia.
PGCert:
Introduction to Protective Security and Resilience: Core Concepts, Principles and Challenges – 10 credits
The Elements of Protective Security – 20 credits
Specialist Areas – Insights and Implications for Practice 1 – 10 credits
Specialist Areas – Insights and Implications for Practice 2 – 20 credits
PGDip:
Physical and Cyber Protective Security and Resilience – 10 credits
Insider Risk and Personnel Security – 20 credits
Behavioural and Psychological Factors – 20 credits
Public Facing Protective Security - 10 credits
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