MSc Risk

This MSc is aimed at those interested in engaging with the natural and social dimensions of environmental hazards, including disasters and climate–related risk.

Despite the phenomenal technological progress of the 20th century, most people still live with the acute and chronic consequences of age-old hazards such as floods and earthquakes. This MSc is aimed at those interested in engaging with the natural and social dimensions of environmental hazards, including disasters and climate related risk.

You will receive specialised scientific training in the physical hazards that pose large risks to communities living throughout the world, from climate change and meteorological risks to flooding, earthquakes and landslides. On this course you will receive theoretical and practical training for understanding and quantifying risks and hazards. You will also learn about how hazards persist over long periods of time instead of merely as single events, but are composed of many smaller sub-events or how their effects are widespread.

Course Structure

You will take the following core modules, and a selection of elective modules, which, when combined, add up to 180 credits:

Core modules:

• Understanding Risk (30 credits)
• Risk Frontiers (15 credits)
• Risk, Science and Communication (15 credits)
• Hydro-Meteorological Hazards (30 credits) or Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Hazards (30 credits)
• Dissertation by Research (or) Vocational Dissertation (60 credits).

Examples of elective modules include:

• Hydro-Meteorological Hazards (30 credits)
• Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Hazard (30 credits)
• Social Dimensions of Risk and Resilience (30 credits)
• Climate Risk and Society (30 credits).