Masters Compare - Find your perfect masters course.
Masters Compare - Find your perfect masters course.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
2 years part-time
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.
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.
A second-class honours degree or equivalent, preferably with some relevant work experience in the emergency services or humanitarian sectors. Applicants with relevant professional experience and/or qualifications will also be considered.
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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:
Humanitarian agencies and NGOs
Emergency management
Emergency logistics and contingency planning
Flood management
Military-civilian emergency liaisons
(Re)insurance and risk management
Utility companies
Civil defence
Disaster relief
Epidemiology
Core:
Disasters: Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk - 30 credits
Disaster Management: Techniques and Study Visits - 30 credits
Emergency Management and Planning - 30 credits
Research Skills and Project - 60 credits
Optional:
Crisis Management and Continuity - 30 credits
Oil Spill Management and Response - 30 credits
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Wed 20 May 2026