MSc Disaster Management and Resilience

This course is ideal for those looking for career advancement and those seeking to move into a disaster management, emergency planning, business continuity, or other resilience related career. 

The courses will allow you to enhance your professional credibility and employability; will develop your personal and professional practice; and provide you with knowledge and understanding of essential concepts, up-to-date research, and evolving practice.

The University of Wolverhampton has been delivering postgraduate provision for disaster, emergency, and resilience management since 2012.  Our courses are highly rated and extremely popular with practitioners in Disaster/Emergency management, or those aspiring to enter this area of work.

Overall, our graduates think differently about what, why and how they deliver disaster management.  They are able to use an evidence-based approach to deliver and advance Disaster, Emergency and Resilience Management for themselves, for their organisations, and for the benefit of society as a whole.

You will develop an advanced working knowledge of the principles, practice, concepts, and underpinning policy within Disaster Management and Resilience, based on established evidence, practice and research.

You will also develop valuable proficiencies in communication and critical thinking as well as a wide range of inter-personal, leadership, self-management, research, and project management skills.

 

On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Use initiative and take responsibility in order to learn independently, solve problems in creative and innovative ways.
• Demonstrate a range of transferable academic and professional skills appropriate to a career in Disaster Management, Emergency Management, or other Resilience roles; such as critical analysis, presentation skills, appropriate use of academic conventions in the production and presentation of work, and coherently structured arguments supported by thorough evidence.
• Communicate effectively, with colleagues and a wider audience, in a variety of media. · Develop a critical understanding of differing perspectives and theories incorporating the legal underpinning of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a range of emergencies, disasters, or other such disruptive challenges.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive, critically aware, understanding of subject relevant legislation and other appropriate national and international policies and guidelines with the skills and knowledge required to implement these in a range of organisations.
• Develop advanced level skills in the critical appraisal of research and design, implement and evaluate a substantial piece of academic research in a selected area of Disaster Management, Emergency Management and/or Resilience.

These fees relate to new entrants only for the academic year indicated for entry onto the course, any subsequent years of study may be subject to an annual increase, usually in line with inflation.

Delivered fully online, this MSc course in Disaster Management and Resilience can be studied over approximately 1 or 2 Years to suit your requirements. This provides you with flexibility, especially if you are already in full-time employment or have other commitments. We have specifically designed the course to aid professionals working in the field already and for those wishing to embark in such a career who have transferable or existing knowledge, skills, or qualifications.  

We provide a focus on bringing together core theories with the real-world requirements of delivering disaster management, emergency management, and societal resilience to allow you to develop your expertise.  We use real-world case studies and policies from a wide range of international disasters and frameworks for comparison and consideration allowing you to discover, challenge and discuss issues which affect resilience.  You will develop skills in using evidence to provide a firm foundation for your ideas and arguments allow you to communicate these effectively.

Using these skill we will delve behind how and why things are done in disaster and resilience management, giving special attention to why different aspects are undertaken the way that they are, and whether there are lessons to be learnt to improve work towards disaster risk reduction, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

This is an opportunity for you to develop master’s level education in the concepts, theories and academic skills surrounding disaster management and resilience.  Including areas of societal resilience, vulnerability, risk reduction, disruption to the functioning of community/society and recovery, along with an understanding of how these are relevant, and can be applied, to professional practice.

Our team is experienced in and passionate about disaster, emergency and resilience management and we look forward to discussing the opportunities ahead in building a resilient society for current and future disaster risks, and in developing our profession to meet these challenges.

Postgraduate Loan (Home Fee Status):

You may be able to get a postgraduate student loan from Student Finance England of up to £13,206 to help pay for a Master’s degree. Applications are made through Student Finance England and more information on the regulations and eligibility criteria can be found at Masters Loans gov.uk.

* Any RPL will invalidate your eligibility as you must study a minimum of 180 credits

Changes for EU students:

The UK government has confirmed that EU students starting courses from 1 August 2021 will normally be classified as Overseas (International) students for fee purposes. More information about the change is available at UKCISA:

EU citizens living in the UK with 'settled' status, and Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland, will still be classified as Home students, providing they meet the usual residency requirements, for more information about EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

Postgraduate Loyalty Discount:

You can get 20% discount on a taught on-site postgraduate course if you’re a University of Wolverhampton Graduate.

The University offers a generous 20% Loyalty Discount to students progressing from an undergraduate programme to a taught postgraduate programme, where both courses are University of Wolverhampton Awards.

There is no time limit on how long ago you completed your degree as long as this is your first Masters level qualification.

The discount applies to the first year of enrolment only. Students who receive a loyalty discount are not entitled to any further tuition discount or bursary. For full terms and conditions click here.

Self-funded:

If you are paying for the fees yourself then the fees can be paid in 3 instalments: November, January and April. More information can be found by clicking here.

Sponsored - Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees:

Your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.

We must receive notification of sponsorship in writing as soon as possible, and before enrolment, confirming that the sponsor will pay your tuition fees.

Financial Hardship:

Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.

Charitable Funding:

You might also want to explore the possibility of funding from charitable trusts. Please contact Association of Charitable Foundations, Directory of Social Change or Family Aid. Most charities and trust funds offer limited bursaries targeted to specific groups of students so you will need to research whether any of them are relevant to your situation.

You can find more information on the University’s Funding, cost, fee and support pages.

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