Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience MSc

King's College London

United Kingdom, London

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King's College London

United Kingdom , London

Key Facts

Program Level

Master by Course Work

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2023

Apply to this program

Go to the official application for the university

Duration 1 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 16,100 / year

Next Intake September-2023

Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience MSc

About

This Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience MSc programme will give you an advanced foundation in interdisciplinary studies of environmental, societal and technological risk and disaster in the global North and South. It's unique in uniting critical social and development perspectives on the underlying causes of disasters with expertise on governing, managing and communicating risks across a wide range of societal and public and private sector contexts. Throughout this MSc you'll become equipped with the skills to critically analyse risk and disasters and develop reflexive problem-solving strategies, thanks to our unique combination of scholarship from development geography and political science to sociology and psychology. You'll gain an understanding of differential vulnerability and exposure to hazard and how they shape adaptation and resilience. You'll also build your knowledge of the political, organisational and societal contexts that shape decisions, actions and public communication on risk and disasters. This programme gives you the chance to connect scholarship with practice. As well as combining theoretical and case-based modules with an internship programme, you'll learn with insights from professionals in public, private and third-sector organisations. This programme is a fantastic launchpad for exciting careers in a rapidly developing field. Many graduates from our previously successful MSc programmes in Risk Analysis, and Disasters, Adaptation and Development, have secured diverse careers as risk, disaster and resilience management and policy specialists within a wide range of international and national government agencies and non-governmental organisations, consultancies and businesses.

Learn to evaluate the economic, structural, social, cultural, environmental, technological, political and institutional contexts in which risk, disaster and reconstruction occurs.

Study the methods and techniques for analysing risk, vulnerability and exposure.

Develop critical understanding of the causes of differential vulnerabilities that constrain adaptive capacity, action and outcomes.

Gain an up-to-date understanding of socio-psychological theories of risk perception and communication, organisational and sociological theories of risk and blame, and political science theories of variety in risk governance processes and outcomes.

Apply theoretical and technical concepts learned from case-studies across the global North and South.

Launchpad for exciting careers as disaster, risk and resilience management and policy specialists in national and international public, private and third-sector organisations.

Assessing the relative merits of contrasting theories, explanations and policies.

Conceptualising problems and identifying possible methods for their solution.

Critically analysing qualitative and quantitative data.

Planning, designing and executing an individual piece of research, including the production of a dissertation.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Postgraduate taught courses

Applicants who have completed a Bachelor degree from a recognised institution in Jordan will need to demonstrate the following grades to be considered for a Postgraduate course at King's:

UK degree classification	Jordanian equivalency
High 2:1 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree (equivalent to 65% overall)	GPA of 3.5 out of 4.0 Overall score of 80%
2:1 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree	GPA of 3.3 out of 4.0 Overall score of 75%
High 2:2 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree	GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0 Overall score of 70%

UK degree classification

Jordanian equivalency

High 2:1 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree

(equivalent to 65% overall)

GPA of 3.5 out of 4.0

Overall score of 80%

2:1 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree

GPA of 3.3 out of 4.0

Overall score of 75%

High 2:2 Class Bachelor (Honours) degree

GPA of 3.0 out of 4.0

Overall score of 70%

Postgraduate research courses

A Master's degree from a recognised university with high grades considered for programmes requiring a UK Master's degree.

English Program Requirements

To study at King's, it is essential that you can communicate effectively in English and are able to do so in an academic environment. You are usually required to provide certification of your competence in English before starting your studies.

Career

Employability

Risk, disaster and resilience are fast expanding fields that offer diverse and richly rewarding career opportunities. Many of our graduates from our previously successful MSc programmes in Risk Analysis, and Disasters, Adaptation and Development, have secured diverse careers as disaster, risk and resilience management and policy specialists within a wide range of international and national government agencies and non-governmental organisations, consultancies and businesses. Many graduates have also gone on to undertake further research within academic research institutes. The internship module has proved particularly successful in helping graduates enter the job market.

Career destinations have included:

â€¢ International organisations (e.g. The World Bank, The African Development Bank, European Commission, World Health Organisation, UNICEF, UNESCO, and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre)

â€¢ National government departments and agencies (e.g. the UK Department for International Trade, UK Food Standards Agency, UK Environment Agency, Canadian Department of National Defence, Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security, Embassy of Mexico)

â€¢ Banking, consultancy and insurance (e.g. BNY Mellon, UBS, HSBC, Nomura, Deloitte, PWC, Aon, Swiss Re, Generali France)

â€¢ Numerous local, national and international NGOs and businesses