MSc Emergency Management & Resilience (Distance Learning)

During this module you will study the impacts of existing management and leadership within disaster/emergency management and explore what requirements might be necessary to adapt to a changing world. You will cover subject areas such as standards/competencies, hazard and threat developments, paradigms, and professionalism. Specific consideration will be given to the future of diaster/emergency management using evidence to carefully examine and analyse the likely influences and changes required.

This module will develop your key understanding and insight concerning emergencies/disasters, the foundational models and theories that underpin them, and the complexities and barriers concerning the learning and monitoring that should take place during and following such incidents.

This module provides an examination of the framework, legislation and guidance which forms the foundation of emergency management and resilience, exposing key lessons which can be applied into the field from countries around the world. You will also examine the principles of emergency management, discovering some of the complexities these present especially in the deployment of effective policy. This module will also provide for the development of academic skills such as writing, referencing, reading, searching the literature and thinking critically and creatively. This will enable you to obtain the most from your studies, enable you to engage in mastering subjects across the field, and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding through learning activities and assignments.

The aim of this module is to provide you with knowledge of the research process and key concepts for you to be able to propose, conduct and write up the methodology for a research project within disaster/emergency management or resilience. You will develop key understanding concerning research design such as how to choose and justify a topic, how to write a research question, what methodology to use, how to collect and analyse data, and, of key importance, the consideration of ethical issues. As part of the assessment, you will design and produce a proposal for a research study to be carried out independently by you; mostly likely as part of your MSc Dissertation module.

This module will enable you to gain insight into some of the complex issues associated with societal resilience. You will gain different insights from different perspectives, contexts, and fields of study concerning resilience and disaster risk reduction strategies. You will develop an understanding of the challenges and implications of resilience on a community, local and global scale.

This module will allow you to deploy research principles to investigate a specific area within the field of Emergency Management & Resilience. The module will also prepare you for publishing in academic journals and is specifically aligned to the journal requirements of 'Emergency Management Review'. The assessment of the dissertation modules is the writing up of your research project and an article prepared for journal submission.