12 monthsProgramme duration
33,300 GBPTuition Fee/year
25 Jun, 2027Application Deadline
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Public Policy
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Science is vital in understanding disaster risk and informing strategies that protect people, infrastructure and the environment. As demand grows for science based approaches across the public, private and third sectors, this MSc provides a science led foundation for analysing how disasters occur and how to reduce their impacts.
You explore risk from a scientific perspective, beginning with core concepts of hazards, vulnerability and exposure. You analyse different hazard risks – including seismicity, epidemics, conflict and climate – and use global scenarios and case studies to understand how risk varies across contexts. You learn quantitative, technical and data driven methods for analysing risk, including statistical treatment of risk, catastrophe risk modelling, artificial intelligence and emerging analytical tools that bring together data and theory.
You study the physical processes that generate hazards, the factors that shape vulnerability, and the components of risk: exposure, hazard and vulnerability. You examine vulnerability through both physical measures, such as fragility curves describing damage to buildings, and social perspectives that explain unequal impacts. You also learn how scientific evidence supports decision making, how to communicate findings to stakeholders, and how to apply plans to manage real emergencies.
You consider the wider socio economic, political, environmental, ethical and cultural contexts in which scientific analysis takes place, recognising that risk science is most effective when integrated with broader perspectives. Research is central to your learning: you design and conduct an independent scientific project, engage with current debates, work with real world data and learn to conduct and appraise research and policy. By the end of the course, you are equipped with the scientific and analytical expertise needed to investigate complex risk processes and support science informed approaches to disaster reduction.
You explore risk from a scientific perspective, beginning with core concepts of hazards, vulnerability and exposure. You analyse different hazard risks – including seismicity, epidemics, conflict and climate – and use global scenarios and case studies to understand how risk varies across contexts. You learn quantitative, technical and data driven methods for analysing risk, including statistical treatment of risk, catastrophe risk modelling, artificial intelligence and emerging analytical tools that bring together data and theory.
You study the physical processes that generate hazards, the factors that shape vulnerability, and the components of risk: exposure, hazard and vulnerability. You examine vulnerability through both physical measures, such as fragility curves describing damage to buildings, and social perspectives that explain unequal impacts. You also learn how scientific evidence supports decision making, how to communicate findings to stakeholders, and how to apply plans to manage real emergencies.
You consider the wider socio economic, political, environmental, ethical and cultural contexts in which scientific analysis takes place, recognising that risk science is most effective when integrated with broader perspectives. Research is central to your learning: you design and conduct an independent scientific project, engage with current debates, work with real world data and learn to conduct and appraise research and policy. By the end of the course, you are equipped with the scientific and analytical expertise needed to investigate complex risk processes and support science informed approaches to disaster reduction.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Public Policy
Degree
MSc
Study Level
Master's
Study Mode
On Campus
Science is vital in understanding disaster risk and informing strategies that protect people, infrastructure and the environment. As demand grows for science based approaches across the public, private and third sectors, this MSc provides a science led foundation for analysing how disasters occur and how to reduce their impacts.
You explore risk from a scientific perspective, beginning with core concepts of hazards, vulnerability and exposure. You analyse different hazard risks – including seismicity, epidemics, conflict and climate – and use global scenarios and case studies to understand how risk varies across contexts. You learn quantitative, technical and data driven methods for analysing risk, including statistical treatment of risk, catastrophe risk modelling, artificial intelligence and emerging analytical tools that bring together data and theory.
You study the physical processes that generate hazards, the factors that shape vulnerability, and the components of risk: exposure, hazard and vulnerability. You examine vulnerability through both physical measures, such as fragility curves describing damage to buildings, and social perspectives that explain unequal impacts. You also learn how scientific evidence supports decision making, how to communicate findings to stakeholders, and how to apply plans to manage real emergencies.
You consider the wider socio economic, political, environmental, ethical and cultural contexts in which scientific analysis takes place, recognising that risk science is most effective when integrated with broader perspectives. Research is central to your learning: you design and conduct an independent scientific project, engage with current debates, work with real world data and learn to conduct and appraise research and policy. By the end of the course, you are equipped with the scientific and analytical expertise needed to investigate complex risk processes and support science informed approaches to disaster reduction.
You explore risk from a scientific perspective, beginning with core concepts of hazards, vulnerability and exposure. You analyse different hazard risks – including seismicity, epidemics, conflict and climate – and use global scenarios and case studies to understand how risk varies across contexts. You learn quantitative, technical and data driven methods for analysing risk, including statistical treatment of risk, catastrophe risk modelling, artificial intelligence and emerging analytical tools that bring together data and theory.
You study the physical processes that generate hazards, the factors that shape vulnerability, and the components of risk: exposure, hazard and vulnerability. You examine vulnerability through both physical measures, such as fragility curves describing damage to buildings, and social perspectives that explain unequal impacts. You also learn how scientific evidence supports decision making, how to communicate findings to stakeholders, and how to apply plans to manage real emergencies.
You consider the wider socio economic, political, environmental, ethical and cultural contexts in which scientific analysis takes place, recognising that risk science is most effective when integrated with broader perspectives. Research is central to your learning: you design and conduct an independent scientific project, engage with current debates, work with real world data and learn to conduct and appraise research and policy. By the end of the course, you are equipped with the scientific and analytical expertise needed to investigate complex risk processes and support science informed approaches to disaster reduction.
Admission Requirements
4.5+
76+
7+
180+
Normally a minimum of an upper second-class UK Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Relevant discipline is any science, mathematical or engineering subject.
25 Jun 2027
1 Year
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
16,800 GBP
International
33,300 GBP
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