MSc International Security and Risk Management

This Masters course will develop the practical and theoretical skills needed to operate in today’s challenging national and international policing and security environment. Students will learn about key security issues including terrorism, political violence, cyber security and warfare and the threats to national infrastructure posed by transnational organised crime. There is a strong practical element whereby students will learn how to obtain intelligence from a range of reliable and credible sources and how to analyse this intelligence in order to inform and influence investigations both on and offline. Students will learn about covert operations and develop interviewing techniques, investigation skills and investigation management techniques.