MSc Risk, Crisis and Resilience Management

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One cannot avoid the importance of risk management in modern organisations. Sharpen your ability to forward-think and plan with this expansive MSc in Risk Crisis and Resilience Management to become a vital player in organisations all over the world.

Why UoP's MSc in Risk Crisis and Resilience Management?

Risk management is a very important priority for many organisations across various industries. It’s essential in ensuring corporate sustainability, resilience and profitability.

That’s why there's a great demand for incompetent, informed and experienced risk managers, and an MSc in Risk, Crisis and Resilience Management can open many career opportunities to you.

Here, you will learn what counts as risk and how to manage this within an organisational setting. You will explore different facets within industries, including varying perceptions of risk, how to prepare for risks and crises, management approaches and techniques and how to lead employees in difficult times.

Upon graduation, you will have the knowledge and experience to create a robust risk culture within a business and develop appropriate strategies to manage risk. You will have the critical thinking, decision making and analysis skills that you can use immediately to help organisations prepare for crises.

This course is accredited by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM). Graduates are entitled to exemption from all six modules of the International Diploma in Risk Management and can apply for GradIRM membership. Graduates with three or more years of relevant experience can gain Certified IRM Membership.

For many organisations, risk management is a basic, legal requirement.

Employees with the ability to identify, assess and manage risks effectively are increasingly sought-after by employers.

The skills you will gain in using data analysis and critical thinking to evaluate problems can be applied immediately to organisations in many different industries.

With the skills and expertise from this course, you can go on to a career in:

• Risk management
• Crisis management
• Business development and consultancy
• Management
• Business continuity
• Disaster response

What you’ll study

UoP's MSc Risk, Crisis and Resilience Management course will give you the knowledge, skills and experience needed to excel within the field.

You will:

• Identify risk across sectors and develop appropriate strategies and techniques to prepare for and cope with crises
• Discover how to develop a strong risk culture to enable more effective risk management
• Gain the ability to stay calm under pressure and make decisions and communicate them effectively, clearly and concisely regardless of the audience
• Learn to understand different perceptions of risk and cultural differences in approaches to risk, as well as the impact these might have
• Develop critical thinking and analysis skills to evaluate problems in an organisational context

Modules

• Strategic Risk and Risk Behaviour
• Organisational and Environmental Risk
• Crisis Management and Governance
• Project and Research Methods
• Dissertation

Assessment

Assessments for the MSc Risk, Crisis and Resilience Management are based on coursework submitted online. Your performance is assessed through coursework such as:

• Written assignments
• Reflective work
• A dissertation

You will have the opportunity to receive formal and informal feedback from your tutors to help you improve your work.