Disaster Management and Resilience

Entry requirements

To get started with this online postgraduate course, applicants should have a 2:2 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. Applicants with a lower class of degree and/or professional experience only will be individually considered and will usually be interviewed prior to being offered a place on the course.

Months of entry

January, May, September

Course content

This online disaster management course could provide you with the advanced skills and knowledge you need to propel your career and build connections in the field of disaster management and resilience. Some of the highlights of this 100% online course can be found below.

• You will be given the chance to develop the knowledge and skills needed to anticipate, assess, plan for and manage complex disasters. You can also learn how to operate confidently, develop policies and implement disaster management strategies successfully.
• You will develop greater understanding of how community, professional, organisational, national and international capacity deal with complex multifactorial disasters. Within this expert-led course, you will get the chance to develop strategies that could increase resilience to acute and chronic threats to both economies and societies.
• During your studies, you will receive sector-specific content and practical assignments that allow you to assess current policy and practice, while making recommendations to improve humanitarian response, community participation, accountability and organisational change.
• Throughout the course we explore how modern society is creating ever more complex risk and interdependency. The impact of features such as societal inequalities, social tension, extremism, global supply and economic instability, reliance on technology, severe weather conditions, pandemic disease and climate change means that there are now many career opportunities in this field.

Why study this course

Our online course in disaster management is designed to provide the depth and rigour required for development, reflection and networking in this sector.

• Climate change, urban pressure and lack of disaster preparedness are increasingly transforming natural hazards around the world. The world desperately needs more disaster management skills to deal with these growing disastrous events in the future.
• Even if you are new to higher education or returning to study after a long break, this disaster management degree is designed to support you and fit around your lifestyle.
• You will have the opportunity to carry out an independent piece of research of your choosing, producing an industry-facing working paper which should be of publishable quality

Want to study your full master’s on campus? Learn more about our on-campus-taught master’s in disaster management and resilience course here.

Please use the official Coventry University website as your main source of information as our courses are subject to change throughout the year.