Risk

Entry requirements

A 2:1 undergraduate degree.

Months of entry

October

Course content

Despite the phenomenal technological progress of the 20th century, most people still live with the acute and chronic consequences of age- ld hazards such as floods and earthquakes.

You will receive specialised scientific training in the physical hazards that pose large risks to communities living throughout the world, from climate change and meteorological risks to flooding, earthquakes and landslides. On this course you will receive theoretical and practical training for understanding and quantifying risks and hazards. You will also learn about how hazards persist over long periods of time instead of merely as single events, but are composed of many smaller sub-events or how their effects are widespread.

Core modules:

• Understanding Risk

• Risk Frontiers

• Risk, Science and Communication

• Hydro-Meteorological Hazards or Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Hazards

• Dissertation by Research (or) Vocational Dissertation.

Fees and funding

durham.ac.uk/postgraduate/finance