Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience King's College London

Overview

Throughout this MSc programme in Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience at King's College London you’ll become equipped with the skills to critically analyse risk and disasters and develop reflexive problem-solving strategies, thanks to our unique combination of scholarship from development geography and political science to sociology and psychology. You’ll gain an understanding of differential vulnerability and exposure to hazard and how they shape adaptation and resilience.

 Key benefits

• Learn to evaluate the economic, structural, social, cultural, environmental, technological, political and institutional contexts in which risk, disaster and reconstruction occurs.

• Study the methods and techniques for analysing risk, vulnerability and exposure.

• Develop critical understanding of the causes of differential vulnerabilities that constrain adaptive capacity, action and outcomes.

• Gain an up-to-date understanding of socio-psychological theories of risk perception and communication, organisational and sociological theories of risk and blame, and political science theories of variety in risk governance processes and outcomes.

• Apply theoretical and technical concepts learned from case-studies across the global North and South.

• Launchpad for exciting careers as disaster, risk and resilience management and policy specialists in national and international public, private and third-sector organisations.

Career prospects

Risk, disaster and resilience are fast expanding fields that offer diverse and richly rewarding career opportunities. Many of our graduates from our previously successful MSc programmes in Risk Analysis, and Disasters, Adaptation and Development, have secured diverse careers as disaster, risk and resilience management and policy specialists within a wide range of international and national government agencies and non-governmental organisations, consultancies and businesses. Many graduates have also gone on to undertake further research within academic research institutes. The internship module has proved particularly successful in helping graduates enter the job market.