Disaster Management and Resilience Coventry University

Overview

The Disaster Management and Resilience course from  Coventry University  could provide you with the advanced skills and knowledge you would need to advance your career and build connections in this industry.

Some of the highlights of this 100% online course can be found below.

• Develop the knowledge and skills needed to anticipate, assess, plan for and manage complex disasters. You will also learn how to develop policies and implement disaster management strategies.
• Understand how community, professional, organisational, national and international capacity deal with complex multifactorial disasters. Within this expert-led course, you could have the opportunity to develop strategies that could increase resilience to acute and chronic threats to both economies and societies.
• Examine how modern society is creating increasingly complex risks and interdependencies. Topics may include societal inequalities, social tension, extremism, global supply and economic instability, reliance on technology, severe weather conditions, pandemic disease and climate change. Understanding these issues can help you to develop knowledge and skills that may be relevant to a range of career paths in this field.

Disaster Management and Resilience PGCertThis 100% online PGCert is designed to help you develop essential knowledge and skills to prepare for a role in the disaster management sector.Some of the highlights of this 100% online PGCert can be found below.

• Develop advanced knowledge in evaluating risks, vulnerabilities, and capacity in complex socio-economic and political contexts. You could also have the opportunity to critically assess current policy and practice and propose improvements in humanitarian response, accountability, and organisational change.
• Understand concepts, theories, policy and practice across risk, humanitarian efforts, disaster risk reduction, development, and climate change adaptation. You could learn how to evaluate the activities of NGOs, government bodies and multilateral agencies in order to help drive transformation.

• Explore key concepts through four sector-appropriate modules. These include Disaster Risk, Resilience, Adaptation and Sustainability; Humanitarian Principles, Preparedness and Response; Community Preparedness, Recovery and Resilience; and Disaster Interventions, Evaluation and Learning.

Career opportunities:

Whether pursuing further leadership in your role, specialising in your career, or expanding your professional portfolio, this online degree is ideal for leadership roles in the following sectors:

• National and local government

• Health services and epidemiology

• NGOs and multi-lateral organisations

• UN organisations and other regional organisations

• Military (Re)insurance and risk management