Master Disaster Management - Máster en Gestión de Catástrofes

This course will prepare you with advanced knowledge and skills to lead on disaster management. Learn risk reduction, resilience strategies and develop major incident management systems that respond to, and help recovery from a range of disasters.

A Bachelors Honours degree with 2:2 or equivalent in any subject, or equivalent

International entry requirements:
If English is not your first language you´ll need IELTS (Academic) 6.5 with a minimum of 6.5 in writing and 6.0 in all other components (speaking, listening and reading).

Learn at one of the leading providers of Disaster Management training and education both in the UK and overseas
Develop knowledge and skills from a broad range of organisations, such as government agencies, international industries, and emergency services, required for future leaders
Acquire critical understanding of risk reduction and resilience strategies to enable to you respond and help recover disasters when they occur
Flexible learning options, including a choice of full-time or part-time study
Blended course delivery enabling you to conduct your learning from anywhere in the world.

Developing Policies and Plans: You will be introduced to the importance of sound disaster management plans and frameworks. Internationally, many nations still do not have developed disaster management plans, and this unit has been developed over several years and in multiple countries to assist national governments and their agencies to address this vital issue. The principles of this unit underpin each of the subsequent units.
Management of Communications and Learning: This unit teaches you how to communicate learning in effective and attractive ways; gaining the interest of audiences, drawing upon audience experience and knowledge, winning audience cooperation for greater integrated activities, and creating relevant participatory exercises from academic and practical-based literature to help turn lessons identified into lessons learned. In this unit you will have the opportunity to write your own disaster management exercise.
Dissertation: An opportunity to study a disaster management topic in-depth, showing your understanding of it. The dissertation is the conclusion of your learning experience, where you´ll carry out a research project. You´ll use appropriate research methodology to collect and analyse data and present your findings. Your dissertation will be 15,000 words, and you´ll be taught about research methods.

Our graduates are now employed in a variety of organisations all over the world, such as:

Solace Global, a Risk Management & Crisis Avoidance company
Showsec, a Festival Management company
Bristol City Council
Team Rubicon UK, a Disaster Response Volunteer company
Anvil Group, a Private Security company
Catapult Centres, a Technology & Innovation company
Penspen, Engineering & Management Services