Duration: 2 - 3 Years part-time
Start Dates: March and September
Format: Distance Learning, plus 3 Emergency Planning College courses, and 3 optional study events.
Course Structure: 6 Modules plus a dissertation
Credits / Award: 180 at HE Level 7 / Master of Science
Course Director: Dr. Simon Bennett
Course Administrator: Mr. Miles Lane
Email: riskmanagement@le.ac.uk
Entry Requirements: An undergraduate degree or 4 years of relevant work experience
Fees: March 2012 intake: £7930 EU or £9610 International

Aims and Objectives

• Recognised as a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) qualification in the field of emergency planning, response and management, this programme provides you with significant opportunity to develop your career.
• During the course you will assimilate the key ideas and concepts relating to risk management and, crucially, how these can be applied in the real world of planning and responding to novel or unforeseen events.
• You will develop key skills in the critical analysis and evaluation of vital organisational and conceptual concerns that are central to the field of emergency planning and management. You will also develop the skills needed to design, conduct and critically appraise research, and to engage in informed debate about major issues and recent developments in emergency management.

Course Structure

Year 1

Theories of Risk & Crisis

Managing Risk and Crisis

Research methods

Case studies in Emergency Planning Management

Emergency Planning College courses

Year 2

Models of Risk, Crisis & Disaster

Emergency Planning Management

Emergency Planning College courses

Dissertation

Download the course brochure for the MSc Emergency Planning Management. (PDF)

Carla Lim, Risk Consultant, Singapore