MSc Global Health

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (part-time distance learning)
  UK students (per annum): £5,300
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £10,300

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

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This module will explore the concepts of risk, vulnerability and resilience in the context of multi-risk environments and climate change. These core principles in disaster management will be analysed in applied contexts.  There will also be the opportunity to evaluate and create practical measures, such as risk matrices, qualitative surveys, data analysis and disaster risk management reports,

Risk is an important concept which straddles the social and natural sciences.  This module will seek to understand the theories behind risk and then look at practical measures using to assess hazard risk and the perception of it.  Vulnerability is a component of risk.  In this module you will review the key vulnerabilities but understand how these change in demographic / cultural settings.  There will be the opportunity to learn the tools used to assess vulnerability such as EVCAs.

Resilience building is a key component of the Sendai Framework and seeks to make countries and communities more able to live with risk.  This module identifies the key characteristics of resilience and seeks to appraise methods undertaken at national and local levels to improve resilience. 

This module will also consider the potential changes associated with different climate futures and will seek to understand, at an international scale, how we should be developing our mitigative and adaptive approaches.  The module will look at applied examples in the Caribbean and Iceland to assess approaches to National Disaster Risk Assessment works which will provide a basis for the assessment tasks.

• This unit aims to develop a theoretical understanding of the risk, vulnerability, and resilience nexus in a disaster management context. 
• To assess the application of risk, vulnerability ad resilience in applied contexts.
• To identify approaches to measure and analyse risk vulnerability and resilience.
 

Week 1 Module welcome & defining contested terms
Week 2 Mapping and measuring risk through perception. Introduction to assessment 1.
Week 3 Understanding vulnerabilities in context; focusing on gender, age, culture
Week 4 Assessing vulnerability in the field through Vulnerability Capacity Assessments    
Week 5 Building resilience through communication and education
Week 6 Effective governance building resilience in top-down approaches.
Week 7 National approaches to managing risk assessment.  
Week 8 Climate change – understanding projected change and assessing risk, vulnerability and resilience in this context.
Week 9 Reflecting on lessons from the frontline.  Evidence of risk, vulnerabilitty and resilience in the Caribbean.  
Week 10 Building back better?  Looking into practice for the future.
 

• Understand concepts of risk, vulnerability, and resilience
• Understand the mechanism of disaster risk assessment practice.
• To understand and evaluate approaches to measuring and presenting  disaster risk assessment. 
• Application of disaster risk assessment practice to case examples
 

• How to undertake disaster risk management assessments.
• Understand top-down and bottom-up practices to manging risk, reducing vulnerability, and developing resilience.
 

• Identifying hazard risk factors
• Qualitative sampling methods to measure risk perception and vulnerability assessment. 
• Writing locational disaster risk management assessments (mitigation plans)
• Develop and understanding of quantitative data, media and GIS sources to analyse disaster risk assessment. 
 

• Report writing
• Creating qualitative surveys and understanding ethical consideration
• Understanding risk communication 
 

Written feedback on summative assessment within 15 working days.