Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience MSc

at King's College London

This Risk Analysis, Disasters and Resilience MSc programme will give you an advanced foundation in interdisciplinary studies of environmental, societal and technological risk and disaster in the global North and South. It's unique in uniting critical social and development perspectives on the underlying causes of disasters with expertise on governing, managing and communicating risks across a wide range of societal and public and private sector contexts.

Throughout this MSc 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. You'll also build your knowledge of the political, organisational and societal contexts that shape decisions, actions and public communication on risk and disasters.

This programme gives you the chance to connect scholarship with practice. As well as combining theoretical and case-based modules with an internship programme, you'll learn with insights from professionals in public, private and third-sector organisations.

This programme is a fantastic launchpad for exciting careers in a rapidly developing field. Many graduates from our previously successful MSc programmes in Risk Analysis, and Disasters, Adaptation and Development, have secured diverse careers as risk, disaster and resilience management and policy specialists within a wide range of international and national government agencies and non-governmental organisations, consultancies and businesses.