POST GRADUATE DEGREE'S IN RISK MANGMENT STARTING 2010/11
The Risk Management Masters at Middlesex in London is unique in that it takes on
a multi-faceted approach, exploring the many different disciplines that consider
risk within organisations finance, law, health and safety, engineering,
economics.
We adopt a multidisciplinary, multi-professional and multi-regional approach to
the teaching and practice of risk management. We focus on issues, whether
manmade or natural, which have enterprise wide, national or even international
implications and have the potential for harm to business, the economy, health
and safety, the environment and-or to society at large.
Throughout the Risk Management Masters we attempt to examine the field of risk
in ways that account for the requirements of both developed and developing
countries. This course will appeal to people in mid career who are being asked
to come out of one risk "silo" and take on a wider risk portfolio (or younger
people who aspire to this role).
AN INTRODUCTION TO RISK MANAGEMENT
Key benefits of our MSc Risk Management
- Career acceleration - our Career and Professional Development Service
provides you with 1:1 advice and professional guidance at a level expected
by MBA students. Recent graduates have gone on to careers with companies
such as Barclays Wealth, Aspen Re and Merrill Lynch.
- Practical skills - a thorough and hands-on understanding of risk
management, following the Imperial tradition of rigorous analysis applied to
real-world problems
- Cutting-edge thinking – our extensive internationally-recognized
research is an important part of our teaching, and gives you access to the
latest thinking before it is even published.
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Excellence - learn from world-renowned faculty members and industry
practitioners in risk management. Their industry expertise ensures you grasp
the relationship between theory and practice, and ensures the programme
reflects exactly what employers are looking for.
Modules
- Year 1
- Law and Governance (30 Credits) -
Optional
- The module is concerned with the
extent to which Law and Governance may contribute to the
protection of the physical environment. It introduces the
concepts of environmental governance and issues of environmental
law and their inter-relationship. It aims to enable students to
develop a thorough understanding of the complex issues of
institutional, economic and social framework within which
management of the physical resources takes place, using water
management as part of the examples. In addition, the module aims
to provide detailed knowledge on the role which the law in
theory and in practice has in the prevention, protection, clean
up and compensation relating to harm caused to the environment.
- Managing Hazardous Agents and their
Effects in the Workplace (30 Credits) - Optional
- To thoroughly appraise and evaluate
the legal, theoretical and practical aspects of identifying,
controlling and managing the risk presented by a range of
workplace hazardous agents.
- Managing Workplace and Work
Equipment Hazards (30 Credits) - Optional
- Aims to enhance the skills of
inspection, auditing and testing and evaluation in respect of
the physical and traumatic dangers presented by the nature and
use of premises, plant, equipment and commonly occurring
processes, together with the skills to promote remedial and
proactive risk management improvement strategies.
- Monitoring and Control of Pollution
(30 Credits) - Optional
- To provide detailed knowledge on the
discharge of pollutants, either of natural or of anthropogenic
origin, into the environment that can induce severe stresses on
ecosystems and their inhabitants. To train students to act as
experts in the area of reducing and remediating the impact of
waste, wastewater, land and air pollution and noise. To
introduce theoretical and practical principles of natural
purification processes and technological processes to control
discharges which drive purification and remediation
technologies, with reference to the legislative framework
concerned with safeguarding the environment and human health. To
impart knowledge to enable students to critically review modern
technology and practices for the monitoring, prevention,
treatment and disposal of waste, wastewater, air pollution and
noise pollution discharge in to the different environmental
compartments air, water, and soil .
- Pollution Sources and Impact (30
Credits) - Optional
- This module aims to provide detailed
knowledge and insight into the sources of pollution in the three
environmental compartments. The characteristics and sources of
the major environmental pollutants will be identified and their
behaviour examined. The module also aims to familiarise students
with the health, ecological and climatic impact of a wide range
of pollutants, both independently and synergistically and to
explain the scientific principles behind these effects.
- Research Methods (30 Credits) -
Compulsory
- To provide graduate students with the
organisational and management skills to administer an MSc/PhD
research project. Management skills are supported by knowledge
of experimental design, quantitative and qualitative analytical
techniques, presentation skills and interactive computing
skills. A range of environmental and technological examples will
are used throughout the module to develop planning and
analytical skills. Subject specific skills are provided by
programme tutors to cover instrumental analytical techniques,
specific case studies and specific data analyses relevant to
individual programmes.
- Research Project (60 Credits) -
Compulsory
- This module aims to provide an
opportunity for the student to develop original and independent
research investigations aimed at integrating theoretical
knowledge and technical expertise to solve a practical problem
at a relevant postgraduate level using appropriate research
techniques.
- Risk Management Decision Making (30
Credits) - Compulsory
- To provide students with advanced
understanding of the subject area and enable them to critically
evaluate: Psychological, social, economic, legal, cultural and
philosophical factors which impinge upon personal and
institutional risk management decision making. How and why these
factors are important and when and how they may be incorporated
into risk decision processes. The roles of risk communication
and some of the techniques available Risk ranking and
prioritisation: sources of bias in decision making.
- Risk Management Techniques (30
Credits) - Compulsory
- To educate participants in
theoretical and practical dimensions of risk management decision
making from a multi-disciplinary, science-led perspective. To
enable participants to better understand the process of decision
making and the factors which influence it, and hence to
critically assess existing processes and/or make more-informed
and better risk decisions, building upon and extending rational
approaches currently favoured in risk assessment and risk
management. To complement PRS4606 which focuses upon economic,
psychological, social, communicative and cultural factors which
affect choice and the implications this has for decision making.
This module recognises that there are conflicts over how
decisions are and should be made and attempts to provide an
overview so that students will ultimately be in a position to
make their own choices based upon a wide appreciation of the
issues. Where students are taking this module as part of
programmes other than risk management, specific issues relating
to their specific discipline will be addressed through programme
specific components.
- Strategic Management (30 Credits) -
Optional
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course specification
DARM is both a Research Centre within the School of Health
and Social Sciences and an umbrella organisation bringing
together university groups with an interest in risk, risk
assessment and risk management.
Within the centre our research is currently focused, mostly,
on the development and application of decision-making and
risk management strategies in public health, occupational
safety and the environment (natural and built). However, the
Centre takes a multidisciplinary approach, which encompasses
the natural scientific, socio-economic, psychological,
legal, philosophical, ethical, and communication dimensions
of risk management. This ethos and experience underpins all
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