Risk Management at Middlesex University
Risk is an expanding subject area within Middlesex University, which brings together research, postgraduate education, specialist training and consultancy activities. We co-ordinate this through the Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management (DARM).
 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 our teaching and training.
More about DARM
Staff and students
Research
Education - postgraduate Risk Management (Masters level)
Education - postgraduate Risk Management (Doctoral level)
Education - undergraduate Occupational Health and Safety (BSc Top-up)
Education - postgraduate Occupational Health and Safety (Masters level)
Business services - training
Business services - consultancy
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Centre for Decision Analysis and Risk Management
Now recruiting for September 2009
 Postgraduate Degrees in Risk Management
All the programmes continue to examine risk from a strategic perspective - students learn how sustainable decision making in conditions of uncertainty and conflict needs to make sense of many sources of information, gathered and interpreted by individuals and professionals with vastly different aims, values and perceptions. The programmes are designed for people who have expertise in one area of risk and are being asked to take on a wider portfolio or others that simply wish to approach risk from a holistic perspective. The programme structure is modular and therefore modules can be studied individually and/or be taken in combination to achieve one of three postgraduate awards (Post Graduate Certificate in Risk Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Risk Management, MSc Risk Management), which simply represent different exit points to suit different individual education requirements.
 Degrees in Occupational Health & Safety
The industry need for graduate professionals in these areas has never been greater, and organisations benefit from having pragmatic, competent advice to sensibly manage risk rather than create risk adverse cultures often seen as contrary to other organisational objectives.
The BSc (Hons) is a practitioner focused award primarily for those who are developing professionals. The MSc, however, has a higher level of strategic risk management as a focus for professionals who wish to raise their academic and professional level, and those transferring from other professions who already hold graduate or post-graduate qualifications.
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Changing Lives
To quote MSc Graduate Jayesh Patel....
"The MSc Risk Management is a great course ideal for any student who wishes to broaden their horizons and open a world of new career changes. As the course is taught from a multi disciplinary approach, the words "Risk Management" can be applied to almost any field in any business.
The course has changed my life completely. Having done an honours degree in Business Studies I was planning to pursue a career in business management, but the Risk MSc has opened doors to new careers in the health and safety, environment and policy making sectors. The key to this course is the students and teachers you meet, they all have expertise in particular fields which give you the ability to network.
Currently I work as a safety engineer for a rail, construction and civil engineering company, the work involves me managing the safety of large construction and civil projects for the London Underground & Dockland Light Rails. I am also working towards a chartered status with IOSH which I hope to have mid next year. The degree has given me the ability and confidence to manage large projects with a practical approach to safety and the ability to accept, communicate and manage certain risk.
The course is well structured and gives the student an array of modules ranging from business, environmental science, health and safety. The lecturers and professors who teach the course deliver to the highest standard and ensure their students have as many resources as possible. I would like to thank the members DARM and my fellow students who provided me the support necessary to accomplish this degree."
 Middlesex Masters Students Celebrate Success!
Steven Skinner (PGCert), Congratulations! We are very proud of you and all our graduates. For details of some of their projects, reactions to the course and ways that lives have been changed please browse through the student and graduate profiles.
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DARM Participation at Upcoming Events
 Alarm Conference From
Global to Local
Bournemouth 21st to 23rd June
At each Alarm Annual Conference, the delegates and presenters scan the horizon to assess how incoming risks, big and small, will affect public services in the coming months and years. In 2009, the programme reflects the diversity of risk we are dealing with today, from global to local. Professor David Ball, from DARM, will speak on the subject of “Managing Risks to the Public: Lessons from Children’s Play Provision”. Further Details
 SRA Europe Conference 2009 - 28th June to 1st July
Karlstad, Sweden
The conference theme will span across a broad range of issues from everyday risks to extraordinary events and aims to provide a forum for traditional SRA themes such as risk identification, quantification and mitigation, risk perception and communication, policy making and legislation, as well as opening up for new risk-related topics. John Watt will participate with other members of the SRA Education Committee. Further Details
 IRM Risk Forum Practical risk management in a turbulent world.
University of Warwick, 21st to 23rd September.
The Risk Forum is the IRM’s annual flagship conference – Europe’s leading educational event not just for risk professionals but for anyone and everyone involved in risk management. The two day conference programme provides a stimulating learning experience within a relaxed educational environment. It also gives networking opportunities with a cross section of colleagues and experts across all aspects of risk management. Further Details
 SRA Conference 2009 - 6th to 9th December
Risk Analysis: The Evolution of a Science.
In 2009 the SRA Annual Meeting will be held at the Renaissance Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. The theme of the meeting is Risk Analysis: The Evolution of a Science. Further Details
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Research News
 Research and Risk Education
In February, John Watt was invited by the University of Osaka to give a paper and join discussions in a workshop entitled “Building the Platform for Training Risk Managers”. This hugely enjoyable visit to Japan proved to be a springboard for further opportunities to participate in research on ways that risk curricula are developing across the world. Subsequently John has been invited to join the SRA Education Committee and, with a current MSc student Leah Corr, is starting to survey and evaluate current provision.
 Play Today Article
HSE supports sensible risk management where it counts. DARM members have long supported the restoration of play value as the paramount priority in play provision. Article
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Business Service Activities
Work-based Learning at the Metropolitan Police
Middlesex University is working in partnershiop with the Metropolitan Police Detective Crime Academy to deliver a work-based learning degree in 'Homicide and Serious Crime'. Risk management is a component of this provision and DARM is proud to be working with the Metropolitan Police and our colleagues in the Criminology department in such an important and rapidly developing area. Further details of the Senior Detective Course.
 NEBOSH Certificate
This course covers the main legal requirements for safey in the UK, a range of workplace hazards and methods of control and is suitable for anyone who needs a broad understanding of health and safety issues. Further Details
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