Academic Programmes
Occupational Health & SafetyThe proposed awards have been designed to fulfil a need, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level, to educate the future and developing safety and health practitioner. 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 rationale behind the two levels of awards is essentially to ensure that students have the opportunity to study at the appropriate level (depending on their existing qualifications and professional standing). 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. Full-time students would normally study 120 credits a semester (2 days/week) with part-time students studying 60 credits a semester (1 day/week). Modules generally run in 6 week blocks, with 6 weeks of lecturers and seminars followed by 6 weeks of seminars only and self study with the pattern repeated throughout the 24 weeks. The awards are summarised below :
Risk ManagementThe field of risk management is evolving quickly in many different places and at many different levels in society and within organisations. There has been an increasing trend to require risk management to both be undertaken at a strategic level and be seen to do so (i.e. to be audited against established criteria). At the same time there has been a large body of academic research devoted to risk as a field of its own. 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 (Further Details). Strategic risk management is about far more than risk assessment and it requires an ability to understand the objectives, techniques and even vocabulary of the many different disciplines that consider risk within organisations – finance, law, health and safety, engineering, economics. Academic ProgrammesThe 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. The first part of all three degrees (in fact the whole of the PGCert) consists of two core modules that collate and evaluate the principles of risk management, using practical demonstrations from many different disciplines. After a thorough grounding in the principles of risk management in these core modules, PGDip and MSc students select modules reflecting their specialised interests, from a range available in other MSc and MA programmes. This is designed to provide the greatest flexibility and choice for students from different backgrounds, while giving them access to greater expertise in particular subjects than could be provided within the risk management programme team alone. Relationship of Strategic Risk to Other Disciplines.
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Further InformationPlease contact John Watt with any queries regarding Risk Management Teaching and Shaun Lundy regarding Occupational Health & Safety Courses. |