MSc Emergency Management & Resilience

This course is ideal for those looking for career advancement and those seeking to move into an emergency planning, business continuity, disaster management, or other resilience related career.  These courses aim to enhance your professional credibility and employability; will develop your personal and professional practice; and provide you with knowledge and understanding of essential concepts, up-to-date research, and evolving practice both within the UK and internationally.

The University of Wolverhampton has been delivering postgraduate provision for emergency Management since 2012 and established the Emergency Management & Resilience Centre.  Our courses are extremely popular with practitioners in emergency management, or those aspiring to enter this area of work.

We cater specifically for this ensuring every one of our modules is specifically designed and focussed on emergency management and resilience and led by the Emergency Management & Resilience Centre staff.  You will not study any module that is delivered for any other purpose or that is led by staff from other courses. 

We also ensure that the teaching is specifically focussed on the UK. This means that we will examine emergencies, policies, practices, and theories from around the world, but we ensure these are related back, and applied, into the context of the UK.

Our course content is also designed to allow experienced practitioners within Emergency Management to extend their knowledge and understanding.  We examine established practices but with new insights which can be applied to Emergency Management within the workplace, allowing you to adapt and advance your understanding and apply this to your practice.

Overall, our graduates think differently about what, why and how they deliver emergency management and resilience.  They are able to use an evidence based approach to deliver and advance Emergency Management and Resilience for themselves, for their organisations, and for the benefit of society as a whole.

The course aims to offer a flexible approach to the subjects studied and those already working in this area will be able to further develop their knowledge, skills and experience.  The course will ensure you develop a sound working knowledge of the principles, practice, concepts and underpinning policy within this important field of work, based on established evidence, practice and research.

You will develop valuable proficiencies in communication, leadership, and critical thinking as well as a wide range of inter-personal, self-management, research and project management skills.

The course promotes personal responsibility and an awareness of others in relation to inclusivity, wellbeing, equity, and diversity. 

Our course learning outcomes for the MSc award clearly state that on successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• Use initiative and take responsibility in order to learn independently, solve problems in creative and innovative ways.
• Demonstrate a range of transferable academic and professional skills appropriate to a career in Emergency Planning, Emergency Management or other Resilience roles; such as critical analysis, presentation skills, appropriate use of academic conventions in the production and presentation of work, and coherently structured arguments supported by thorough evidence.
• Communicate effectively, with colleagues and a wider audience, in a variety of media.
• Develop a critical understanding of differing perspectives and theories incorporating the legal underpinning of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from a range of emergencies, disasters or other such disruptive challenges.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive, critically aware, understanding of subject relevant UK legislation and other appropriate national and international policies and guidelines and the skills and knowledge required to implement these in a range of organisations.
• Develop advanced level skills in the critical appraisal of research and design, implement and evaluate a substantial piece of academic, or evidence based practice, research in a selected area of Emergency Management and/or Resilience.

These fees relate to new entrants only for the academic year indicated for entry onto the course, any subsequent years study may be subject to an annual increase, usually in line with inflation.

An Undergraduate Honours Degree (2:2 or above) from a UK university or overseas equivalent, or a professional qualification and/or experience considered to be equivalent to the above.

Applicants who have experience of working in emergency planning/resilience settings or have had previous employment in this area may be accepted onto the course based on their experience (i.e. work within an emergency responder or military organisation).

International Applicants

Your qualifications need to be deemed equivalent to the above entry requirements.

• English Language requirements are normally IELTS 6.5 with a minimum of 6.0 in each area (unless otherwise stated) or equivalent accepted qualification English Language Requirements
• For further information relating to overseas qualification please use the following link https://www.wlv.ac.uk/international/our-locations/your-country/

You will develop valuable proficiencies in communication, leadership and critical thinking as well as a wide range of inter-personal, self-management, research and project management skills.

A recognition of the critical role Emergency Management and Resilience plays in the global arena when considering the impact of managing, responding to and recovering from hazards, risks, and threats is deeply embedded throughout the programme.

During session and as part of your own research we will delve behind how and why things are done in emergency management, give special attention to why different aspects are undertaken 

the way that they are, and how lessons identified can be actively applied to improve prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery activities.

Attendance Pattern

If studying part-time, you will usually study 3 modules per year.  Each module has 5 days attendance delivered over 10 weeks on alternate Friday's, with two of these days being taught online through videoconferencing.  The other 3 days are delivered at our Telford Campus.  This equates to 15 Friday's each year.

If studying full-time, you will usually study 6 modules per year and you will study 2 modules at a time, plus the dissertation. Each module has 5 days attendance delivered over 10 weeks on alternate Friday's, with two of these days being taught online through videoconferencing.  The other 3 days are delivered at our Telford Campus.  You will attend on every Friday alternating between modules each week.

Whether full or part time, when you study your dissertation module there is a full day launch which you will need to attend followed by monthly online drop-ins to support you and maintain contact whilst you undertake your research.  You will also be able to meet with your supervisor at a schedule you agree with them as you proceed.

Postgraduate Loan (Home Fee Status):

You may be able to get a postgraduate student loan from Student Finance England of up to £12,167 to help pay for a Master’s degree. Applications are made through Student Finance England and more information on the regulations and eligibility criteria can be found at Masters Loans gov.uk.

* Any RPL will invalidate your eligibility as you must study a minimum of 180 credits

Changes for EU students:

The UK government has confirmed that EU students starting courses from 1 August 2021 will normally be classified as Overseas (International) students for fee purposes. More information about the change is available at UKCISA:

EU citizens living in the UK with 'settled' status, and Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland, will still be classified as Home students, providing they meet the usual residency requirements, for more information about EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) click here.

Postgraduate Loyalty Discount:

You can get 20% discount on a taught on-site postgraduate course if you’re a University of Wolverhampton Graduate.

The University offers a generous 20% Loyalty Discount to students progressing from an undergraduate programme to a taught postgraduate programme, where both courses are University of Wolverhampton Awards.

There is no time limit on how long ago you completed your degree as long as this is your first Masters level qualification.

The discount applies to the first year of enrolment only. Students who receive a loyalty discount are not entitled to any further tuition discount or bursary. For full terms and conditions click here.

Self-funded:

If you are paying for the fees yourself then the fees can be paid in 3 instalments: November, January and April. More information can be found by clicking here.

Sponsored - Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees:

Your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.

We must receive notification of sponsorship in writing as soon as possible, and before enrolment, confirming that the sponsor will pay your tuition fees.

Financial Hardship:

Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.

Charitable Funding:

You might also want to explore the possibility of funding from charitable trusts; please see the following websites Association of Charitable Foundations, Directory of Social Change or Family Action. Most charities and trust funds offer limited bursaries targeted to specific groups of students so you will need to research whether any of them are relevant to your situation.

You can find more information on the University’s Funding, cost, fee and support pages.

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