Environmental Risk Management
Our Environmental Risk Management programme will enable you to acquire an in-depth understanding of how risks from natural hazards materialise and affect societies globally. You will develop conceptual and analytical skills to assess and propose innovative solutions, through a mixture of approaches including lectures, seminars, field classes and experiential learning. With opportunities to hear from guest lecturers in government, non-government organisations, international agencies and from academia, this programme will equip you with skills to pursue a diversity of careers.
Develop subject-specific knowledge of environmental risk management with broad-application from local to global levels. Find out more and apply here.
SDG Focused Careers
These careers are tackling the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs):
Below are some potential careers for graduates of the MSc Environmental Risk Management programme. Click the job titles below for more information, including average salary information, expected working hours, career progression routes, and current opportunities.
Consultancy and Management
- Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Practitioner Making sure businesses, organisations or coorporations work and behave in an ethical, sustainable, or environementally consious way.
- Countryside/Conservation Officer Manage, protect and improve the rural environment.
- Environmental / Eco Consultant Advise on sustainability, including waste management, recycling, flood risk and the effects of climate change.
Research
- Hydrologist / Flood Engineer Study rainfall, rivers and groundwater systems to help develop sustainable ways of managing water.
- Researcher / Research Scientist Plan and lead experiments and investigations on a range of scientific topics.
- Agronomist / Agronomy Manager Advise on soil health, disease prevention and how to improve crop production and quality.
