International Disaster Management MSc

Year of entry: 2026

Course length: On campus: 12 months full-time | 24 months part-time

About the course

Our MSc International Disaster Management course enable you to develop the knowledge needed to respond to and help prevent disasters. When disasters strike they require a quick response, and create burdens for rescue and humanitarian workers.

With a changing climate, disasters are beginning to bear ever-worse effects on societies across the world. Governments, think-tanks, charities and private businesses alike recognise the importance of hiring well-trained professionals with speciality knowledge in disasters to both reduce their effects and plan for their occurrence in the future. Through these actions, those trained in disaster management actively save lives, mitigate economic loss and ease the socio-cultural disruption that disasters cause.

Our MSc in International Disaster Management has been designed to train the next generation of such professionals. Taught by leading academics with decades of subject-specific experience, the course provides its students with in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of disasters and the various techniques through which they are now managed. At the same time, the course outlines and explains the broader contextual factors that influence both the occurrence of disasters and the decisions that various actors make when attending to them.

At the end of their studies, students are fully equipped with the necessary practical skills to enter into a wide array of careers throughout government, private and non-profit sectors and reduce the consequences of disasters on communities across the world.

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Course Units

Gender, Race and Security
Disaster Politics
Anthropology of Violence and Reconstruction
Disaster Management
Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Economics
The Politics of International Intervention, Conflict and Peace
Young People in Conflicts and Displacement
Climate Change, Resilience and Environmental Justice and Introduction to GIS

These are example course units based on 2025/26 options and are subject to change each year.

Dr Stephanie Sodero

Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and Health

Stephanie focuses on vital mobilities that impact life changes. Her research examines how medical goods such as blood saline and oxygen move from points of care and how such geographically dispersed supply chains can be made more buoyant in a changing climate.

Care for the climate and communities is central to her work. Stephanie’s first book is Under the Weather: Reimagining mobility in the Climate Crisis (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022)

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