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.

There is a demand not only for preparing and equipping workers prior to disaster, but also building knowledge to prevent disasters from occurring. A community that has both capacity to prevent disasters and a ready to respond team can reduce mortality and social, cultural, and economic losses.

Our master's course is consistent with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030, which emphasises disaster education. This course is designed to equip you with advanced knowledge, and to continue your personal development in disaster risk management and humanitarianism.

You will learn to conduct theoretical and applied analyses, as well as evaluation to support disaster management and humanitarian action in a global context. This course can be completed in-person or online.

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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

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

Dr Stephanie Sodero

Lecturer in Climate Change and Health

Dr Stephanie Sodero researches vital mobilities move from the point of donation/manufacture to the point of care, and how such geographically dispersed supply chains can be made more resilient in a changing climate.

She is also part of an HCRI, UK-Med, and Save the Children-UK initiative, funded by the UK Disasters Emergency Committee, examining how the aid system needs to prepare for the climate emergency.

Dr. Sodero published her first book (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022) titled 'Under the Weather: Reimagining Mobility in the Climate Crisis.'

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