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What you will learn

On successful completion of the course you will be able to:

• Review the concept of risk through the examination of its evolution, its application in practice and its limitations. Consider the contemporary risk environment and the implication in terms of culture,
• Critically analyse the development of academic theory and its application to the management of crises. Relate risk and crisis management tools, processes, and frameworks, and critically evaluate them,
• Discuss organisational structures and individual skills and knowledge necessary to manage crises effectively (including risk and crisis communication),
• Review the multifaceted meaning of the resilience concept and its key tenets and discuss its origins and evolution; Relate risk and crisis management frameworks to contemporary resilience strategies principally from the perspective of security,
• Articulate basic principles of systems theory and their relevance to risk, crises and resilience as well as their repercussions on understanding the politics of resilience.

Core content

• Key risk theories (including Psychological theory and Risk Perception, Cultural theory and social amplification, Risk homeostasis, Precautionary Principle),
• Risk management tools and methodology (including RM cycle, matrix, and registers),
• Crisis management frameworks (including decision-making under uncertainty),
• Notions of risk and Crisis communication,
• Components of resilience approach in the resilience in the UK and its relation to National Security,
• Societal implications of prevailing risk awareness and its relationship with resilience thinking (including points on the politics of resilience),
• Resilience from a perspective of Complex adaptive systems (social ecological literature),
• Case-studies, classroom activities.

Upgrade to a professional qualification

After successful completion of this course 10 credits can be put towards the Counterterrorism MSc or Counterterrorism, Risk Management and Resilience MSc

Cranfield credits are available for this short course which you can put towards selected Cranfield degrees. Find out more about short course credit points.

Speakers

• Edith Wilkinson

Concessions

Accommodation options and prices

This course is non-residential. If you would like to book accommodation on campus, please contact Mitchell Hall or Cranfield Management Development Centre directly. Further information about our on campus accommodation can be found . 

Alternatively you may wish to make your own arrangements at a nearby hotel.

Location and travel

Situated close to Milton Keynes and Bedford, the Cranfield campus is situated in Wharley End, very close to Cranfield village, and is about 10 minutes from the M1 motorway.  There is rail and road access to most major airports as well as coach and train stations. Cranfield campus also has its own airport for private executive business travel.

Download a visitor guide including map, directions and health and safety information.

Campus address

College Road
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL