Graduates from our taught masters are enjoying huge success at entering the job market and have progressed on to a range of employment and career development opportunities. These range from consultancy, humanitarian focused disaster risk reduction roles and community resilience support officers. Former students are thus playing a key role in managing hazard and risk around the world, working for example with UNICEF.
I found that the background in the masters gave a strong foundation in technical knowledge: being able to meet experts on their turf. Flood modelling, climate change resilience. I can understand it and translate it into something the lay person can understand. Those skills have been really important.
There are opportunities in the humanitarian space for all. Everything in the humanitarian space is driven by evidence. It all rests on understanding risk and vulnerability: this is where you can flourish as a risk masters student.
The risk masters you’re doing now will come back into your work in ways you won’t expect. For example, how technology brings its own risks.
Alumni have found jobs as:
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