Program Overview

PG Cert Emergency Management & Resilience

Overview

Taught over one year by subject specialists involved in local, regional and national research, this course provides fundamental knowledge for Emergency Management in practice.

Award

PG Cert

Start date(s)

29 September 2025

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Course specifications

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Course length

Part-time (1 year)

Campus location

University of Wolverhampton Campus

School

School of Social, Historical and Political Studies

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Why choose this course?

Taught over one year by subject specialists involved in local, regional and national research, this course provides fundamental knowledge for Emergency Management in practice. Ideal for those already working in this area, you will develop your knowledge with broad, flexible exploration of the principles, practice and underpinning policies fuelling your work, examining international incidents, policy and research to retain relevant lessons for focused UK multi-agency studies. You will examine emergency and disaster scenarios, relevant models and theories applied to them and the monitoring necessary following their outbreak, with the careful consideration of environmental and societal stability, communities, economics and individuals required of ethical practitioners. All the while, your transferrable skills in communication, leadership, critical thinking and management will be trained, preparing you for continuing and new careers which your qualification will enable progress through.

What's unique about this course?

• Ideal for those already working in this area, you will develop your knowledge with broad, flexible exploration of the principles, practice and underpinning policies fuelling your work.
• You will examine emergency and disaster scenarios, relevant models and theories applied to them and the monitoring necessary following their outbreak, with the careful consideration of environmental and societal stability, communities, economics and individuals required of ethical practitioners.

Course Modules

Year 1

• Communication, Information & Resilience
  • Module: 7EP023
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
  • Description: This module will enable you to gain insight into some of the complex issues associated with the management of information, communications, and decision making in Emergency and Resilience Management. You will consider the issues in relation to the needs of communities and responders. The implications of communication and information sources, reliability and practical issues will be discussed, and the module will also allow you to develop your own communication and presentation skills.
• Disaster : Understanding, Insight & Learning
  • Module: 7EP022
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
  • Description: This module will develop your key understanding and insight concerning emergencies/disasters, the foundational models and theories that underpin them, and the complexities and barriers concerning the learning and monitoring that should take place during and following such incidents.
• Foundations & Frameworks
  • Module: 7EP021
  • Credits: 20
  • Period: 1
  • Type: Core
  • Description: This module provides an examination of the framework, legislation and guidance which forms the foundation of emergency management and resilience, exposing key lessons which can be applied into the field from countries around the world. You will also examine the principles of emergency management, discovering some of the complexities these present especially in the deployment of effective policy. This module will also provide for the development of academic skills such as writing, referencing, reading, searching the literature and thinking critically and creatively. This will enable you to obtain the most from your studies, enable you to engage in mastering subjects across the field, and demonstrate your knowledge and understanding through learning activities and assignments.

Course Fees and Finance

• Location | Mode | Fee | Year
  • Home | Part-time | £2938 per year |
  • Home | Part-time | £3029 per year |

These fees relate to new entrants only for the academic year indicated for entry onto the course, any subsequent years study may be subject to an annual increase, usually in line with inflation.

Funding

• Postgraduate Loyalty Discount: You can get 20% discount on a taught postgraduate course if you’re a University of Wolverhampton Graduate.
• Self-funded: If you are paying for the fees yourself then the fees can be paid in 3 instalments: November, January and April. More information can be found by clicking here.
• Sponsored - Your employer, embassy or organisation can pay for your Tuition fees: Your employer, embassy or organisation agrees to pay all or part of your tuition fees; the University will refer to them as your sponsor and will invoice them for the appropriate amount.
• Financial Hardship: Students can apply to the Dennis Turner Opportunity Fund for help with course related costs however this cannot be used for fees or to cover general living costs.
• Charitable Funding: You might also want to explore the possibility of funding from charitable trusts. Please contact Association of Charitable Foundations, Directory of Social Change or Family Aid. Most charities and trust funds offer limited bursaries targeted to specific groups of students so you will need to research whether any of them are relevant to your situation.