PgC - Disaster, Crisis and Humanitarian Response: Practice Development
This programme is ideal for practitioners working within a disaster, crisis and humanitarian field within military, ambulance service trusts, fire and rescue and NGO’s.
Develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to deliver interventions or lead in disaster, humanitarian and crisis settings. Broaden and deepen your perception of your role in such circumstances, including your management and resilience principles, shaping your ability to contribute more effectively to doctrine and policy developments that will ultimately improve yours and your team’s practise. By critically evaluating the evidence, your own personal experience and that of others, you will be able to apply credible, timely solutions to compound problems in response to natural or man-made incidents wherever they occur.
Course Overview
Focused on the pathway specialism, the PgCert Disaster, Crisis and Humanitarian Response enables you to negotiate a short (60 credit) programme of study which provides a coherent progression route, recognising and valuing prior experience and learning.
On this course you will...
- Provide a stimulating and challenging academic and scholarly environment for learners who wish to advance their academic and professional development beyond undergraduate level.
- Enable students to develop a mastery of complex and specialised knowledge and a critical awareness of issues at the forefront of their field of practice.
- Develop systematic skills of objective analysis and evaluation of evidence and develop confidence in appraising and implementing evidence to practice within their sphere of influence.
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