Climatology|Climate and Climate Change|Geohazards|Interdisciplinary Thinking

This module encourages thought on natural hazards, vulnerability, marginalisation, risk, resilience, adaptation, and disaster, and how they are considered...

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks (IRDR0020)

This module encourages thought on natural hazards, vulnerability, marginalisation, risk, resilience, adaptation, and disaster, and how they are considered within a humanitarian context. It will address frameworks and methodologies for understanding and measuring risk and strategies to reduce the impacts and the likelihood of disasters in fragile areas. It will help students to understand social, physical and environmental impacts of climate change and natural hazards on vulnerable populations in different settings, including conflict and displacement settings, around the world.

Specific topics covered include the physical investigation of hazards including, for example, earthquakes, cyclones and tsunamis; climate change adaptation in a humanitarian context; and international frameworks for disaster risk reduction and adaptation including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

IFS workshops are held on two days each term to supplement the supervision you receive from your supervisor. You are expected to attend the IFS workshops,...

Institution-Focused Study (Year 2) (IOEF0020)

IFS workshops are held on two days each term to supplement the supervision you receive from your supervisor. You are expected to attend the IFS workshops, which give you the opportunity to:



develop your knowledge of specialist topics;
 discuss your research with staff and colleagues;
 raise issues which are particularly interesting or challenging;
 check that our expectations match those of others; and
 to sort out any general queries.
The workshops provide an excellent opportunity for you to meet your colleagues, to discuss your work, to meet with your supervisor(s) and to use the library, thereby maintaining the collegiality which is such a strong feature of the EdD.



The focus will be on preparing the portfolio reflective statement; working effectively with your supervisors; writing the IFS proposal; gaining ethical approval; sustained coherency of writing for the IFS



Ordinarily, participants would be expected to attend sessions face-to-face. However, with the uncertainty and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic we may need to revise plans and offer synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities that do not disadvantage any individual.