Researching Risk, Disasters and Emergencies

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Free Online Course: Researching Risk, Disasters and Emergencies provided by FutureLearn is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 2 weeks long, 3 hours a week. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from FutureLearn. Researching Risk, Disasters and Emergencies is taught by Yung-Fang Chen.

Overview
  • Understand how to research risk, disasters and emergencies

    How can we help other people before and or during disasters? How we can improve water and sanitary facilities in refugee camps? How can drones and virtual reality technologies help with emergency response exercises? Get answers to these questions and more with this course that explains the vital research processes necessary for responses to emergencies and disasters.

    You will have the opportunity to learn how to design, prepare and carry out research into these and other areas. You will examine the approaches to summarising and writing up your research.

    This course is for anyone interested in carrying out research into risk, emergency, crisis, disaster and resilience disciplines.