MSc Humanitarian Intervention

This ground-breaking MSc course offers online training for people working in humanitarian organizations, wherever they are in the world. Our distance learning course is aimed at people who are currently, or hope to be, engaged in humanitarian work in any country and who want the skills and knowledge to offer psychosocial support. This involves helping people to maintain their positive psychological development in the face of challenges – often traumatic – being posed by their social environment.

• Psychological Aspects of Humanitarian Intervention
• Assessing, Planning, and Intervening During and After Disaster and Conflict
• Individual Group and Organisational Support for IDPs and Refugees
• Research Methods and Dissertation 1
• Research Methods and Dissertation 2
• Perspectives on individual wellbeing
• Coaching theory and practice
• Flourishing within organizational systems

Employability:

This course offers very specifically, applied training. And, as the UK’s only MSc in the subject, it will give you the opportunity to go on and study for a Ph.D. We also offer intermediate awards The PG Diploma requires you to pass the two conceptual core modules, plus two optional modules. The PG Certificate requires a pass in the two conceptual core modules, and the University Certificate asks for a pass in any module other than those relating to research methods and the dissertation.