The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) in the Institute of Technology and Humanity (ITH) are looking for supervisors for their new MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience. Details of the teaching programme, its aims, its content, and learning outcomes, can be found here: https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/iethmpgrr
Our teaching programme is launching this upcoming term, and promises to deliver world-class teaching in interdisciplinary risk knowledge, methods and mitigation strategies. We have an exciting schedule of elective modules, delivered by world-leading experts across health protection, biosecurity, governance and policy, disaster risk, nuclear security and AI technologies.
"This course equips students with the knowledge, context and methodologies to address some of the most pressing and ubiquitous global risk challenges. The programme is highly interdisciplinary, appealing to scholars, international organisations, governments and the private sector, and similarly, aims to feed its alumni into research and decision-making roles across multiple sectors to enhance the identification, assessment, treatment and mitigation of global risks.
Whilst Core Module 1 provides a cross-geographies and cross-SDG overview of risk and resilience, Core Module 2 offers thematic lenses to the students that align with a multitude of SDG (e.g. sessions on gender and risk, environment and risk, inequalities, and health). Electives further deepen this thematic knowledge while a participatory exercise running over two terms and the research components of the course offer the opportunity to engage with innovative and policy-relevant methods.
CSER has been at the forefront of developing future thinking methodologies for the effective assessment of long-term global risks and advised national governments and international organisations on how to address these risks. This MPhil offers students training in future thinking at one of the forefront research institutes in this field and is uniquely interdisciplinary. In our market viability assessment, we found no similar offering elsewhere."
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