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MSc - Master of Science
Online Campus
Part Time
Oct 2026
2 Year
Gain the teaching, skills, experience, and knowledge of experienced professionals with BNU. This remote learning course is here for those seeking to develop advanced capability to meet and exceed the needs of evolving organisations, through a applied and structured programme of study. Led by our experienced and supportive academic team, our course involves the study of both civil protection and business continuity, as well as the challenges and opportunities that come with threat and risk management. Our course has been developed to enable you to critically appraise a range of strategies for holistic organisational resilience and apply concepts, theories and principles to a wide range of organisational and sector threats and risks. Designed to give those from military backgrounds, as well as those with security, risk and related practitioner experience the necessary skills to develop parity of understanding and knowledge with that of mainstream business and wider organisational disciplines. During your time on this degree you will cover areas including, threat, risk and impact perspectives, security management, emergency management and digital leadership. Gain advanced knowledge and the practical skills needed to build resilient organisations that can thrive in uncertainty. You’ll explore the full spectrum of risk and resilience, including civil protection, business continuity, crisis and emergency management, and digital leadership. Whether you're already working in the field or looking to transition into it, this course provides a strategic, enterprise-wide perspective that’s highly valued across sectors. There is growing demand for professionals who can not only understand organisational resilience but also lead its implementation. Employers increasingly seek candidates with specialist qualifications in this area and in some roles, a master’s degree is a prerequisite. Studying this MSc could significantly enhance your employability and open doors to leadership roles in resilience, risk, security, and continuity.
Organisations are vulnerable and exposed to threats from malicious or accidental events on a constant basis. You will learn how to manage the impacts of risks upon an organisation and its assets, how to plan and manage operational activities and respond to incidents whilst they are happening and beyond until full recovery has been achieved.
You'll study organisational exposure to risk, the role of Risk Management, industry norms and practices whilst developing frameworks for your area of operations. You'll discuss the relationship of threat, risk and impact with the wider organisation. You'll consider both theoretical formulations and practical application of these concepts.
This module addresses the needs and requirements of effective organisations to anticipate, respond to and recover from incidents and events and the multi-layered and multilevel preparatory and responsive elements which need to be put in place to ensure that holistic Organisational Resilience is embedded within the organisation.
You will study Business Continuity Management and examine new theories, along with testing them in the ever expanding, dynamic workplace and wider organisational environments. You’ll learn how to not only link current knowledge to a business but also consider and develop new ideas based upon what theory exists and theories that you may develop.
You'll study effective/ineffective leadership and consider the wider contextual issues which face organisational resilience and the alignment with organisational objectives. You'll examine internal and external factors which could impact upon effective leadership and how to research and build applicable theories around the core elements studied.
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