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MSc - Master of Science
Cranfield Campus
Part Time
Jan 2029
2 Year
Accident investigation is critical to preventing future accidents and promoting a safe environment. The Safety and Accident Investigation MSc will enable you to play a crucial role in identifying the systemic factors of accidents, learn to implement corrective actions and contribute to improving safety practices. Cranfield University has been a centre of excellence in the field of accident investigation for over 40 years, having delivered our first accident investigation course in cooperation with the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch in 1977. The high quality of our research and training in aircraft accident investigation has been recognised by being awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011 – the highest award a UK academic institution can receive. This course will provide you with academically recognised, high standard qualification and industry leading training in how to undertake safety-based investigations. This course is suitable for people from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds. We have welcomed students from the aviation, maritime, road and rail transport industries, as well as from manufacturing sectors and military. Our students are typically interested in developing their careers within investigation and normally are very motivated to learn in this field. As a student, you will work towards a qualification that will allow you to further your career development in accident investigation or other safety related areas of the transport industry.
To provide accident investigators with the fundamental knowledge and skills to conduct a general transport accident investigation.
Industrial roles which draw on skill sets in safety and human factors demand the skill sets developed in this module in support of the course level learning outcomes.
The award of a Masters degree resulting from a taught programme of study requires the student to submit a thesis based on a structured programme of research. This structured programme can be delivered through collaboration with an industrial sponsor; although it may be driven by research interests of the academics. The thesis should satisfactorily set out the results of the structured programme and demonstrate the candidate’s ability to conduct original investigations, to test ideas (whether the candidate’s own or those of others) and to obtain appropriate conclusions from the work. In most cases, the results of the research programme should be set in the context of related work previously published by others. The student is required to communicate their findings in a thesis, which is written in the style of a scientific paper.
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