PhD in Risk and Emergency Management (REM)

The 2013/2014 edition of the Risk and Emergency Management (REM) curriculum of the PhD Programme in Understanding and Managing Extremes (UME) is being offered by the UME Graduate School of the IUSS Pavia to train graduates and professionals in the assessment, mitigation and management of extreme events, with a particular focus on those arising from natural hazards. The unique characteristics of the programme include the broad, interdisciplinary curriculum that includes topics of statistics and probability, law, economics, resource management, natural hazards and risk, finance, insurance, sociology, communication, psychology, public health and medicine, and the innovative teaching structure which allows renowned lecturers from around the world to make up the teaching body.

Applications are currently open, with a deadline of 14th March 2013, and scholarships are available for the highest ranking applicants. Full details of the programme, as well as the application procedure and scholarship opportunities, can be found on the websites of the university.

Subject Areas

The PhD Programme has been designed to deal with three main areas:

- disaster risk assessment, focusing mainly on natural hazards such as earthquakes hurricanes, fires, landslides and floods (with possible extensions to the topics of climatology, desertification, human-made and technological risks etc.)

- extreme situation management, which includes topics of statistics and probability, law, economics, resource management, finance, insurance, sociology, ethics, psychology and medicine.

- engineering for risk mitigation, which includes topics on engineering to increase the capacity of buildings and infrastructure to withstand the demands from extreme events. The doctoral programme aims to train graduates and professionals in the assessment, mitigation and management of extreme events (both before and after they occur), with a particular focus on those arising from natural hazards though some aspects of human-made, technological and biomedical risk will also be covered.

The UME PhD programme features three curricula:

- Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (ROSE)
- Risk and Emergency Management (REM)
- Weather Related Risk (WRR)



Application Procedure
Apply online


 


Scholarship
Number of positions: 14 (12 with scholarship)


Deadline for application
 


March 14, 2013 12:00 pm.


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