NEBOSH MSc/MRes Environmental Management

Program Overview

This part-time distance learning program offers both MSc and MRes pathways, providing opportunities to enhance your knowledge in health, safety, and environmental management. You'll study online with support available via video calls, and have the flexibility to choose modules that align with your interests, such as environmental sustainability, disaster management, or mental health at work. The program is accredited by NEBOSH, ensuring a high standard of education and recognition in the field.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This part-time distance learning program offers opportunities through two distinct pathways: MSc and MRes. You'll study online and support is only a video call away. As an MSc student, your journey involves completing taught modules during the first year and the first semester of the second year, ending with a six-month research dissertation. Or choose the MRes pathway to put the emphasis on research methodology modules, paving the way for a 12-month, 120-credit research project centered around workplace-related topics in your field. Our core modules will provide you with valuable skills in research methods, literature review, and research project design. MSc students will also delve into fundamental subjects such as environmental sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and ecological services. You’ll have the flexibility to select supplementary modules in areas such as disaster management, safety assessment, flood risk, and mental health at work, so your Masters can be all about your interests. You’ll be following in the footsteps of people from diverse organizations, including BAE Systems, the oil and gas industry, emergency services, NHS, and renewable energy.

Outline:

Research Methods (NEBOSH Programmes)

This module looks at various methods used to collect and analyze data in research projects. You'll explore the uses, advantages, and disadvantages of the methods and choose the most appropriate for your main research project.

Compulsory•20 credits

Literature Review

Topics include the purpose of reviewing the literature in research, practicalities of carrying out a literature review, and writing a literature review in a suitable format.

Compulsory•20 credits

Designing Research Projects

Examine what's required in writing a research proposal. You'll explore how a research problem is formulated, constructing relevant hypotheses, evaluating alternative research methods for suitability, and how to create a suitable research design.

Compulsory•20 credits

Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Topics covered include sustainability and sustainable development concepts, policy considerations of climate change; resource efficiency, measuring environmental sustainability (including ecological, carbon, and water footprinting), and tools for SD evaluation.

Core•20 credits

Ecological Services and Environmental Economics

Examine the importance of biodiversity and relevant UN, EU, and UK policies, ecological services, and the ecosystems services approach to planning and environmental management. You'll also explore the economics of climate change, including the Stern Report and economic instruments for gaining environmental outcomes.

Core•20 credits

Disaster and Emergency Management

Develop an understanding of the potential impact of a disaster on an organization and methods of managing disasters and emergencies. You'll study historical development, definitions, and institutions; law, guidance, and sources of information; major incident investigation and public inquiries; and management of disasters and emergencies.

Optional•20 credits

Safety Case Production and Assessment

Topics studied on this module include the purpose of the safety case, safety analysis techniques, safety case production, and safety case structure.

Optional•20 credits

Flood Risk Management

Explore the different types of flooding, the impact of flooding on people and property, and flood defenses such as land use management and sustainable drainage systems, working with natural processes, channel works, banks, barriers, pumping stations, and managed realignment of banks.

Optional•20 credits

Mental Health at Work

Examine the characteristics and consequences of common types of mental ill-health within the workplace and their effects on an individual’s health and behavior. You'll also cover employer obligations under health and safety and disability discrimination law / conventions, and the size of the mental health ‘problem’ within the working population. They’re out there studying the latest solutions to climate change and other environmental challenges, and they bring this knowledge to you through research-led teaching.

Careers:

On completing this course, you’ll have the knowledge and skills to provide professional strategic advice and lead and promote health, safety, and environmental performance in your workplace. Because we're known for offering one-of-a-kind NEBOSH courses, both the University and our graduates have a great reputation among professionals in the Humber and Yorkshire region.

Other:

This course is accredited by NEBOSH.

Tuition Fees

| Course | UK Tuition Fees | International Tuition Fees | | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | | MRes | £6,500 | £7,000 | Fees are paid at the start of each year of these courses and the fees stated above are for the first year only. Fees can change from year to year so the fee for the second year may be higher than that for the first year. If you choose to study part-time, fees are charged pro-rata to the full-time fee, according to the number of credits being studied. Tuition fees for the 2025/26 academic year are still being finalised and may change. Confirmed fees will be available by June 2024.