Fire Safety (Management) (Top-up), BSc (Hons)

Program Overview

This top-up degree in Fire Safety (Management) from UCLan equips individuals with management skills to excel in senior fire industry roles. It focuses on minimizing fire risks, preparing graduates to lead teams in providing safe working environments within the built environment.

Program Outline

Fire Safety (Management) (Top-up), BSc (Hons) - UCLan

Degree Overview:

This top-up degree is designed for individuals seeking to develop their expertise in fire safety management and aim for senior roles in the fire industry. It focuses on minimizing fire risks to life, property, business continuity, and the environment within the built environment. The program emphasizes the development of management skills for fire safety, preparing graduates to lead teams in providing safe working environments and managing fire safety provisions within organizations.

Outline:

Year 1:

• Compulsory Modules:
• Enclosure Fire Dynamics: This module explores enclosure fire dynamics, dominant control mechanisms, and the relationships, solutions, and models used in fire safety design and investigations.
It also enhances employability skills like independent working, analysis, problem-solving, presentations, and teamwork.
• Fire Protection Engineering: This module develops numerical analysis skills and evaluates appropriate fire protection applications.
• Strategic Risk Decision Making: This module covers emergency planning, disaster management, and response to natural and man-made disasters.
It examines case studies of fire, flooding, and explosions, exploring causes, consequences, and response strategies. It also analyzes the media's role and pre-planning in disaster management. Students produce and defend professional-quality reports on real risk management policies.
• Fire Studies Dissertation: This module develops independent research and evaluation skills.

Teaching:

• The course is taught by research-active staff from the fields of fire safety engineering and fire chemistry, as well as fire professionals with extensive experience.
• Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, laboratory work, project work, case studies, and site visits.
• The mix of teaching methods aims to motivate and challenge students to consider different learning styles and maximize their potential.
• Personal study is an integral part of the course, utilizing innovative information and communication technologies and practical case studies based on research outcomes achieved by the School staff.

Careers:

• Graduates from Fire Safety (Management) have entered leading fire engineering consulting firms such as Buro Happold, ARUP, Warrington Exova, and various Fire and Rescue Services around the UK and internationally.
• Applicants interested in taught postgraduate studies can continue on to MSc Fire Safety Engineering or MSc Fire and Rescue Service Management.
• Applicants interested in research can pursue MPhil/PhD studies with the Centre in Fire and Hazards in areas of fire and explosion safety engineering, fire modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and others.

Other:

• The course benefits from potential exchange visits to partner colleges/universities in the Middle East and Hong Kong, where English is widely spoken.
• Students can gain real-world experience through industrial placements, with most placements being UK-based but opportunities existing for global placements.
• The course is taught in the new £35 million Engineering Innovation Centre (EIC), providing an integrated teaching space in state-of-the-art facilities.

2024/25 UK Full-time £9,250 per year Part-time £1,540 per 20 credits International Full-time £16,500 per year