Departments of the Faculty of Risk Science and Methods

Each department is a coherent body of two to five disciplines, with the courses whose primary discipline is there and the pathways that run through them.

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Risk Science and Methods: departments, disciplines and courses. Drawn as uncertainty bands.

Open, 3
In preparation, 19
Approved for authoring, 6

From the Academy atlas and the curriculum: primary courses only; numbers mark departments.

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departments: 4
disciplines: 17
courses open now, 19 in preparation: 3
courses approved for authoring: 6

The departments in brief.

The Faculty of Risk Science and Methods has 4 departments and 17 disciplines. Department pages sit at a stable address under the faculty, so departments can be reorganised later without breaking the addresses of disciplines.

4 departments at a glance.

Numbered as on the faculty figure above. Each card counts the department's disciplines and the courses whose primary discipline is there.

Department of Risk Management

Enterprise risk management and risk frameworks, operational risk and continuity, model risk, and assurance and risk culture.

Department of Quantitative Risk Analysis

Probability and statistics for risk, catastrophe and exposure modelling, and composite indicators.

Department of Decision, Behaviour and Communication

Uncertainty and decision analysis, scenarios and stress testing, risk communication and literacy, and risk perception and behaviour.

Department of Geospatial and Risk Data Science

Geospatial analysis, Earth observation and GeoAI, the governance of risk data, and risk information standards.

Terms used on this page.

Term	Definition
Department	A body of two to five related disciplines within Faculty of Risk Science and Methods.
Discipline	One subject of study with its own scope, courses, labs and key terms.

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