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Hi my name is Sandra and I am originally from Ireland. I'm undertaking the Masters programme here at Kingston in Hazards and Disaster Management.
It's a full time course but you do have an option of doing it part-time as well.
I actually undertook English and Geography as my undergraduate degree and within that I took a variety of different modules.
Including Things like climatology natural hazards and environmental geography, alongside environmental justice
Looking at what Kingston had to offer, I thought I could maximise and build our own my knowledge from my undergrad.
It's divided into two semesters. Within semester one you study disaster management and the insurance aspects.
Also the disaster mitigation and reconstruction phases as well
Also, we did delve into hazards and society, how hazards actually impact society, who it impacts and adaptive strategies.
Finally we did water resource management which is a great because we actually got out into the field.
so we got really first-hand experience. When studying disasters it's not just within the UK context but also globally.
So we study a variety and an array of different case studies. This semester awe have been delving a little bit deeper.
volcanic hazards, earthquakes, tsunamis. We are also doing atmospheric and geological hazards
We are doing the geophysical, so that takes into account monitoring of
and this is a great one this one if you like your landslides or weather operations and the weather monitoring
and hopefully that's the side of disaster management that I personally hope to engage with after the course.
We're going to be going to Tenerife, which i'm really excited about. We're going to be doing kind of a real hands-on approach of getting at there. Out of our comfort zone.
Out of, you know the classroom, and just assessing a multi-hazard area. We're going to be taking into account venerability, risk and the different hazards that the area is prone to.
We have an Emergency Planning Society. We can actually go and converse with other hazards students.
From you know first year through to third year and other postgraduate students who are interested in natural disasters.
The best thing about that is that they actually get in guest speakers guest speakers from different organisations.
There was an emergency planning show as well, that we got to participate in as well
It was just kind of broadening our horizons in terms of seeing what's out there, what kind of organisations we could mingle with. It was a good experience.
The staff, they are highly competent and adept in their subject areas. Really enthusiastic, and it's quite infectious and that does reflect in the classroom.
Your supervisors, you can go to any time for help. One thing the lecturers do is they make themselves available to cater for our needs at any time.
I was pretty sure in what I wanted to do and I actually specifically pinpointed Kingston.
Because, it delves into both the science underpinning natural hazards and the disaster management so it had that nice balance.
Whereas some other courses actually dealt too much into the science or too much into the disaster management. This just had a nice balance so i actually pinpointed Kingston.
It's very accessible in terms of transport. You can easily get in and out of London in twenty five minute.
I thought as well because it's that little bit outside of central London that it would have a nice vibe, and it does.