Master of Philosophy in Global Risk and Resilience at University of Cambridge

The programme provides students with a toolkit of concepts, methods, and approaches to understand and mitigate global risk. The programme will: Provide a rigorous understanding of the field of global risk studies, including the study of global, catastrophic and existential risk. Train students to critically engage with a wide range of interdisciplinary research on risk drivers, multipliers, and mitigation challenges, including the core skills required to interpret and apply scientific research into unprecedented and extreme future risk.

Faculty: School of the Humanities and Social Sciences  |  Department: Institute for Technology and Humanity  |  Duration: 9 months full-time; 21 months part-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: October 2027  |  Location: Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

For their supervised research, students work individually with supervision from domain experts to produce three pieces of written work: two essays of up to 5,000 words and a dissertation of up to 12,000 words.

Career pathways

Enable students to recognize opportunities for applying insights from this research to related disciplines and to various risk or technology focused careers across sectors such as government, industry, academia, and civil society. Translate knowledge and concepts across academic, policy, and industry contexts.

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