Shelter after Disaster

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Start dates

September 2023 / September 2024

Course length

Full time: One semester (four months)

Location

Headington

Department

School of Architecture

Our Shelter after Disaster course provides you with the knowledge to understand and discuss the essential components of shelter response after a disaster.

Safe shelter is a critical need immediately after a natural disaster. This course aims to develop reflective practitioners who can combine:

understanding of practical strategic issues of development and emergency practice
an appreciation of the wider political context in which they operate.

You will learn about development and humanitarian practice. AS well as the role of the practitioner intervening in post disaster reconstruction.

We have developed good relationships with agencies working in the shelter field. Occasionally we can offer you internship possibilities within these organisations.

The course is suitable for students with technical as well as non-technical backgrounds. There is no need to have any previous knowledge in building, construction, architecture or engineering.

Specific entry requirements

Applications will normally be open to candidates who fulfil at least one of the following requirements:

– hold an approved undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline
– hold a relevant recognised diploma or professional qualification in a relevant discipline (eg human rights, development practice, humanitarianism, architecture, planning, environmental psychology, public health, geography, public administration)
– hold substantial and proven field experience (in potential replacement of a degree qualification) within a relevant area, eg with an NGO.