Risk Management (Joint Honours) BA/BSc (Hons)

Our Risk Management Joint Honours course equips you with the knowledge and skills to evaluate theories and learn tools and techniques to manage risk scenarios across a range of sectors, professional contexts and operational functions. You will be able to plan and control uncertainty, risk and crisis in internal, external and digital businesses.

The course explores risk management tools, profiles and techniques and applies them to real-world sectors. You will consider uncertainty, risk, resilience, system thinking, risk assessment and auditing, risk treatment and information management in a local and global context. You will demonstrate the risk management for project planning, response and control. Aspects of cyber security, business continuity and crisis and operational risks will be explored in various business culture and contexts.

You will have the opportunity to select your preferred modules in Stages Two and Three to tailor the course to your interests.

Whatever your ambitions, we’re here to help you to achieve them. We’ll support you to identify the skills you’re learning during your course, find your strengths and secure practical experience so that when it comes to applying for jobs or further study you’ll feel confident in standing out from the crowd. We’ve created the Northampton Employment Promise because we are so confident that if you focus on your studies and complete one of our awards you’ll be highly employable by the time you graduate. Putting you in a great position to secure employment or continue your studies.

In the Joint Honours programme you can select two subjects as joint for year one. You may then continue with equal emphasis on two subjects as a joint degree in years two and three, or switch to a major/minor split. The degree title is derived from the two subjects.

The identification and management of risk is important across a range of sectors and professional contexts. Whilst the limited number of competing offerings seek to recognize this by focusing on a specific context (e.g. financial risk, security), offering risk management as a joint honours subject enables combinations with a range of subjects that reflects its cross-disciplinary relevance. Logical combinations are with accounting, management, business, events management, law, sport studies, international development, international politics and economics.

Risk management anticipates and evaluates the possible consequences of strategic actions within an organisation through core risk management themes of risk identification, reduction, mitigation and response. Modules will explore; risk identification and evaluation; risk reduction, mitigation and response; cyber and IT risks; and business continuity planning.

You will develop knowledge and skills in identifying and assessing risk factors, and in implementing strategic plans to prevent and minimise losses. Your skills will focus on protecting organisations, assets and incomes.