ENV 3A1Y Natural Hazards
Natural hazards can lead to significant environmental and societal impacts. This is a multidisciplinary course on physical natural hazards, focussed on the physical basis and analysis of each hazard, its global range of occurrence, risk and vulnerability further to occurrence of a specific hazard, and its impact on humanity including aspects of societal vulnerability. The multidisciplinary studies required for the evaluation of these hazards will be emphasized. Teaching faculty involved are likely to have practical experience of supplying professional advice on these hazards (and related risks) in addition to their own research involvement. This new 40 credit unit replaces and extends the previous 20 credit unit dedicated to Environmental Seismology and Faulting (ENV 3A02). The new Natural Hazard unit also contains an integral field course.

ENV M60Y Research Skills
Past experience has shown that students undertaking dissertation research benefit from support in the form of training in related skills such as project management, proposal preparation, and so on. Moreover, employers are increasingly stressing that students should not only be competent in their own particular discipline but must also demonstrate so-called transferable skills of general applicability: the ability to work in a team, to be assertive where appropriate, to negotiate a position, to communicate effectively.