Postgraduate Programs
Master of Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development
CIFAL Newcastle’s new Masters’ degree equips people from diverse backgrounds to understand resilience and sustainable development principles, and systematically apply them to the design of community organisations, the built environment, enterprises, and social/economic. Their work will improve organisations’ capacity to operate through extreme events and emerge better placed to face the future.
Your training incorporates the application of internationally ratified tools and frameworks developed by the United Nations to public, private, NGO and civil society organisations. These cover sustainable development (UN Sustainable Development goals) and disaster risk reduction (Sendai framework for DRR). Upon graduation you will receive UN co-certification in this training, in addition to their degree, from the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
The program combines flexibility (available both online and face-to-face campus), relevance (staff who have extensive experience in disaster relief, reconstruction and resilience building) and employability (of potential benefit to any organisation that recognises the need to build its resilience capacity for the future).
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Graduate Certificate in Disaster Risk Reduction
Students of the program engage in learning fundamental disaster risk concepts, and receive training in the use of the most globally adopted DRR tools and protocols, some of these through direct engagement with UNITAR resources.
Graduates will be capable of conducting disaster risk evaluations, and guiding the subsequent development of disaster risk mitigation and management strategies for the organisation in which they work. A major focus of the Graduate Certificate training is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda (learn more about the SDGs here).
Our advanced online learning system, together with that of UNITAR provides you with the flexibility and support to study any time, anywhere to balance work, life and study. You can achieve your Graduate Certificate in Disaster Risk Reduction at a time that suits you, and will receive certification of your success from both the University of Newcastle and UNITAR.
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Master of Environmental Management and Sustainability
With jobs in high environmental impact areas forecasted to grow strongly over the next decade, the University of Newcastle’s Master of Environmental Management and Sustainability will equip you with new, sustainable skills that will improve your ‘green’ credentials.
Designed to engage with the broad issues that contemporary societies face in today’s climate, the focus of the program is to integrate theory and practice with interdisciplinary grounding in sustainable policy development and policy implementation, environmental management and impact assessment. This program features key content about UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This program can be tailored to suit students with an existing environmental background, seeking a career change into environmental management, or hoping to combine business and environmental knowledge to better our society.
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management and Sustainability
Students of the program engage in learning new, sustainable skills that will improve your green credentials and prepare you for the strong forecasted growth of jobs in high environmental impact areas over the next decade.
Designed to engage with the broad issues that contemporary societies face in today’s climate, the focus of the program is to integrate theory and practice with interdisciplinary grounding in sustainable policy development and policy implementation, environmental management and impact assessment.
Complete core and directed courses that are certified by CIFAL Newcastle and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
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Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Business Management
This program is geared toward the emerging requirement for sound environmental management as part of the overall business process. It includes a unique blend of environmental courses that focus on key principles of environmental management, sustainability and climate change, together with core business courses that will broaden your understanding of topics such as human resource management, corporate finance and project management.
Upon graduating, you will possess a unique combination of environmental and business skills that will prepare you to pursue your passion for environmental science or to gain a deeper understanding of the environmental issues directly influencing your workplace.
Complete core and directed courses that are certified by CIFAL Newcastle and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
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