Convenor name: Alireza Shams Lahijani
Convenor email: as223@soas.ac.uk
Office hours: Thursdays, 15:30-16:30
Module dates: Semester 2
Intended learning outcomes:

  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of risk, its analysis and management in theory and practice.
  • Excellent risk and policy analysis skills; formulate policy goals and objectives; identify risks, scenarios and policy options; propose deliverables and effective implementation strategies.
  • Excellent ability to conduct policy-relevant research; assess and manage risks.
Assessment 1: Name: Approaches to Risk
Assessment 1: Weighting: 30%
Assessment 2: Name: Applied Risk Policy Development
Assessment 2: Weighting: 70%
Page type: Module
Study year: 2025/26
Librarian name: Yurie Watanabe
Librarian email: yw25@soas.ac.uk
Page template: 2025/26 On campus