Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Security and Risk Management at the University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth offers a selection of well-established degree programmes tailored to the educational development of security professionals, who play a vital role in supporting the resilience of governments, commercial organisations, non-governmental organisations and the community. Our security and risk management courses draw on a variety of subjects including management studies, risk management, security management, business continuity management, crisis management, information security, criminology, sociology and law.

Course leaders Dr Mark Button, Dr Alison Wakefield and Azeem Aleem head the UK's largest team of dedicated risk and security scholars, closely involved with the security sector and research-active in the field.  As a student in ICJS, you will benefit from this team's research, and that of the Institute's wider staff, through the huge breadth of our curriculum and our attractive package of optional units encompassing the latest thinking.

Courses

We offer a range of courses at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at every level and through full-time or part-time delivery. The Security and Risk Management courses are:

• BSc (Hons) Risk and Security Management - part time
• MSc Security Management - full time / part time

The expertise of the teaching team extends to IT security, enabling the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies to contribute to the following courses:

• BSc (Hons) Forensic Computing
• MSc Forensic Information Technology
• MSc Forensic Accounting

Students with a masters qualification can also progress to a professional doctorate specialising in security and risk management:

• Doctorate in Criminal Justice (D.Crim.J.)

We recognise experience-based learning through the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).