GraduatePsychology
Graduate Diploma of Emergency and Disaster Management
Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
About this program
The Graduate Diploma of Emergency and Disaster Management at Charles Darwin University is based in Darwin, at the centre of the Top End and Australia's gateway to Indonesia and Southeast Asia, a region highly prone to and affected by various types of disasters. The program equips students to apply their knowledge and experience collaboratively and productively in this vulnerable region and elsewhere. Graduates gain the knowledge and skills to lead and manage all phases of the disaster management cycle, along with the confidence to apply their academic studies to practical responses.
Fees & duration
English test scores
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Course structure
Study plan in 17 parts
- Core Units (4 units): Emergency and Disaster Management in Context
- Interdisciplinary Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Management
- Leadership in Emergency and Disaster Management
- Cultural
- Social and Psychological Aspects of Emergency and Disaster Management
Specialist Elective (3-4 units)
- Research Methodologies in Education
- Principles of Research in Indigenous Contexts
- Indigenous Research Methodologies
- Research Design
- Research
- Ethics and Impact
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Environmental Justice
- Waste and Society
- Advocacy and Social Action
- Indigenous Philosophies and The West
- Neo-Colonialism
- Advocacy and the Critique of Development
- Indigenous Knowledges and Epistomologies
- Loss
- Grief and Mental Health
- Trauma Informed Practice
- Engaging Invulnerable Families
- Leading for Change
- Health Promotion
- Public Health
- Fire Ecology
- Environmental Planning and Policy
- Natural Resources and Indigenous Livelihoods
- Earth Observation
- Environmental Planning and Policy
- Geographic Information Systems
- Strategic Management (replaces MAN514 from 2026)
- Project Management Risk and Reliability
- Project Resource Planning
- Risk Management
- Theoretical Approaches to Public Policy in Northern Contexts
- Public Policy Practice
- Evidence and Policy Evaluation
- Unit Title
- ATI410: Neocolonialism
- Advocacy and the Critique of Development
- ATI420: Indigenous Policy Agendas in Federal and State Politics
- ATI430: Indigenous Knowledges
- Property Rights and Economic Participation
- ATI440: Indigenous Knowledges and Epistemologies
- ENV401: Community Engagement for Biosecurity and Natural Resource Management
- ENV504: Ecosystem Function: Field Studies in North Australia
- PRBE001: Economics for Managers
- PRBE002: Decision Making
- PRBM009: International Business
- PRBM016: Cross Cultural Management
- PRBM021: Human Resource Management
- PRBM022: Organisation Behaviour
- PRBM030: Organisational Strategy and Leadership
- PRBM034: Operations Management
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Admissions
Bachelor's degree, graduate certificate/diploma or equivalent qualification
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