Launch new LDE MOOC ‘Risk in Modern Society’

News - 02 February 2018 - Webredactie

The LDE Centre for Safety and Security has recently started a new MOOC on ‘Risk in Modern Society’. The course has been developed in collaboration with scholars from three universities (Leiden, Delft and Erasmus). Sabine Roeser, Genserik Reniers and Pieter van Gelder of TPM teach in this course. This course will search for answers to questions such as: “what is risk?”, “how do we study and deal with risk?”, “does ‘perceived risk’ correspond to 'real' risk?”, and “how should we deal with societal perceptions of risk, safety and security?

About the course
Risk has become one of the defining features of modern society. Almost daily, we are preoccupied with assessing, discussing, or preventing a wide variety of risks. The course Risk in Modern Society sheds light on the broad concept of risk. In five distinctive weeks, this course closely examines various types of safety and security risks, and how these are perceived and dealt with in a wide array of professional and academic fields, ranging from criminology, counter-terrorism and cyber security, to philosophy, safety and medical science.