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In this blog I discuss my personal experience and why I opted to pursue postgraduate studies at the University of Essex.

Holly Devlin

03 February 2025

Book review: Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK

Department of Sociology and Criminology

12 July 2024

Graduates Madina and Alexey are technology-driven entrepreneurs who connect the world of sports and gaming with their innovative VR game.

Essex Startups

14 March 2023

Sustainability Team

30 June 2022

Taking Riace – and Domenico Lucano's sentence - seriously

Professor Anna Sergi

15 October 2021

Intern story: supporting Refugee Action Colchester

Dr Carlos Gigoux Gramegna

17 June 2021

Charlotte Wilkins

26 May 2021

Police mistrust keeps hitting unequal societies but there are ways to restore confidence

Dr Carlos Solar

12 May 2021

Why the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner are not enough

Professor Pamela Cox

Pamela Cox, Ruth Lamont

26 March 2021

History students Lily Davis (3rd Year BA History) and Lauren Young (3rd Year BA History and Sociology) discuss an event held by the Department of History at Essex on the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum.

Department of History

03 November 2020

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Why staying at Essex for my postgraduate studies was a no-brainer

Book review Lush Life: Constructing Organized Crime in the UK

Alexey and Madina: Our start-up journey

Embedding Education for Sustainability at Essex

Taking Riace – and Domenico Lucano's sentence - seriously

Intern story: supporting Refugee Action Colchester

Intern story: Marketing Intern, Care UK

Police mistrust keeps hitting unequal societies but there are ways to restore confidence

Why the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner are not enough

Decolonising the Curriculum in the Department of History