Research degrees

World-class supervision

You’ll work at the heart of our well-connected graduate research community, with world-class supervision and training opportunities. We pride ourselves on our strong Departmental research group culture. We want you to engage with other researchers, professionals, practitioners and research users and we also hold weekly seminars featuring eminent external speakers.

At Essex, you have access to our great facilities, including a state-of-the-art interpreting lab with equipment matching that of the UN.

Many of our graduates work in higher education institutions around the world, as teachers or academic researchers, or a wide range of other careers including publishing, social work, administration and retail.

 Explore our postgraduate research degrees