Research Centres
Research
centres at the University aim to encourage and strengthen research across a
number of disciplines both. They bring together academics and research students,
both within and outside our University, to share knowledge and expertise and
explore joint research opportunities.
Within the Department there are three research centres:
We also host the British Election Study,
a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded survey of attitudes
and opinions of the British electorate.
Professor Todd Landman is leading the creation of the
Institute for Democracy and Conflict Resolution, a truly interdisciplinary
research centre that draws on expertise from our Department, the
Human Rights Centre
and the School of Law.
We are at the heart of European
political science research. Essex hosts
the
European Consortium for Political
Research,,
an independent scholarly association for political scientists in Europe and
beyond. Meanwhile,
Professor
Thomas Plümper is co-founder and Executive Committee member of the
European Political Science Association.
Our Department has a long and distinguished tradition as a centre of social
and political theory. The Political
Theory Group is unique in bringing together leading scholars in the fields
of ideology and discourse analysis, and analytic political theory.
Last modified on 10 January 2012