"everything that makes a philosophical beginning possible we must first acquire by ourselves" Husserl

Postgraduate Taught Placements

Students from the MA Continental Philosophy have gone on to the following:
PhD (Essex) then Lecturer at Oxford Brookes and now Senior Lecturer at Warwick; PhD (Goldsmiths); part-time law conversion; further education (teacher's college); Administrator; PhD (New School for Social Research, New York); MSc Psychology (Essex); Secretary in the NHS; PhD; PhD (King's College London); MA European Studies; Teaching English in Taiwan.

Students from the MA Ethics, Politics and Public Policy have gone on to the following:
Parliamentary researcher, research officer for Democratic Audit, then Researcher at the National Audit Office; Research Fellow, London Metropolitan; Project Support Manager, Ofsted, then a policy job, Kingston Council; Teaching Assistant, then Nationwide Building Society, then a PGCE; PhD; Research Officer, University College Suffolk; Trainee at CEDEFOP (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training); Education Manager, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Teaching; Working for an MP in Westminster; United Nations internship; Public law service. 

Students from the MA Philosophy and Psychoanalysis have gone on to the following:
University Counselling Services, Southampton; PhD; MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Adolescents, Birkbeck; MPhil (UEA) and graduate teaching; PhD (Newcastle); PhD (University of California at Santa Cruz); Teaching English at Luis Arago Lycée, Paris; MA Psychoanalysis (Essex).

One of the student's from the MA Continental Philosophy & Health Care Ethics as gone on to the following:
Administrator for the Intercalated BSc in Medical Ethics and Law at Kings College, London,

*Information correct as of 10/12/2010. If you are missing from this list, or your details out of date, please contact philo[at]essex.ac.uk

After an MA
Unfortunately, students don't always inform us of what they go on to do, but many go on to doctoral research or further study, whilst others have gone into such careers as teaching at secondary and tertiary level, computing, charity administration, parliamentary researcher, policy development in local government, project development, NHS management and psychodynamic counselling.