"everything that makes a philosophical beginning possible we must first acquire by ourselves"
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this list, or your details out of date, please contact philo[at]essex.ac.uk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.