Postgraduate Consultancy

Cost effective short consultancy projects with highly qualified researchers

Our new Postgraduate Consultancy Service gives your business or organisation access to the freshest thinking from our research students.

Highly qualified researchers are available to help you with specific projects, supervised by our internationally renowned academics.

Who are our researchers?

The researchers come from varied backgrounds, are already degree qualified, and are studying on our Masters or PhD programmes. Many of the researchers have significant experience in their fields which cover a wide range of subjects.

What are the projects?

Projects can be anything from a week to 12 weeks, providing you with innovative research at competitive rates that may also attract some subsidy. The researchers gain invaluable experience by using their expertise to solve live business problems.

Our researchers can work up to 18 hours a week on projects such as:

Designing surveys and questionnaires
Writing reports and reviews
Developing marketing strategies
Sports and exercise programming, health promotion
Language translation, interpretation and subtitling
Analysis of datasets
Policy development
Environmental surveys, water quality analysis
Logistical evaluations of products/processes/projects
Feasibility Studies

A guide to costs

The fee for a postgraduate researcher is £108 per day. We are able to offer some organisations a subsidy for a limited time and so if you are:

a small to medium sized company with between 10 and 249 employees, the fee will be £54 a day.
a charity, not for profit organisation, or micro business with less than 10 employee, the fee will be £36 a day.

The whole fee for the student’s time goes to the student . There is an additional charge for academic supervision which is flexible and calculated according to the nature of the project and the level of support the postgraduate researcher needs.

Who do I contact?

The Postgraduate Consultancy Programme is run by the Research and Enterprise Office.
For more information email partners@essex.ac.uk, contact us on 01206 872925