Research Topics

Discover the very latest academic research, news and media on COVID-19 from the University of Essex. View the latest insights on the coronavirus pandemic and learn how our experts are helping to tackle the crisis.

Facilitated by interdisciplinary perspectives, our research focuses on understanding mental health across the life course

Explore how academics from across the University are seeking to find solutions to the worlds problems in security and resilience from cybersecurity to the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Our research not only focuses on the direct impact of the environmental determinants of health but also on how these indirectly improves productivity and wealth across the population using a variety of data and methodologies developed to untangle…

Research supporting both assessment of and delivery of services for optimal health is accelerated by leveraging novel technologies

We conduct diverse research to understand risk and protective factors for cognitive health and dementia, early detection of cognitive decline and dementia risk, health and social care considerations for persons living with dementia, the lived…

As the world discusses the future of our society and how we can protect our planet for future generations to come. Essex researchers are at the forefront of studying sustainability, and the climate and biodiversity crisis.

Our research brings together quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how we can improve the prevention and control of NCDs and ensure a reduction in premature mortality due to NCDs as well understand the driver of withing and between…

Our research employs diverse methodologies to understand the lived experiences of the disadvantaged, the bolsters and barriers in their communities, and the policies contributing to impact health and care provision.

Public health and wellbeing at Essex is local, regional, national and international in its research scope, Explore how University researchers are tackling this topic.