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Scholarships and funding

Supporting your studies

At Essex we offer scholarships and funding opportunities for talented students from a range of backgrounds.

Some of our scholarships are university-wide, while others are offered by specific departments. You can use the scholarships finder links below to find out more.

In addition we offer postgraduate studentships to help fund those who are working towards a research degree (MSD, MPhil or PhD). These may be interdisciplinary, involving more than one department, or offered as part of specific research projects by academics in one of our science and health departments.

Scholarships

The University offers a range of scholarships and bursaries to support talented students, and ensure we remain accessible to all with the potential to succeed, regardless of financial circumstances. 

Search our Scholarship Finder to see the funding you can apply for.

Postgraduate funding

We offer postgraduate funding to help support you during your research. These may be offered as part of specific research projects being carried out by our academics, or as part of our work with Doctoral Training Partnerships.

Along with studentships, we also give all research students access to Proficio, our unique professional development funding scheme. Proficio gives you funding for training courses and conference attendance, whether you're working on a 1 year Master of Science by Dissertation (MSD), or undertaking a 3 year PhD.

MSD studentship - Quantifying the impacts of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from infrastructure decommissioning on benthic micro and macrofaunal communities

In the North Sea, there are >1,500 offshore oil and gas (O&G) installations. Current environmental regulations prohibit leaving any installations in place, under OSPAR Decision 98/3, which means all infrastructure must be removed when production ceases. However, a considerable number of O&G installations, particularly those installed before the 1998 OSPAR regulations, were not designed with full removal in mind, meaning partial removal and derogation is the only option during decommissioning.

Currently, there is a lack of knowledge on how infrastructure decommissioning shapes benthic microbial and macrofaunal biodiversity and in turn how this affects ecosystem function (e.g. hydrocarbon biodegradation). Such information is crucial for stakeholders when deciding on appropriate decommissioning scenarios.

The overarching aim of this project is to quantify the impact of PAHs from decommissioned infrastructure on sediment microbial and macrofaunal communities.

Lead department: School of Life Sciences

Closing date: 28 February 2025.


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Faculty studentships

The Faculty of Science and Health is keen to promote interdisciplinary research across the university. By breaking down academic silos and bringing together researchers with similar interests in different fields, we can create cutting-edge research that will have impact on the real world.

Our Faculty studentships are co-supervised by at least two academics from different departments.

We do not currently have any Faculty studentships.

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