Excellence in research and education

Our faculties oversee teaching, academic development and research in our departments and schools while developing strong partnerships with business and industry.

In the latest Research Excellence Framework we have five subjects in the UK top 10 for research power across the social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and health – sociology, law, economics and econometrics, politics and international studies and computer science (REF 2021).

We are committed to ‘research-led’ teaching, where every Essex student has direct experience of being a researcher themselves, helping our students develop critical, analytic, and transferable skills.

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