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Watching your waste this Christmas

Watching your waste this Christmas

Christmas is a wonderful time of year, however it can also be an incredibly wasteful time of year too.

Sustainability Team

26 September 2022

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Edge Summer Internship Profile – Sam Grant

Edge Summer Internship Profile – Sam Grant

Edge Hotel School

21 September 2022

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McCartney Aldous: My start-up journey

McCartney Aldous: My start-up journey

Class of 2022 graduate McCartney Aldous recently left Essex with a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science.

Essex Startups

20 September 2022

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Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Posh Spice sounds posher, but changing your working-class accent isn’t a ticket out of discrimination

Dr Amanda Cole

15 September 2022

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Cutting plastic waste at Edge Hotel School

Cutting plastic waste at Edge Hotel School

Edge Hotel School Marketing Officer, Karla Bird, explains how students have helped ensure Wivenhoe House Hotel cuts its plastic waste.

Karla Bird, Edge Hotel School

14 September 2022

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Who should be our new Chancellor?

Who should be our new Chancellor?

We have begun the search for the next ceremonial head of the University.

Professor Anthony Forster

07 September 2022

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Five tips to maximise your research visibility

Five tips to maximise your research visibility

Research visibility matters. Here are five tips to increase your research visibility. We hope this also helps you increase citations, impact and the reach of your work.

Professor Chris Greer, Hannah Pyman

05 September 2022

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Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Professor Paul Whiteley

05 September 2022

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Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Tory leadership race: will Liz Truss’s tax cut proposals win her votes? Here’s what voter data says

Professor Paul Whiteley looks at polling and data around tax cut policies.

Professor Paul Whiteley

01 September 2022

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Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Who speaks “chavvy”? Comparing accent and class prejudice in England and The Netherlands

Dr Amanda Cole of the University of Essex and Emeritus Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics compare chavs, who personify contemptuous commentary on the working class in England, with a similar figure in The Netherlands: Haagse Harry (Harry from The Hague). It is remarkable how many of the associated characteristics and behaviours of chavs fit Harry like a glove, such as wearing bling and tracksuits, and supposed antisocial behaviour and laziness.

Dr Amanda Cole, Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade

25 August 2022

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