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2023 marks the 100th anniversary since the publication of the first novel by Margery Allingham, and this presents an opportunity to celebrate the life, career, and legacy of a writer with a strong Essex connection.
Jordan Welsh
19 September 2023
Postgraduate students of academic members of staff could be in with a chance of winning one of 50 grants.
Philanthropy
08 September 2023
In July 2022, an unprecedented protest movement against corruption, immiseration, and impunity swept Sri Lanka and forced the President to flee the country. One year on, a new exhibition at the University of Essex and a parallel exhibition at Harrow Arts Centre commemorate and contextualize these different struggles at a time of renewed austerity and repression.
Dr Nilanjana Premaratna, Professor Lars Waldorf
04 July 2023
Tilly Hawkins curates 'Dispatches from the Culture War', examining the NVALA archive of Mary Whitehouse through a queer lens on the Floor 1 landing of the Albert Sloman Library.
Tilly Hawkins
20 June 2023
A number of the Edge Hotel school students have been awarded different scholarships sponsored by some of our industry partenrs.
Edge Hotel School
26 May 2023
PhD student Noah Pantano chats about how CLICK crowdfunding helped bring his play to the Lakeside Theatre
11 May 2023
Scholarship recipient Lin Wei talks about her Masters in Interpreting and Translation and how she hopes to inspire the next generation of children.
Alumni team, Philanthropy
At Essex, we offer the only BA in Continental Philosophy in the UK. To help you decide if it is the degree for you, we’ve answered some key questions below.
Philosophy at Essex
10 May 2023
It’s a relief to be doing assignments on topics that I actually enjoy, and the sense of freedom is amazing. Even though I am only in my first year, I already feel so connected with Essex and look forward to what the next years ahead bring!
Belle Williams
26 April 2023
Santiago Valencia Parra, Rabia Perwaiz, Adhithi Ravikumar, Dongxian "Gin" Zhang, Konstantinos Sfikas, Jingyi Chen, Olatoye "Toye" Salawudeen, Cynthia Iruobe
18 April 2023