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Embedding sustainability into finance and procurement

We want to ensure sustainable and environmental impacts are a key component of financial decision making.

Sustainability Team

24 May 2022

Essex confirmed as a top research institution

We want to share our latest success in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) with you. The REF is an important national assessment of the quality and power of research across all UK universities.

Professor Chris Greer, Professor Madeline Eacott

19 May 2022

MA Curating student Pauline Tristani explores the fallen statues of Lenin that litter the Ukrainian countryside.

Pauline Tristani

19 May 2022

Why guest speakers make a positive contribution to student motivation and employability

Dr Thanos Verousis is a Reader in Finance at Essex Business School, specialising in the study of financial markets and behavioural finance. In this blog, he talks about why inviting guest speakers makes a positive contribution to student motivation and employability skills.

Dr Thanos Verousis

12 May 2022

Illana Flora MSc Organisational Change Management student at Essex Business School tells us about studying alongside work and building her understanding of change in the workplace

Essex Business School

09 May 2022

Ending COVID restrictions on our campuses

With national COVID levels reducing and the country beginning to return to normal, we will be removing the final COVID precautions from our campuses on 3 May.

Richard Stock

29 April 2022

Getting Everyone Active - The Louder Than Words Podcast

As lifestyles change how do we stay active and stay healthy. What interventions can change behaviour, improve the environment and offer access to activities which can promote our wellbeing? Dr Ruth Lowry and Dr Paul Freeman from the School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences talk about supporting individuals and communities to live healthier more active lives from crafts and nature to drumming and gardening.

Dr Paul Freeman, Professor Jules Pretty, Dr Ruth Lowry

28 April 2022

An event organised by our Students’ Union Conservative Society involving an external guest speaker took place on 19 October 2021. The event went ahead with a counter protest and a number of complaints were made following the event.

Bryn Morris

21 April 2022

Read Nozomi Oyama’s story, a postgraduate research student studying remotely at the University of Essex whilst working as an Occupational Therapist in Japan.

Nozomi Oyama

19 April 2022

How the Human Rights Centre is meeting the challenges of COVID-19 and the future of human rights

Dr Andrew Fagan, Director of the globally renowned Essex Human Rights Centre talks about the current human rights situation around the world, the contribution the HRC has made over the past two years, and, the future of Essex Human Rights graduates.

Dr Andrew Fagan

13 April 2022

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Embedding sustainability into finance and procurement

Essex confirmed as a top research institution

What ‘Leninfall’ tells us about Ukraine

Why guest speakers make a positive contribution to student motivation and employability

Finding the time for a Masters at Essex Business School

Ending COVID restrictions on our campuses

Getting Everyone Active - The Louder Than Words Podcast

External speaker event

“I live and work in Japan but my mind is here, at Essex!”

How the Human Rights Centre is meeting the challenges of COVID-19 and the future of human rights