Working with us

Business solutions

Behavioural science can transform your business idea, product or service.

We’re already working with a regional health technology company aiming to improve peoples’ health by discovering and delivering more effective brain health assessments and methods of completing them at home and in-clinic.

We believe our biometric testing equipment could be invaluable to their mission, and those of other external partners, providing unique insights into how people engage with their software tools.

Why work with us:

• We are the number 1 university in the UK for Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, the flagship Innovate UK programme, based on the number of partnerships.
• We were ranked 14th overall and 4th for ‘working with the public and third sector’ in the latest Knowledge Exchange Framework national review.
• We have a growing community of 800 academic experts across 17 departments ready to provide consultancy or contract research.
• We have a dedicated knowledge exchange team with experience of developing partnerships that unlock the potential of our business partners.

If you want to use our lab for your experiment, we’ve got a pool of more than 2,000 subjects who we can invite to take part. If you are new to academic research, our dedicated Lab Manager can ensure your planned research is safe and secure, and that your results are publishable, by overseeing the ethical approval for your project, including a data sharing agreement that meets your needs.

If you want help designing your study, thinking through project logistics, or collecting data, we can do that too. All you need to do is bring your brilliant ideas.

Research solutions

Trustworthy behavioural science research depends on highly-ranked research expertise and the best quality testing facility, which is exactly what our Centre for Behavioural Science delivers.

There are lots of opportunities to collaborate with our researchers or use our Behavioural Science Lab.

Why work with us:

• We are ranked 56th in the global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2023.
• We have five subjects in UK top 10 for research power (Times Higher Education 2022) 
• We have major Economic and Social Research Council-funded data collection expertise in the UK Data Archive and Institute for Social and Economic Research.
• We have access to major data collections through the UK Data Service and the Understanding Society study.
• The Institute for Social and Economic Research’s framework for policy engagement makes Essex a national leader in responding to the needs of government departments and delivering the data they need.

Using our Behavioural Science Lab

Academics from around the world have benefitted from conducting their experiments in our Behavioural Science Lab 

One hundred percent of researchers who completed our user survey were positive about their experience and we know many have returned time and again.

Damien Bol is a Professor of Political Behaviour at King’s College London. He studies people’s experience of elections across countries and needed a lab with capacity to run eight sessions of a group experiment with 21 participants in each session.

Lynn Prince Cooke is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. She chose our Lab to conduct experiments for her project The New Shape of Family-Related Gender Stratification, which maps gender differences in employment, earning and domestic divisions among and between women and men.