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The PhD in Law facilitates research in a wide range of areas that are represented through the Essex Law School's eight research clusters.

Our four-year PhD Linguistics (with research and communication skills) course has been designed to support students who do not have English as a first language. We recognise and understand the importance of continuing professional development for students and have designed this course for students who do not have English as a first language and may have been studying in a different country, or out of a traditional academic environment for some time.

We offer supervision for our PhD in History in a range of topics from the period c.1500 to the present day, with particular focus on themes linked to our three research clusters and our Centre for Public History.

Our four-year PhD in Psychology (with research and communication skills) course has been specifically designed to support students, whilst also offering additional support for UK students who do not have English as a first language. We recognise and understand the importance of continuing professional development for students and have designed this course for students who do not have English as a first language and may have been studying in a different country, or out of a traditional academic environment for some time.

Our PhD Law offers supervision in 2 of our research clusters: human rights and law and technology. Our research engages with debates about the meaning of justice in the UK and beyond.

Our PhD Statistics is an advanced research degree within our School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science and we have staff members available to act as supervisors across a number of areas within statistics.

Global financial markets are facing an era of unprecedented upheaval. Just 10 years ago the world was beginning to recover from the financial crash of 2008, but now world markets must recover from a health pandemic that has driven national economies to the brink of collapse.

We offer supervision for our MPhil in History in a range of topics from the period c.1500 to the present day, with particular focus on themes linked to our our three research clusters and our Centre for Public History.

Our Integrated PhD Finance provides a route to Doctoral study if you do not have a Masters degree or have little or no research training. It enables you to spend your first year completing a full-time Masters qualification, which will equip you with the business knowledge and research skills needed to begin PhD study the following year.

Research in our School of Life Sciences covers a wide spectrum of biology from genes to ecosystems, and this broad-based structure provides opportunities for developing novel ideas and inter-disciplinary projects. We offer supervision in a wide range of topics in microbiology, ranging from medical microbiology to environmental microbiology and from biochemical and genomic analysis of single species to whole communities.