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Our PhD in Applied Psychology offers you a unique opportunity to undertake research in an applied psychological context.

We offer research supervision for our PhD Computational Finance in the following fields: agent-based modelling of financial markets; computational risk management; high-frequency finance; and the use of computational-intelligence methods for investment decision making. We provide a vibrant research environment so our PhD students publish papers in prestigious international conferences and often attract the attention of industry and government; one of our PhD students was recently invited to present their research on term structure models to the Bank of England and many others get the opportunity to directly apply their research through internships at investment banks and hedge funds.

Our PhD in Nursing Studies offers you a unique opportunity to undertake research into the principles and practice of nursing.You will be offered opportunities to access our Masters level research methods modules to provide a sound foundation of specific research knowledge and skills. In addition, you will have access to the University's Proficio research training scheme which allows you to choose training programmes that meet the requirements of your own research topics and methodologies.

Undertaking our PhD Pure Mathematics gives you the opportunity to investigate such areas as algebraic geometry, group theory, semigroup theory, combinatorics and differential equations. We have staff with expertise in each of these areas who are enthusiastic about supervising PhD students.

Our Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies offers supervision for PhD Creative Writing in all fields of staff research interest within this area. Creative writing is an area of particular growth for us and all genres are catered for, with published novelists, poets, and playwrights on our teaching staff and great programme of visiting writers through the Essex Book Festival to stimulate your imagination.

Our PhD Mathematical Biology uses novel mathematical and computational techniques to solve problems in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. At Essex, we have supervised projects in the areas of animal movement and behaviour, population dynamics, plankton ecology, fisheries and natural resource management, and bioinformatics techniques.

We offer research supervision in the following fields: child development conceptual analysis creativity gender group and institutional dynamics history of psychoanalysis (including Jungian analysis) Jungian thought philosophical issues in psychoanalysis psychoanalysis and the arts psychoanalysis and education psychoanalysis and religion psychoanalytic methodology in clinical and non-clinical fields, especially politics and sociology psychoanalytic theory (eg Freudian, Kleinian, Jungian, object-relations and group theory) psychosis refugee studies trauma and violence Our graduates go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training in psychoanalysis, Jungian analysis, or psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Many of our students are already professionals, clinical and non-clinical, so return to their existing fields, either in jobs or further training, and use their time with us to deepen their understanding of their work.

For our PhD Survey Methodology, we offer supervision in quantitative survey methodology, particularly: sampling; weighting; non-response; response maximisation techniques; mode effects; data linkage; and measurement error. We especially welcome those interested in sampling and non-sampling issues using cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, such as our British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society.

We offer research supervision in the following: Children, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic theory Psychosocial Studies of children and childhood Sociologies of childhood Histories of children and childhood Children, parenting, and families Childhood, politics and ideology Ethical research with children Childhood and identity Children's friendships and peers Gender and sexuality Geographies of childhood and youth Children, media, and popular culture Children with disabilities and critical disability studies Children in/and refugee studies Comparative childhoods Childhood innocence Child development Trauma Looked after children Therapeutic communities Our graduates in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies go on to a number of different destinations, including further study and training. Many of our students are already professionals so return to their existing fields with deeper understanding of their work, using this for their personal development and for increasing their potential for promotion and leadership in their existing or new roles.

Our PhD Applied Mathematics provides you with the opportunity to study areas such as dynamical systems, pattern formation, chaos theory, ordinary and partial differential equations, Hamiltonian systems, stability theory, computational neuroscience, complex systems, complex networks and nonlinear waves. We have staff with expertise in these areas who are willing to supervise PhD students, and you are invited to contact our School to discuss potential research areas and subjects.