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Our research covers a range of topics, from the theory of computation and the philosophy of computer science, computational intelligence and computer games, to

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.

Theatre and Drama in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies is led by a vibrant group of playwrights and theatre practitioners who all work professionally in the theatre industry alongside their University teaching. There are five full time staff who specialise in areas such as verbatim theatre, performance, world theatre, digital theatre, theatre of testimony as well as playwrighting.

Gain a PhD Criminology in a founding Sociology department, founded in 1964 with pioneering sociological approaches at its core.

Areas of research on our PhD Statistics include statistical modelling and smoothing, Bayesian computational statistics, and nonparametric statistics.

On our PhD Data Science you can study industry 4.0, information retrieval, multidimensional scaling, optimisation, statistical learning, and much more.

<p>You receive advanced research training and expert supervision to reach your full potential, as well as access to top quality research facilities.</p>

For our PhD Economics within ISER, we offer supervision in applied microeconomics and microeconometrics, which should interest you if you plan to use socio-economic survey data in your research.

For our PhD Applied Social and Economic Research, we offer supervision in quantitative research in sociology and other social sciences.

Our work is supported by extensive networked computer facilities and software aids, together with a wide range of test and instrumentation equipment.