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Are you looking for a postgraduate research opportunity?

We offer a wide variety of studentships and other research opportunities throughout the year. As a research student, you'll work with at least one academic supervisor and be given research training to help you gain skills in research methodology.

Please read the adverts carefully as different projects may have different types of funding available.

Faculty of Science and Health studentships

Responsible AI 2025-26

Working with UN agencies and other partners, this studentship will research responsible Al technologies in forced displacement contexts in relation to prediction, protection, and the reduction of vulnerability for people on the move.

The student will either work on AI Methods to detect and predict forced displacement or on privacy protected edge computing and machine learning to protect vulnerable people.

Department: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering 

Closing date: 23 May 2025


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Blockchain incentives

This fully-funded studentship will focus on areas related to (Theoretical) Computer Science, Algorithmic Game Theory, and/or Fair Division with potential applications in Blockchain in the context of the EPSRC funded research project “Blockchain incentives: consensus and fairness”.

The project’s aim is to provide a systematic analysis of blockchain protocols with respect to the strategic behaviour of the stakeholders and related fairness properties, towards designing novel theoretical variants that can inform and improve blockchain technology in practice.

Department: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering 

Closing date: 30 May 2025


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NIHR INSIGHT programme for the East of England

The University of Essex is host organisation for the NIHR INSIGHT programme for the East of England. The programme funds up to 30 research Masters places each year for health and social care professionals. Funding covers tuition fees and a stipend, and you can study full-time (one year) or part-time (two years).

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Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts and Humanities studentships

Throughout the year departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts and Humanities may advertise studentships and available projects. More information on supervision and applicant criteria can be found on the individual studentship pages, which will be advertised here when available.

Interdisciplinary studentships

Sustainable Transitions - Governance, Ecological Management and Society - Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme 2025-26

This is an opportunity to conduct fully funded interdisciplinary research under the Sustainable Transitions Leverhulme Doctoral Training Programme at the University of Essex.

Each research project will be interdisciplinary in nature and supervised by expert academics drawn from two (and in certain instances three) of the following five disciplines at the University - Business, Government, Law, Life Sciences and Sociology - to address specific challenges.

There are ten different projects that you can apply for under the programme:

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