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WHAT DO YOU WANT? * Postgraduate Prospectus 2015 * chances are you will find it in these pages WE ARE BE BOLD. BE CURIOUS. ESSEX. BE DETERMINED. BE CONFIDENT TO ASK THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND NEVER ACCEPT THE FIRST ANSWER. BE OBSESSIVE ABOUT YOUR SUBJECT. BE PREPARED TO WORK HARD AND PLAY HARD. BE PART OF A GLOBAL FAMILY WHO ARE WITH YOU EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. BE AMBITIOUS. BE COMMITTED. BE CREATIVE. THINK BIG. BREAK BOUNDARIES. TAKE RISKS. BE PIONEERING. BE TENACIOUS. BE IMPATIENT. DON’T WAIT FOR CHANGE. ARE YOU? MAKE IT HAPPEN. HOW TO GET THE CONTENTS MOST FROM THIS Your Essex journey 108 International Academy PROSPECTUS 112 Latin American and Caribbean studies 4 Why we’re great 116 Law This prospectus covers a wide range of areas but you don’t 6 Our ground-breaking research 120 Linguistics have to read it all. Just follow these easy steps to fi nd all the 10 Be a member 124 Literature and creative writing information you need. 12 Our Colchester Campus 128 Management 14 Colchester Campus map Our prospectus is just the tip of the iceberg. Visit our website 132 Marketing 16 Our Southend Campus 136 Mathematics and Course Finder to explore Essex. 18 Southend Campus map 140 MBA 20 Invest in your future 144 Nursing 22 Make yourself at home 148 Occupational therapy STEP 1 26 Your degree 152 Philosophy DISCOVER US 30 Applying to Essex 156 Physiotherapy 34 You’re hired 160 Playwriting 164 Politics STEP 9 STEP 2 168 Psychoanalytic studies EMPLOYABILITY OUR RESEARCH Our subjects 172 Psychology 38 Accounting 176 Social and economic research 42 Acting and theatre 180 Sociology 46 Art history 184 Speech and language therapy 188 Sport and exercise science 50 Banking and finance STEP 8 STEP 3 192 Translation APPLY TO US BE A MEMBER 54 Biological sciences 58 Clinical psychology and psychological therapies 62 Computational finance Extra information 66 Computer science 198 Our partners 70 Criminology STEP 7 STEP 4 200 Extra information YOUR DEGREE 74 Economics YOUR HOME 202 Index 78 Electronics and telecommunications 82 English language 86 Entrepreneurship 90 Film studies STEP 6 STEP 5 94 Health: professional development START LIVING YOUR FINANCES 98 Health: research 100 History 104 Human rights www.essex.ac.uk/pg15/courses 2 Step-by-step Contents 3 An interdisciplinary education What makes Essex special? The world likes to put people into boxes, which can happen at universities WHY WE’RE The tenacious, bold and too. You’re a biologist, a fi lm-maker or an historian. However at Essex our inquisitive spirit of our interdisciplinary approach means that 1 students and staff our biologists and computer scientists THE and QS World collaborate on producing digital fi tness GREAT games for the elderly. Business and human Rankings place us in the rights students analyse together the 2 top 2% in the world relationships between working conditions and productivity. Being interdisciplinary Our students love it here creates almost limitless opportunities and – we score highly every the freedom to explore. It’s an opportunity ' 3 year for satisfaction to combine your interests and make your contribution really count. Our unique sense of community – we are all Created to support you 4 part of an academic family Our comprehensive package of scholarships and bursaries ensures you With students from over have the potential to succeed, regardless 130 countries, Essex is of your fi nancial circumstances. Visit our the world in one place Scholarship Finder to see what support is 5 available. u www.essex.ac.uk/pg15/scholarships A university on a human scale Mature students We have a lively and supportive community of around 3,500 postgraduates; this Life at Essex exposes you to new ideas, In the early 1960s Sir Albert Sloman, our creates a diverse social and academic opportunities and people. Mature students founding Vice-Chancellor, envisaged a new learning experience. Our postgraduate make up 67% of our postgraduate community also reinforces our strength community in an average year. We were a place where in research, as demonstrated by our top shortlisted for a Times Higher Education university for the modern age; Award in 2011 for our outstanding work students could live, learn and make a real difference. 10 placing in the UK in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. with mature students. Since then, Essex has been determined to challenge convention. From the student rebellions of the ’60s to our Students’ Union’s recent campaign against tax evasion, we have never accepted the status quo. We are always thinking of new and better ways of doing things. A radical education Our University was seen as a radical new project for education in the early 1960s. STEP 1 Sir Winston Churchill was one of our DISCOVER US www.essex.ac.uk/pg15/study founding donors. Fifty years on, an Essex Education is as unique and valued as ever. 4 Why we’re great Why we’re great 5 Why research matters What makes Essex special? Our focus at Essex is to help you develop OUR GROUND- a ‘research mindset’. This underpins everything we do. Our staff always have We are top 10 in the UK their fi ngers on the pulse. They are for research involved in the latest research fi ndings and BREAKING 1 emerging trends, ensuring your teaching Over half of our subject material is current and relevant. You not areas are rated in the top only learn from the best but produce and RESEARCH 10 in the UK contribute towards cutting-edge research. 2 You also learn how to work with teams and Our innovative and how to handle evidence, data, statistics ground-breaking research and other forms of information: skills demanded by the top employers. changes the world 3 In the most recent Research Assessment Our internationally- Exercise, we rank 9th out of 159 recognised academics institutions in the UK for the quality of our are world leaders research. Although we’re small, we punch 4 well above our weight. We are the leading social science university 5 in the UK Develop a research mindset Development Research is what drives us. It’s what binds us 93% of our research is ‘internationally While lectures and seminars are a valuable recognised’ but how does this benefi t you? part of your learning journey, they’re not together. And it’s why our teaching is always fresh and the whole story. At Essex, you learn to work inspiring. Our cutting-edge research is internationally Inspiration independently, which is all about engaging with research. You gain knowledge by respected and we are proud of our research profi le. Being active in research fuels our lecturers’ studying our academics’ research and enthusiasm. Sharing the excitement of But research at Essex is so much more. Everything our developing the skills needed to conduct comparing established theory with evolving your own. You also develop the intellectual academics understand about the world affects how concepts creates a fast-paced learning skills of critical thinking, team-work we teach you. Learn from some of the top researchers environment, and will challenge you to think and applied creativity. Things we know both critically and creatively. in the UK and work alongside them to fi nd solutions employers love. to pressing problems, challenge truths and push Relevance boundaries. We work together to create the future. Our academics push boundaries and pioneer new thinking, they take you to the very edge of what’s possible. Examine breakthroughs and arguments as they STEP 2 www.essex.ac.uk/pg15/research unfold, gaining knowledge and skills that OUR RESEARCH are genuinely insightful. 6 Our ground-breaking research Our ground-breaking research 7 Research excellence Making decisions Leaders in human rights Professor Mike Brewer is interested Professor Sir Nigel Rodley and Scott Our academics are among the best Making the hard choice in how welfare benefits, labour market Sheeran are co-editors of the latest programmes and the tax system affect definitive global analysis of international in the world and we are proud of the Professor Adeline Delavande from decisions made by households. He has human rights law. Published in 2014, cutting-edge research they do. Here our Institute for Social and Economic written widely about welfare reform, and a quarter of the Routledge Handbook is a sample of our pioneering work to Research is investigating how the especially the changes to social security on International Human Rights Law was give you a sense of what you could be choices we make are based on our view benefits and tax credits proposed by the written by members of our pioneering collaborating on at Essex. of our chances of success. She is an UK Government. Human Rights Centre. expert on subjective expectations and Feed the world probabilities. Her recent research focuses Professor Christine Raines is working on understanding how individuals make on a major research project funded by decisions under uncertainty and how this the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. affects their behaviour. The aim of this $25m, five-year project is to explore new ways to improve plant Fighting for rights photosynthesis, with the ultimate goal of World-leading academic practitioners, discovering how to increase crop yields Clara Sandoval and Lorna McGregor, which would have a big impact on both helped human rights organisation the developed and developing worlds. REDRESS secure a landmark judgement. It upheld the right to justice and Developing the future of gaming reparations for exiled torture survivors Professor Simon Lucas is leading the from Pinochet-era Chile. Essex team involved in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games Understanding consequences and Game Intelligence (IGGI).