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21 unusual facts about University of Essex


Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history and theory of architecture at the University of Essex where he received his Master of Arts in 1975 and Ph.D. in 1979.

Colin Riordan

In October 2007 he took up the post of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Essex.

Denise Lievesley

While Director of the Data Archive, she also held the position of Professor of Research Methods at the University of Essex.

George Boyer

He has also been a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex.

George Provopoulos

He obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the University of Athens, and his MA and PhD in Economics at the University of Essex on a UK Government Scholarship.

Ivor Crewe

From 1995 to 1 September 2007, he was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and is a former Chair of the 1994 Group and President of Universities UK.

James Raven

In 2004, he returned to his home town of Colchester when appointed Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex.

Jean Drèze

He studied Mathematical Economics at the University of Essex in the 1980s and did his PhD (theoretical economics of cost-benefit analysis) at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.

Jerry L. Bona

Bona received his PhD in 1971 from Harvard University under supervision of Garrett Birkhoff and worked from 1970 to 1972 at the Fluid Mechanics Research Institute University of Essex, where along with Brooke Benjamin and J. J. Mahony, he published on Model Equations for Long Waves in Non-linear Dispersive Systems, known as Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation.

Joan Busfield

Joan Busfield is a British sociologist and psychologist, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and former President of the British Sociological Association (2003–2005).

Marie Mendras

Marie Mendras was educated at the University of Essex, Sciences-Po University and Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, SAIS-Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University.

Muhammed K. Abubakar

In 1994 he earned a Ph.D in Biochemistry from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom.

Nathan Zach

From 1968 to 1979 he lived in England and completed his PhD at the University of Essex.

Noel B. Salazar

Salazar studied psychology, philosophy, and development studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium), neuropsychology at the University of Essex (UK), and anthropology and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania (US).

Orla Guerin

In 2002, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Essex, England and won the Broadcaster of the Year Award from the London Press Club.

Rob Whiteman

Whiteman was educated at the University of Essex reading for a BA in Government and Economics and worked in the private sector with WH Smith plc before moving into local government finance.

Robert D. Borsley

Robert D. Borsley (born 15 March 1949 in Coventry) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.

Sea Life London Aquarium

In 2005, the aquarium displayed three robotic fish created by the computer science department at the University of Essex.

Southend Central railway station

It involved the complete refurbishment of the ticket office and toilets and the construction of a new forecourt on the north side of the station (leading to Platform 2 which has Shoeburyness-bound services) opposite the University of Essex Southend Campus, with new steps and Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (DDA) compliant handrails on both sides of the canopy, and a new glass roof and lighting over the bicycle parking area there.

It is located in Southend Town Centre on Clifftown Road in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, SS1 1AB, just off the middle of Southend High Street and down the road from Southend Travel Centre with easy access to bus services and South Essex College and the University of Essex Southend Campus, to which it is adjacent.

Vera Kolodzig

Kolodzig, whose father is German, lived in Cascais until she was 18 and then went to London to study contemporary theatre at the University of Essex.


Charles Handy

He has Honorary Doctorates from Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England), UEA, Essex, Durham, Queen's University Belfast and the University of Dublin.

Dominique Searle

After his time at Bayside, Searle travelled to the United Kingdom to study at the University of Essex, where he graduated in Literature, and earned a Master of Arts in Sociology of literature.

Jack D. Forbes

He has been a visiting Fulbright Professor at the University of Warwick in England, where he also spent time at Oxford and the University of Essex.

Jon Stratton

Stratton has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Essex and has worked in Australia since 1980, arriving at Curtin in 1990 after teaching at universities in Brisbane (Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland), Armidale (University of New England) and Darwin (Northern Territory University).

Severalls Hospital

The research data in their entirety (interviews, group discussions, photographs, architectural plans, etc.) are currently deposited in ESDS Qualidata, part of the UK Data Archive, at the University of Essex.

University of Essex Mountaineering Club

The University of Essex Mountaineering Club (UeMC) is based at the University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.

Wivenhoe House

A partnership between the University of Essex, independent education foundation Edge and Kaplan Open Learning was created to manage the hotel upon its re-opening in 2012 under the name of the Edge Hotel School.