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Hear From Our Q-Step Students Who Attended Essex Summer School In 2025 At the University of Essex, the Q-Step programme enables students to gain quantitative skills and enhance their degree. By following the Q-Step pathway, they will receive a qualifier award at the end of their degree which will signal to employers their capability in […]

As the Essex Summer School comes to a close for 2025, I reflect on my time here as an Admin Assistant with positive nostalgia – meeting students from all over the world, helping to make their welcome experience as smooth and comfortable as possible, and of course, being part of the ESS 2025 Summer School […]

ESS provides not only world leading social science research methods training, but also opportunity to socialise with your fellow participants from all around the world.

ESS 2024 is now over and we want to thank everyone  – the instructors, participants, staff and everyone else who made it another successful year. We will return in summer 2025 for our 58th summer school and so please ensure you are signed up to our mailing list to hear when we launch.    

The course was great, really enjoyed it and felt I got a lot out of it – the combination of the theoretical and the methodological steps have provided me with tools for the PhD and required a renewed and deeper exploration of discourse analysis, giving me a lot to think about for the road ahead. […]

“The best visualization course I learned in @EssexSumSchool. I found solutions to almost all of the things I have struggled with over the last two years. Practical useful R skills on O-D data visualization+ animation + efficient way to extract and represent model parameters”   3D Computational Methods for Social Data Science: Exploring Society through […]

“I really enjoyed this course and found it incredibly helpful. It has provided me with a bank of knowledge and resources that i am looking forward to returning to over the course of my studies”   1C Introduction to Regression with Prof Tor Georg Jakobsen

“I am still buzzing from the qualitative data analysis discussion AND the reading lists *gold*

“The balance between seminars/lectures/activities was perfect. I got a lot out of the course and felt i have learnt so much in such a short space of time. I would absolutely recommend this to any other PhD student.”   1L Qualitative Interviewing with Dr Katy Wheeler & Dr Bethany Morgan Brett

“This course was really excellent. The instructors were so knowledgeable, but also very approachable and understanding of the different levels and backgrounds of the students. The course design was amazing – i have never experienced a course with both theoretical foundations and immediate practical applications. I have learned so much” 2N Confirmatory Factor Analysis and […]