Testimonials

I would like to once again thank you for your committed teaching and your ability to adapt the course to accommodate the diverse levels of all students. For me, it was a very rewarding summer course. – 2I Applying Discourse Theory – Politics, Ideology, Populism (Professor Jason Glynos, Professor Yannis Stavrakakis) Thank you to Karen […]

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 […]

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 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 (Dr Katy Wheeler & Dr Bethany Morgan Brett)

Participating in the Quantitative Text Analysis course of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis was truly a memorable and eye-opening experience for me as an undergraduate student. It not only provided me an invaluable opportunity to acquire knowledge in processing and visualizing data with some up-to-date models and packages in supervised and […]

“I can’t highlight enough my enjoyment of the course I attended”

The Summer School is addictive…….

more or less all academic projects I have been working on ever since are based on what I learned at ESS…