Facilities and Resources: MPhil/PhD study
Studying at ISER
A space to call your own
As a PhD student, you’ll have your own desk in a shared office, along with a networked computer and ready access to printing and copying facilities — everything you need to get straight to work.
Specialist resources
A library built for longitudinal research
You’ll have access to the well-resourced Hilary Doughty Research Library, with holdings of published and unpublished material on longitudinal and panel data methodology, and its application to economic and policy issues.
Data & resources
Work with the UK’s leading longitudinal data
Research students also have access to a variety of longitudinal and panel data sets including Understanding Society and the British Household Panel Survey. The UK Data Archive is also based at Essex, providing an extremely rich support for original and innovative survey research.
Join the community
Learn from, and present alongside, leading researchers
You’ll attend research presentations by distinguished visiting speakers, staff, and your fellow postgraduate students, through ISER’s seminar series.
- Thursday afternoon research student seminar
A regular slot run by and for postgraduate research students. - Internal Seminar Series
An opportunity for all of ISER’s researchers, visitors and postgraduate students to share their ongoing research. - External Seminar Series
Hosts a range of speakers undertaking research in the same or similar areas as the ISER team.