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Hundreds of children learn about high-tech coastal careers

Hundreds of teenagers explored exciting Essex green careers in a showcase organised to inspire the coastal workforce of the future. An incredible 240 youngsters aged between 14-18 descended on the ...
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Higher education and employability mentor up for prestigious award

Essex law graduate Sharifah Hani Yasmin Syed Abdullah has been shortlisted for the Social Action Award at this year's Study UK Alumni Awards run by the British Council.
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Research and practice

The Human Rights Centre is internationally recognised for the breadth and depth of its research projects. The projects hosted by the centre operate at the interface between the theory and practice of ...
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New report raises concerns over Met Police trials of live facial recognition technology

A new report by researchers from the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology Project, based at the University of Essex Human Rights Centre, identifies significant flaws with the way live facial ...
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Children aged five link certain accents with intelligence

Children from just five years old associate people with middle-class accents as being more intelligent than people with other accents, according to University of Essex research.
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Strict-sounding teachers less effective in classroom, research reveals

A ground-breaking psychological study from The University of Essex and the University of Reading of hundreds of children showed “controlling sounding voices” didn’t gain cooperation from ...
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Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality

Writing for The Conversation Dr Amanda Cole, Dr Ella Jeffries and Professor Peter Patrick explain how accent prejudice and linguicism is a reframing of prejudice towards low-status groups who, simply, ...
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World's most boring person discovered by researchers

The study into the science of boredom has uncovered the jobs, characteristics, and hobbies that are considered a stereotypical snooze. After examining more than 500 people across five experiments ...
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Worrying gap between time parents spend on childcare

Parents in the UK are spending more time on childcare than ever before, but some children are still missing out more than others, according to new research from the University of Essex.
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North Sea Oil and Gas spikes pollution by 10,000%

The University of Essex, Natural History Museum and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS) research has uncovered the true impact on Britain’s seabed life - with the number ...
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Can your finger length provide a clue to your sexuality?

Finger length may provide a clue to sexuality ...
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Professor Ekaterini Panopoulou

Reports and Papers (22) Panopoulou, E., The Predictive Content of Financial Variables: Evidence from the Euro Area Panopoulou, E., The Predictive Content of Financial Variables: Evidence from the Euro ...