About the Essex Student Journal
The Essex Student Journal is an online multi-disciplinary academic journal, run by and for University of Essex students, with the administration funded and supported by the University of Essex.
The journal is dedicated to the publication of high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate writing, and is committed to creating accessible and engaging content for a non-specialist readership. The Essex Student Journal encourages and celebrates student research by offering valuable early experience of academic publishing and the peer review process.
More information about the Essex Student Journal is available on the About pages and University of Essex Library website.
Latest News Posts
Submission Deadline Approaching – 1 September 2025, 9:00 AM
Posted by Philip Mong'are Achoki on 2025-08-15
We are pleased to invite submissions for our current Issue, 16(1). We welcome contributions from current University of Essex undergraduate and postgraduate taught students, as well as recent graduates whose work was completed during their studies within the past year. The deadline for submissions to this issue is Monday, 1 September 2025, at 9:00 AM (BST). After this time, no further manuscripts [...]
Join the Essex Student Journal Conference 2025!
Posted by Philip Mong'are Achoki on 2025-04-22
The Essex Student Journal (ESJ) is proud to announce the return of its annual conference, taking place on Wednesday 30 April, from 2pm to 4.30pm in the Ivor Crewe Seminar Room. The conference will also run online, ensuring that as many people as possible can join us to celebrate student writing and publishing at Essex. Building on the success of last year’s inaugural event, this conference [...]
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Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Essay
The Green Industrial Revolution and the Future of Steel Production: Using the Innovative ‘Sheffield Cell’
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Research Article
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What is the narrative of the suicide bereaved
Maja Futrell-Fruhling
2024-11-25 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Measuring the effectiveness of Smartphone apps on change in healthy diet consumptions in the UK: Mediating role of nutritional awareness and modification in lifestyle
Ziyu Ma, Junkai Wang and Yutong Feng
2025-01-27 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Short-term Impacts of Marine Traffic on the Behaviour of Dolphins in the Aegean Sea
Danielle Alice Roth
2025-02-04 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
The Genesis of Organisational Ignorance in Knowledge-Intensive Firms
Renaldas Daugela
2025-02-18 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Neo-Feudalism And The Crisis Of Capitalist Hegemony
Peter Alexander Linardakis
2025-05-28 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Impact of community policing on public confidence in the police
Antonina Savka
2025-07-25 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Case Study
Short fiction
Experiments in Equations and Other Angles: An Anthology
Sean Smith
2024-09-30 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Poems
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The intention underneath: Can the motor system ascribe intentions?
Juliana de Oliveira Guerra
2024-12-11 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024
Essex Student Journal Conference 2025: conference proceedings and reflective report
Hannah Crago, Daniel Steven Harris, Maja Futrell-Fruhling, Nasima Rahman, Marc Viau, Somidha Ray, Sean Smith, Juliana de Oliveira Guerra and Llinos Evans
2025-05-07 Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2024