University of Essex

The University of Essex is a public research university in the county of Essex in eastern England, established by royal charter in 1965 and one of the original plate glass universities created in Britain during the 1960s.埃塞克斯大学（英文全名 University of Essex）是一所位于英格兰东部埃塞克斯郡的公立研究型大学，1965 年经皇家特许状设立，是英国二十世纪六十年代创立的「平板玻璃大学」之一。

Its main Colchester campus lies in 200 acres of parkland at Wivenhoe Park about two miles from the city centre, and in 2024 the university reported 16,672 students, 978 academic researchers and 20 academic departments across its campuses at Colchester, Southend-on-Sea and Loughton.其科尔切斯特主校区位于占地 200 英亩的威文霍公园，距市中心约两英里；2024 年该校有 16,672 名学生、978 名学术研究者与 20 个学术院系，分布在科尔切斯特、绍森德与劳顿三个校区。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Essex is placed 438th, it stands in the 351-375 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 707th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and 501-600 in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex records 48,859 research works attracting 2,152,810 citations.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，埃塞克斯大学位列第 438，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 351 至 375 区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 707，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果 48,859 项、累计被引 2,152,810 次。

History

• In July 1959 Essex County Council accepted a proposal from Charles Leatherland, Baron Leatherland, to establish a university in the county, and a University Promotion Committee chaired by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex, Sir John Ruggles-Brise, was formed to press the case.1959 年 7 月，埃塞克斯郡议会采纳了查尔斯·莱瑟兰（莱瑟兰男爵）关于在郡内设立一所大学的提议，并成立了由埃塞克斯郡郡尉约翰·拉格尔斯—布赖斯爵士主持的大学促进委员会来推动此事。

• In May 1961 an announcement in the House of Commons preferred the foundation of the university within Wivenhoe, and in December 1961 Wivenhoe Park was acquired as the site for the new institution.1961 年 5 月，下议院的一份公告倾向于把该校设于威文霍；同年 12 月，威文霍公园被购置作为这所新院校的校址。

• In July 1962 R. A. Butler was appointed the first Chancellor, Albert Sloman became Vice-Chancellor and Anthony Rowland-Jones was named Registrar of the university.1962 年 7 月，理查德·奥斯汀·巴特勒（R. A. Butler）被任命为首任校监，阿尔伯特·斯洛曼出任校长，安东尼·罗兰—琼斯出任注册主任。

• The first professors were appointed in May 1963, among them Alan Gibson in Physics, Ian Proudman in Mathematics, Richard Lipsey in Economics, Peter Townsend in Sociology, Donald Davie in Literature and Jean Blondel in Government.首批教授于 1963 年 5 月获任命，其中包括物理学家艾伦·吉布森、数学家伊恩·普劳德曼、经济学家理查德·利普西、社会学家彼得·汤森、文学学者唐纳德·戴维与政治学者让·布隆代尔。

• A construction Appeal Fund was launched with a target of one million pounds and exceeded that figure within six months, with contributors including Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Sir Winston Churchill.学校发起募捐，目标为一百万英镑，并在六个月内超额完成，捐款者包括伊丽莎白王太后与温斯顿·丘吉尔爵士。

• In the autumn of 1963 red was chosen as the university colour and the first prospectus was prepared, while work began on the first permanent buildings at Wivenhoe Park.1963 年秋，红色被定为该校校色，首份招生简章也开始编制；与此同时，威文霍公园的首批永久性建筑动工。

• In January 1964 the university's academic robes were designed by Sir Hardy Amies, and in March Sir John Ruggles-Brise became the first Pro-Chancellor while Charles Leatherland was appointed the first Treasurer.1964 年 1 月，该校的学位服由哈迪·埃米斯爵士设计；同年 3 月，约翰·拉格尔斯—布赖斯爵士成为首任副校监，查尔斯·莱瑟兰则出任首任司库。

• The university's Armorial Bearings were published in May 1964 with the motto Thought the harder, heart the keener, a line adapted from the Anglo-Saxon poem The Battle of Maldon.该校的纹章于 1964 年 5 月公布，配以校训「思之愈深，心之愈坚」，此语改编自古英语诗作《马尔登之战》。

• In October 1964 the first 122 students arrived with 28 teaching staff across three schools, namely Comparative Studies, Physical Sciences and Social Studies, and Denis Mesure was elected the first President of the Student Council.1964 年 10 月，首批 122 名学生到校，配合 28 名教职员，分属比较研究、物理科学与社会科学三个学院；丹尼斯·梅热当选为首届学生会主席。

• In December 1964 the Queen approved the grant of a Charter which took effect on 11 January 1965, formally constituting the University of Essex.1964 年 12 月，女王批准授予皇家特许状，该特许状于 1965 年 1 月 11 日生效，正式成立了埃塞克斯大学。

• In 1965 the university drew 399 students, its academic staff more than doubled to 61, and the first ten degrees, five MSc and five MA awards, were conferred.1965 年，该校招收了 399 名学生，学术人员增加一倍以上、达到 61 人，并授予了首批十个学位，即五个理学硕士与五个文学硕士学位。

• Dorothy E. Smith became the first female lecturer appointed at the university in 1965, joining the Department of Sociology, and in December that year the University Court met for the first time with around 500 members.多萝西·E·史密斯于 1965 年成为该校聘任的第一位女讲师，任职于社会学系；同年 12 月，大学理事会首次召开会议，成员约 500 人。

• In October 1966 the Hexagon Restaurant and General Store opened as student numbers reached 750, and the departments of Computer Science and Electronic Systems Engineering took their first students.1966 年 10 月，六角餐厅与综合商店开业，学生人数达到 750；计算机科学与电子系统工程两系招收首批学生。

• The Social Science Research Council Data Bank, later renamed the UK Data Archive, was established on the Colchester campus in 1967.社会科学研究理事会数据中心于 1967 年在科尔切斯特校区成立，后来更名为英国数据档案馆。

• Lord Butler was installed as Chancellor in 1967 at a ceremony in Colchester's Moot Hall, and the first annual Degree Congregation that July conferred 135 degrees.1967 年，巴特勒勋爵在科尔切斯特市政厅举行的仪式上就任校监；同年 7 月举行的首届年度学位授予典礼颁授了 135 个学位。

• In March 1968 a demonstration against a visit by the Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Enoch Powell brought national publicity, and on 10 May 1968 three students were suspended and ordered off campus.1968 年 3 月，一场反对影子国防大臣伊诺克·鲍威尔到访的示威引发全国关注；1968 年 5 月 10 日，三名学生被停学并被勒令离校。

• On 13 May 1968 students picketed all entrances and a mass meeting declared a Free University in place of the official institution, and after a week the three suspended students were reinstated.1968 年 5 月 13 日，学生封锁了所有入口，一场大型集会宣布以「自由大学」取代官方机构；一周后，三名被停学的学生得以复学。

• Martin Harris was appointed Vice-Chancellor in 1987, succeeding the founding Vice-Chancellor Albert Sloman, and in the same year the Essex alumnus Oscar Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize.1987 年，马丁·哈里斯接替创始人校长阿尔伯特·斯洛曼出任校长；同年，该校校友奥斯卡·阿里亚斯获得诺贝尔和平奖。

• By its 30th anniversary in 1993 the university had grown into 17 key departments serving 5,500 students and employing 1,300 staff, and it housed the Economic and Social Research Council-funded UK Data Archive.到 1993 年三十周年校庆时，该校已发展为拥有 17 个重要院系、5,500 名学生与 1,300 名教职员工的规模，并设有由经济与社会研究理事会资助的英国数据档案馆。

• Moves to concentrate teaching into large departments gathered pace in the late 1970s and 1980s as the School of Law, the Human Rights Centre and the Department of Biological Sciences opened and ties with local firms brought in research contracts.在二十世纪七十年代末至八十年代，该校加快把教学集中于大型院系，法学院、人权中心与生物科学系相继成立，与本地企业的合作也带来了研究合同。

Academics

• The university is currently organised into two faculties, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science and Health, which oversee about 20 academic departments and schools.该校目前分为两个学部，即人文艺术与社会科学学部、科学与健康学部，下辖约 20 个学术院系。

• Its founding departments included Economics, Government and Sociology, all established at the opening of the university in 1964, and the Department of Government remains the university's leading politics unit.其创校院系包括经济系、政治系与社会学系，均在 1964 年建校时设立；政治系至今仍是该校最具优势的政治学单位。

• In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework the Department of Government recorded an average grade point average of 3.54 with 68 per cent of its outputs graded four-star, described by the Political Studies Association as cementing Essex's reputation as the leading political science department in the country.在 2014 年研究卓越框架评估中，政治系的平均绩点达到 3.54，其中 68% 的研究成果被评为最高等级，政治研究学会称此进一步巩固了埃塞克斯作为全国领先政治学系的声誉。

• In 2013 Queen Elizabeth II conferred the Regius Professorship in Political Science on the university, the first holder being David Sanders and the second Kristian Skrede Gleditsch from December 2017.2013 年，伊丽莎白二世女王向该校授予政治学钦定教授席；首位获任者为戴维·桑德斯，自 2017 年 12 月起由克里斯蒂安·斯克雷德·格莱迪奇接任。

• The Human Rights Centre, established in 1982, was one of the first academic centres of its kind in the world and its work helped the university win Queen's Anniversary Prizes.人权中心成立于 1982 年，是世界上最早的同类型学术中心之一，其工作助力该校赢得女王周年纪念奖。

• The Institute for Social and Economic Research opened in 1989 as the Economic and Social Research Council centre on micro-social change and now runs Understanding Society, a longitudinal study of 100,000 people in 40,000 British households.社会与经济研究所于 1989 年作为经济与社会研究理事会的微观社会变迁研究中心成立，现负责「理解社会」大型追踪调查，覆盖 4 万个英国家庭中的 10 万人。

• The Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, held since 1967, celebrated its 50th year in 2017 and by then had trained more than 15,000 faculty and students from around the world.埃塞克斯社会科学数据分析暑期学校自 1967 年开办，2017 年迎来第 50 届，届时已培训了来自世界各地的 15,000 余名教师与学生。

• The Department of Economics was a founding department, and in 1971 its professor Tony Atkinson founded the Journal of Public Economics, which published the landmark Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem in 1976.经济系是该校创校院系之一；1971 年该校教授托尼·阿特金森创办了《公共经济学杂志》，该刊于 1976 年发表了具有里程碑意义的阿特金森—斯蒂格利茨定理。

• Essex Law School is a large and research-intensive unit, and it was ranked 19th in the United Kingdom and 72nd in the world by the Times Higher Education subject rankings.埃塞克斯法学院规模较大且研究密集，在泰晤士高等教育学科排名中曾位列全英第 19、全球第 72。

• Essex Business School opened its award-winning building in 2015, was described as the first carbon-zero business school in the United Kingdom, and in 2024 gained accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.埃塞克斯商学院于 2015 年启用其获奖大楼，被誉为英国首座碳中和商学院，并于 2024 年获得国际商学院协会的认证。

• East 15 Acting School, acquired by the university in September 2000 and based at Loughton, topped drama rankings in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide in 2018 and in The Guardian University Guide in 2020.东 15 表演学院于 2000 年 9 月被该校收购，校址在劳顿；它在 2018 年《泰晤士报》与《星期日泰晤士报》优秀大学指南、2020 年《卫报》大学指南的戏剧排名中均居首。

• The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering was inaugurated on 1 August 2007 by merging the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, both dating from 1966.计算机科学与电子工程学院于 2007 年 8 月 1 日成立，由均创办于 1966 年的计算机科学系与电子系统工程系合并而成。

• The UK Data Archive at Essex houses the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom and was founded in 1967 as the Social Science Research Council Data Bank.该校的英国数据档案馆收藏着全英规模最大的社会科学与人文数字数据，1967 年以社会科学研究理事会数据中心之名成立。

• In 2024 the university employed 978 academic researchers and enrolled 16,672 students, and it works with more than 100 partner higher education institutions worldwide, including a four-year double degree with Northwest University in China approved in 2017.2024 年该校聘有 978 名学术研究者、招有 16,672 名学生，并与全球 100 多所伙伴高等院校合作，其中包括 2017 年获批的与中国西北大学合办的四年制双学位项目。

• Its international partnerships also include a dual degree with Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, links with Sichuan International Studies University in Chongqing, validation arrangements with Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, and courses delivered with Kaplan in Singapore since 2014.其国际合作还包括与泰国朱拉隆功大学的双学位项目、与中国重庆四川外国语大学的联系、与新加坡南洋艺术学院的课程认证安排，以及自 2014 年起与新加坡楷博合作开设的课程。

Campus

• The Colchester campus occupies 200 acres of award-winning parkland at Wivenhoe Park and lies about two miles from the historic centre of Colchester, England's oldest recorded town, and it is home to more than 10,000 students from over 140 countries.科尔切斯特校区位于威文霍公园，占地 200 英亩的获奖园林，距英格兰最古老有记录的城镇科尔切斯特的历史中心约两英里，校内有来自 140 多个国家的 10,000 余名学生。

• Wivenhoe Park was painted by the landscape painter John Constable in 1816, and the 18th-century Wivenhoe House at the heart of the campus also features in that painting.威文霍公园曾于 1816 年由风景画家约翰·康斯特布尔入画；位于校园中心的十八世纪威文霍府邸也出现在这幅画中。

• The campus was designed by Kenneth Capon of the Architects' Co-Partnership, who took the Tuscan hill town of San Gimignano as his inspiration and planned six residential towers though the original scheme envisaged 29.校园由建筑师事务所的肯尼思·卡彭设计，他以托斯卡纳山城圣吉米尼亚诺为灵感，最终建成六座住宿塔楼，而最初的规划曾设想建造 29 座。

• With its prefabricated concrete and glass the university is a classic plate glass and Brutalist campus, and its landmark buildings include the Albert Sloman Library and The Hexagon, both designed by Kenneth Capon.该校以预制混凝土与玻璃建成，是典型的平板玻璃与粗野主义校园，其标志性建筑包括阿尔伯特·斯洛曼图书馆与六角大楼，二者均由肯尼思·卡彭设计。

• The Albert Sloman Library was selected as an icon of British design by the Victoria and Albert Museum in its 2012 exhibition British Design 1948-2012 and has one of the country's few still-working paternoster lifts.阿尔伯特·斯洛曼图书馆被维多利亚与阿尔伯特博物馆选入其 2012 年「英国设计 1948 至 2012」展览的英国设计标志之列，并拥有全英仅存不多、仍在运行的循环式升降机之一。

• The Southend-on-Sea campus opened a Gateway Building in January 2007 and the joint Forum Southend-on-Sea in 2013, and the university announced in December 2025 that the campus would close at the end of the 2025-26 academic year.绍森德校区于 2007 年 1 月启用门户大楼、2013 年启用与市议会及绍森德学院合办的「绍森德论坛」；该校于 2025 年 12 月宣布该校区将于 2025 至 2026 学年末关闭。

• The Loughton campus on the edge of east London houses East 15 Acting School, which the university acquired in 2000 and which grew out of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop tradition.位于东伦敦边缘的劳顿校区是东 15 表演学院的所在地；该校于 2000 年收购该学院，其根源可追溯到琼·利特尔伍德的剧团工坊传统。

• The Knowledge Gateway research and technology park at Colchester includes the 21 million pound Essex Business School and a 12 million pound Innovation Centre opened in 2019, with a long-term aim of providing employment for more than 2,000 people.科尔切斯特的知识门户研发科技园包括造价 2,100 万英镑的埃塞克斯商学院与 2019 年启用的造价 1,200 万英镑的创新中心，其长期目标是提供 2,000 多个就业岗位。

• Wivenhoe House reopened in 2012 as a combined four-star country house hotel and hotel school, and the resulting Edge Hotel School is the university's working hotel school for hospitality training.威文霍府邸于 2012 年重新开放，成为集四星级乡村酒店与酒店学院于一体的设施；由此形成的边缘酒店学院则是该校用于酒店与餐饮实训的实体酒店学校。

• The campus is easily reached from London and Stansted Airport in under an hour, and it is served by its own railway station at Wivenhoe on the line from London Liverpool Street.该校区距伦敦与斯坦斯特德机场不到一小时车程，并拥有自己的威文霍火车站，位于自伦敦利物浦街站出发的铁路线上。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Essex is placed 438th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 351-375 band while ranking 17th in the world for international outlook.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，埃塞克斯大学位列第 438；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 351 至 375 区间，其国际化视野位列全球第 17。^[1]

• It is 707th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and stands in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中它位列第 707，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 区间。

• Essex is ranked in the top 30 in the United Kingdom in the Complete University Guide 2027 and was named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards in 2018.在 2027 年《完全大学指南》中，埃塞克斯位居全英前 30，并于 2018 年获评泰晤士高等教育奖年度大学。

• The university is placed in the top 200 of the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025 and ranks 25th in the United Kingdom for research quality in the Times Good University Guide 2022.该校在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中进入全球前 200，并在 2022 年《泰晤士报》优秀大学指南中位列全英研究质量第 25。

• Essex has twice won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, in 2009 for advancing the practice of international human rights and in 2017 for authoritative social and economic research.埃塞克斯两度荣获女王高等教育与继续教育周年纪念奖，2009 年因其推动国际人权实践、2017 年因其权威的社会与经济研究而获奖。

• In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework five Essex subjects ranked in the United Kingdom top 10 for research power, namely sociology, law, economics and econometrics, politics and international studies and computer science.在 2021 年研究卓越框架评估中，埃塞克斯有五个学科的研究实力位列全英前 10，分别是社会学、法学、经济学与计量经济学、政治与国际研究以及计算机科学。

• Four social science subjects are in the United Kingdom top 10 for research quality measured by grade point average, namely sociology, economics and econometrics, politics and international studies and modern languages and linguistics.按平均绩点衡量的研究质量，该校有四个社会科学学科位列全英前 10，分别是社会学、经济学与计量经济学、政治与国际研究以及现代语言与语言学。

• Essex alumni include two Nobel laureates, making it one of only three non-Russell Group universities with a Nobel-winning alumnus, and a third laureate, Oliver Hart, taught at the university.埃塞克斯校友中有两位诺贝尔奖得主，使其成为仅有的三所拥有诺奖校友的非罗素集团大学之一；第三位得主奥利弗·哈特也曾在该校任教。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 48,859 research works attracting 2,152,810 citations, and it is number one in the United Kingdom for the number of Innovate UK-funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 48,859 项研究成果、累计被引 2,152,810 次；其在英国创新署资助的知识转移伙伴关系数量上位列全英第一。

• In the 2026 QS World University Rankings by Subject Essex is placed in the top 100 in the world for sociology and in the top 100 for politics and international studies, reflecting its strength in the social sciences.在 2026 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中，埃塞克斯的社会学与政治及国际研究均跻身全球前 100，体现出其社会科学方面的实力。

Student life

• The students' union represents students across the three campuses, and in a 2017 All Student Vote the student body voted to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students by 59 per cent of 1,026 votes cast.该校学生会在三个校区代表学生；在 2017 年的一次全校学生投票中，学生以 1,026 票中的 59% 表决通过退出全英学生联合会。

• In 2018 the student body voted in a referendum to establish a Student Parliament to represent students and hold the union's officers to account.2018 年学生通过公投决定设立学生议会，以代表学生并监督学生会干事。

• Student media operate under the name Rebel, and Rebel Radio won the Best Training Initiative award at the I Love Student Radio Awards in 2019.学生媒体以 Rebel 之名运营，Rebel Radio 于 2019 年「我爱学生电台」奖中荣获最佳培训倡议奖。

• Essex sports teams are known as the Essex Blades, with more than 40 clubs covering football, rugby union, American football, netball, cricket and non-traditional sports such as korfball and ultimate frisbee.该校运动队被称为「埃塞克斯利刃」，拥有 40 多个俱乐部，涵盖足球、橄榄球、美式橄榄球、无板篮球、板球以及合球、极限飞盘等非传统项目。

• The men's volleyball team won the Volleyball England National Student Cup in three consecutive seasons from 2017 to 2019 and became the first Essex team to win a British Universities and Colleges Sport national final in 2019.男排于 2017 至 2019 年连续三个赛季赢得英格兰排球全国学生杯，并在 2019 年成为首支夺得英国高校体育总会全国决赛冠军的埃塞克斯队。

• The Essex Sport Arena opened at the Colchester campus in 2018 with seating for 1,650 spectators, and it hosts the Essex Rebels women's basketball programme.埃塞克斯体育竞技馆于 2018 年在科尔切斯特校区启用，可容纳 1,650 名观众，并承办埃塞克斯叛者女子篮球项目。

• Once a year the campus hosts Derby Day, a varsity sports contest against the University of East Anglia, and the university has one of the United Kingdom's longest-established disc golf courses, which hosted the World Team Disc Golf Championship in 2017.校园每年举办一次「德比日」，与东英吉利大学进行校际体育对抗；该校还拥有全英历史最悠久的飞盘高尔夫球场之一，曾于 2017 年承办世界团体飞盘高尔夫锦标赛。

• For its 60th anniversary the university published a weekly Sixty Stories series, and the 50th anniversary in 2014 was marked by the Something Fierce exhibition in The Hexagon, whose content was later featured at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2017.为庆祝建校六十周年，该校推出每周更新的「六十个故事」系列；2014 年的五十周年校庆则以六角大楼的「凶猛之物」展览为标志，其内容后来于 2017 年在皇家艺术学院展出。

• The Copse student accommodation opened in 2018 with 643 single en-suite rooms and studios, adding to the residential towers and student village on the Colchester campus.科普斯学生公寓于 2018 年启用，提供 643 间单人套房与单间公寓，为科尔切斯特校区的住宿塔楼与学生村补充了床位。

Notable people

• Sir Albert Sloman was the founding Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1962 to 1987 and gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1963 setting out his vision of a new kind of university.阿尔伯特·斯洛曼爵士于 1962 至 1987 年担任该校创校校长，并于 1963 年发表 BBC 里斯讲座，阐述其「新型大学」的构想。

• R. A. Butler, Lord Butler of Saffron Walden, served as the university's first Chancellor from 1962 to 1965 and was formally installed in Colchester's Moot Hall in 1967.R. A. 巴特勒（萨弗伦沃尔登的巴特勒勋爵）自 1962 至 1965 年担任该校首任校监，并于 1967 年在科尔切斯特市政厅正式就任。

• Óscar Arias completed his doctorate in political science at Essex in 1973, later served as President of Costa Rica and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987.奥斯卡·阿里亚斯于 1973 年在埃塞克斯取得政治学博士学位，后任哥斯达黎加总统，并于 1987 年获得诺贝尔和平奖。

• Christopher Pissarides took his BA and MA degrees in economics at Essex in the early 1970s and shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.克里斯托弗·皮萨里德斯于二十世纪七十年代初在埃塞克斯取得经济学学士与硕士学位，并共同获得 2010 年诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Oliver Hart, who shared the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, taught as a lecturer in the Essex Department of Economics.共同获得 2016 年诺贝尔经济学奖的奥利弗·哈特，曾在埃塞克斯经济系担任讲师。

• John Bercow, an Essex graduate, served as Speaker of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019.该校毕业生约翰·伯考于 2009 至 2019 年担任英国下议院议长。

• Priti Patel, who studied at the university, served as the United Kingdom Home Secretary from 2019 to 2022.曾在埃塞克斯就读的普丽蒂·帕特尔于 2019 至 2022 年担任英国内政大臣。

• Daniel Libeskind, the architect chosen to master-plan the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site in New York, took an MA in the History and Theory of Architecture at Essex in 1972.被选为纽约世界贸易中心遗址重建总规划师的建筑师丹尼尔·里伯斯金，于 1972 年在埃塞克斯取得建筑历史与理论硕士学位。

• Peter Townsend was the founding professor of sociology at Essex and pioneered research on poverty and inequality, and Jean Blondel was the university's first professor of government.彼得·汤森是埃塞克斯社会学的创系教授，开创了贫困与不平等研究；让·布隆代尔则是该校首位政治学教授。

• Tony Brooker, an Essex academic, developed one of the world's first publicly available computer languages, and the novelist Ben Okri, winner of the Booker Prize, is an Essex graduate.该校学者托尼·布鲁克开发了世界上最早向公众开放的计算机语言之一；布克奖得主、小说家本·奥克里则是埃塞克斯的毕业生。

• Yanis Varoufakis, who took a doctorate in economics at Essex, later served as Greece's finance minister during the 2015 debt crisis.在埃塞克斯取得经济学博士学位的亚尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯，后于 2015 年债务危机期间出任希腊财政部长。