Researchers at the University of Essex are looking for participants to take part in a research study which aims to investigate the experiences of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people living in London.

Tax rises should play a major part in the forthcoming Budget says Professor Abhinay Muthoo of the Department of Economics at the University of Essex.

The first President of the recently-formed United Nations Human Rights Council, and Mexican Ambassador to the UN, Luis Alfonso de Alba Góngora, is to give the Human Rights Centre's 25th Anniversary Public Lecture at the University of Essex.

Women entrepreneurs in the Southend area are invited to join an innovative new club set up by the School of Entrepreneurship and Business (SEB) at the University of Essex.

University of Essex Sports Psychologist Dr Murray Griffin will be gaining a unique insight into the world of extreme sports when he attempts to break the land speed record on a motorcycle.

Government money should fund coloured lenses for children who have difficulty reading, Professor Arnold Wilkins of the University of Essex has urged today (Wednesday).

Somalia Seaton, a final-year BA Contemporary Theatre student at East 15, has won Epping Forest District Council's Leisure Bursary Award, worth £750. She is the first East 15 student to win this award and was nominated by her course tutor Uri Roodner, who is also a director and a performer working in theatre, dance, film and TV.