Research degrees at our Affiliated Research Centres
The Open University's Affiliated Research Centre (ARC) programme enables leading research institutes, who do not have their own degree awarding powers, to provide doctoral training with our support. ARCs benefit from our positioning as a global leader in innovative and high-quality programme delivery and membership of a community of world-renowned research organisations.
Within the framework of the programme, ARCs can recruit eligible students and appoint supervisors to projects that fit with their own institution's research priorities. Wherever they are located in the world, ARCs can offer their students a cost-effective route to a respected UK research degree qualification.
We welcome enquiries from organisations with an established, high quality research environment who wish to join our programme. To find out more, download our Affiliated Research Centre programme brochure.
Our community of ARCs:
- Architectural Association School of Architecture(UK)
- British Antarctic Survey (UK)
- Consorzio Mario Negri Sud (Chieti, Italy)
- DSTL (UK)
- ESC Rennes School of Business (Rennes, France)
- Fondazione IRCCS ‘Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori’ (Milan, Italy)
- Health Protection Agency (UK)
- HR Wallingford Ltd (UK)
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Trieste, Italy)
- Istituto Clinico Humanitas (Milan, Italy)
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri (Milan, Italy)
- KEMRI - Wellcome Trust Research Programme (Kilifi, Kenya)
- Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (Bangkok, Thailand)
- MRC Unit, The Gambia (Banjul, Gambia)
- MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (UK)
- MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit (UK)
- MRC National Institute of Medical Research (UK)
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit - Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
- Royal Botanic Gardens Kew (UK)
- Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (Naples, Italy)
- Stowers Institute for Medical Research (Missouri, USA)
- Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (Naples, Italy)
- The Roskamp Institute (Florida, USA)
- Transport Research Laboratory (UK)
To find out more download our Affiliated Research Centres programme brochure.
or contact the Research Degrees Office by email, or telephone on +44(0)1908 654882