We welcome a wide variety of visiting academic and research staff. The University values the contribution made by distinguished academic visitors to teaching and research activities, and encourages the appointment of such staff. We also appoint emeritus academics.
Support for visiting research staff
We offer specific research appointments for the following roles:
- Visiting Research Professor
- Visiting Senior Research Fellow
- Visiting Research Fellow
- Visiting Research Assistant
Academics in these roles can use our wide range of online information resources and our laboratories to conduct their research.
Support for Emeritus Professorships
The University confers the Professor Emeritus title to specifically acknowledge the academic contribution made to the University by a former professor of the University. The title is thus a mark of recognition of both the recipient and the institution.
Emeritus Professors could be:
- Individuals who have given long and exemplary service to the University but where promotion to a chair in the University happens late in their career
- Appointment of a distinguished academic to a chair at The Open University late in their career
Our Emeritus Professors have access to our wide range of online information resources and our laboratories to conduct their research.
Becoming an OU Emeritus Professor
To find out how to become on OU Emeritus Professor, visit the relevant faculty
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Honorary appointments view – Cory Doctorow
I wear several hats: entrepreneur, activist, science fiction writer, and campaigning journalist. Like education, vocation isn't a discrete silo, but rather a spectrum of activities in service of a larger cause and vision. The cause and vision that I've made my own is to fight for a free, open infrastructure for the information society.