The science research community supports around 150 postgraduate research students, of whom over 100 are full time based on the University's Milton Keynes campus, where they work alongside some 70 post-doctoral research fellows and assistants.
All academic staff are encouraged to undertake externally funded research projects and research grant income is currently around £5million per annum from a variety of sources - including research councils, the European Union and charitable and industrial sponsors.
The Faculty supports an exceptional programme of training through a specialist course: Postgraduate research skills in science, technology, match and computing (STM895) that provides an organised and structured means by which students can both assess their research skills and plan the development and acquisitions of these skills during the course of their PhD.
For details on post-graduate studentship projects for the current year along with details on what our departments can offer you please visit:
Earth, Environment and Ecosystems
Life, Health and Chemical Sciences
Supervisors in the Faculty of Science will consider applications for part-time study that fall broadly within their areas of expertise but it's unlikely that laboratory facilities can be made avilabile to part-time students. You should therefore not consider laboratory-based projects unless you already work in a laboratory that would allow facilities for your research, or unless you can make arrangements to use other laboratory facilities in your vicinity.
For general enquires please contact:
Professor Nigel Mason
Associate Dean Research, Enterprise and Scholarship
Faculty of Science
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
Phone +44 (0) 1908 659435
Fax +44 (0) 1908 652559
Email: science-research@open.ac.uk