Teaching is carried out by three specialist Schools integrated within a single Faculty.

This structure encourages interaction between disciplines, including shared responsibility for some programmes, while maintaining a coherent approach to our overall teaching programme.

Our 180 full-time academic staff are highly qualified and bring a wide range of industry experience to their roles.

All academic staff are encouraged to maintain personal industry links through a proactive development programme.

Over 300 Adjunct Faculty (mostly off-campus) with relevant expertise also contribute to the development and delivery of programmes.

Find out more about each of our Schools and meet some of the academic staff.

Research

At Open Polytechnic we continue to develop an applied research culture designed to support degree programmes and raise the professional capability of academic staff.

We also use our distinctive capability in open and distance learning to lead funded research projects in E-learning and collaborative resource development.

Learn more.