As a complement to its education of students, CMRS also provides opportunities for faculty members to come to Oxford to conduct research, explore its bibliographical, archival and museum resources, and attend conferences.

Each year from 2012, CMRS will make available two primary routes for faculty to spend time in Oxford for any of these reasons, according to their specific interests and requirements: Faculty Development Conferences, and Research Fellowships.

In 2012 there will also be an Interactive Symposium on Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century, co-chaired by Professor Emeritus James J. Murphy of the University of California, Davis, and Dr Nicholas Crowe of CMRS.

The regular presence of visiting faculty at CMRS, and the research and publications which they produce while in residence, are valued as a significant contribution to the growing status of CMRS as a research centre, and are intended to generate a host of mutual advantages and benefits.