- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Exeter
- Keele
- Leeds
- London South Bank
- Oxford
- Sheffield
- Southampton www.southampton.ac.uk/camresearchgroup
- UCL
- Ulster
- Westminster https://www.westminster.ac.uk/eastmedicine
- York
This is not a comprehensive list and many more have hosted at least one postgraduate acupuncture student at some point in the last 20 years.
Of the independent UK acupuncture teaching institutions only the Northern College of Acupuncture currently has a postgraduate acupuncture degree course.
The Research Council for Complementary Medicine mapped all UK CAM PhDs a few years ago, with their locations and research subjects: www.rccm.org.uk/map/node. You may find more details of acupuncture research at universities by looking on their individual websites.
The supervision needs of acupuncture practitioner-researchers are mainly for research expertise rather than for acupuncture expertise, so it may be more useful to team up with a knowledgeable researcher that you feel you can get on well with, whether or not their university has a CAM interest. If your interest is in making a career in research then the best step may be to do a generic health sciences research Masters degree in a well-regarded department. This would be a good springboard towards getting a funded doctoral studentship (e.g. http://www.phc.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil-and-msc-by-research/studentships)
The BAcC stipulate that applicants for their research funding must have university affiliation. However, it is still possible to do worthwhile practice-based research on your own, without external funding or supervision. If being an acupuncture practitioner is your main passion then small-scale projects focused on areas of interest in the clinic can be pursued without getting into bed with a university.