This paper outlines a long-term flexible education strategy for integrating research and
teaching at a research-intensive UK university. The “Connected Curriculum” is part of a recently
launched twenty-year vision and a wholesale commitment to changing programmes of study. Its goal
is to enable all students to participate in research and enquiry throughout their education. In addition,
it aims to allow students to make connections both vertically across a programme’s year groups and
horizontally across disciplinary divides, as well as beyond the university setting. The paper begins by
outlining the Connected Curriculum, including its framework of six dimensions of connectivity. Then
it moves to look specifically at research-based education in practice. In doing so it pulls together a
number of relevant curricula examples from built environment disciplines and further afield, which
have clear implications for architectural education. Through illustrating relevant international and
interdisciplinary praxis, in the context of an internationally-recognized strategic approach, the aim of
the paper is to inspire curricula enhancement relevant to diverse architecture programmes
