  We show that silting modules are closely related with localisations of rings.
More precisely, every partial silting module gives rise to a localisation at a
set of maps between countably generated projective modules and, conversely,
every universal localisation, in the sense of Cohn and Schofield, arises in
this way. To establish these results, we further explore the finite-type
classification of tilting classes and we use the morphism category to translate
silting modules into tilting objects. In particular, we prove that silting
modules are of finite type.
