Music PhD

University of Southampton

For over 60 years, the University of Southampton Department of Music has been a home for disciplinary innovation in composition, performance and all areas of music studies.You will be supported by a research community of around 30 postgraduate research students. Your research will be guided by primary supervisor and a team of co-supervisors, possibly drawn from across the University. You will be inspired and challenged in regular residencies, workshops and seminars by distinguished music scholars, performers and composers throughout the year. You will have ample opportunity to gain real-world experience, for example by participating the activities of the Centre for Music Education and Social Justice and the AHRC Hub for Public Engagement with Music Research .You will benefit from our network of international partners, from across Europe and around the world.Our performers and composers supervise practice-led research around a diverse range of musical genres from historically informed performance (taking advantage, for example, of our nationally important collection of historical keyboard instruments) to cutting-edge musical experiments on the frontiers of human creative interaction with machines.Graduates of our PhD programme go on to careers at universities in the UK and abroad. In the UK and Ireland they teach at Bristol, Durham, Southampton and Glasgow Universities, the National University of Ireland (Maynooth) and the Royal Northern College of Music, to name just a few. Others teach students of all ages and perform around the world. Some take up leading roles outside of academia. Whatever they do, they make use of the world-leading research training they received at Southampton.Main areas of researchWe welcome PhD proposals that intersect with our current research strengths, which include:community musiccompositioncreative music production/technology and sound artcultural economicsethnomusicology/social anthropology of musicgender/queer musicology and theoryGLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums)imperial and global music historymusic, AI and sustainabilitymusic education and social justicemusic theory and analysisopera studiesperformance (including early music/historical performance)