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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Stag Hill
Full Time
APR-25
4 years
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Stag Hill
Full Time
APR-25
4 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Stag Hill
Full Time
JAN
4 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Stag Hill
Part Time
JAN
8 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Stag Hill
Part Time
APR-25
8 years
Select a an exam type
Why choose this programme
The Department of Music and Media is a respected authority in musical research and sound technology. Thanks to our renowned expertise in musicology, performance, and composition, and the prestige of the?Institute of Sound Recording, we can count many household names in entertainment, audio technology and the recording industry among our partners, collaborators, and alumni.
Research in music brings together a broad range of interconnected subject areas, focussed in our internationally acclaimed research centres housed in state-of-the-art facilities:
Digital World Research Centre
Institute of Austrian and German Music Research
Institute of Sound Recording
International Guitar Research Centre.
The Department is highly collegiate, with a close-knit and supportive academic environment. Academic members of staff are well known internationally for their exceptionally strong research profiles.
We belong to TECHNE, an?Arts and Humanities Research Council?(AHRC)-funded doctoral training partnership, which provides access to comprehensive academic and professional training programmes, as well as the possibility of funding for your studies.
What you will study
Our research degrees prepare you for success at each stage of your PhD project development. The structure of our Music PhD is designed to provide intensive graduate preparation for a future career and is suitable for either part-time or full-time candidates.
As a postgraduate researcher within our Department, you will conduct a research project within one of our areas of research strengths. Completion of the programme entails submission of a thesis, the submission of practice if undertaking a practice-based PhD, and an oral viva with external examiners.
PhD students on all programmes in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences can expect three levels of research training: university-level, department-level and subject-specific.
University-level training is provided by the Postgraduate Skills Development Programme and the University Library including a PhD induction, workshops on writing skills and preparation for the confirmation and viva. There is also an annual student-led University postgraduate conference.
Applicants are expected to hold a good honours degree and usually an MA in a relevant arts subject or appropriate professional experience.
Students living in
Domestic
£4,712 per year
Students from Domestic
The mentioned fee is for JUL 2024
£22,500 per year
Students from EU
JUL 2024 - £18,600; OCT, JAN & APR 2024 - £22,500
£22,500 per year
Students from International
JUL 2024 - £18,600; OCT, JAN & APR 2024 - £22,500
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