PhDs in Music

PhD in DMA in String Instruments

While preserving the best of traditional education in music, the School seeks to prepare students for the changing realities of the modern world through engagement with diverse musical traditions, community outreach, and new technologies that can be used creatively to further the art of music. The School promotes the interdependence of performance and scholarship, innovative relationships between music and other disciplines within and outside the arts, and a wider appreciation throughout society of music and its significance.

PhD in Musicology (Thesis)

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for a career in higher education and writing about music.

PhD in Music

Newcastle University

PhD supervision is available in the following areas: Modernist and postmodernist music and theory, especially since World War II; music and gender; Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music; music and philosophy; music and politics; gender and sexuality; psychoanalysis; popular music; analysis and theory; music and culture, Hindustani classical music; late baroque music, especially opera; conducting; Ethnomusicology; the African diaspora; salsa; jazz; cultural memory; performance; Improvisation; studio-based composition; hip hop, funk, jazz and counterculture; Composition; twentieth-century music; Latin American music; Twentieth-century music; music analysis; music and philosophy; Early modern English secular song; print culture; gender; historiography and critical theory; Composition; ethnomusicology; cultural history and theory of technology; psychoanalysis; Music and empathy; children’s singing pedagogy; composing with children; music in children’s school transitions; music education; and much more.

PhD in Composition

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for a career in professional music composition.

PhD in Performance

Cardiff University

This programme offers knowledge and expertise for to pursue further research, teaching, and professional performance.

PhD in Music, Theatre and Performance, Music Therapy, Dramatherapy

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

We offer PhD research degrees in a range of topics encompassing international-level scholarship across a broad spectrum of topics, including creative music technology, music therapy, composition, musicology, dramatherapy and drama and theatre studies (including contemporary theatre practice & critical theory, performance and interdisciplinary arts practice).

PhD in School of Arts PhD Programmes

Brunel University

The School of Arts offers postgraduate research in a diverse range of areas with specialists available to supervise study in the fields of Film and TV Studies, English , Contemporary Drama and Performance Studies and Music.

PhD in Music (PhD)

University of Bristol

Research leading to the PhD, MPhil, MLitt or MMus in the Department of Music may be conducted either in Musicology (including historical musicology and reception studies) or Composition (acoustic or electro-acoustic).

PhD in Fine Art

Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus

In Cambridge School of Art there exists a vibrant and growing community of researchers at PhD level. In the area of fine art the topics for these PhD research degrees are linked to staff expertise together with student interests, and reflect the increasing potential of practice-based PhD studies.

PhD in Research (Musicology)

University of Birmingham

Our departmental staff include composers, performers and writers on music. The Centre for Composition and Associated Studies (COMPASS), founded in 2002, gives a particular focus to activities in the field of composition and draws together the areas of expertise covered by three staff composers of international standing.

PhD in Music Research

Kings College London

The department has a long-established international reputation for research in music history and musical analysis, covering music from the Middle Ages to the present day. We are particularly strong in opera studies, performance studies, music theory, historiography, 18th- and 19th-century music, the early 20th-century (including jazz) and composition. A new area of research being opened up by staff at King's is the study of music on record, especially historical recordings and their implications for performance.

PhD in PhD/MPhill Music

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Doctoral studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama focus specifically on research relating to performance or composition.