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59 PhD programmes in Music in Europe

Music
Music at University of Hull has a long-standing history of high quality research. Our internationally excellent and world-leading research in popular music, jazz studies, sonic arts, and music psychology was recognised by the Research Excellence Framework of 2014.

Music
This Music PhD programme from the University of Huddersfield allows you to explore and pursue a research project built around a substantial piece of work, which has to show evidence of original contribution to knowledge.

Music
The School of Music doctorate offered at Cardiff University is a creative and comprehensive centre of excellent musical research, composition and performance.

Music, Media and Performance
The Department of Music, Media and Performance at the University of Chester offers research students the opportunity to work alongside well-practiced and experienced researchers.

Composition
This Composition programme from Cardiff University, offers an opportunity to study with leading composers with internationally regarded expertise and experience in contemporary music composition.

Music
This Music programme from Maynooth University offers a doctoral-level programme in Music for students who wish to engage in high-quality research in selected areas of the discipline.

Audio Engineering
On the Audio Engineering programme at the University of Surrey the primary goal is simply this: to make sound better. Our research combines elements of acoustics, digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, psychology, sound synthesis, software engineering, statistical analysis and user-interface design, with an understanding of the aesthetics of sound and music

Music
Within this Music course from the University of West London you will have a supervisory team made up of a Director of Studies with expertise in your chosen field, a further supervisor and, where appropriate, an additional adviser.

The Language of Visual Music
The language of visual music: An historical re-evaluation of the visual music canon in search of the origins of correlations between sound and vision. Join The Language of Visual Music programme at the University of Dundee.

Music
The Music programme at the University of Surrey is ranked second in the UK by the Guardian University Guide. Academic members of staff are well known internationally for their exceptionally strong research profiles.

Music and Sound
This Music and Sound degree from University of Gloucestershire offers you the opportunity to engage in an extended piece of academic research, either through creative practice in the production of an original body of work, or through the production of a written thesis.

Music
For over 60 years, the Music PhD programme from University of Southampton has been a home for disciplinary innovation in composition, performance and all areas of music studies.

Music
This Music PhD programme from Newcastle University enables you to pursue advanced research in the areas of classical, popular, world, contemporary, early, folk and traditional music through a range of approaches. These include practice-based research, and musicological and theoretical inquiry.

How is Visual Music Evolving
This How is Visual Music Evolving project aims to investigate what the legacy of Visual Music is in terms of the current field of practitioners that are involved in some technologically enhanced visual/music making process. Join the How is Visual Music Evolving programme from the University of Dundee.

Music
As a research programme, the course does not have a modular outline. Each student receives close supervision on an individual and original project, which has the potential to make a new and substantial contribution to the field. The Music programme is offered at Bangor University.

Music
The Music programme from SOAS University of London will help you pursue research on a wide range of subjects, mainly but not exclusively focused on the music of Asia and Africa.
Music Research
We offer a phd degree in Music Research at the King's College London. The department has an international reputation for music research in history, theory, anthropology/ethnography, composition, and creative practice.
Music Therapy
Our Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research at Anglia Ruskin University is an international centre for research into music therapy, putting you at the heart of new music therapy research worldwide. Our large community of PhD students, and links to seven other universities across the world, will make you part of a team that leads on music therapy research.
Music
The University of Sheffield has a global reputation for our world-leading research in composition, ethnomusicology, musicology, music technology, performance and psychology of music. Join our inspirational research community as a Music PhD student and start making a difference.
Music
Music research at Keele University has two main themes: Music Technology and Musicology. The Music Technology research group is one of the largest teams in UK Higher Education focusing on the creative aspects of Music Technology.