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Creative Arts and Media
The Creative Arts and Media from Sunway University provides students with an opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research and contribute new understandings and insights to disciplines aligned with the School of Arts.

Art and Design
This Art and Design 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.

PhD in Landscape Architecture
PhD in Landscape Architecture at Victoria University of Wellington is about exploring and envisaging better design solutions for outdoor spaces. It merges design, art, culture, nature, and science to create engaging and functional spaces.

PhD in Interior Architecture
Create indoor spaces that inspire. Learn how colour, materials, light, shape, and form can influence a person's mood or provoke a particular response with the PhD in Interior Architecture degree offered at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Creative Arts
The Doctor of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong is for students with a high level of professional experience in creative practice who wish to extend their art form within a scholarly context.

Theatre
The Theatre research programme delivered by Brunel University of London benefits from a dedicated performance centre, sitting at the heart of our creative community and housing a fully equipped main theatre and studio theatre as well as rehearsal and recording studios.

PhD in Design
A PhD in Design from Victoria University of Wellington is an advanced research qualification carried out under academic supervision and is the highest degree offered by the Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation.

Film
As a Film course from Lancaster University student you will normally be supervised by a team of two supervisors who will ensure that you receive focused critical feedback and encouragement throughout the programme.

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.

Design Innovation
The Design Innovation programme from Maynooth University is the highest degree offered by the Department of Design Innovation. The structured PhD programme offers a framework which facilitates independent research, whilst providing milestones for measuring progress.

Doctor of Philosophy - Architecture and Interior Architecture
As a doctoral research degree in Doctor of Philosophy - Architecture and Interior Architecture candidate at Curtin University, you will uncover new knowledge either by the discovery of new facts, the formulation of theories or the innovative reinterpretation of known data and established ideas.

Media
During the Media course from the University of West London you will benefit from expert supervision by established researchers and practitioners, and join a growing community of outstanding doctoral researchers in the field of media.

Music
The Music programme at the University of Surrey brings together a broad range of interconnected subject areas, focused in our internationally acclaimed research centres, housed in state-of-the-art facilities.

Film Studies
University of Surrey has a diverse mix of subject specialities means that they host a vibrant and imaginative community with plenty of opportunity for intellectual exchange. We have research-active staff in English literature, creative writing, Film studies, translation studies, theoretical and applied linguistics, and literary and cultural studies

Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media by Creative Practice
This Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media by Creative Practice PhD programme from University of York invites proposals in the fields of Playwriting, Acting for Theatre, Directing for Theatre, Film and Television, Sound Design and Interactive Media.

PhD in Architecture and Design
Gain the skills and knowledge required in the architecture profession, including the ability to visualise spatial subjects in three dimensions with the Architecture and Design degree at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies
Through this Museum, Gallery and Heritage Studies PhD programme from Newcastle University you'll join a thriving, high-profile interdisciplinary research community of postgraduate research students and experienced academic researchers who are key figures in their fields.

Drama and Theatre Studies Practice-Based
Explore creative, practice-based research with the Drama and Theatre Studies Practice-Based programme from University of Birmingham. Supported by the academic experts, your project might include new performance techniques, examine a particular aspect of theatre practice or involve a specific community of participants

Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
The Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media PhD programme from University of York department welcomes proposals on a wide variety of research topics relating to Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media.

Doctor of Philosophy - Design
As a doctoral research degree in Doctor of Philosophy - Design candidate at Curtin University, you will uncover new knowledge either by the discovery of new facts, the formulation of theories or the innovative reinterpretation of known data and established ideas.