327 PhD programmes in Arts, Design & Architecture in United Kingdom

At Queen Mary University of London, we invite applications from highly motivated students who wish to apply to our new PhD Programme in Visual Cultures. 

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.

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This Architecture and the Built Environment programme at 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.

As part of our MPhil/PhD Art and Design you will learn how to conduct rigorous and significant research (both theoretical and applied) around Design and Art-related disciplines. The Art and Design programme is offered at University of Greenwich.

We're proud to offer a supportive and creative environment in which to carry out your work, and we encourage interdisciplinary engagement with other areas of research. We offer a Art, Design, Media and Fashion degree at the University of Southampton. 

Undertaking the Art and Design degree at University of Huddersfield means joining a creative, collaborative research community.

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.  

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.

The Design (Integrated) degree at Brunel University of London has a well-established record of research excellence, with multidisciplinary, product-related design research grounded on strong engineering design traditions.  

At the University of Reading, they offer their graduate students a PhD programme degree in Architecture.

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. 

This Film Practice research programme from Newcastle University provides you with a unique opportunity to develop your film as a practice-led research project.

The Department of Film and Television offers supervisory expertise in a wide range of subject areas, including classical Hollywood cinema, British cinema, television drama, comedy, animation and documentary. University of Bristol offers the Film and Television programme. 

The Architecture from University of Dundee academics join the town and regional planning academics in sharing an ethos based upon Geddesian dialogues between theory and practice, localism and the international, the synoptic view and specialism.

Enhance your film-making skills on the practice-based Film Studies with Audio-Visual programme from University of Birmingham. Film and edit your own practical output (a documentary, feature or portfolio of video work) to demonstrate your research.

Research in the area of architecture is carried out by specialist centres. Architecture is offered at London South Bank University.

The Film programme is offered by the University of Southampton links national and global identities in cinema and television. We study historical approaches to cinema industries and audiences, along with the theory behind audio-visual aesthetics and their relationship with audiences.

Research in the Film Studies programme of the Queen Mary University of London is organised into four main areas, Film Cultures, Film Philosophy, Film Practice, and Decolonizing Film with the Centre for Film and Ethics as the main research centre.

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. 

The Department of History of Art is a thriving and collegial centre for the study of art, visual culture and theory. Staff specialisms range from medieval altarpieces to Soviet public monuments, from pre-Renaissance sculpture to contemporary art of the diaspora.  University of Bristol offers the History of Art programme.