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

The Music programme offered by Queen's University Belfast develops advanced expertise in sound, music, performance, and creative practice, preparing researchers to investigate musical cultures, technologies, and artistic processes through scholarly, practice-based, or interdisciplinary approaches.

The School of Arts at the University of Westminster is home to the Centre for Research and Education in Art and Media (CREAM), one of the most successful and highly rated Arts research centres in the UK. The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.

The School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield is renowned for the quality of its PhD degrees. It has a vibrant research environment where PhD students can enjoy strong links to larger research groups.

Undertaking PhD in Drama and Performance from University of Essex study gives you the opportunity to engage with an area of drama, theatre, or performance in depth and at an advanced level. East 15 Acting School, with its growing research profile and internationally recognised research quality is an obvious home for such research.

The PhD research in Design at the University of Brighton has held an international reputation for design research and design studies over many decades, with innovative approaches and global success recognised across, for example, sustainable design, product design, textile design and graphic design.

University of Buckingham offer a phd degree in History of Art. Each student is allocated two supervisors. 

The Arts, Memory and Communities programme offered by Coventry University investigates the relationships between arts, culture, memory, heritage, identity, and community engagement through interdisciplinary and practice-based research.

While studying for an MPhil or PhD in Drama at University of Lincoln, students have the chance to undertake independent research in an area of their choice, supervised and supported by a team of academics. A range of training opportunities enables the development of key research skills.

In achieving both artistic ambition and academic astuteness, prospective postgraduate theatre research students will join a thriving research environment. We offer a Theatre degree at University of Chichester.

A wealth of community heritage assets are hidden; they belong to individuals, to families, tucked away in attics or cupboards and their wider cultural value is often not fully appreciated. We offer a A Picture is Worth 1000 - Words, Curation Storytelling Using Community Film and Photographic Archives degree at Robert Gordon University.

This Yugoslavism in Contemporary Art PhD degree at Robert Gordon University call seeks an art/cultural historian or practising artist or curator, to conduct research into an aspect or aspects, of the persistence of the Yugoslav past in present post-Yugoslav visual culture.

Professional Doctorate in Performing Arts at University of East London is intended for practitioners across a range of performance-based disciplines who wish to make their practice the basis for doctoral study; indicatively theatre directing, acting, dance, music or technical practice such as sound and lighting.

The Film Studies and Media Studies programme offered by Anglia Ruskin University explores film, media, and popular culture through advanced research into cinema, television, digital media, spectatorship, cultural production, and contemporary media practices.

The Art History discipline at The Open University UK has a strong specialisation in Early Modern Art and Visual Culture that extends from Byzantine art to Northern Europe and the Italian Renaissance.

Film Studies at University of Hull is a dynamic new teaching and research unit, which offers PhD research degrees in a range of fields, including television, American cinema, animation, horror and adaptation studies.

Across Scotland increasing numbers of these organisations are growing new forests and innovating sustainable business models to mobilise natural resources in pursuit of social and ecological benefits balanced with financial sustainability. We offer this phd project in Designs on Net-zero - Exploring Design Thinking and Innovation in Nature-based SMEs at the Robert Gordon University.

As a Film Studies student at the University of St Andrews, you will explore a range of films and other screen media - mainstream and peripheral - from around the world, examining the contexts in which they are made, seen and used. 

The Digital Art and Technology course at University of Plymouth involves creating new experiences through the design and construction of networked, sensing and intelligent ‘things’ and software. Digital Practice is central to exploring the significance that data, its harvesting, processing and manifestation, can play in contemporary culture.

The Doctor of Music programme from Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a specialist award in composition or musical performance. 

The principal educational aim of the Music at University of Cambridge is to assist each student in acquiring the research techniques, skills and knowledge that will enable them to make an original and significant contribution to scholarship, research or artistic practice in the discipline that is the focus of each individual's thesis.