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History of Art and Archaeology
Undertaking this History of Art and Archaeology programme from SOAS University of London is an intense and personally rewarding experience.

Architecture
This Architecture programme at Eastern Mediterranean University offers a learning environment with a contemporary approach to education for young people of diverse cultural backgrounds.

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

Drama
Research students in Drama study with some of the United Kingdom’s leading performance researchers. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework, the Drama programme of the Queen Mary University of London is part of the highest-rated Drama department in the United Kingdom.

Design Innovation
By undertaking the Design Innovation programme from Loughborough University, you will have the opportunity to work with top researchers and industry leaders and gain first-hand experience of real-life problem-solving.

Designing Inclusive Participatory Mapping Tools - A User-Centred Design Approach for Capturing Diverse Urban Experiences
This Designing Inclusive Participatory Mapping Tools - A User-Centred Design Approach for Capturing Diverse Urban Experiences course at Aston University will provide all the support and facilities you will need to develop into a leading researcher in your chosen field.

Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
The Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering programme offered from Loughborough University is home to a thriving community of over 60 academic staff, 40 technical and clerical support staff and over 240 active researchers that include fellows, associates, assistants, engineers and doctoral students.

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.

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.

Digital Media Arts
In the vibrant and expanding Digital Media Arts programme of the University of Surrey, we embrace subjects that include: film, animation, visual effects, computational arts, video games, immersive media, digital acting, mediatised theatre, motion graphics, movement interfaces, performance capture, machine vision and interactive cinema.

Art History and Theory
Studying the Art History and Theory programme at University of Canterbury helps you understand theories of art, material culture and aesthetics, and their relevance in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Architecture
The PhD in Architecture programme from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), is a strategic research collaboration between XJTLU and the University of Liverpool. Upon successful completion of your programme, you will receive a University of Liverpool-issued degree, which is recognised by China’s Ministry of Education.

PhD in Composition Arts
Develop your skills in notated composition, film scoring, music technology or sonic arts to a professional level with a PhD in Composition Arts postgraduate study from Victoria University of Wellington.

Cinema Studies
The Cinema Studies programme at University of Canterbury is offered within the Department of English. Our Honours courses are coded as English courses, but the Cinema Studies Honours year focuses on film topics and has specific prerequisites.

Film, Screen and Popular Culture
The PhD in Film, Screen and Popular Culture from University of Brighton has a research culture in film and screen studies that has fostered national archives and given critical insight across practice, theory and history.

Film Studies
The Film Studies programme from SOAS University of London invites applications for disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in film and screen studies with particular reference to Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East.

Film
Within this Film MPhil, PhD programme from Newcastle University you'll form a crucial part of our research culture. Our thriving community of postgraduate students work across schools and disciplines. Research ranges from modern languages to English literature, English language, linguistics and arts and cultures.

Design
This Design course from the University of West London supports advanced research into visual, spatial, multi-sensory and digital design practices, with a particular focus on how design communicates meaning, identity and social change.

Architecture
At the University of Reading, we offer our graduate students a phd programme degree in Architecture.

Fine Art and Design
Investigate a research topic of your choice during a period of supervised study and make an original contribution to knowledge in Fine Art and Design at Sheffield Hallam University.