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Architecture and Built Environment
The Architecture and Built Environment from University of Brighton has brought innovation and impact through research .

Architecture
The Architecture course from Lancaster University offers a unique opportunity to draw from a range of topics within Architecture and the wider build environment.

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.

Media and Communications
Research in Media and Communications at the University of Brighton critically analyses the role of media institutions, as well as the changing landscape of media industries and cultural production.

Film Studies with Audio-Visual
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.

PhD in Urban and Regional Planning
Learn how to shape and improve cities, towns, and regions. Develop the expertise to make our urban and rural environments more functional, sustainable, and appealing with the PhD in Urban and Regional Planning degree at the Victoria University of Wellington.

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

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.

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.

Photography
This Photography degree from University of Gloucestershire offers you the opportunity to explore innovative practice as research through the production of an original body of work.

Drama and Theatre Studies
Whether you’re driven by creative and practical research, or you want to specialise in a theatrical approach to theatre and performance, you'll research with renowned academics and practitioners at one of the UK's leading Drama and Theatre Arts departments. The Drama and Theatre Studies programme at University of Birmingham.

History of Art
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.

Fine Art
The Fine Art PhD programme from Newcastle University internationally significant research profile of our staff and our excellent facilities provide a stimulating environment for practical or theoretical research.

Musicology
Want to further your research on how music has developed over time and in different cultures across the world? Pursue the Musicology degree at the University of Birmingham where you'll be supervised by world leading academics with specialist knowledge in your research area.

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.

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.

Practice in Curating
In partnership with Zurich University of the Arts, at the University of Reading they have developed a practice-based doctoral programme, the PhD in Practice in Curating.

Architecture and the Built Environment
A 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.

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.

Film Studies
Join an internationally recognised group of Film Studies and Television scholars and contribute original research to this dynamic field with the Film Studies programme at University of Birmingham.