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Film and Television
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.

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

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.

Professional Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism, Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing
The Professional Writing, Film, Media, New Media, Journalism, Creative Studies, Drama, Professional Writing course offered at Bangor University welcomes applications from well-qualified graduates who wish to engage in research for the degree of Practice-Led Research PhD/MPhil which combines a piece of creative practice such as media/performance work plus a dissertation/piece of critical work.

Film, Theatre and Television
The Department was one of the first in the country to offer practice-as-research PhDs. This type of Film, Theatre and Television doctorate at University of Reading allows you to refine your ideas and present your postgraduate research as both practice and thesis.

PhD in Theatre
Enhance your career prospects and gain advanced theoretical and technical knowledge with postgraduate study of the PHd in Theatre at Victoria University of Wellington.

Art and Creative Practices
The University of Brighton is a creative and intellectually vibrant focus for a PhD in Art and Creative Practices.

Doctor of Philosophy - Urban and Regional Planning
This Doctor of Philosophy - Urban and Regional Planning candidate at Curtin University prepares students to acquire a systematic and critical understanding of a complex field of learning and specialised research skills to advance learning and/or professional practice corresponding to AQF level 10 qualifications.

Music Performance Practice
Are you an accomplished performer looking to develop your work through postgraduate research? On this Music Performance Practice course from University of Birmingham you'll pursue a practice-based research project. Your project can be focused around contemporary genres, through experimental work, to historically-informed and other practice-led studies of western art music.

Screen Media (Film and TV)
Screen Media (Film and TV) delivered by Brunel University of London has established a substantial body of research in a range of topics, including numerous major contributions to the field.

Music
The Doctor of Philosophy in Music from University of Canterbury follows on from completion of an Honours or Masters degree and is in an approved field of supervised research.

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.

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.

Music
This Music 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.

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.

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.

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.

Architectural Engineering PhD
The Architecture - Architectural Engineering DLA/PhD programme from University of Pécs with has a main focus on heritage protection and energy design.

PhD in Performance
Further develop and refine your vocal or instrumental Performance skills to a professional level with the PhD in Performance at Victoria University of Wellington.

Visual Computing
Studying for a PhD in the area of Visual Computing at Cardiff University, will see you join the School as part of a successful team of researchers with a range of industrial partners and academic collaborators.