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Music
The School of Music doctorate offered at Cardiff University is a creative and comprehensive centre of excellent musical research, composition and performance.

Architecture, Construction and Environment
This Architecture, Construction and Environment programme from University of Gloucestershire offers you the opportunity to explore innovative practice as research through the production of an original body of work.

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.

Civil Engineering
The Civil Engineering course from Kaunas University of Technology is a double degree programme with the University of Bologna, Italy.

Architecture, Planning and Landscape
The Architecture, Planning, and Landscape PhD programme from Newcastle University proposals in any topic related to architecture, planning, or landscape.

Art
Throughout this Art PhD course from University of East Anglia postgraduate researchers have opportunities to work at the heart of active research teams, challenging boundaries and making real advances. We are a top tier, research-led university and are committed to making a substantial impact on the global challenges facing society.

Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance
Graduate with the skills you need to be able to perform, compose or teach at a high professional level with this Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance program from Victoria University of Wellington.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

History of Art
The History of Art PhD programme from University of York welcomes students from all backgrounds, with a great range of intellectual interests.

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.

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.

Performing Arts and Production
This Performing Arts and Production degree from University of Gloucestershire offers a stimulating and supportive intellectual environment, consisting of a diverse culture of interdisciplinary postgraduate research.

Audio Engineering
On the Audio Engineering programme at the University of Surrey the primary goal is simply this: to make sound better. Our research combines elements of acoustics, digital signal processing, psychoacoustics, psychology, sound synthesis, software engineering, statistical analysis and user-interface design, with an understanding of the aesthetics of sound and music

PhD in Architecture History and Theory
Explore architecture from a cultural and historical perspective with this PhD in Architecture History and Theory offered at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Music
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.

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.