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How is Visual Music Evolving
This How is Visual Music Evolving project aims to investigate what the legacy of Visual Music is in terms of the current field of practitioners that are involved in some technologically enhanced visual/music making process. Join the How is Visual Music Evolving programme from the University of Dundee.

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

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.

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.

Arts and Education
Ready to discover and create new knowledge? The Doctor of Philosophy (Arts and Education) at Charles Sturt University is the platform to do just that.

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.

Music
As a research programme, the course does not have a modular outline. Each student receives close supervision on an individual and original project, which has the potential to make a new and substantial contribution to the field. The Music programme is offered at Bangor University.

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.

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.

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

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.

Fashion and Textiles
This Fashion and Textiles PhD programme from the University of Huddersfieldallows 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.

Media and Creative Industries
The Institute for Media and Creative Industries from Loughborough University is an innovative hub that merges the cutting-edge fields of design innovation and creative technologies.

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.

Art and Design
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) seeks to foster innovation within creative practice, employ creative practice as a methodology to enhance other disciplines or domains, and contribute towards an explicit and transparent knowledge base that furthers our disciplines in the future. This Art and Design programme is offered at the University of Dundee.

Architecture
The Architecture research programme at Royal College of Art focuses on practice-led and interdisciplinary research with tangible public and social impact.

PhD in Film
Enhance your degree with a postgraduate qualification and gain advanced knowledge and skills in PhD in Film at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Film Studies
Join our community of researchers and explore a range of topics across film, television and cinema in the Film Studies programme from University of Southampton.

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.

PhD in Art History
Examine the history of art in detail, contribute to the creative capital of Aotearoa, participate in developing new histories of art relevant to the 21st century, and gain a deeper understanding of your area of interest with this PhD in Art History degree offered at the Victoria University of Wellington.