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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.

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.

Architecture
Research in the area of architecture is carried out by specialist centres. Architecture is offered at London South Bank University.

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.

Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
The Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media PhD programme from University of York department welcomes proposals on a wide variety of research topics relating to Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media.

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

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 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.

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

Theatre
The Theatre programme at the University of Surrey will provide you with a supportive and collegiate research experience within our conservatoire, the Guildford School of Acting (GSA).

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.

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.