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Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies
The PhD in Geography, Urban and Environmental Studies at Concordia University Montréal deepens your understanding of how humans interact with the world around them, examining the socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of human settlements as they evolve.
Music Performance
At University of Nottingham, through an agreed Music Performance programme of original research you will deepen critical engagement with, and understanding of, performance practice
Architecture (Science)
This Architecture (Science) PhD degree at University of Nottingham addresses the core of architecture including design as research, and research that supports and stimulates design.
Wind Conducting
The Wind Conducting program at Johns Hopkins University leading to the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) provides students with the highest level of professional training in the art of musical performance or the craft of musical composition.
Theatre and Performance Research
The PhD Program in Theatre and Performance Research at Florida State University trains artist-scholars who create theoretically engaged work at the intersections of theatre and performance research and practice.
Music
The Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) at Western University - Canada is a doctoral degree in Music Performance with areas of concentration in voice, piano (solo and collaborative), violin, viola, cello, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, saxophone, trombone, and choral conducting.
Design
The Professional Doctorate in Design (DDes) at the University of Hertfordshire is aimed at candidates who currently work in a design discipline, and who wish to engage in research that relates to their professional role.
Ethnomusicology
The PhD in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland is designed to train individuals who envisage a career in scholarship, either as professors in the academy or as cultural animators of various types in the public sector.
Arts Management and Cultural Policy
The Arts Management and Cultural Policy programme at Queen's University Belfast examines cultural policy, cultural production, participation, audience development, equality, diversity, international exchange, cultural economy, governance, sustainability, and the influence of new technologies on cultural sectors.
Complexity and Design
Complexity and Design as a research theme at The Open University UK Design Group encompasses a broad spectrum of investigations and interpretations.
Architecture
The Architecture programme at Queen's University Belfast addresses architecture and urbanism within an increasingly globalised world, examining sustainability, climate change, identity, heritage, craft and form, while supporting research into cultural, historic and technological contexts.
Architecture and Built Environment
Explore various political, social and contemporary theories and issues in Architecture and Built Environment through academically-supervised research at Deakin University.
Drama
The Department of Drama at University of Alberta offers graduate programs leading to the degree of PhD in Performance Studies, Master of Fine Arts degrees in Theatre Design, Directing, Theatre Voice Pedagogy, and Theatre Practice, and Master of Arts in Drama degree.
Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
The department of Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is characterised by its staff's interdisciplinary and global approach to research and teaching on the present and the past.
Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts
Doctoral studies in Artistic Practice in Visual, Applied and Spatial Arts at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design are based upon the foundation of artistic practice established in Konstfack’s main fields of study: fine art, craft, design and visual communication.
Music
Graduates from all areas of the Music program at the University of Toronto occupy leading positions in music departments across Canada and around the world.
Landscape Architecture
The Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield has an outstanding research record, focusing on the interactions between society, culture, nature and practice. Join our PhD students to contribute to a thriving, interdisciplinary research environment.
Music and Gender
The Open University UK academics investigate a range of topics related to Music and Gender, embracing classical music, popular music and music technology.
Saxophone
Discover a new level of musical excellence with the doctoral degree in Saxophone at Indiana University Bloomington.
Art History
Advanced study of visual arts spanning periods, cultures, and geographies. The Art History Ph.D. program at Pennsylvania State University can deepen your expertise and advance your Art History career.