48 PhD programmes in Music in England, United Kingdom

Musical Acoustics research at The Open University UK is carried out by PhD students working individually or in collaboration with the Group’s other PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and academic staff.

The Computer Music course at University of Plymouth will immerse you in a world of cutting-edge research under the umbrella of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research.

At the University of Sussex, we pride ourselves on our strengths in critical and theoretical thinking about Music.

Are you interested in researching and interrogating the languages and performance styles of popular music? this Popular Music Practice programme is offered at the University of Sussex.

A Conservatoire PhD at Birmingham City University will help you create opportunities to develop research skills that support performance, composition or a scholarly career. 

The Department is at the forefront of current research and postgraduate teaching across music styles and repertoires from a wide variety of critical perspectives. We offer a Music degree at the University of Liverpool.

The Doctor of Music programme from Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a specialist award in composition or musical performance. 

The principal educational aim of the Music at University of Cambridge is to assist each student in acquiring the research techniques, skills and knowledge that will enable them to make an original and significant contribution to scholarship, research or artistic practice in the discipline that is the focus of each individual's thesis.