Overview
In a UNESCO City of Music with a wealth of musical institutions, organizations, festivals and events, our PhD students at University of Liverpool also have an opportunity to both study and participate through partnership with locally based cultural and creative industries.
Features
- From 19th Century classical music to game music our staff and students undertake cutting edge, internationally recognised research.
- We are home to the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), the first academic centre created specifically to study popular music, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology (ICCaT), a research institute dedicated to exploring how music composition and sonic art forms intersect with technology, performance and perception.
Programme Structure
Curriculum:
- Music industries
- Music analysis – (with a particular emphasis on aesthetics, psychoanalysis, music and emotion, popular music)
- Music and the moving image (film, television, music in gaming and music video)
- Critical theoretical approaches (including Gender studies, race and ethnicity and diaspora)
- Heritage and history
- Non-Western musics
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
- Part-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
Apply all year round.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Music View 52 other PhDs in Music in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
English requirements
Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- Research degrees (MPhil, PhD) may be taken either full-time (one year for MPhil, three years for PhD) or part-time (two and six years, respectively). The normal entrance requirement is an undergraduate degree of at least 2:1 (upper second) standard. We would normally consider a taught Masters level qualification to be an important precursor to research.
- All applicants for a research degree should send an outline of their proposed topic and a sample of their written academic work with their application. In general, we would expect applications for September entry to be received by 15 May, and wherever possible, we encourage students to begin studies in September.
- Applicants with an undergraduate degree in Music or other relevant subjects (including joint-honours degrees with another subject) are encouraged to apply. The normal expectation is at least a 2:1.
Tuition Fee
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International
23400 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 23400 GBP per year during 24 months. -
National
4786 GBP/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 4786 GBP per year during 24 months.
Living costs for Liverpool
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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