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Music and Sound at University of Gloucestershire - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Course summary

Research a topic of your choice or work on an extended creative project. Boost your professional practice and develop high-level skills and knowledge to progress your career. Benefit from an experienced team of research-active scholars and industry practitioners who can offer supervision across a range of topics. Staff specialisms include:

  • gender and ageing in popular music
  • music and screen media
  • the cultural history of popular music
  • music and literature
  • music and memory
  • music and philosophy
  • the political economy of music
  • community music
  • composition for film, TV, dance and theatre
  • spatial sound
  • ecomusicology.
Study style You’ll have the opportunity to choose between a research-based or practice-based project. For example, write a thesis of 80,000 words for the research-based PhD or, for the practice-based option, create a piece of content or stage a multi-media event and accompany it with a much-shorter written component. As a practice-based student, you’ll have access to our state-of-the-art studios and equipment. Students who haven’t already completed a relevant Master’s degree are normally required to complete two research-methods modules: Philosophy and Approaches to Research, and Methodologies and Methods. These sessions and their related assignments will help you lay the critical foundations for your project. This research contributes to the research priority area Being Human: Past, Present and Future and Creative Practice as Research. For more information and to apply for the Music and Media programme, please visit the subject page via www.glos.ac.uk/Research

Entry requirements

- MA by Research/MRes: you will need at least a 2.1 honours degree or equivalent in a relevant subject area. Option to upgrade to a PhD - PhD: a master’s degree or equivalent in a subject area relevant to the proposed research topic - We actively encourage applications from students who demonstrate appropriate research experience and achievement - EU and international students need IELTS 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and 5.5 in any other component) or equivalent

English language requirements

International students will need to produce evidence of an acceptable score on an approved English language test such as IELTS. We run pre-sessional English language courses to help you prepare for undergraduate or postgraduate study.

English Language requirements

http://www.glos.ac.uk/docs/download/International/english-Language-entry-requirements.pdf

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

EU £10000 Whole course
England £10000 Whole course
Northern Ireland £10000 Whole course
Scotland £10000 Whole course
Wales £10000 Whole course
International £20000 Whole course

Additional fee information

Please visit the subject page via www.glos.ac.uk/Research for full fees and costs information. The fee listed here does not include the continuation fee which is charged annually for years registered after the expected duration. The continuation fee is also charged at the point of thesis submission, for more details please see the tuition fee policy
Music and Sound at University of Gloucestershire - UCAS