Course summary
A PhD is the highest academic award for which a student can be registered. This programme 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. Completing a PhD can give you a great sense of personal achievement and help you develop a high level of transferable skills which will be useful in your subsequent career, as well as contributing to the development of knowledge in your chosen field. Our research degrees are available as full-time, part-time and some are offered distance learning. You are expected to work to an approved programme of work including appropriate programmes of postgraduate study (which may be drawn from parts of existing postgraduate courses, final year degree programmes, conferences, seminars, masterclasses, guided reading or a combination of study methods). This programme of research culminates in the production of a large-scale piece of written work in the form of a research thesis that should not normally exceed 80,000 words. You will be appointed a main supervisor who will normally be part of a supervisory team, comprising of up to three members to advise and support you on your project.
Modules
The University of Huddersfield has one of the largest Music and Music Technology postgraduate communities in the UK. With approximately 100 students representing numerous fields of study and well over a dozen nationalities, our postgraduate community is a vital and vibrant part of the life of the department. Recognised research strengths in music include:
- Composition (including instrumental composition, film music composition and electroacoustic composition)
- Contemporary music performance and improvisation
- Sonic arts
- Music technology
- Early music
- Historically informed performance practices
- Music analysis
- Cultural, historical and critical musicologies
- Popular music
- Archival research
- Music archaeology
- Music, politics and identity
- Voice and embodiment
- The musicology and practice of production
- Digital, systematic and empirical musicologies
- Find a supervisor and design your own research project – explore the Huddersfield Research Portal (https://pure.hud.ac.uk/) to find research and researcher expertise to find the area you’re interested in.
- Browse our listed funded opportunities (https://www.hud.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/research-scholarships/).
- To find out more about the research we conduct, take a look at our Research, Innovation and Skills webpages (https://research.hud.ac.uk/), where you will find information on each research area pages (https://research.hud.ac.uk/music/) provide information on these research areas, alongside a full listing of academic staff (https://research.hud.ac.uk/music/staff/). The CeReNeM Students pages (https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cerenem/students/) include details of our courses in the composition, performance, technology and study of new music; CMCI (https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/centres/crmt/) is our centre for musicological research; and ReCePP provides a hub for performance studies within the department.
Entry requirements
The normal level of attainment required for entry is: * A Master’s degree or an Honours degree (2:1 or above) or equivalent, normally with a classification of merit or distinction, in a discipline appropriate to the proposed programme to be followed, or appropriate research, or * professional experience at postgraduate level, which has resulted in published work, written reports or other appropriate evidence of accomplishment.
English language requirements
If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 6.0, or equivalent.
Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements pages.
https://hud.ac.uk/international/courses-and-entry-requirements/international-entry-requirements/
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
England | £5050 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £5050 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £5050 | Year 1 |
Wales | £5050 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £5050 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £5050 | Year 1 |
EU | £17600 | Year 1 |
International | £17600 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Sponsorship information
For further information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding-studies/
Provider information
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate
Huddersfield
HD1 3DH