Research Degrees in Music (PhD, MPhil, MLitt)
If you have a strongly-defined idea of what you want to study, and you want to be given the freedom to pursue that idea in your studies, then a research degree is the right degree for you. ICMuS offers three research degrees: the MLitt (a modular research programme); the MPhil (a non-modular research programme examined by thesis or portfolio); and the PhD.
If you take a research degree at ICMuS, you will be part of a large community of researchers. In addition to our 22 members of staff (16.5 full-time equivalents) we currently have 30 PhD students, and another 10 research students (MPhil, MLitt). This means that you will be part of a bustling, lively and supportive community of scholars. You will have access to our outstanding resources and facilities, supervision of the highest caliber, outstanding research training and a range of opportunities for career development and enhancement.
Staff at ICMuS have expertise in, and are keen to supervise in, a wide range of music-related areas:
Musicology
- medieval music; early modern music
- nineteenth-century music; twentieth-century music
- popular music
- music analysis
- world musics
- folk and traditional musics of Great Britain and Ireland
- folk and traditional musics of Europe
- Caribbean music
- music and gender, music and sexuality
- music and politics, music and ideology
- music and psychoanalysis
- music and philosophy
Creative Practice
- notated composition
- studio-based composition
- performance
- medieval and early modern musics
- folk and traditional musics
- contemporary (avant-garde) musics
- jazz
- improvisation