Master of Art by Research - Music and Sound

A research degree in Music and Sound offers you the opportunity to engage in an extended piece of academic research, either through creative practice in the production of an original body of work, or through the production of a written thesis. During this process, you’ll draw on and extend existing knowledge and practices, and you’ll show that your research makes an original contribution to knowledge.

As a research degree candidate, you’ll be supported by a supervisory team with expertise in your subject and/or research approach. A research degree can offer career progression opportunities in academic research and teaching, in addition to enhancing students’ understanding of professional practice, facilitating other routes for career progression.

We support practice-based and critical theory research in the following areas:

• Ageing in popular music
• Composition and sound design for film, TV, and games
• Cultural history of popular music
• Gender in popular music
• Music production
• Sound ecology
• Spatial audio / Immersive audio