Postgraduate Research in Music

Research students in Music at The Open University are part of the Music research community as well as of a wider community of research students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University. Our academic staff supervise students across a range of interdisciplinary research areas such as historical musicology, music education, ethnomusicology, music and gender, music and technology, and sound studies.

We offer supervision for part-time and full-time research students. You will normally be expected to have completed an MA before applying, although other relevant experience will be considered, so please get in touch with us if you think this applies to you.

More information on the PhD programme in Music can be found by following the links below: