Research courses
We are a respected authority on sound technology, musicology, composition and media, supported by strong partnerships with industry leaders in entertainment, audio technology and recording.
What we are researching
Digital media arts
- Emerging media
- Practice research
- Creative production
- Art, science and technology interactions
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality
- New immersive experiences
- Visualisation and serious games
- Interactive storytelling
- Virtual cinematography
- Spectatorship, participation and play
- Interactive cinema
- Digital poetry
- Narrative and character portrayal in video games and interactive media
- Acting and performance for animation, games and film
- Embodied media
- Digital aesthetics
- Post-narrative theory
- Media psychology
- Generativity
Music
- Analysis
- 20th-century concert music, including Bartok, Stravinsky, Mahler, Elgar and Britten
- Popular musics, particularly rock, jazz, electronic dance music
- Aesthetics of sound and music
- Contemporary music and its composition and performance
- Critical musicology
- Music for screen
- Folk music studies
- Composition
- Psychoacoustic engineering
- Acoustic-perception modelling
- Performance studies and techniques
- Improvisation
- Acoustics
- Digital signal processing
- Psychoacoustics (theoretical and experimental)
- Statistical analysis and user-interface design
- Spatial audio: perception and reproduction
Find a course
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Studentships
Techne DTP- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Studentships 2025
Funding information:
Awards cover UK tuition fees and provide a stipend at the UKRI rate.The UK fees and stipend for 2025/26 have not yet been announced but for the academic year of 2024/25 the UK fees are £4,786 and the stipend is £19,237 (£21,237 if London weighting applies).This competition-funded studentship is available to UK and International students and includes full UK or International fee waiver and stipend at UKRI rates.Expert support
Our Doctoral College supports the academic and professional development of postgraduate researchers to ensure our world-leading research continues to grow. There is also an extensive Researcher Development Programme run at university level.
Facilities and equipment
We have world-class facilities and equipment including three studios, edit rooms, practice rooms and a TV studio.
Students and graduates
Read our student profiles to discover first-hand what it's like to study with us.
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