PhD Admissions 2026/2027 at Santa Cecilia State Conservatory of Music of Rome in Artistic Research, Management, and Musical Heritage Sciences Santa Cecilia State Conservatory of Music of Rome in Italy

PhD admission is open in Italy for the XLII Cycle (Academic Year 2026/2027) at the Conservatorio di Musica “Arrigo Pedrollo” di Vicenza , in agreement with the Conservatory of Music of Rovigo. The programme is titled Arts and Cultural Heritage for Innovative, Advanced and International Practice-Based Projects and is centered on practice-based doctoral research connecting arts, music, cultural heritage, technology, and the phygital domain . The research scope bridges physical, digital, sensory, a...

The Conservatorio di Alessandria “A. Vivaldi”, together with the Conservatori di Como, Cremona, Gallarate, Pavia, Piacenza, and the Conservatoire de la Vallée d’Aoste, has established a joint AFAM doctoral program in Prassi e Repertori della Musica Italiana (Practices and Repertoires of Italian Music). The program is based at the Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi” in Alessandria and is recruiting for the 42nd cycle (AFAM PhD, 3rd cycle), with a deadline of 2026-10-15 at 17:00 CEST. This PhD program is d...

Aarhus University, Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with the European Research Council and the School of Communication and Culture, invites applications for a fully funded PhD fellowship titled PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society (5+3) . This PhD fellowship is attached to an arts-based and interdisciplinary research environment at Aarhus University in Denmark. The project theme points to research on entrepreneurial organizing in the platform soc...

LUCA School of Arts in Belgium is offering an 18-month full-time Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artistic Research for one highly promising artistic researcher. The fellowship is designed to support the development of an independent artistic research project while preparing a competitive application for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF 2027) . Where relevant, it can also help prepare a subsequent FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship application. The fellow will be embedded in LUCA’s...

University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg) is offering a PhD in Art Practice in Hamburg, Germany . This is a practice-based doctoral programme focused on artistic research , interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary inquiry , and the development of aesthetic knowledge through artistic working processes. The programme can be completed across HFBK Hamburg’s artistic departments, including sculpture, design, film, painting/drawing, stage design, time-based media, and graphic arts/photography . Te...