[Fully and directly funded opportunities. Funding includes Home or International fees for 42 months and UKRI standard stipend which is currently £20,780 for 2025/26 academic year. Funded by Faculty of Arts, Business, and Social Sciences.] The University of Surrey’s School of Arts, Humanities, and Creative Industries is offering four fully funded PhD studentships for outstanding postgraduate researchers. These studentships are designed to support innovative and impactful research that aligns with...

This PhD project, titled 'Sensing the Machine: Generative AI and the Transformation of Musical Ensemble Practice (CreativeAI Studentship)', offers a unique opportunity to investigate how generative AI is reshaping creativity, collaboration, and trust within musical performance, production, and composition. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into creative workflows—from real-time improvisation tools to AI-assisted compositional platforms—musicians are beginning to treat algorithms not o...

This practice-based PhD at The University of Manchester offers a unique opportunity to explore the boundaries of vocal practice, extending into non-human and augmented vocal territories through Interactive Design Optimisation (IDO) algorithms. The project leverages well-established human-computer collaboration techniques, where human designers actively guide optimisation processes to refine solutions to complex problems, blending creativity with computational power. Building on successful doctor...

The Music Technology Group (MTG) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona is offering a postdoctoral fellowship focused on advancing multimodal AI methodologies for music and audio. The position is led by Prof. Xavier Serra, Full Professor and Director of the MTG, whose research spans audio signal processing, sound and music computing, music information retrieval, and computational musicology. The fellowship aims to develop innovative AI approaches for understanding and processing music and audi...

Expressions of Interest are now open for a fully funded PhD position at RMIT University as part of the Australian Research Council (ARC) project, 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery.' This opportunity is ideal for candidates interested in sonic arts, sound installations, 3D audio production, digital design, and music technology. The research will focus on investigating audience experiences of sonic arts and sound installations within art museum and gallery contexts,...

This PhD project, 'Heritage Beyond Borders: The Place of Band on the Wall in the Musical History and Socio-Cultural Life of Manchester,' is a unique partnership between The University of Manchester and Band on the Wall (BOTW), an iconic live music venue, promoter, and music learning centre in Manchester’s Northern Quarter. BOTW has played a pivotal role in the city’s cultural landscape for over two centuries, hosting a diverse range of live music events spanning folk, world, indie, jazz, reggae,...

Saveetha University (SIMATS) in Chennai, India, is inviting applications for faculty positions at the Saveetha Liberal Arts and Science College. The college seeks qualified candidates across a wide range of disciplines, including Commerce, Economics, Management, Computer Science and Applications, Visual Communication, Animation & Graphics, Fine Arts, Music, Bharathanatiyam, Political Science, Sociology, Public Administration, Psychology, and M. Des (Fashion, Product, Interior, Communication). Ap...

Shenzhen University is recruiting postdoctoral researchers for Professor Liu Kun's team in the Faculty of Arts for 2026. The positions are focused on Musicology (including ethnomusicology, music criticism, history, and music education) and Art Theory. Applicants with backgrounds in musicology, art studies, cultural studies, or history are encouraged to apply, with priority given to those with relevant expertise and significant research achievements. Applicants must have completed their doctoral ...