PhD Opportunities in Music in Ireland

Pigott Scholarships at the University of Cambridge support doctoral study in the humanities and social sciences. This award is intended for students pursuing a research-based PhD at Cambridge, with two scholarships available each year. The scholarship sits within the University of Cambridge’s named scholarship offering and was established in 2008 following a £2 million donation from the Pigott family. It is aimed at high-achieving students whose research and academic interests fall within the ar...

This PhD scholarship is hosted by the Conservatorio di Musica N. Piccinni in Bari and is centred on the interdisciplinary topic of Computational Electroacoustic Music Composition, Generative Algorithmic Models and Computational Complexity . The programme brings together music theory, composition theory, electroacoustic composition, electronic music, computer science, and mathematics, offering advanced training that links artistic creation with computational and analytical methods. Candidates wil...

[For eligible students, the studentship will cover home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship investigates how leopard seal migration can act as an early-warning signal of change in Antarctic ecosystems. The project centres on the links between sea-ice variability, seal migration timing, predator occurrence, and broader ecosystem responses in the Southern Ocean. The student will work with decades of individual-based leopard seal data from the British Antarctic Surve...

At the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Freiburg, two part-time research assistant positions are available in French and Italian literary and cultural studies. The roles are anchored in a doctoral research environment and are linked to the professorship of Prof. Dr. Manuel Mühlbacher. The successful candidates will work toward a dissertation in French and/or Italian literary and cultural studies while also contributing to the academic life of the chair and seminar. Alongside their own do...

Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Industries Institute is offering three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards for PhD study beginning in October 2027. The opportunity supports doctoral research across the arts and humanities, with the Creative Industries Institute providing the academic setting. Potential research directions may connect with creative industries, culture, media, history, literature, film, theatre, music and related humanities disciplines, sub...

The Department of Art History at the University of Vienna is recruiting a predoctoral scientific project assistant for the FWF project “A Third Art History? All-Women Exhibitions as Art-Historiographical Interventions.” Led by Ass.-Prof. Dr. Maria Bremer, the project examines all-women exhibitions as sites of feminist art-historical knowledge production. The research addresses how exhibitions organized during and around second-wave feminism challenged male-dominated frameworks in universities an...

The project is based in the Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) at the Faculty of Engineering , Department Applied Physics and Photonics , at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels. The PhD candidate will work on developing an integrated sensor and analytical workflow for studying applied glass technologies in historic stained-glass windows, with a focus on uncorroded materials. The research combines non-destructive spectroscopic techniques to support the characterization of bulk glass , glass stai...

FRESH Doctoral Grants from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research in the French-speaking Community (F.R.S.-FNRS) support doctoral research in the humanities and social sciences at universities in the French-speaking Community of Belgium. This award is designed for a PhD project completed over two consecutive funding periods, with support for up to 4 years in total. The grant is intended for candidates undertaking doctoral research at one of the participating universities in Belgium and working...

Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (KMH) is Sweden’s only independent higher education institution focused on music. The announcement is for two doctoral positions in music, offered within one of the institution’s artistic specialisations: folk music, jazz, music production, composition, conducting and music theory, or classical music. The doctoral education is grounded in artistic research in music. Students work from their own musical practice and professional activity, developing research that...