PhD Opportunities in Music in Luxembourg

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...

[Annual stipend at the UKRI minimum rate currently £21,805 per year plus £1,000 per annum enhancement, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 for the full 4-year programme.] This PhD studentship at The University of Manchester develops a new class of additively manufactured metallic acoustic metamaterials for shaping and amplifying sounds that matter for human communication. The project is designed around a human-informed inverse-design framework , where information about ear-can...

This PhD scholarship project, “Playful acoustics: The impact of space on expression, skill and enjoyment of music learners,” investigates how the acoustic and spatial characteristics of learning environments shape musical development. Based within the Sound Futures doctoral network , the research connects the psychology of music with acoustics, music education and sustainable sound. The doctoral researcher will explore how different spaces influence learners’ musical expression, the development ...

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for PhD stipends in mathematics across a broad set of research areas. The available projects span algebraic and arithmetic geometry, applied algebra, combinatorics, geometric group theory, geometry and geometric analysis, number theory, representation theory, topology, classical analysis, descriptive set theory, functional analysis, harmonic analysis, history of mathematics, mathematical physics, operato...

This scholarship supports research stays at the NIKI / Art History Institute in Florence for students and researchers in art history and closely related fields. Award holders can spend one to three months in Florence and use the institute’s research facilities, including its library, which is available around the clock. The main monthly grant is aimed at BA and MA students, recent graduates working on a publication or PhD proposal, and PhD candidates. In parallel, the foundation also offers a se...