Literature and Music | Research Degrees

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Award Award	Duration Duration	Start dates Start dates	Application Application
PhD (MPhil also available) PhD (MPhil also available)	Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years Full-time: 3–4 years Part-time: 6–8 years	October 2027 October 2027	Ends 8 January 2027 Ends 8 January 2027

The OU’s Literature and Music research group encourages wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of literature and music and fosters a research community in this area within and beyond the university.

The group runs international conferences and associated publications include Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music. 2020 saw the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music, edited by Delia da Sousa Correa.

Members also participate in the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), hosting its international conference in August 2013 and a Round Table in 2020 at the WMA Forum, the early-career and postgraduate branch of the WMA. Our current research group project is a sequence of events on the topic of 'Words, Music and Silence'.

Research group members are engaged in Knowledge Transfer activity including opera projects, educational consultancy for opera companies and study events. They have supervised graduate students for interdisciplinary research degrees and welcome applications in this area.

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

The following Members of the Literature and Music Research Group supervise graduate students for interdisciplinary research degrees.

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £12,705 per year Full-time: £12,705 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £6,353 per year Part-time: £6,353 per year

Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; others are self-funded.

For detailed information about fees and funding, visit Fees and studentships.

To see current funded studentship vacancies across all research areas, see Current studentships.

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