Music Computing

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 October	January January

Music computing research at the OU is focused on empowering musicians, illuminating musical activities, and modelling music perception and cognition. Our work is informed by musicology, psychology, ethnography, embodied cognition, pervasive interaction, mathematics and advanced computing techniques. We devise and investigate new ways to:

Music Computing PhDs can be very varied. A strong interest in music is essential. Formal musical training is not essential, but applicants should at minimum have good musical skills. Generally, we expect applicants to be capable programmers, but we are also interested in candidates who may instead or in addition have other skills, such as HCI evaluation, educational evaluation, or ethnography. Applicants often have, or expect to gain, a Masters degree in a relevant discipline. Students with a bachelors degree (normally 1st or 2.1 class) or with strongly relevant experience will also be considered. If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English. If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

Our interests are eclectic and we are keen to hear from motivated students interested in any aspect of music computing research.

We look for detailed and well-thought-out proposals, which set out specific research questions and outline the originality of your topic or approach. If you would like to discuss your ideas informally before submitting an application, please contact us.

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Computing:

Music:

UK fee UK fee	International fee International fee
Full-time: £5,006 per year Full-time: £5,006 per year	Full-time: £16,420 per year Full-time: £16,420 per year
Part-time: £2,503 per year Part-time: £2,503 per year	Part-time: £8,210 per year Part-time: £8,210 per year

Some of our research students are funded via the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership; some via the Open University STEM EPSRC DTP 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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