This degree is designed for postgraduates wishing to take their research in musicology, music psychology or music technology beyond a Masters. You'll conduct advanced, independent research under the guidance of specialist supervisors. At the end of the degree, you'll have produced a 60,000 word thesis demonstrating a significant contribution to knowledge and scholarship, with ideas that are at, or informed by, the forefront of the discipline. If you want to pursue your chosen area of research through practice, we offer supervison for practice-led MPhil. You should demonstrate a distinctive practice, an originality of thinking, and an ability to place the practice in an appropriate creativecultural context. You'll be assigned appropriate supervisors, who will guide your research.Our research explores a rich variety of musicology from the seventeenth century to the present day. We pursue a diverse range of methodological approaches, from the critical to the applied, and explore the role of music within historical, theoretical, literary, aesthetic, technological, popular and interdisciplinary contexts. Our collaborative research is international in scope and engages museums, galleries and other cultural organisation and institutions.