The School of Arts at Oxford Brookes University is delighted to offer three fee-waiver scholarships for a MA by Research project in the field of Music and/or Sound, for a project starting in September 2026.
We welcome applications from motivated candidates who wish to undertake innovative research aligned with the research expertise of Music and Sound academics within the School of Arts. This includes screen music studies, music and sound production, music education, and popular music.
Suggested areas of study include (but are not limited to):
Screen music and transmedia franchises (music and/or sound across media such as film, television, video games, musicals, theme parks etc.)
Screen music and representations of trauma (9/11, genocide, war, tragedy etc.)
John Williams studies
A study of the need for music training for non-specialist primary school teachers in the UK
Music Recording and Production research-within-practice encompassing self-producing or producing for other musical artists (methodologies, techniques, expanding current practice, immersive music, etc.)
Album art and iconography
Sound and production methodologies, including sound design; developing tools for audio processing, immersive and spatial audio, and acoustic design.
Liveness in the context of screen media
The role of the music supervisor
Project contact: Dr Alexandra Bickley-Trott – atrott@brookes.ac.uk
To apply for this scholarship, you must first apply for a Music and/or
Sound related MA by Research.
As part of that process, you will be asked to produce (among other things)
a summary of your research proposal (1500 characters) and a personal
statement (6000 characters). You must include copies of these, and your
applicant ID number (which you receive on submission of your MA by Research
application), when applying for the scholarship via the linked form.
Deadline for applications: June 8th 2026
Apply for the MA by Research here.
Apply for the scholarship here.
Queries and project contact: Dr Alexandra Bickley-Trott – atrott@brookes.ac.uk
Find out more details about our Brookes MA by Research programme here.