Arts
With more than 20 staff offering a wealth of expertise across the arts, the School of Arts provides a vibrant context for advanced study.
We offer the following research degrees:
- MA by research
- MPhil
- PhD
Support and Supervision
You can expect:
- Supervision from leading arts scholars and practitioners
- Opportunities for innovative cross- disciplinary research
- Transferable skills in research, presentations and information management
- Networking opportunities in a thriving creative community
- Access to Oxford resources, including the Bodleian Library, the Ashmolean Museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum, the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments and the former library of Modern Art Oxford.
Research Areas
Research degrees can be undertaken in the following areas:
Film Studies
- Film theory
- Audience studies
- Film, gender and sexuality
- Hollywood cinema
- European cinema, especially Spanish and Italian film
- Alternative and cult cinema
- Popular television
- Film industry, institutions and policy
- Screenwriting studies.
Fine Art
- Collaborative practice
- Interdisciplinary and intermedia arts
- Live and sonic arts
- Art in architecture
- Site specific installation
- Social sculpture
- Art, ecology and sustainability
- Art and participation
- The artist’s body n Performance art n Art theory
- Curatorial practice.
Music
- Opera and operatic culture
- 19th-century music
- Music and national identities
- Reception studies and music historiography
- Popular music and popular song
- Music journalism and criticism n DIY music and self-publishing n Critical musicology
- Composition
- Soundscape studies
- Electroacoustic composition.
Research Centres
- Oxford Brookes: Exploring Research Trends in Opera (OBERTO)
- Popular Music Research Unit (PMRU)
- Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU)
- Social Sculpture Research Unit (SSRU)
Interdisciplinary Research Clusters
Interdisciplinary research clusters exist in the following areas:
- The 19th century
- Modernism
- The early modern period
- Practice-based research.
