Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 (or equivalent)

Months of entry

October

Course content

This broad topic encompasses work in several distinct disciplines: ethnomusicology; sociology; social history; social psychology; human geography; education and marketing. We particularly encourage work that combines approaches and crosses the boundaries between disciplines.

We welcome applications in areas that correspond with current staff research interests. We look for detailed and well thought-out proposals, which set out specific research questions and outline the originality of your topic or approach.

Potential research projects

We are happy to consider research projects relating to one or more of our disciplinary areas. If appropriate, students may be attached to one of our funded projects:

Cultures of Brass
Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns.

Current/recent research projects

Listening to music in wartime Britain
The guitar in Victorian England
Gender and the British brass band
Popular music in Tunisia
Learning, performance and entrainment in Cuban music

Potential supervisors

Dr Helen Coffey - Social history and cultural musicology
Dr Byron Dueck - Ethnomusicology
Dr Rosemary Golding - Social history and cultural musicology
Dr Terry O’Sullivan - Marketing
Dr George Revill - Human geography
Dr Jason Toynbee - Sociology

Department specialisms

- Cultures of Brass - Atlantic Sounds: Ships and Sailortowns.

Fees and funding

Please see The Open University website http://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/research-degrees/fees-and-funding for more information.

Qualification and course duration

PhD

part time

72 months

full time

36 months

distance learning

variable months

MPhil

full time

15 months

distance learning

variable months

part time

24 months

Course contact details

Name: Dr Helen Coffey
Email: FASS-Music-Enquiries@open.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1908 653280

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