Music

Join the Music MRes at the University of Liverpool and pursue your unique and original research goals through a one-year full-time or two-year part-time research project. This programme encourages dynamic, individual and adventurous approaches to research in and through music, with pathways in musicology, composition, popular music performance, music psychology and creative music technology. Our experts will guide and support you as you confidently produce a practical portfolio, dissertation, report, or a tailored combination of outputs that emerge from your research process. Music at Liverpool embraces diversity and celebrates individuality, and the Music MRes is designed to help you explore your own research ambitions through a flexible and student-centred structure. Modules focus on developing your research skills, providing the foundation for your major research project, supported throughout by one-to-one supervision. Staff in the Department of Music represent a wide range of interests and expertise and will help you shape and refine your research journey — see ourstaff pagesfor details. The programme encourages exploratory, adventurous and often interdisciplinary research across a broad range of methodologies. As a researcher, you will gain the critical and analytical skills needed to craft a major final project. This might take the form of a dissertation, a set of compositions, recordings, a prototype technology, or another agreed format. Through workshops, seminars and research training, you will immerse yourself in the wider cultural and critical contexts of your chosen area while developing your project. Past projects have included research on music and UK politics, gender and musical theatre, classical performance with Max/MSP, augmented MIDI control for electric guitar, and composition portfolios ranging from contemporary classical and modernism to folk songwriting and vaporwave. You will work closely with a research specialist in your chosen area — such

International students: Full-time place, per year - £25,350; Part-time: £12,650

UK students: Full-time place, per year - £5,238; Part-time: £2,619

UK/Home: Full-time place, per year - £5,238; Part-time: £2,619

International: Full-time place, per year - £25,350; Part-time: £12,650

28 September 2026

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• Liverpool, United Kingdom