Performing Arts Prof Doc

Professional Doctorate in Performing Arts is intended for practitioners across a range of performance-based disciplines who wish to make their practice the basis for doctoral study; indicatively theatre directing, acting, dance, music or technical practice such as sound and lighting. Unlike a traditional PhD, performance replaces the thesis as the main evidence of research, supported by a written report. It is designed for creative practitioners from the UK and abroad and can be undertaken in three years of full-time study or five years part-time. It differs from a practice-based PhD in that students arrive with a creative practice to be analysed and developed rather than a research 'project' to be carried out and is supported by specialist supervisory teams and a series of work-in-progress seminars which are the backbone of the programme. The programme is practice-based and industry-facing and gives students the support and environment to develop their creative and professional practice and theoretical research to a doctoral professional standard.

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International students: £6500 per year

UK students: £6500 per year

UK/Home: £6500 per year

International: £6500 per year

September 2026

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• Stratford Campus, London, United Kingdom