Music MRes

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 our staff pages for 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 MaxMSP, 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 as musicology, popular music, music industries, composition, analysis, audio-visual media or music technology — and join a community of active researchers, developing your own project in collaboration with an academic supervisor. Funded MRes projects We’re currently accepting applications for two, funded (UK fees only) MRes projects. You must be applying for the Music MRes to be eligible for these opportunities. Generating Insights into Music Education Provision Across Liverpool City Region MRes Piloting the Effectiveness of Attitude Is Everything’s New Grassroots and Community Accessibility Framework on Music Venues Operating in the Liverpool City Region MRes.

We accept a 2:2 honours degree from a UK university, or an equivalent academic qualification from a similar non-UK institution. This degree should be in Music or a closely related subject. You will also have to provide a sample of written work e.g. an undergraduate assignment. We require a Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution.