The Department is at the forefront of current research and postgraduate teaching across music styles and repertoires from a wide variety of critical perspectives. From 19th Century classical music to game music our staff and students undertake cutting edge, internationally recognised research. We are home to the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), the first academic centre created specifically to study popular music, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology (ICCaT), a research institute dedicated to exploring how music composition and sonic art forms intersect with technology, performance and perception. Top<br>quartile for impact classified as 'outstanding' (4) in the latest Research Excellence Framework (2021)<br><br>1988<br>our Institute of Popular Music (IPM), founded in 1988, was the first academic centre created specifically to study popular music.<br><br>20<br>members of staff cover 10 specialisations.<br><br>Who to contact<br>Dr Haekyung Um<br>Email: h.k.umliverpool.ac.uk<br>Tel: 44 (0)151 794 3084<br>Related content<br>Find a funded PhD studentship<br>Doctoral Training programmes at Liverpool<br>PhD costs and funding<br>How to write your research proposal<br>Accommodation for postgraduates<br>Explore Music and discover more courses<br>Overview<br>In a UNESCO City of Music with a wealth of musical institutions, organizations, festivals and events, our PhD students also have an opportunity to both study and participate through partnership with locally based cultural and creative industries.<br><br>Our lecturers and postgraduate students conduct research on a wide variety of topics in a vibrant and diverse department within an internationally renowned city of music. Our world-leading expertise in music encompasses numerous methodological approaches and critical perspectives including critical musicology, popular music studies, composition, music psychology and ethnomusicology. We particularly welcome research proposals that match those of our researchers, including:<br><br>Music industries<br>Music analysis (with a particular emphasis on aesthetics, psychoanalysis, music and emotion, popular music)<br>Music and the moving image (film, television, music in gaming and music video)<br>Critical theoretical approaches (including Gender studies, race and ethnicity and diaspora)<br>Heritage and history<br>Non-Western musics<br>Composition (with a particular emphasis on its intersection with technology)<br>Technology and digitisation<br>Ethnography and ethnomusicology<br>Jazz studies<br>Music psychology<br>Research students participate fully in our research activity. They present papers at the Department's research seminars and work as Teaching Assistants within the Department (with pedagogical training and support provided). There are also weekly research, career, and teaching seminars for all postgraduates. As a postgraduate student you'll be able to attend research seminars involving guest speakers from many disciplines and sub-disciplines.