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Teaching
The course offers training for music-specific research skills, alongside transferable skills, of approximately 40 hours per year for full-time students.
In the course of their third year, doctoral students present a 20-minute paper (in the style of a conference paper) on a topic related to their PhD project, followed by a ten-minute Q&A session.
| One to one supervision | Full-time students can expect a minimum of 9 hours of 1-2-1 supervision in the first year. Thereafter supervisions are offered as appropriate or required. The University of Cambridge publishes an annual Code of Practice which sets out the University’s expectations regarding supervision. |
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Feedback
Students can expect to receive an online feedback report each term, as a way to monitor progress.
Assessment
Thesis / Dissertation
Examination of the PhD is by thesis and viva. The PhD theses should not exceed 80,000 words excluding notes, appendices, and bibliographies, musical transcriptions and examples. Candidates whose work is practice-based may include as part of a doctoral submission either a portfolio of substantial musical compositions or one or more recordings of their own musical performance(s).
Other
Progress assessments are made in all years of doctoral study.