The PhD programme in Music Research

Useful information about finances, the workplace, IT, terms of employment, student status and leave of absence.

You will find important information about supervision and the relationship between supervisor, PhD fellows and NMH.

Activities for fellows at the PhD programme during the academic year 2023-24. The information is mainly in Norwegian.

Here you will find all of the information you need in connection with the midterm evaluation and trial disputation for PhD candidates in performance practice, music education and music therapy.

The training component has a value of 30 ECTS credits (40 credits for students starting 2022 and before). Apart from any remaining researcher forums, all parts of the training component must have been carried out and passed before a candidate may apply for a trial disputation.

A dissertation is worth 140 ECTS credits and forms the main part of the academic PhD degree.

Guidelines to the procedure of submitting the dissertation, the appointment of the assessment committee, guidelines regarding impartiality, the publication of the dissertation, and accepted practice about the doctoral defence of the dissertation. These guidelines apply to the PhD program in music education, music therapy and performance practice.

PhD candidates may participate in the EU's mobility programme Erasmus+ as a student or as staff.

These guidelines apply to the PhD programme in Music Research