Graduate programme

Research in and the practice of creative and performing arts come together in the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts. This is where Leiden academics and students encounter teaching and research in the arts in the form in which this takes place at the Royal Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, and vice versa.

The PhD tracks form the key aspect in music and in the fine arts and design, accessible for artists who allow their artistic development to be explicitly led by a clearly formulated research question. They are supervised by academics and artist-professors.

This takes place in an international graduate programme: a research environment including partnerships with Amsterdam, Ghent, Leuven, London and Oxford. The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts also houses minors and elective programmes for bachelor’s students and contributes to master’s programmes within Leiden University. The Academy also provides striking manifestations of art and artists within the University and the city.

The graduate programme consists of:

• research projects  of the staff of the Academy and the promovendi
• programmes for training and coaching of PhD-candidates:
  - docARTES (music) 
  - PhDArts (performing arts)

Master Course for Research in the Arts

As of September 2009, students can follow the Master Course  for Research in the Arts. This course is a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Art and the Royal Conservatoire.

Read more about the Master Course for Research in the Arts (pdf).