Call for Applications for Doctoral Scholarships on the Topic of ‘Anton Bruckner’

Doctoral studies at Bruckner University

Bruckner University offers a transdisciplinary, structured doctoral programme in both artistic-academic and academic research. Our doctoral students are each supervised by an individual team of internationally active experts in their field. They have access to dance studios, the Sonic Lab computer music laboratory, a modern recording studio and concert halls for a wide range of requirements. In addition, we offer them a broad professional network through our cooperation with four renowned universities for secondary supervision: the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, the University of Art and Design Linz, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Bern University of the Arts (Switzerland).

The Bruckner scholarships are awarded for the following subjects

In the artistic-academic doctoral programme

• Historical performance practice
• Composition
• Contemporary Dance

The aim of an artistic-academic doctorate is to realise a research project in which artistic and academic methods are related to each other and the results of the research can be understood and communicated on both levels. It is fundamental that the research project utilises the student's own artistic practice as its central focus. Research questions and central research methods are developed from the art, knowledge and practice of the artists and lead back to them. Artistic research also utilises methods from other disciplines and often works in an interdisciplinary manner, but is fundamentally research for art, through art and with the means of art.

In the academic doctoral programme

• Pedagogy
• Cultural studies
• Musicology
• (Historical) interpretation research

The academic doctoral programme conveys and promotes an understanding of theory and methodological skills at postgraduate level with the aim of providing young academics with the ability to carry out critical, independent and original academic work beyond their academic professional training. The doctoral programme at Bruckner University as an artistic university with its strong departments in historical musicology, cultural studies, music education and dance studies, as well as its cooperation with internationally renowned partner universities, expressly supports interdisciplinary approaches and encourages artistic and academic topics, methods, findings and dissemination and mediation formats to be directly related to each other.

Further Facts:
Application Period 1.12.2022 – 17.2.2023
Start of Studies in October 2023
Scholarship: Funding totalling € 50,000 is available for the three scholarships over a period of 3 years

Applicants must undergo the normal, qualitative selection process for doctoral studies at ABPU. In addition, their applications will be reviewed by a panel of experts.