Royal Welsh College of Musi<\/a>c and Drama is launching a new PhD program centered on interdisciplinary, practice based doctoral research with cultural and social impact.<\/p>\nStudents in the program will have access to the college\u2019s partnerships with organizations including BBC Wales, Welsh National Opera, Bad Wolf, Sherman Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, and Ty Cerdd, along with community groups such as Forget Me Not Chorus, National Youth Arts Wales, and Race Council Cymru. The college\u2019s Old Library campus in Cardiff, already used for community projects, will serve as a hub for doctoral work connected to the college\u2019s Open RWCMD strategy, which focuses on how the arts engage communities across different geographic, economic, and cultural contexts.<\/p>\n
Doctoral students will also have access to the college\u2019s archival holdings, among them the Foyle Opera Rara Collection of nineteenth century scores, manuscripts, costume designs, and memorabilia, as well as the Drama Association of Wales collection of English language scripts, specialist holdings of composers including Mervyn Burtch, Alun Hoddinott, Graham Whetham, Mansel Thomas, and David Harries, and rare Shakespeare editions spanning the eighteenth through twentieth centuries. The collections also include digital and physical archives of designers Paul Brown and Pamela Howard.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt RWCMD, our ambition is to create an integrated research and enterprise environment nurturing and empowering new work and innovation for the arts,\u201d said Helena Gaunt, principal of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, per an official press release. \u201cOur PhD\u202fprogramme\u202fchampions\u202fnew artistic work and professional practice across our disciplines, supported by\u202fintegrated technologies\u202fand our focus on collaboration and sharing of knowledge.\u202f\u202f Through enterprising student-led and graduate work\u202fembedded\u202facross\u202four degree\u202fprograms, we see\u202finnovation as a\u202fdriver of excellence but also a powerful\u202fway of connecting with new audiences\u202fand communities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read Related Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source operawire.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama is launching a new PhD program centered on interdisciplinary, practice based doctoral research with cultural and social impact. Students in the program will have access to the college\u2019s partnerships with organizations including BBC Wales, Welsh National Opera, Bad Wolf, Sherman Theatre, Theatr Clwyd, and Ty Cerdd, along […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[489433,489434],"class_list":["post-2485645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-https-operawire-com-sroyalwelshcollegeofmusicanddrama","tag-royal-welsh-college-of-music-and-drama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Royal-Welsh-College-of-Music-Drama-Launches-New-PhD.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485647,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485645\/revisions\/2485647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}