Doctoral education

Deepen your expertise and complete a doctoral degree in fine arts, theatre and dance, or music.

Doctoral Programme in Fine Arts

The Academy of Fine Arts offers doctoral education that emphasises high-quality artistic work and related research in the field of fine arts.
Doctoral Programme of Artistic Research in Performing Arts

Deepen your expertise and become an artist-researcher at the Theatre Academy.
Doctoral Programme in Music

Doctoral students can choose between three specialisation areas: Arts Study Programme,
Research Study Programme and Applied Study Programme.

Doctoral admissions results, spring 2023

Admissions results to the Academy of Fine Arts’, Theatre Academy’s and Sibelius Academy’s doctoral programmes.

Finland fellowship for new doctoral students

Funding available for a one-year paid position for new doctoral students in music coming from outside EU/EEA.

Research and doctoral education at the Academy of Fine Arts

Our international community conducts artist- and art-based research in fine arts and educates artist-researchers who renew the arts.
The Performing Arts Research Centre Tutke and Doctoral Studies at the Theatre Academy

The internationally networked research centre promotes artistic research in performing arts and their pedagogy.
Docmus Doctoral School of Classical Music

We are responsible for doctoral education within the Faculty of Classical Music of the Sibelius Academy.
Mutri Doctoral School and Research Unit of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music

We are responsible for doctoral education and research in the Faculty of Music Education, Jazz and Folk Music at the Sibelius Academy.

Doctoral thesis

Visit the institutional repository Taju and filter by organisational unit to see a list of our students’ doctoral thesis.
Our projects

See all our research projects as well as development and international co-operation projects.