PhD

The PhD studies are organized within the Doctoral School of the Humanities at Aalborg University. The PhD-scholars of the department are enrolled under the PhD-programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics (HCCI) or the Doctoral Programme in Music Therapy.

PhD-Programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics (HCCI)

The PhD-programme has 62 PhD students and aims at facilitating a stimulating and challenging interdisciplinary learning and research environment within communication, psychology and informatics at Aalborg University.

The centre of attention is on the integration of human and social disciplines with information and communication technologies (ICT) with a special focus on interpersonal communication, psychology and collaboration. With communication, learning, cognition, emotion, experience, and generation of meaning together with specialist knowledge about informatics and digital media as their starting point, our PhDs are concerned with analysis and design of new work, learning and experience-based processes and environments.

PhD-Programme in Human Centered Communication and Informatics (HCCI)

The doctoral programme in music therapy

The international PhD programme has approx. 25 PhD students from all over the world who gather twice a year at weekly PhD courses in Aalborg. In music therapy research theoretical as well as clinical areas are investigated in process and/or effect studies. The research often has a focus on the role of music in establishing relationships or on music experiences as medium for attention, communication and metalization.

Some clinical areas investigated so far are music therapy with persons with developmental disorders, dementia or psychosocial difficulties, persons in neurorehabilitation, and music therapy in psychiatric, somatic or palliative care.

The doctoral programme in music therapy