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Doctoral education

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

Doctors at the Uniarts conferment ceremony.

Become a doctoral student

Application instructions for doctoral studies starting in 2027 have just been published. The application period runs from 1 to 21 January 2027.

  • 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 in performing arts

    Deepen your expertise in the Theatre Academy’s doctoral programme as an artist-researcher specialising in performing arts or writing.

  • Doctoral Programme in Music

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

Doctoral units within the academies

Find out more about our three academies’ doctoral and research units.

Explore completed doctoral degrees

  • Doctoral examinations

    Browse our upcoming doctoral examination events and discover the research topics of past doctoral graduates.

  • Doctoral theses

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

Find out more about our research

  • Research

    The special nature of our research is based on direct and rich interaction between research and art.

  • What is artistic research?

    Art offers a premise and an aim for research: a motive, a terrain, a context and a whole range of methods.

  • Open science and research

    Openness is a central principle in research activities at Uniarts Helsinki.

  • Our projects

    Browse all our research projects as well as our development and international cooperation projects.

  • Research ethics and integrity at Uniarts Helsinki

    Read Uniarts Helsinki’s guidelines concerning research ethics and integrity and ethical reviews of research. The Finnish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity established by the Finnish Advisory Board on Research Integrity TENK applies to all research, including artistic research and artistic productions that are linked to research activities. The responsibility to comply with the Code of Conduct for Research Integrity rests on the whole research community and on each individual researcher.

Living and studying in Helsinki

Helsinki is a lively student city and one of the most popular European cities for international students.