Recruiting now for final cohort for September 2026
The Leverhulme trust aural diversity doctoral research hub is a funded PhD programme across the University of Salford and University of Cambridge. Candidates will apply to one of these institutions depending upon the expertise of a suitable supervisor.
For Salford see: https://laura.salford.ac.uk/
For Cambridge see: https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/phd/laura/
- Fully-funded PhD places available at Salford and Cambridge
- Fully-funded MPhil places available at Salford
- International PhD place available at Salford
- Cambridge application deadline January 7th
- Salford application deadline 30th January
Aural diversity is a new and highly interdisciplinary field and LAURA is the first PhD programme in the world to focus on it. Aural diversity is based on the simple observation that individual and group differences in hearing, listening and responding to sound are common, yet, outside medicine, when sound is produced, controlled, consumed or discussed a "normal" listener is usually assumed.
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Prof John Levack Drever BMus, MMus, PhD, FLS, FRGS, FRSA, MIOA, AoU
Creative Director, Otoloci Ltd.
Emeritus Professor, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Co-Director of LAURA – Leverhulme Trust Aural Diversity Doctoral Research Hub.
Working Group 1 Leader, CitySenZ, COST CA23145.
Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Digital Humanities, 2025-26.
