As one of Australia’s most prestigious and comprehensive performing arts academies, WAAPA offers exciting postgraduate opportunities for those wanting to extend their academic journey.
Postgraduate studies provide a practical-based learning and research experience enhanced by the opportunities offered by the multi-disciplined nature of WAAPA and expert supervision by WAAPA’s outstanding research staff.
Enjoy a rich postgraduate community highlighted by visiting artists and scholars, industry placements, specialist seminars, a high-profile staff and a performance program second to none.
Building on a Bachelor degree, the one-year full-time Honours qualification strengthens academic ability and equips outstanding graduates to pursue further postgraduate study.
Choose from:
Music Honours embraces the latest practice-led research models to facilitate research for performance students as well as more academic areas.
Offering three streams of Creative Arts, Performance Making and Dance, the course provides students with the opportunity to work across quantitative, qualitative and practice-led research methods on a research topic of their choice at a fourth year honours level.
WAAPA is a leading academy for postgraduate studies in the performing arts, especially (but not exclusively) in the practical aspects of art making.
We offer a graduate certificate, graduate diploma, masters by coursework, masters by research, and a PhD.
Candidates will be assessed on their academic, research and professional experience.
Candidates for the masters by research and PhD can only be admitted if there is supervisor capacity and expertise in the field of research. View a list of our Researchers and Supervisors and their research interests.
The Associate Dean (Research) is Dr Renée Newman.
The Course Coordinator for the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Creative Arts Entrepreneurship and Cultural Innovation is Dr Jennifer Halton.
The Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Creative and Performing Arts Honours is Dr Renée Newman.
The Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Music Honours is Matt Styles.
For a full list of WAAPA Research staff, please visit the WAAPA Staff listing.
For domestic student enquiries, please go to Future Students.
For international student enquiries, please go to International Students.
For a full list of WAAPA courses, please visit WAAPA Study areas.