Meet our PhD students
Currently, KMH has a number of PhD students linked to us via collaborations with other universities. Here, each PhD student's ongoing thesis work is presented with a brief description of the work's purpose, method and results so far.
As KMH does not yet have the entitlement to award a qualification at the postgraduate level we collaborate mainly with KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, with the medical university Karolinska Institutet, KI, and with the Faculty of Arts at Lund University.
Any open positions on postgraduate level are published under Vacancies (in Swedish).
PhD students in music
KMH has five so-called Industrial PhD students in music. They pursue doctoral studies as competence development within the framework of their positions as teachers at KMH through the formalization of a long-established cooperation between KMH and KTH.
Johan Fröst
With Music as a Script
JIn Johan Fröst's licentiate thesis, he investigates classical art music in relation to moving image and the intermodal connections between hearing and vision.
Torbjörn Gulz
Improvisation Strategies for Jazz Musicians
Torbjörn Gulz focuses in his diessertation work on how improvisation strategies look like for jazz musicians, such as tone, rhythm and tone colour.
PhD students in music education
In addition, doctoral studies in music education are conducted.
Incca Rasmusson
Swedish Eurhythmics 1906-1978 – emancipating embodied knowledge
Incca Rasmusson explores Eurhythmics as a method for teaching music in higher music education focusing on the perspective of embodiment.
Sofia Nygren
Music educational expertise
This project investigates the expertise of music educators in contemporary Swedish municipal and voluntary youth music programs, emphasizing both their explicit and tacit knowledge.
ROCIT – Research on Collaboration in Teacher Education
In 2022, a new research school called ROCIT – Research on Collaboration in Teacher Education started in collaboration with seven other higher education institutions. Within the framework of the collaboration, two doctoral students are doing their research studies at KMH, Johan Börelius and Mika Pohjola.
Johan Börelius
Communication within one-on-one vocal or instrumental education in the context of upper secondary education.
Johan Börelius aims to investigate the teacher-student communication within one-on-one vocal or instrumental education in the context of upper secondary education.
Mika Pohjola
Musical identity – The music teacher student's identity dimensions
Through his dissertation project, Mika Pohjola aims to research the relation between the identities of being a performing musician, a student musician and particularly a music teacher.