PhD Programmes in Finland 2025

Come and conduct research at the Academy of Fine Arts, where art and the artist are the focal points. Research subjects – whether embodied in the research question or the method, material, or objective of research – cover the meaning, practices, techniques, and methods of art, as well as the principles and institutional arrangements that determine the production, reception, training, and application of art.

Our graduates are experts who are capable of high-level creative and critical work and who operate in demanding art, research, development, and educational positions independently and in collaboration with others. Doctors of Music also act as social influencers for an ethically sustainable future.

Artist-researchers produce practice-based knowledge, expertise, and understanding that can be used and applied both in the arts and in other fields of society. Tutke’s doctoral students conduct multidisciplinary artistic research. Artistic and pedagogical practice is seen as a way of thinking and understanding, not as something that needs to be explained. Doctoral students learn to articulate, conceptualize, and theorize their practice-based artistic knowledge and questions that arise from it.

The Doctor of Military Sciences degree is a postgraduate degree in military sciences. The objective of this degree is to conduct research and science as well as produce newly researched data to support teaching and decision-making and to develop military science.

A 4-year PhD in Business and Economics leading to a degree that will prepare you for a career at top universities, research institutions, and companies. An international, world-class research. Experienced supervisors and the cutting edge of their research. More information on the research carried out at Hanken can be found on our web pages for Research. There you can also find a link to our research database where you can browse for information on our current research projects and recent publications by researchers affiliated with Hanken.