Reddit mentions of Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art

I'm interested in PhDs in the arts too! Sounds like you're from the UK - I'm in the States and practice-based PhDs in the arts haven't caught on here, at least for visual arts. The university that I work at offers a Doctor in Musical Arts (DMA?) and a PhD in Digital & Experimental Arts (with a focus on music) and a third research degree in music, however. I'm unsure how research- or practice-oriented those programs are.

I'm looking at things from a visual arts perspective, so I'm unsure of how useful this info will be, but three books that I found helpful are Artists with PhDs, Artist Scholar, and Should I Go To Grad School. That last one is probably going to be of the most interest to you. It's a collection of short essays written by people who have gone through graduate programs, with a focus on the MFA and Humanities PhD. As with most literature on graduate degrees in the humanities, it's sobering - but it also has a lot of interesting anecdotal accounts.

Edit: This book is on my reading list but I'm not very familiar with its content - it may be of interest to you as well - Experimental Systems: Future Knowledge in Artistic Research