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Global Research highlights
World-leading and Internationally Excellent research
A snapshot of our research highlights
Here you will find a gateway to some of our international and world-leading research.
Mapping Civil Society in the Philippines
Research currently being undertaken by Dr Gerard Clarke, College of Science.
In countries where democracy underpins the constitutional order, civil society plays an important role in complementing the state and the private sector...
Calving Glaciers
On 28 June 2011, Professor Tavi Murray (Geography) was interviewed by BBC Science Correspondent. Read and listen more here...
CERN
At 8.30am (BST) on September 10th 2011, the world held its breath as CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, switched on its so-called ‘Big Bang’ machine.
Questioning Scale in Urban Cities
Research undertaken by Dr Richard G. Smith, Senior Lecturer, Human Geography in the College of Science. Excerpt taken from a chapter in his recent book 'Urban Studies Without 'Scale': Localising the Global through Singapore'
BLOODHOUND SSC
Over the last 30 years Swansea University has been at the forefront of international research in the area of computational engineering. Find out how our expertise is used in the BLOODHOUND supersonic car.
Immigration
Professor Heaven Crawley has recently completed research on why asylum seekers come to the UK. She is based in the College of Science and is Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research.