Global Research highlights

  • A snapshot of our research highlights

    Here you will find a snapshot and a gateway to some of our world-leading and internationally excellent research.  Our research efforts stretch far and wide across the globe.  

     

     

  • Mapping Civil Society in the Philippines

    Mapping Civil Society in the Phillppines

    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...

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  • Questioning Scale in Urban Cities

    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'

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  • Calving Glaciers

    Calving Glaciers

    On 28 June 2011, Professor Tavi Murray (Geography) was interviewed by BBC Science Correspondent.  Read and listen more here...

  • BLOODHOUND SSC

    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. 

  • CERN

    CERN

    At 8.30am (BST) on September 10th, the world held its breath as CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, switched on its so-called ‘Big Bang’ machine.

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  • Immigration

    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. 

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