Research Scholarships

Swansea University offers a number of awards for students pursuing PhD, MPhil, MRes or Master's by Research studies.

Awards are listed in closing date order then alphabetically by subject below, and are updated regularly:

Various Subject Areas: Scholarships for International Students

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Various Subject Areas: EU Transitional Bursary Scheme for Research Students 2021/22 Entry

Closing date: Apply as soon as possible

Engineering: Fully Funded EngD and MSc by Research Scholarships: College of Engineering EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Functional Industrial Coatings

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

Theoretical Physics: Fully Funded STFC PhD Scholarship 2021/22

Closing date: Apply as soon as possible

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research: Improving Efficiency of Wastewater Treatment at Morfa Coke Ovens

Closing date: 18 June 2021

Engineering: Fully Funded SUSTAIN PhD Scholarship: Fusing Remote Sensors and Digital Modelling to Create a Smart Hot Strip Mill

Closing date: 18 June 2021

Mechanical Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Optimal design for inverse problems in biomedical engineering

Closing date: 18 June 2021

Sport and Exercise Sciences: Fully Funded Lions Sports Academy PhD Scholarship: Evaluating the effectiveness of a school-based development programme

Closing date: 18 June 2021

Materials Engineering: Fully Funded Swansea University and SUSTAIN PhD Scholarship: The Generation of Domestic Hot Water from SIM (Salt in Matrix) Technologies

Closing date: 21 June 2021

Materials Engineering: Fully Funded Swansea University and SUSTAIN PhD Scholarship: Continuous Temperature Measurement of Liquid Metal

Closing date: 21 June 2021

Materials Engineering: Fully Funded Swansea University and SUSTAIN PhD Scholarship: Fireproof High Efficiency Inorganic Building Insulation from Waste Industrial Slag

Closing date: 21 June 2021

Civil Engineering: Fully Funded DSTL PhD Scholarship: Accelerated in-silico characterisation, topology optimisation and design of Electro Active Polymer based soft robots

Closing date: 28 June 2021

Civil Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC iCASE PhD: A new computational tool for the analysis of Floor Borne Vibrations on the performance and image quality of MRI scanners

Closing date: 30 June 2021

Various Subject Areas: Hywel Teifi Edwards Memorial Scholarship for Postgraduate Research through the Medium of Welsh

Closing date: 30 June 2021

Various subject areas: The James Pantyfedwen Foundation Grant for Welsh Postgraduate Students

Closing date: 30 June 2021

Medicine: Fully Funded EPSRC and Houston Methodist Research Institute PhD: Overcoming transport barriers for multistage delivery of extracellular vesicles in oncology

Closing date: 2 July 2021

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research Scholarship: Novel Nanostructured Anodes for Green Energy Battery Storage

Closing date: 4 July 2021

Sport Science: Fully Funded Asthma UK PhD: Location, location, location: identifying the trade-off between being active and being exposed to air pollution for children

Closing date: 5 July 2021

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Novel additions to enhance galvanic corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys

Closing date: 16 July 2021

Various Subjects: FindAPhD Scholarship 2021/22

Closing date: 31 August 2021