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

Scholarships for International Students

Various Subject Areas

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Science and Engineering

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Biosciences, Geography and Physics

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded PhD and EngD Scholarships in Engineering and Applied Sciences

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded PhD Scholarships in Mathematics and Computer Science

Science and Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Scholarships: EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Functional Industrial Coatings

Engineering

Closing date: Please see individual adverts.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Examining Biomechanical, Neuromuscular, and Muscle-Tendon Changes Following Meniscal Surgery (RS288)

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Closing date: 2 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Design and Modelling of a Novel Biomass Sensor (RS351)

Aerospace Engineering

Closing date: 5 June 2023 (23:59 BST).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Funded IGNITION Horizon Europe Project MSc by Research Scholarship: Developing Operational Welfare Indicators for the whiteleg shrimp (RS358)

Biosciences

Closing date: 5 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Developing Simulation Frontiers for Future Urban Air Mobility Safety Investigation (RS355)

Aerospace Engineering

Closing date: 7 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded UK Dstl PhD Scholarship: Optomechanical Sensing for Inertia, Accelerometry and Navigation (RS357)

Physics

Closing date: 14 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea, EPSRC and Bruker-nano PhD: Analysing the forces, biomechanics and molecular mechanisms that drive cancer metastasis in vitro (RS359)

Biomedical Engineering

Closing date: 16 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Cancer Research Wales PhD Scholarship: Developing Small-Molecule inhibitors of GATA2 (RS343)

Medical and Health Care Studies

Closing date: 19 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Lhasa PhD Scholarship: Developing quantitative Adverse Outcome Pathways (qAOPs) for genotoxicity (RS360)

Medical and Health Care Studies

Closing date: 21 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea City AFC PhD Scholarship: The application of advanced data analytics to predict match outcome in the EFL Championship (RS348)

Biomedical Engineering

Closing date: 26 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea University and Swim Wales PhD Scholarship: The application of advanced data analytics to monitor training load and predict success (RS347)

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Closing date: 26 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Exploring high-resolution temporal correspondence in video instance segmentation (RS335)

Computer Science

Closing date: 28 June 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea University and CISM PhD Scholarship: Advanced Dielectrics for Next Generation Electronics and Optoelectronics (RS356)

Materials Engineering

Closing date: 12 July 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Water as a Contested Space (RS352)

Law

Closing date: 14 July 2023 (23:59 BST).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea University and VisiFish PhD Scholarship: Behavioural Metrics of Welfare in Aquaculture (RS340)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 31 July 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea University and TWI PhD: Integration of AI model-based and physics-based digital twin for predictive non-destructive evaluation (RS349)

Computer Science

Closing date: 23 August 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Postgrad Solutions Study Bursaries 2023/24

Various Subjects

Closing date: 30 September 2023.
Open to: UK and international applicants.