Research Scholarships

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

Join our Postgraduate Research Virtual Information Session on 8 December 2021.

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

Materials Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Scholarship: Additive Manufacturing Material Properties Generation for Critical Applications: New Approaches, Challenges & Opportunities

Closing date: 1 December 2021

Energy Innovation: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research Scholarship: Development of environmentally friendly (nano) materials for various surface coatings

Closing date: 3 December 2021

Biosciences: Fully funded Exeter/Swansea (BBSRC SWBio DTP) PhD Studentship: Novel epigenetic markers of embryo quality to improve fish domestication

Closing date: 6 December 2021

Biomedical Sciences: Fully funded Bristol/Swansea (BBSRC SWBio DTP) PhD Studentship: Intein-mediated split antibiotic markers development

Closing date: 6 December 2021

Biosciences: Fully funded Exeter/Swansea (BBSRC SWBio DTP) PhD: Corvid connections: how do social bonds influence stress, health, nutrition and cultural knowledge?

Closing date: 6 December 2021

Biosciences: Fully funded Bristol/Swansea (BBSRC SWBio DTP) PhD Studentship: Automated prediction of health and welfare in captive fish using behaviour from video

Closing date: 6 December 2021

Medical and Healthcare Studies: Fully Funded Scar Free Foundation/HCRW PhD Scholarship: RESECT - Developing REcommendations for SErvice redesign in skin Cancer managemenT

Closing date: 8 December 2021

Medical and Healthcare Studies: Fully Funded Scar Free Foundation/HCRW PhD Scholarship: RESECT - Service redesign in skin cancer management

Closing date: 8 December 2021

Physics: Fully Funded PhD with Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund

Closing date: 13 December 2021

Various subject areas: Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Engineering (RS4-SURES01): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Engineering and Science (RS5-SURES02): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Maths and Computer Science (RS6-SURES03): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Science (RS7-SURES04): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Culture (RS8-SURES05): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Education / Politics (RS9-SURES06): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Law / Sociology (RS10-SURES07): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Business Management (RS11-SURES08): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Medicine (RS12-SURES09): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Psychology (RS13-SURES10): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Health and Social Care (RS14-SURES11): Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) 2022: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships

Closing date: 15 December 2021

Biomedicine: The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea University Doctoral Research Scholarship (Welsh medium)

Closing date: 17 December 2021

Pharmacy: The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea University Doctoral Research Scholarship (Welsh medium)

Closing date: 17 December 2021

Medical Engineering: Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Scholarship: Development of deepometry for the supervised and weakly supervised learning of imaging data

Closing date: 2 February 2022

Various Subject Areas: Fully Funded UKRI CDT Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advance Computing (AIMLAC) PhD Scholarships 2022

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Mathematics (RS20-AIMLAC01): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Topological excitations and colour confinement in gauge theories

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Computer Science (RS21-AIMLAC02): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Multimodal analysis of Anatomical and Functional features

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Physics (RS22-AIMLAC03): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Ultrafast pulse shaping via machine-learning-enabled multi-element adaptive optics and levitated optomechanics

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Medicine (RS23-AIMLAC04): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Multi-view data integration to predict nanomedicine efficacy; driving the future reality?

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Physics (RS24-AIMLAC05): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Analogue Computing for Advanced Machine Learning and Sensing

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Physics (RS25-AIMLAC06): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Learning (from) lattice field theory

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Computer Science (RS26-AIMLAC07): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Visual Analytics for Public Health Network Analysis

Closing date: 11 February 2022

Computer Science (RS27-AIMLAC08): Fully Funded UKRI CDT AIMLAC PhD Scholarship: Robust Parameter Optimisation for Image Segmentation

Closing date: 11 February 2022