Research Scholarships

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

Awards are listed alphabetically by subject below, and are updated regularly:

Various Subject Areas: Scholarships for International Students

Closing date: Please see individual adverts

College of Science: MRes Scholarships 2019

Closing date: 19 July 2019

Aerospace Engineering: College of Engineering Centenary PhD Scholarship: Innovative flow control for flatback airfoils

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Biochemical Engineering: Fully Funded KESS II PhD Scholarship: Functional coatings for next generation diagnostics

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Computer Science: Fully Funded PhD Scholarships: Enhancing collaborations and interactions with data and intelligence driven systems

Closing date: 22 March 2019

Electrical and Electronic Engineering: Fully Funded KESS II PhD Scholarship: Advanced oxides for next generation semiconductor devices applied to renewable energy systems / aerospace / energy harvest

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Electrical Engineering: Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Design of a Combined Energy Storage and Photovoltaic Energy System to Enhance Voltage Profile in Weak Power Grids

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Energy Innovation: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research Scholarship: Development of green low surface energy (superhydrophobic) materials for various surfaces

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research Scholarship: Characterisation of batteries by Raman spectroscopy

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research Scholarship: CORROSION RESISTANCE OF SUPER DUPLEX STAINLESS STEELS - THE INFLUENCE OF COPPER AND TUNGSTEN ADDITION

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research Scholarship: DIRECT TO METAL ANTI-CORROSIVE COATINGS

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A MSc by Research Scholarship: Optimisation of High Yield Steel Coil Processing Characteristics

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarships: 19 projects available

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Effect of Steel Cleanness and Solidification on Product Performance

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Development of improved formability Advanced High Strength Steel

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD: Effects of residual elements from scraps on steel processing and service properties of typical strip steel products

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Steel surface emissivity evolution during slab reheating

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Optimising hydraulic descaling and water spray cooling during hot rolling at Tata Port Talbot

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Development of Cr free rolls for steel production to meet new environmental challenges

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Effects of Mineralogy on Sinter Reduction-disintegration Properties and Correlation with Blast Furnace Performance

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Use of a Mini Coke Oven to Increase Value in Use Coking Coal Blends

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Use of Sinter Pot pilot facility to optimise Sinter Plant performance

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Using wireless remote sensors to create a Smart Hot Strip Mill

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Advanced control of Zinc coating weights on a modern steel galvanising line to meet the needs of the automotive industry

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: The Development of MgZn Metallic Coated Steels for Automotive Applications

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Resource capture from oily steel making sludge and scales for recycling and environmental protection

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD: NEW MATERIALS FOR CATALYSIS: SOLVENT-FREE SYNTHESIS, ATOMIC IMAGING AND SELECTIVITY VIA NANOPARTICLE BEAM DEPOSITION

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: The effect of peening on isothermal and non-isothermal fatigue behaviour in Nickel Disc Alloy RR1000

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Studies of Coatings, Lifetime and Circular Economy of Resin-Wood Composites

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Intrinsically delamination-resistant protective organic coatings for steel surfaces

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Innovative high performance coatings for grain oriented electrical steel

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Engineering: Fully Funded M2A EngD Scholarship: Development of a novel nanofiber biosensing coating using a scalable electrospinning technique

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Health Economics: Fully Funded KESS II PhD Scholarship: Modelling the impact of the Tenovus Cancer Care Mobile Cancer Support Units for supporting people with cancer in Wales

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Materials Engineering: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research Scholarship: Tackling Acid Mine Drainage Pollutant through Solar Energy based Photoelectrocatalysis Technology

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Materials/ Chemical Engineering: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research: Cadmium Metal Mine Pollutant Removal through Nano-adsorbents and their Recovery for Photocatalysis Applications

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Materials Science: Fully Funded PhD or EngD Scholarships in Structural Materials for Gas Turbine Applications

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Medical Engineering: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research Scholarship: Numerical modelling of blood flow through medical devices for oxygenating and pumping blood

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Medical and Health Care Studies: Cancer Therapeutics: Fully Funded KESS II PhD Scholarship: Therapeutic targeting of vulnerabilities in mTORC1 overactive tumours

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Nanotechnology: Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: New materials for catalysis: solvent–free synthesis, atomic imaging and selectivity via nanoparticle beam deposition

Closing date: 28 February 2019

Physics: Tuition Fee Reduction PhD Scholarships for International Candidates

Closing date: Applications accepted all year round

Physics: Fully Funded EuroPLEx PhD Scholarship in Lattice Gauge Theory

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Psychology: Fully Funded KESS II MSc by Research Scholarship: Feasibility of conducting a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of Resilience Intervention Training

Closing date: 22 February 2019

Social Policy / Business Management: Fully Funded KESS II PhD Scholarship: Bringing dying home: An evaluation of a volunteer model to reconfigure end of life care

Closing date: 22 February 2019