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 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 SWBio PhD: Microbiome-parasite relationships and dynamics in livestock in response to pasture management and ecological stressors (RS447)

Biosciences

Closing date: 4 December 2023 (Midnight- GMT).
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded SWBio PhD Scholarship: Understanding the molecular basis of Sitophilus olfaction (RS448)

Biosciences

Closing date: 4 December 2023 (Midnight- GMT).
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC iCASE and UK DSTL PhD Scholarship: Time varying control of multi-material Electro-Active Polymer soft robots (RS440)

Civil Engineering

Closing date: 6 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Exploring mechanisms of phosphate remediation in micro-algae (RS465)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 8 December 2023 (23:59 GMT).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Informing the recovery of the UK's rarest amphibian (RS464)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 8 December 2023 (23:59 GMT).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Enumeration degrees and topology (RS462)

Computer Science

Closing date: 8 December 2023 (23:59 GMT).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES): Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Enriched motives and transfers (RS463)

Mathematics

Closing date: 8 December 2023 (23:59 GMT).
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded England & Great Britain Hockey MSc by Research Scholarship: The application of a single-visit, overground running power-duration profile (RS487)

Sport and Exercise Science

Closing date: 11 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: Parasites in Aquaculture (RS496)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: The impact of language on eye health in optical practices in Wales (RS497)

Biomedicine

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: Tracking volcanic ash in the Antarctic to date past climate change (RS500)

Geography

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: 'Is Fair Weather coming again?' The discussions about climate change (RS495)

History

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: How do Welsh-English bilinguals use and switch their languages (RS494)

Psychology

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and Swansea Welsh Medium PhD Scholarship: The Life and Work of Norah Isaac (1914-2003) (RS499)

Welsh / Welsh History

Closing date: 13 December 2023.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentships

Various subject areas

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Business and Management Pathway (RS473)

Business and Management

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Human Geography Pathway (RS474)

Human Geography

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Human Geography pathway (RS505)

Human Geography

Closing date: 12 January 2024.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Journalism and Democracy Pathway (RS472)

Media Studies

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Data Science, Health and Wellbeing Pathway (RS471)

Population and Health Data Science

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Psychology Pathway (RS475)

Psychology

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Social Policy/Social Care Pathway (RS478)

Social Policy / Social Care

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in Sociology or in Science and Technology Studies pathway (RS476)

Sociology / Science and Technology

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in Sport and Exercise Science pathway (RS477)

Sport and Exercise Science

Closing date: 12 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Thermal Mechanical Joints (RS460)

Aerospace Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea PhD Scholarship: Deciphering microbiome complexity using biological big data and artificial intelligence (RS454)

Biological Sciences

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2024 (RS482)

Biosciences, Geography and Physics

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Robotic third arm for harvesting assistance (RS486)

Computer Science

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Vertical Multi-Purpose Farming Robotic System (RS485)

Computer Science

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Effective dimensions: applications of computability theory to geometric measure theory (RS459)

Computer Science

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Explainable AI for Mathematical Modelling (RS489)

Computer Science

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Design, manufacturing and testing of “living” cellular microfluidic sensors (RS488)

Chemical Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Fluid dynamics of glacial sediments (RS484)

Chemical Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Microstructural Evolution in Shear Thickening Fluids (RS483)

Chemical Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea PhD Scholarship: Patchy sweet bullets against bacteria (RS456)

Chemistry

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC & Swansea University PhD: Studying molecule-surface interaction potentials using magnetic molecular interference experiments (RS490)

Chemistry

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded Swansea University and Silvaco PhD Scholarship: New quantum transmitting boundary method code for transport device simulations (RS492)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2024 (RS479)

Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: Please see advert.

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2024 (RS480)

Engineering and Applied Sciences

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Schmidt-Clemens Spain PhD Scholarship: Modelling of Complex Load Cycles at Elevated Temperature (RS498)

Mechanical Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Reconstruction of Mixed-Up Messages (RS458)

Mathematics

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded UKRI and Swansea PhD Scholarship: Optimal problems under contagious markets with regime switching and risk uncertainty (RS455)

Mathematics

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2024 (RS481)

Mathematics and Computer Science

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: Please see advert.

Swansea University Faculty of Science and Engineering Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) PhD Scholarships 2024

Science and Engineering

Closing date: 26 January 2024.
Open to: Please see advert.

Fully Funded UKRI and Swansea Bay University Health Board PhD Scholarship: Mathematical modelling the role of circulating tumour DNA (RS466)

Mathematics

Closing date: 12 February 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Confinement, Holography and Matrix Models (RS467)

Theoretical Physics

Closing date: 14 February 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Dualities in Gauge Field Theories and String Theory (RS468)

Theoretical Physics

Closing date: 14 February 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded STFC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Replica wormholes, semiclassical saddles and quantum gravity (RS491)

Theoretical Physics

Closing date: 14 February 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Tuition fees ONLY Welsh Government part-time DBA Scholarships: Value-Based Health and Care Academy Scholarship (RS469)

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Closing date: 28 February 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded Swansea University and Swim Wales PhD Scholarship: The application of advanced data analytics to monitor physical performance metrics (RS493)

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Closing date: 28 February 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.