Science Doctoral Training Centre

Dr Emily Shepard using the Visualisation Suite

Swansea Science DTC is a community committed to undertaking world-class research

Swansea Science Doctoral Training Centre

Swansea Science is a community committed to world-class research that has a positive impact globally. The Science Doctoral Training Centre fosters a growing, vibrant community of PhD students. This community is a key dynamic in our drive to be the most creative place to do science.

The DTC provides a competitive advantage to our postgraduate researchers, preparing them for industry and academe that increasingly looks for "T" shaped thinkers: deeply skilled in a discipline but who can connect broadly with others.

Available Funded Projects:

Physics: Fully-funded Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) PhD Scholarship 2021/22: Holography, Boundary Conformal Field Theory, and the Black Hole Information Paradox (closing date: 14 March 2021)

Chemistry: Fully-funded College of Science, Faculty of Science and engineering PhD Scholarship: The chemical biology of mismatch DNA (closing date: 31 March 2021)

Biosciences: Fully-funded College of Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering PhD Scholarship - Keeping pace with climate change: A global assessment of range shift dynamics of birds of prey (closing date: 31 March 2021)

Chemistry: Fully-funded Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) PhD Scholarship 2021/22: Design and development of organic semiconducting materials for solar cells (closing date: 4 April 2021)

Computer Science: UKRI CDT fully-funded Scholarships in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Advanced Computing

Self-Funded Projects:

We have a number of self-funded PhD projects available from the following subject areas: Biosciences, Computer Science, Geography, Mathematics and Physics.

Project descriptions can be found in each subject area.

Training and Development

Students will (as a part of their professional development) have the opportunity to teach up to 6 hours a week during their tenure. These teaching duties will be remunerated in addition to the studentship stipend.

Swansea University DTC students are offered training by a variety of sources:

Science DTC Training

The Science DTC organises a number of opportunities specifically for its students through regular seminars on themes including:

Interdisciplinary thinking and methods
Research networking
Responsible Innovation and Inquiry
Public Engagement and Impact
Enterprise and entrepreneurship
Funding your research
Research-led student engagement
Communication skills
Diversity and inclusion and science

Topics

Topics are reviewed each year and suggestions for new training opportunities welcomed.

Swansea University's Postgraduate Skills Training offers courses and events open to all postgraduate students at Swansea University on generic topics such as:

Writing Tools
EndNote
N.Vivo
SPSS
LaTeX
Data Visualisation
Twitter

More Information

To find out more about the Science Doctoral Training Centre please Dr Bob Laramee or Mrs Sandra Kramcha

Training

Departmental Training is targeted at skills for specific disciplines, but are available to all Science DTC students to foster “T” shaped thinking. Opportunities include:

The Joint Visible Lunch / CODAH Seminar

The BioScience Postgraduate Seminar Series
Topics include training on Social Media, Poster preparation, Writing papers, Peer review, R

BIOM25-Core Science Skills and
BIOM25B-Science Skills and Research Methods
Targeted at Bioscience and Geography Students but open to all CoS Students. Topics include Library and internet resources including WoS, Voyager, Philosophy of science, Experimental design, Ethical issues in science, Plagiarism, Databases and spreadsheets, Presentation skills (Powerpoint and graphics packages), Data analysis with SPSS and R.

BIOM31-Term Papers for Environmental Biology
Targeted at BioScience and Geography Students but open to all CoS Students. Topics include scientific literature searches and reviews.

The College of Science Lunchtime Seminar Series

External Training is encouraged so that our students can take advantage of opportunities during their PhD, such as NERC Advanced Training Short Courses

University Training and Development for Research Students and Supervisors