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.

Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarships 2025

Various Subject Areas

Closing date: 15 July 2025.
Open to: Please see advert.

Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarships 2024

Humanities and Social Sciences

Closing date: 15 July 2025.
Open to: Please see advert.

Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarships 2024

Science and Engineering

Closing date: 15 July 2025.
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.

UKRI and Swansea University Funded PhD Scholarship: Optimal Problems under Contagious Markets with Regime Switching and Risk Uncertainty (RS691)

Mathematics

Closing date: 2 December 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Scholarship in the Applied Linguistics and Bilingualism pathway (RS712)

Applied Linguistics and Bilingualism

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Business and Management Pathway (RS697)

Business Management

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Digital Economy and Society pathway (RS704)

Digital Economy and Society

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Economics pathway (RS695)

Economics

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Education pathway (RS696)

Education

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Environmental Planning pathway (RS702)

Geography / Environmental Planning

Closing date: 11 December 2024 .
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Collaborative Studentship in the Human Geography pathway (RS700)

Human Geography

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) Studentship in the Empirical Studies in Law and Criminology pathway (RS693)

Law and Criminology

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Journalism and Democracy pathway (RS698)

Media Studies

Closing date: 11 December 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 (RS694)

Population and Health Data Science

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Global Language Based Area Studies/Politics/IR pathway (RS703)

Politics and International Relations

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Studentship in the Psychology pathway (RS701)

Psychology

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Scholarship in the Social Policy/Social Care pathway (RS705)

Social Policy/ Social Care

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Scholarship in Sociology or in Science and Technology Studies pathway (RS706)

Sociology and Science & Technology

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded PhD EPSRC Studentship in advanced numerical methods for curing process simulation of fibre-reinforced composites (RS717)

Science and Engineering

Closing date: 9th December 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

ESRC Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) PhD Scholarship in the Sport and Exercise Science pathway (RS713)

Sport and Exercise Science

Closing date: 11 December 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded SUSPRS PhD Studentship: Cubic Silicon Carbide (3C-SiC) Transistor Structures for High-Efficiency Power Electronics (RS722)

Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Closing date: 16 December 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC PhD Studentship: Human-in-the-Loop Robot Control and Learning based on AI methods

AI and Robotics

Closing date: 13 January 2025.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Explainable Artificial Intelligence Computing Research (RS718)

Computer Science

Closing date: 13 January 2025.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship: Vertical Multi-Purpose Farming Robotic System (RS676)

Computer Science

Closing date: 24 February 2025.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully funded PhD in the BBSRC Molecular basis for differential susceptibility to stress in freshwater invertebrates (RS709)

Agriculture and the Environment

Closing date: 11th December 2024 .
Open to: UK and international applicants.