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.

Swansea Bay City Deal (SBCD) Digital Infrastructure Project Funded PhD Scholarship: SMART-AGE: Smart Wearable Technologies for an Inclusive Future (RS692)

Health Technologies

Closing date: 6 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded MSc by Research Scholarship: Maximising carbon sequestration and storage within an urban university campus setting (RS715)

Biosciences

Closing date: 11 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC DTP and Swansea University PhD Scholarship: Design, manufacturing and testing of “living” cellular microfluidic sensors (RS708)

Chemical Engineering

Closing date: 11 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded EPSRC and Swansea PhD Scholarship: Patchy sweet bullets against bacteria (RS687)

Chemistry

Closing date: 11 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship: Development of an Automated Process for the Design and Manufacture of a Vehicle Body Part (RS711)

Mechanical Engineering

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

Fully Funded EPSRC and Schmidt-Clemens Spain PhD Scholarship: Modelling of Complex Load Cycles at Elevated Temperature (RS710)

Mechanical Engineering

Closing date: 11 November 2024.
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 (RS707)

Biomedicine

Closing date: 15 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded MSc Investigating mycotoxin development within commercial animal feed rs714

Biochemistry

Closing date: 15 November 2024.
Open to: UK applicants only.

Fully Funded PhD Research Scholarship in Cellular Memory-based Organisation and Self-Assembly In Cardiorepair rs716

Molecular and Cellular Cardiology

Closing date: 20 November 2024.
Open to: UK and international applicants.

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 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.

EPSRC DTP Funded PhD Scholarship: The effect of rotational polarisation on gas-surface reactivity (RS709)

Chemistry

Closing date: 11 November 2024.
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.