Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Swansea University, United Kingdom invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Corrosion costs the UK around 3% of its GDP, this is around half the entire budget of the NHS. This project will design, make and test novel zinc based alloys that can be used in applications such as off shore wind to protect turbines from the harsh marine environment, in coatings for cars and trucks helping to extend life but also reduce weight and in buildings to prevent corrosion the likes of which were seen in schools because of the use of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete. Swansea University is well known for coatings and corrosion research and has unique equipment that can directly support this project. This PhD will use rapid alloy prototyping techniques combined with electrochemical corrosion assessment to design, prototype, screen, upscale, assess and demo the next generation of corrosion resistant zinc-based coatings.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Biological Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
Many animals form stable social relationships between specific individuals. These relationships are extremely beneficial but also come with costs. For example, trade-offs exist with respect to stress (social buffering versus social stress) and transmission of health (beneficial gut microbiota) and disease (parasites, viruses) but are little understood because of the challenges of collecting appropriate data in the wild. To understand these trade-offs, this interdisciplinary PhD will use and extend a worldwide unique data set on wild baboon social behaviour and health. Sociality is studied in unprecedented detail, with simultaneous data for 16 individuals. GPS and acceleration data from bespoke tracking collars provide information on behaviour and social interactions/proximity every second over several months. Health information comes from >350 urine and >600 faecal samples collected in the field.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The goal of this project is to a) study and examine the failure mechanisms of WBG (particularly gallium nitride) devices, b) compare different methodologies for predicting or modelling the gate-oxide reliability of WBG power MOSFETs and identify the gap for both offline reliability and lifetime estimation and possible online condition monitoring from transistor signals, c) design, simulate and practically implement the required circuit configuration and the final multi-channel test rig for concurrent reliability testing and examining the failure mechanisms, d) develop conventional statistical approaches and artificial intelligence (AI) models from data provided by testing a large number of samples under controlled conditions to validate and generalise the research findings and e) recommend future work to implement the realised improvements.
Application Deadline: 1 May 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The number of scientific papers published is increasing rapidly every year. The overwhelming volume of the literature makes it challenging to keep up with the latest research and developments. Working closely with the project partner QinetiQ, this project will combine state-of-the-art machine learning methods, natural language models and image recognition to develop a human-in-the-loop system for systematic reviews and predictive analytics. We envisage that the system will be able to collate and analyse a significant amount of research publications. Furthermore, we expect the system to quantify and extrapolate research trends that may have significant impacts on technology development.
Application Deadline: 1 May 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
This project aims to investigate two key factors that undermine compliance with public policymaking on topics such as health (e.g., vaccinations) or sustainable behaviour (e.g., speeding restrictions, low carbon zones): 1. People’s distrust in public health officials, especially those they disagree with, and 2. people’s misperceptions of social norms (i.e., whether others like them would comply or not). Research published by our team showed that people support policies less when these are proposed by leaders they dislike or distrust (Cole et al., 2022; Flores et al., 2022); and that people agree with others that protecting health is important – yet, despite such agreement, they underestimate how much others will comply with COVID-19 restrictions (Cole et al., under review). Increasing trust in leaders and correcting misperceptions about others’ opinions can reduce polarization and achieve support for public policies.
Application Deadline: 10 April 2024
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microbiology and Immunology
Summary of PhD Program:
Antimicrobial resistance, identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the “next major pandemic,” poses a substantial threat, projected to cause 10 million deaths by 2050. Priority pathogens, including multi-drug resistant strains of Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species (collectively known as ESKAPE pathogens), are recognized as the primary contributors to nosocomial infections. The primary objective of this research project is to address the imminent challenges posed by antimicrobial resistance by developing novel antimicrobials capable of reducing the viability of ESKAPE pathogens. The project specifically aims to identify novel targets and validate the binding efficacy of compounds to these targets. Initial investigations have successfully identified several promising compounds through in silico analyses.
Application Deadline: 10 April 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Gerontology and Ageing Studies (Regenerative Medicine)
Summary of PhD Program:
Ageing is a growing fundamental economic and social challenge since the age structure of our population will change markedly during this century. Despite significant improvements in living conditions and healthcare leading to increasing life expectancy, it is extremely rare to grow old in good health and by the age of 85 essentially no individual is disease-free. As such, drug discovery research is focusing on potential interventions that enhance the human health span. One area of research focus is on the reversal of cellular senescence, and so there has been a rapid development of interventions that behave as senolytic drugs. One such drug is Resveratrol, a naturally occurring plant compound that is thought to reverse cellular senescence through its action on SIRT1.
Application Deadline: 10 April 2024
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
Swansea University is pleased to offer fully-funded Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) for full-time doctoral students to its fifth cohort, commencing in October 2024. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease, effecting 10 million people worldwide. PD is characterised by motor and non-motor impairments – with >70% progressing to dementia at an accelerated rate. Existing treatments for the motor impairments work in ~50% of those affected and do not address the underlying pathology, while there is no effective treatment for dementia. A therapy that slows dementia progression would have unprecedented impact on the health and social care sectors.
Application Deadline: 3 April 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Business Management
Summary of PhD Program:
Swansea University is pleased to offer fully-funded Swansea University Research Excellence Scholarships (SURES) for full-time doctoral students to its fifth cohort, commencing in October 2024. The research will address the issues of well-being, regional development and ecosystems, specifically the emergence of purposeful ecosystems. It will do this through a focus on The Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales, 2015) and the ecosystem within Wales. The project will undertake one of the first in depth primary research projects of this type. The specific aim is to understand how the Well-being of Future Generations Act (Wales, 2015) is being embedded and implemented both within the public sector and private sector, the influence of the ecosystem (specifically a purposeful ecosystem) on this and vice versa and to enable suggestions and recommendations to be made moving forward.
Application Deadline: 3 April 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Civil Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The comfortability of high-speed railway (HSR) is crucial as it directly affects passengers’ willingness of selection. In current engineering practice, the normal way is to analyse it through Newmark integration method based on the monitored data of vibration, acceleration, substructure deformation, etc. Recently, with the development of machine learning, data-driven method has become a powerful tool for civil engineers. Especially, Physics Informed Machine Learning (PIMM) can be used as a comprehensive analysis considering both physics-based analysis, i.e. the HSR dynamics, and the data-based analysis, i.e. deep learning methods. This project aims to analyse the HSR comfortability using PIMM and will validate the applicability and test the accuracy on real HSR engineering projects.
Application Deadline: 1 April 2024
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This PhD will suit applicants who are keen to make a difference in how we utilise advanced materials in a sustainable economy. Applicants with undergraduate degrees in Environmental Science, Engineering, Maths or the Physical Sciences will be suited to the position. The research focus can be adjusted depending on the experience of the successful candidate. This project tackles the challenge of predicting environmental impacts in solar panel manufacturing where the number of data sets available for some of the materials and processes are limited. This is critical to accelerate progress to lower emission manufacturing of renewable technologies.
Application Deadline: 27 March 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
We invite applications for PhD study in Mathematics at Swansea University. This will be funded by the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research from their UKRI/EPSRC award “Heilbronn Doctoral Partnership (HDP)”. In addition to undertaking cutting-edge research, student on this programme may expect to participate in summer workshops in years 1-3. It is anticipated these will be about 4 weeks in length and residential in nature (with extra costs covered as appropriate).
Application Deadline: 22 March 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This 4-year PhD position, part of the STRIPS Project at Swansea University, offers a unique opportunity to delve into the device operating physics of mesoporous carbon perovskite solar cells. The project will focus on using optoelectronic perturbation techniques such as transient photovoltage decay and impedance spectroscopy to probe the fundamental aspects of these innovative solar cells. You will join a dynamic doctoral cohort comprising 4-6 PhD students across 5 research groups, all commencing in 2024. This setup fosters a collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment, enabling you to work closely with peers and experts within Swansea University and across the UK.
