Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Swansea University, Wales, 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 Computer science
Summary of PhD Program:
The project aims to study the feasibility of developing an AI model-based digital twin model, trained by the simulated data from physics-based model for predictive NDE. This will be achieved by systematically integrating modelling, data and AI into digital twin practices, and be delivered through the following inter-linked and measurable objectives:
- Develop appropriate AI model and digital twin framework to work with data acquired for different NDT disciplines (e.g. acoustic emission, ultrasound and computed tomography).
- Study, develop and validate AI models as model-based digital twin for the test specimen to predict the health conditions, which can be calibrated and improved using online test data
- Develop novel methods to enhance current NDT capability by exploiting AI as predictive model (using data acquired over time).
Application Deadline: 23 August 2023
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sports Ethics and Integrity
Summary of PhD Program:
Exploring the factors that influence an individual’s vulnerability to engaging in behaviours that threaten the integrity of sport. It is a joint PhD between Swansea University and NSSS. It is one of 17 PhDs on offer through a Doctoral Network (DAiSI) funded by the EU, UKRI and Swiss Government. The Doctoral Training Network in Sport Ethics and Integrity (DAiSI) has established an interdisciplinary network of research institutions and non governmental organisations in the field of sport ethics and integrity. It will produce a cohort of doctoral candidates (DCs) that are capable of understanding, developing, and critiquing the complex ethico-legal challenges in sporting contexts around the globe.
Application Deadline: 11 September 2023
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sports Ethics and Integrity
Summary of PhD Program:
It is a joint PhD between Swansea University and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität (JGU) Mainz. It is one of 17 PhDs on offer through a Doctoral Network (DAiSI) funded by the EU, UKRI and Swiss Government. The Doctoral Training Network in Sport Ethics and Integrity (DAiSI) has established an interdisciplinary network of research institutions and non governmental organisations in the field of sport ethics and integrity. It will produce a cohort of doctoral candidates (DCs) that are capable of understanding, developing, and critiquing the complex ethico-legal challenges in sporting contexts around the globe.
Application Deadline: 11 September 2023
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sports Ethics and Integrity
Summary of PhD Program:
The project will identify the critical sports integrity stakeholders within football and model the optimal distribution of responsibilities and cooperation between those stakeholders when it comes to education and prevention. It will identify and analyse the strategies implemented and tools used to raise awareness among various football populations that can be targeted to fix matches and become involved in such corruption schemes. It will develop a model of stakeholder’s obligations regarding detection and reporting, and how to cope with related information.
Application Deadline: 11 September 2023
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Data Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this PhD project is to investigate whether team performance indicators (PIs) are effective at predicting match outcomes in professional football played within the EFL Championship. The candidate will review current team performance indicators and apply these to legacy data from our project partner, Swansea City FC, to retrospectively establish their efficacy in match prediction.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2023
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrochemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The aim of this project is to form a PhD in the field of hydrogen, electrochemistry and electrochemical engineering leading to the demonstration of particulate electrochemical printing with recycled platinum. The use of critical materials, the regeneration of industrial wastes and the hydrogen economy within a sustainable energy infrastructure of the future are fundamental areas in need of research breakthroughs.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
In collaboration with Tata Steel Building Systems UK, this iCASE PhD seeks to develop new lightweight, highly insulating, limited combustibility materials for use in sandwich panels for building façade systems in the construction sector. The aim is to develop limited combustibility insulating panels that have the potential to drive a market shift away from traditional insulation types. Furthermore, the plan is to use waste industrial by-products as raw materials and to deliver products which are fully recyclable at the end of panel life. As such, the new insulation materials will reduce embedded carbon compared to fossil-fuel based organic insulation materials, enhance steel panel system sustainability and ensure that there is no requirement for panel landfilling following building deconstruction.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Swansea Physics Department is inviting applications for doctoral studentship from UK candidates from under-represented groups, funded jointly by Swansea University and the “Bell Burnell Graduate Studentship”.
Applicants (e.g. women, BAME, disabled) will be awarded the studentship on the basis of excellence. The research topic must be within the following core research areas and remits of the Swansea Physics Department:
- Applied physics and materials
- Atomic, Molecular and Quantum physics
- Particle physics and Cosmology
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The proposed doctoral project will investigate the transmission of parasites and other pathogens between the lump fish (Cyclopterus lumpus,), a cleaner fish used by the salmon aquaculture industry as an alternative to chemicals to treat sea-lice, and the salmon (Salmo salar). Parasites thrive under aquaculture high-density conditions, causing high mortality and economic losses. Using fish (e.g. lumpfish and wrasse) to remove parasites from salmon in aquaculture settings is considered a sustainable alternative to using chemicals. However, there is virtually no research into the effects of forced coexistence of non-coexisting species together, especially at high densities. One of the major dangers that has emerged is the translocation of parasites that can potentially have evolutionary consequences for the host organism and the parasite, as well as unpredictable health consequences for both species.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Information and Communication Technology
Summary of PhD Program:
Cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) is emerging as a revolutionary semiconductor exhibiting a remarkably close electron mobility of 1400 cm2/Vs (1400 cm2/Vs for silicon) and hole mobility of about 2100 cm2/Vs (450 cm2/Vs for silicon), at room temperature. While the electron mobility is comparable to silicon, the hole mobility is substantially larger. Additionally, the c-BAs measured thermal conductivity is 1000 to 1300 W/mK, well above silicon (140 W/mK). These outstanding transport properties of c-BA call for great improvements in digital, radio-frequency (mobile computing), and photovoltaic (solar cells) applications.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mechanical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Swansea University and the UKAEA are collaboratively developing ‘virtual engineering’ capabilities for digital twinning of fusion reactor components. This is in view of enabling better understanding and prediction of fusion reactor systems. For the creation of reliable digital twins, which are typically represented as parameterised mathematical models, three key problems are important:
- data integration, i.e., how can measured data be efficiently and reliably integrated into a physics-based model,
- the problem of optimal design, i.e., determination of the necessary minimum number of measurements along with their spatial/temporal distributions such that the model reliable,
- the problem of data-assimilation, i.e., as more measurements are longitudinally acquired, how can system parameters be dynamically and continuously updated so that the discrepancy between the model output and measurements remains low.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computer Science
Summary of PhD Program:
The automotive sector is driving uptake of semiconductor devices – the rapidly expanding automotive semiconductor market (worth $35 billion in 2020) is powered by growth of Electric, Hybrid and Autonomous Vehicles sectors. Defect-free semiconductor device product yields of >90% will be required to enable this revolution. 98% of semiconductor manufacturing firms expect to increase efficacy with digital technologies, with AI (Machine Learning) set to transform the global semiconductor industry over the next decade, through automated inspection, defect recognition and step changes in quality control and yield. Semiconductor device manufacturing comprises processes including wafer production, photolithography, insulator growth, deposition, etching and metal deposition). Each process step has variables, which can lead to defects.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2023
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Cubic boron arsenide (c-BAs) is emerging as a revolutionary semiconductor exhibiting a remarkably close electron mobility of 1400 cm2/Vs (1400 cm2/Vs for silicon) and hole mobility of about 2100 cm2/Vs (450 cm2/Vs for silicon), at room temperature. While the electron mobility is comparable to silicon, the hole mobility is substantially larger. Additionally, the c-BAs measured thermal conductivity is 1000 to 1300 W/mK, well above silicon (140 W/mK). These outstanding transport properties of c-BA call for great improvements in digital, radio-frequency (mobile computing), and photovoltaic (solar cells) applications.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Robotics
Summary of PhD Program:
Assembly and disassembly of uncertain shapes, sizes, conditions, and fiddly shaped objects forms a great challenge in manufacturing when considered for automated and robotic processes. This is because it needs a lot of correct identification, dexterity, flexibility, and manoeuvring capabilities of the manipulators. In most cases, it ends-up for manual and tedious processes with limited or no robotics support to human operators. However, this results in increased cost of product repair, end of life decommissioning, and disassembly for replacing parts. This project will focus on understanding the technologies and methods required for flexible and adaptable autonomous assembly and disassembly processes using robotic manipulators associated with humanoid hands and vision system for human-like performance for uncertain shapes, sizes, conditions, and fiddly shaped objects.
Application Deadline: 15 November 2023
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Swansea Physics Department is inviting applications for doctoral studentship from UK candidates from under-represented groups, funded jointly by Swansea University and the “Bell Burnell Graduate Studentship”. Applicants (e.g. women, BAME, disabled) will be awarded the studentship on the basis of excellence. The research topic must be within the following core research areas and remits of the Swansea Physics Department:
- Applied physics and materials
- Atomic, Molecular and Quantum physics
- Particle physics and Cosmology
Application Deadline: 18 September 2023
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Microbiology
Summary of PhD Program:
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the core of modern medicine, where it is projected that by 2050 drug-resistant infections could cost 10 million lives annually. The ability to treat AMR infections is further complicated when bacterial pathogens exist in biofilm communities, where biofilm-related infections are a major cause of mortality and morbidity for patients suffering with cystic fibrosis, chronic wounds and urinary tract infections. Bacterial biofilms already inherently resist conventional antibiotic therapies up to 103-fold compared to planktonic bacteria therefore, destabilisation of the biofilm polymeric matrix could be an alternative treatment strategy to enhance the action of host immune responses against AMR biofilm-related infections.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2023
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Healthcare Science
Summary of PhD Program:
This exciting project seeks to address a global challenge of improving health outcomes in low-resource, remote settings. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has the potential to revolutionise early care pathways in community and primary care settings but is not widely implemented. There are significant evidence gaps around contextual influences on outcomes. Put simply, we do not understand if or how to implement POCUS in new settings. There are challenges around safe and effective provision by non-specialist care practitioners. These challenges could potentially be addressed using novel technology such as artificial intelligence and assisted reality; these aspects will be examined during the project.
Application Deadline: 6 September 2023
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Psychology
Summary of PhD Program:
Effective communication essential in reducing the global burden of disease. This project will examine the concept of ‘alert fatigue’, that is mental state that comes from receiving too many ‘alerts’ (messages), that can lead to confusion or ‘information overload’. The project is based on recent research on alert fatigue by the supervisors during the coronavirus pandemic that has contributed to government policy across the UK (Williams et al., 2021). Communication is also a central issue for the COVID-19 enquiry and the supervisors published a scoping review on communication during the pandemic with the Royal Society (Williams et al., in press). However, there is little research into the nature of, and what exactly triggers, alert fatigue, and this information is essential for future public health messaging worldwide.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2023
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in Materials Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
In collaboration with Tata Steel Building Systems UK, this iCASE PhD seeks to develop new lightweight, highly insulating, limited combustibility materials for use in sandwich panels for building façade systems in the construction sector. The aim is to develop limited combustibility insulating panels that have the potential to drive a market shift away from traditional insulation types. Furthermore, the plan is to use waste industrial by-products as raw materials and to deliver products which are fully recyclable at the end of panel life. As such, the new insulation materials will reduce embedded carbon compared to fossil-fuel based organic insulation materials, enhance steel panel system sustainability and ensure that there is no requirement for panel landfilling following building deconstruction.
