If you’re a Masters degree holder and seeking Fully Funded PhD Programs, Swansea University, United Kingdom has several online applications open for PhD programs. Explore the PhD opportunities across diverse research areas and submit your application soon.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Silicon has traditionally dominated as the semiconductor for power electronics, but its inherent limitations such as narrow bandgap (and thus operating voltage) has led to an increasing focus on next-generation wider bandgap compound semiconductors with superior characteristics. Further development of GaN and SiC (and in the future Ga2O3) power devices will be transformational, enabling revolutionary changes in energy efficiency, reduced size and weight and lower overall system costs – important considerations for Net Zero and the ‘electric revolution’.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2024
2. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The candidate will employ an exciting interdisciplinary approach, commencing with polymer and glycochemistry to engineer patchy glycosystems. These systems will be thoroughly characterized in our modern University laboratory using SEM, AFM, and TEM. The efficacy of these materials will be assessed against different bacterial strains in the Institute of Life Sciences at Swansea University. A comprehensive training programme will be provided by an interdisciplinary supervisory team’s expertise in chemistry (Dr Bhatia), natural products (Dr Loveridge), and microbiology (Professor Wilkinson).
Application Deadline: 20 August 2024
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Health Technologies
Summary of PhD Program:
The EOCARE-5F initiative aims to transform older adult care by developing innovative, low-maintenance wearable devices optimised for 5G connectivity. To overcome the impracticalities of expecting older adults to carry mobile devices continuously, the project focuses on creating user-friendly wearables that can be “fit-and-forget.” These devices are to function without daily charging and minimal user interaction, leveraging cutting-edge 5G infrastructure to provide real-time data on essential health metrics like gait analysis and fall detection. The potential to directly transmit this data to healthcare providers can enable immediate interventions, enhancing the safety and well-being of older adults.
Application Deadline: 19 August 2024
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physical Geography
Summary of PhD Program:
The Antarctic ice columns are key to understanding how the climate has changed in the past. Over the last few decades our understanding of past climate patterns has been transformed by analysing the long and continuous archives drilled from the ridge of the ice sheet. Despite their iconic status as valuable climate archives, dating problems hinder our ability to fully exploit the evidence within the ice and compare it with other climate records. One powerful method that has the potential to overcome the dating problems is tephrochronology, which is based on using volcanic ash, with a specific chemical fingerprint, from ancient eruptions to determine time limits in the ice columns. After a volcanic eruption, ash particles are widely dispersed in the atmosphere, immediately deposited, buried by snow and embedded within an ice sheet to create an anchor of time.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2024
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Innovation in Health and Social Care
Summary of PhD Program:
The All-Wales Intensive Learning Academy for Innovation in Health and Social Care has been developed to deliver a world-class learning, research and teaching base that will equip leaders with the confidence, skills and capability to realise innovation in health & care and wellbeing. Supported by Welsh Government, the Academy has been developed to support innovation, from the incremental to transformative across Health & Social Care. Involving public, private and third sectors through a case-based learning and practice approach, drawing upon front-line activities of groups such as the NHS Innovation Leads through to international knowledge and expertise of international partners and networks.
Application Deadline: 15 August 2024
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6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical and Health Care Studies (Biomedicine)
Summary of PhD Program:
Effective communication is an integral part of standard health care but the importance of using the patient’s first language as part of their care has not been strongly established (Irvine et al.2006). Language choice is even more important for specific groups of vulnerable patients such as children or the elderly, who have not learned/lost bilingual skills, as well as people who suffer from mental health illnesses (Martin et al. 2018). Defects due to language barriers can lead to a communication gap between patients and clinicians which then has negative effects on patient safety and outcomes including medical errors, readmissions to hospital, lower numbers of outpatients, lack of use of preventive services, lack of compliance with medication, and lack of effective management of chronic conditions (Bowen 2015; van Rose et al. 2015).
Application Deadline: 15 August 2024
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
The role will test a number of novel organic semiconductors and involve thin-film processing and characterisation, device fabrication, advanced spectroscopy, and optical modelling. It will be highly collaborative, working with researchers across the university as well as the UK and abroad. Several training opportunities will be available during the project. For e.g., industry-standard training opportunities in cleanroom practices, device fabrication and characterisation will be run to enhance research skills and improve future employment opportunities. Within the CISM community, informal seminars and training in advanced optics and spectroscopy, thin-film deposition and coding are regularly offered. Furthermore, project costs towards dissemination of research results and enhanced training in quantum technologies are included in this studentship.
Application Deadline: 14 August 2024
8. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry – Distance Learning
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship is linked to an exciting new Doctoral Training Initiative “UK Semiconductor Industry Future Skills” (UK-SIFS). UK-SIFS will provide valuable and highly practical skills relevant to the UK semiconductor industry such as formal cleanroom fabrication training, vacuum systems, process control (six sigma) in semiconductor manufacturing, semiconductor supply chains and export control, semiconductor packaging, and technology translation in the semiconductor sector. This PhD will be part of two cohorts of students in 2024 and 2025 across Swansea University and the University of Leeds, the Royce Institute, and partners including KLA, and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), amongst others.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2024
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics or Materials Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This studentship will also be part of an exciting new Doctoral Training Initiative called UK Semiconductor Industry Future Skills or UK-SIFS for short. UK-SIFS will create a vibrant, multi-disciplinary cohort experience for all our students and provide highly practical training of substantial value to those interested in careers in the semiconductor and related sectors such as optoelectronics and clean energy. You will also have a chance to work with a large range of industrial partners such as NSG Pilkington, who will not only deliver training content but also co-supervise research and host secondments. We would particularly welcome appropriately qualified applicants with experience from other industry sectors looking to embark on a new career journey in semiconductors.
Application Deadline: 14 August 2024
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in Physics
Summary of PhD Program:
Normally the equations that determine physical systems, be it quantum field theory describing particle physics, or string theory describing quantum gravity, are too hard to solve exactly. However there are very special systems that have deep hidden symmetries that allow one to exactly solve these equations instead of using e.g. perturbation theory. The study of these integrable systems is a critical area in the intersection of mathematical and theoretical physics and string theory. The group at Swansea led by Hollowood and Thompson has been pivotal in the recent discoveries of a landscape of integrable models known as Integrable Deformations. Very recently a new outlook on this topic has been provided by six-dimensional holomorphic Chern Simons theory which has been conjectured to provide an origin for all such integrable deformations.
Application Deadline: 9 August 2024
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11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Mathematics
Summary of PhD Program:
In this project, different optimal control problems will be considered under a contagious financial and insurance market with regime switching and risk uncertainty. In the first chapter, an optimal portfolio choice and life consumption problem will be studied under a fragile financial market with regime switching and risk uncertainty, where the transition matrix is no longer constant but depends on historical paths of financial assets in that market.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2024
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
Sensors play a critical role in many electronic systems, providing important data to power our decision-making. Apart from general physical and chemical sensors, quantum sensors rely on quantum particles to conduct measurement and are able to have many orders of magnitude more sensitive than traditional sensors. Many quantum sensors are based on special materials, such as nitrogen vacancy centres in diamond (Diamond NV), which is a photoluminescent point defect in diamond. The Diamond NV has been extensively utilised to achieve quantum computing and processing in information technology, biosensing, microwave and magnetic field detecting, and various other applications in diverse fields, due to their superior performances in long-lived coherence time, single-photon generation, and many other properties.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2024
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
The wide bandgap (WBG) power MOSFET is more prone to early failure than its Si counterparts despite its recent success. One of the most significant contributing factors to the overall reliability of these devices is degradation or even complete failure of the gate oxide. Specifically, gate threshold voltages shift from their original value with prolonged application, mainly due to gate oxide thickness reduction and high electric fields. Reliability refers to a product’s performance remaining within specifications for a specific period of time. According to the semiconductor industry, after 10 years of operation under nominal conditions, at most 100 devices per million can fail from oxide breakdown.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2024
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Summary of PhD Program:
This postgraduate research studentship is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a novel quantum simulation device technique. This project is a collaborative effort with Silvaco Group, Inc., a leading global company specializing in the development of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD) software. The primary objective of this scholarship is to devise a quantum simulation technique capable of solving Schrödinger and Poisson equations in open systems, such as semiconductor devices, in a self-consistent manner. This will be achieved through the application of the Quantum Transmitting Boundary Method (QTBM). The silicon nanowire transistor will serve as the test device for this project.
Application Deadline: 1 August 2024
