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01 CONTENTS 04 WHY RESEARCH MATTERS 04 10 SWANSEA AND THE REGION 12 WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY 14 SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MAP 22 16 BAY CAMPUS MAP 18 ACCOMMODATION 22 FUNDING YOUR STUDIES 24 CAREERS, SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY 26 STUDY AND WORK ABROAD 28 WELSH-MEDIUM OPPORTUNITIES 30 STUDENTS’ UNION 32 SPORT 36 FACILITIES 39 SUSTAINABILITY 40 STUDENT SUPPORT AND WELFARE 42 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT INFORMATION 46 CHOOSING A POSTGRADUATE DEGREE 32
50 A-Z COURSES 36 156 KEEPING IN TOUCH 158 FEES AND FUNDING 160 HOW TO APPLY 166 INDEX
02 14 Welcome 18 Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Boyle
My first academic role was as a We welcome fresh perspectives, and young lecturer in the Department you will receive all of the support you of Geography at Swansea University, need, through access to our resources and I can personally say that the and from our dedicated staff, to quality of the education and achieve your ambitions while enriching nurturing environment here is our research environment. hard to find elsewhere. Research and innovation are at the Our University has evolved greatly heart of the Swansea experience and over the years, but our principles feed directly into the quality of our remain the same. We are a community, teaching. You will find reference to we put our people first and the the real-world impact of our research, valuable input of our postgraduate from energy-positive classrooms to students contributes greatly to our pain-free vaccines, within the pages success. As an institution, we were of this prospectus. ranked Top 10 in the 2020 WhatUni I hope my faith in our University is Student Choice Awards Postgraduate clear, but don’t just take my word for category, a clear recommendation by it – please attend one of our open those who matter most. days to find out more.
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A World-Class UK TOP RESEARCH-LED 30 UNIVERSITY RESEARCH UNIVERSITY From: making greener, cleaner steel; turning plastics into hydrogen; (Research Excellence Framework improving the health of the population; preserving ancient monuments, REF 2014-2021) to; challenging and shaping policy around fairness and equality and ensuring the safety of individuals and communities across the world; our research helps prevent, combat, and reverse the global challenges of today. Swansea University boasts interdisciplinary research across all areas, encouraging % original thinking and collaborative working to create innovative outcomes. 90 RESEARCH You can help change the world and overcome global challenges at Swansea IMPACT University, by working with world-renowned academics, using leading research facilities, and collaborating with global businesses, partnerships and academics. (Research Excellence Framework REF 2014-2021)
FIND OUT MORE swansea.ac.uk/research
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RESEARCH. It’s in our DNA. HEALTH INNOVATION Health is important, whether it’s our minds, bodies, or our wellbeing. At Swansea University, we develop, and improve the way the world looks at health policies, systems, products, technologies, and services that help make people and society better.
Swansea University is home to the world-class SAIL Databank which securely stores and uses anonymised person-based data. Research undertaken at the Health Informatics Group produces outcomes to improve health, wellbeing, and services.
Our researchers are leading the way in health innovation to improve people’s lives, from: creating the next generation of implantable blood pumps for advanced heart failure, to testing microneedle skin patches to administer vaccines. Swansea University researchers are taking innovative approaches to medicine and health by exploring the use of maggots to clean wounds, and using salmonella to cure cancer. We understand the importance of health, both physical and mental, and strive to improve the health of the population, and the health systems across the UK.
swansea.ac.uk/research/research-highlights/ health-innovation 05 RESEARCH. It’s what we are made of. STEEL INNOVATION We believe steel is a 21st century industry that is essential for the future. Our researchers are exploring ways that create lighter cars and greener buildings. We are finding ways for a more sustainable economy; creating smarter, greener, cleaner steel, saving the industry, energy, raw materials, and millions of pounds. We are transforming the UK steel landscape with the aim of making the industry carbon-neutral by 2040.
Research within Swansea University has helped create new steel-based products, which, when used on buildings can capture energy from the sun, then store and release their own energy, decreasing the need for other resources.
From nano-level technology, to the huge impact of blast furnaces, our research in steel aims to influence industry and organisations to help the environment.
Our research in steel impacts upon the automotive industry too, by developing lighter steel for more energy-efficient cars. We aim to develop a smarter, greener, cleaner future for all.
swansea.ac.uk/research/research-highlights/ steel-innovation
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06 RESEARCH. It’s what drives us. SMART MANUFACTURING We are working in collaboration with leading companies to bring about meaningful change, and enhancing global competitiveness and productivity. Our researchers are seeking out the most efficient and productive methods for manufacturing sustainably, creating value in innovative ways.
Swansea University leads on the ASTUTE 2020 project, collaborating with the manufacturing industry across Wales to innovate, by exploring new advanced technologies and streamlining processes.
We are pioneering change within a range of industries, from aerospace and automobile engineering, to industrial manufacturing. We have revolutionised the speed of aerodynamic design, helping to create the world’s first 1000mph supersonic car, and developed new coated metal products in construction which carry a 40 year anti-corrosion warranty. Our research constantly shifts and advances technologies, materials, and methods, in order to help sustain and improve economies and the environment.
swansea.ac.uk/research/research- highlights/smart-manufacturing
RESEARCH. It’s our future. SUSTAINABLE FUTURES, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Our researchers are striving for solutions to the global plastic crisis, finding a use for plastic that cannot challenges of today. In collaboration with partners from be recycled and transforming it into hydrogen across the world, Swansea University is working to that can power transport and industry in a clean preserve our planet for future generations. and sustainable way.
We are working to revolutionise the way we live by Our research has protected areas affected by wildfire creating buildings that can generate, store, and release from serious erosion and revolutionised our understanding their own energy using the sun. We have developed the of animal movement, migration and behaviour. In technology to remove half a billion tonnes of carbon each Greenland, our researchers drill deep into the ice to year by capturing and converting carbon dioxide, understand climate history to protect the world’s future. offsetting global carbon emissions. At the Energy Safety At Swansea University, we are tackling today’s issues, Research Institute, we are discovering and implementing with tomorrow’s thinking. new technology for a sustainable, affordable, and secure energy future for all. We are developing solutions to the swansea.ac.uk/research/research-highlights/ sustainable-futures-energy-environment 07 RESEARCH. It’s what we stand for. JUSTICE AND EQUALITY Our research challenges conventional thinking and has changed policy to protect the futures of those most vulnerable in our society. We have worked to help reduce sustained inequalities in communities.
We have shaped new law on the human rights of children and young people by providing guidance for policy change. Our research has directly informed policy on workplace discriminations by revealing deeply entrenched inequalities in Wales and the UK. We have reframed the way drug policy is talked about, and pioneered concepts such as promoting harm reduction practices including needle exchange programmes and opioid substitution therapy. We are influencing the care, wellbeing, and life-quality of older people, by providing advice and guidance through Wales’ leading centre for ageing studies; The Centre for Innovative Ageing.
We look at the past and present in order to create a more just, equal and fair future for all.
swansea.ac.uk/research/research-highlights/ justice-equality
08 RESEARCH. It’s in our code. DIGITAL FUTURES We live in a digital age where technology constantly India, improve health care in Swansea hospitals and changes, disrupts, and transforms. Researchers at examines the impact of technology on democracy. Swansea University are constantly thinking about what it We are the first university in the UK to launch a means to be human in an increasingly technological world. master’s programme in LegalTech, equipping Our human-centred research examines how technology students with the skills to be 21st century lawyers. advances and improves our lives across all disciplines We are also home to the multidisciplinary research including law, health, science, engineering, arts centre, CHERISH-DE where researchers explore and humanities. digital innovations that help people respond to our rapidly expanding technological world, Our researchers use technology to improve healthcare, with a focus on health and social care, tackle climate change, analyse Big Data and create new resource-constrained communities, heritage, commercial opportunities. Through our interdisciplinary cybersecurity and cyberterrorism. approach, Swansea University carries out research into technology projects that address inequalities in cities in swansea.ac.uk/research/research- highlights/digital-futures
RESEARCH. It’s who we are. CULTURE, COMMUNICATIONS AND HERITAGE Challenging, compassionate, influential and pioneering; our research is tackling the grand societal challenges of today.
With an ever-growing and ageing population, global economic, political and environmental uncertainties, we are living in a fast changing world where the need to create a culture of sensitivity, compassion and respect is key.
We need to reflect on the past to inform the future, preserve our cultural and industrial heritage for future generations, celebrate diversity and protect the physical and mental health of the population. At Swansea University, we explore these topics in a range of research focuses.
The world is forever changing. Whilst we are always looking forward, we believe it is important to learn from the past.
swansea.ac.uk/research/research-highlights/ culture-communication-heritage
09 GET TO KNOW Swansea EXPLORE Brecon Beacons, Wales ON YOUR DOORSTEP On the Gower Peninsula you can unwind in the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, relax on award-winning beaches and explore unspoilt countryside, with the Brecon Beacons National Park just a 30 minute drive away. The region has some of the UK’s best locations for coastal path walks, surfing, cycling, watersports, rock climbing and golf; for the adventure sport enthusiast to the lazy walk on the beach, there’s something for everyone.
MUMBLES Birthplace of Catherine Zeta Jones, the quaint village of Mumbles is host to a great variety of shops, cafés, wine bars, pubs and restaurants. Take a stroll and enjoy an ice cream at one of the many parlours dotted along the promenade or grab a bite to eat at one of the seafront cafés or restaurants overlooking Swansea Bay.
SHOPPING Shop big high street names as well as independent boutiques, specialist shops and traditional arcades. You can visit designer boutiques in Mumbles, shop vintage outlets in Uplands or pick up a bargain in Wales’ largest indoor market in the heart of the city.
10 ARTS Swansea is a vibrant centre for art and The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is widely recognised as the city’s premier venue for art exhibitions. All national museums and art galleries in Wales are free to enter, so you can soak up our history and join one of the many trips organised by Swansea University’s Students’ Union.
THE TALIESIN ARTS CENTRE The Taliesin Arts Centre sits at the heart of the Singleton Park Campus and hosts regular productions, mainstream and alternative cinema screenings, a restaurant, bar, and the award-winning Egypt Centre, home to a collection of over 5,000 Egyptian antiquities. CULTURE
ENTERTAINMENT studentblogs.swan.ac.uk I do like a good market, and I am MUSIC & FESTIVALS lucky that where I live in the Uplands, Wales is famed as the ‘land of song’ and as a we have a monthly market where local student at Swansea University you won’t be growers, producers, farmers and caterers disappointed by the range of music on offer across the city! Swansea boasts a huge variety of music sell their wares. This is a cute little market, venues and plays host to a number of music festivals so if like me you love food and trinkets and events throughout the year. give it a visit! The brand new Swansea music arena is due to open in the autumn/winter of 2021. Joanna Wolton, PhD student blogger
HOME OF DYLAN THOMAS Swansea’s most famous son, Dylan Thomas, said: “Swansea is still the best” and the poet’s legacy can be found throughout the city from cafes to pubs and parks.
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12 WHAT OUR #SwanseaUni StudentsSay Find out more from our current and recently graduated postgraduate students who share their own experiences of both academic and student life here at Swansea Uni.
Watch our student videos, listen to our podcasts and follow our social media channels for useful tips on everything from: life after your undergraduate degree, to the ‘Three Minute Thesis’, and what it’s like to live in Swansea.
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13 5 MILE STRETCH OF BEACH ON YOUR DOORSTEP
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VIRTUAL TOUR swansea.ac.uk/virtual-tour
14 ARTS AND HUMANITIES 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately 20 minutes to HUMAN AND HEALTH SCIENCES Bay campus, 10 minutes to city centre
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY FULTON HOUSE Students’ Union bar, nightclub, shops, MEDICINE supermarket, zero waste shop, food outlets (including vegan) SCIENCE STUDENTS’ UNION SINGLETON PARK LIBRARY ACADEMI HYWEL TEIFI STUDENT ACCOMMODATION
TALIESIN ARTS SWANSEA BAY SPORTS PARK & EGYPT CENTRE
MY UNIHUB OTHER FACILITIES: Your one-stop-shop offering information • Chaplaincy • Launderette and guidance on any aspect of student life; • Dentist/Doctors • Mosque from finances, to course-load, to housing
15 BAY LIBRARY 24HR BUS (term-time) Approximately: COMPUTATIONAL FOUNDRY 20 minutes to Singleton campus, (Computer Science and Mathematics) 10 minutes to city centre
ENGINEERING MY UNIHUB Your one-stop-shop offering information and STUDENT ACCOMMODATION guidance on any aspect of student life; SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT from finances, to course-load, to housing OTHER FACILITIES: THE COLLEGE • Coffeeopolis coffee shop • Launderette THE CORE, FOOD COURT • Faith space • Supermarket • Gym and sports facilities THE GREAT HALL
STUDENTS’ UNION, Tafarn Tawe
16 aeroviews.co.uk
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VIRTUAL TOUR swansea.ac.uk/virtual-tour
17 MAKE YOURSELF
Asat a postgraduate home student joining the LIVING IN THE Swansea University community, we STUDENT VILLAGE* want to help you find a place you Approximately two miles from Singleton Park Campus is the Hendrefoelan Student Village. can call home. The Village provides self-catering accommodation Postgraduate accommodation is provided and shared facilities in 7 bedroom flats. If you at four residences: Bay Campus, Singleton choose to live in the Village, you will have your Park Campus, Beck House in the nearby own room at an affordable rate that compares Uplands area, and at Hendrefoelan Student favourably with private sector accommodation. Village. Tenancies are mainly offered on a Student life at the Village is sociable and fixed, 51 week basis although we are also supportive, and you will benefit from: able to offer some designated postgraduate • On-site launderette flats on a 40 week tenancy at the Student • Free First Group Unibus Bus pass Village and Bay Campus respectively. for contracts over 13 weeks *accommodation at Hendrefoelan Student Village LIVING ON CAMPUS available for 2021/22 academic year Living in Singleton Park or Bay Campus residences puts you right at the centre of ACCOMMODATION University life. Self-catering accommodation AT BECK HOUSE comprises fully-furnished, en suite rooms We have a number of single and family flats with a shared kitchen and dining area. at our designated quiet residence, Beck House, approximately a mile from Singleton Park Campus in the popular area of Uplands. Due to the 51-week tenancies, this accommodation is mostly suitable for postgraduate and international students.
KEY POINTS • Our rooms have free Wi-Fi • You will be represented by ResNet, a network of live-in student volunteers, who ensure each student has the best experience possible • Rooms are single occupancy only (exception being Beck House family flats and a small number of twin rooms on the Bay Campus) • Launderette facilities • Adapted rooms are available for students with special requirements, including wheelchair users. Contact the Disability Office for further information • En suites available
18 TYPICAL LIVING COSTS
£91 AVERAGE WEEKLY RENT
Top 10 most affordable UK university town (totallymoney.com 2019)
£22 MEAL OUT FOR TWO (based on main meal & drink at a local restaurant)
£30 PER MONTH STUDENT BUS PASS
Student pass with unlimited travel
£6 CAMPUS TO CITY Singleton Park campus to city centre taxi fare
GYM MEMBERSHIP £18.99 PER MONTH University Sports Village Look inside swansea.ac.uk/accommodation
19 Hire one of our Santander bikes. With 100 docking stations based at six hubs along the city’s main cycle route, you can ride at your leisure.
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FINDING THE PERFECT We also have some PRIVATE SECTOR HOME areas that are quiet If you’d prefer to live off campus, you’ll be pleased and alcohol free. to know that there’s a good supply of quality private sector student houses and flats in Swansea. Our letting agency, Student Accommodation Services (SAS) manages 130 properties in the nearby local communities of Brynmill, Uplands and Sketty which There are designated flats for are mostly within two miles of the campus, and Welsh speakers and learners on in St. Thomas and Port Tennant, close to the both Singleton Park Campus Bay Campus. These areas are also close to local and Bay Campus facilities such as shops, bars and takeaways.
Our online, searchable database, Studentpad, is invaluable. It allows you to locate other available housing in the area and takes the effort out of house-hunting.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
swansea.ac.uk/accommodation
+44 (0)1792 295101
20 BAY SINGLETON WHAT WILL I BE CHARGED? CAMPUS PARK The rent you pay will depend on the residence and room you choose:
RESIDENCE TYPE OF ROOM WEEKLY RENT* Bank Bank
Hendrefoelan Standard £95 Student Village Cafe Bar Dentist & Doctor
Singleton Park En suite £140 – £151 Campus
Food Outlets Food Outlets Standard £111 Beck House En suite £128 – £134 Family flat £178 – £216
Great Hall Health Centre Bay Campus En suite £152 – £158
Private Housing Standard £82 – £120 Launderette Launderette
* These fees are for the academic session 2020-21. Please note that rates for 2021 entry will be published on our website as soon as they are confirmed.
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21 Funding YOUR STUDIES
We commit to a significant investment in postgraduate education. In 2019/20 over £8 million in scholarships and bursaries were available to study postgraduate courses at Swansea University.
Swansea University is commited to rewarding its students in recognition of their academic and non-academic excellence, and have on offer a wide range of scholarships and bursaries to help towards the cost of study.
Income-related bursaries are also available, together with funding towards studying in another country if chosen as part of a degree programme.
For further information, to check your eligibility or make an application please visit:
swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-and-funding
FIND OUT MORE For further details on Fees and Funding, see pages 158-159.
22 FULLY-FUNDED PHD SCHOLARSHIPS*
MASTER’S EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS*
£2,000 WELSH GOVERNMENT STEMM MASTER’S BURSARIES* (Science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine)
£4,000 WELSH GOVERNMENT MASTER’S BURSARIES* For the over 60
£1,000 WELSH GOVERNMENT MASTER’S BURSARIES* For studying through the medium of Welsh
£1,000 SPORTING EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP*
£1,000 MUSICAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP* (Available to taught master’s students only)
Terms and conditions apply – please visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-and-funding
*Details for 2021 funding to be confirmed
23 THINKING ABOUT Your Future
EMPLOYABILITY: CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSPIRATIONAL TEACHING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEARNING One of the University’s primary aims is ‘to prepare Our excellent teaching is underpinned by the and promote the employability of our students’. groundbreaking research taking place across the colleges. All of our courses benefit from being at the cutting edge of The Swansea Employability Academy provides an essential any new developments and are closely aligned to industry, function; linking business and industry and creating ensuring you are well-equipped for your future careers. networking opportunities for you that have real impact.
Our academic programmes provide engaging learning HOW CAN SWANSEA opportunities that enable you to acquire knowledge, skills UNIVERSITY HELP ME? and understanding that employers and businesses value. From the moment you arrive, specialist staff in the We tailor our courses to make sure that you gain those Swansea Employability Academy will help you plan professional and high-level skills that will enable you to and prepare for your future. thrive in today’s competitive world. Wherever possible, Support available to you: courses are also accredited by professional bodies. • One-to-one careers advice and guidance provided Our long history of working with business, industry, by professionally qualified Careers Consultants commerce and the public sector enables us to add real • CV writing and interview preparation workshops value to your education. We work with employers to provide a range of placement and experiential • Paid, short-term internships opportunities that support you to achieve the outcomes • Bursaries towards employability activities you are looking for following graduation. • Part-time work opportunities such as the Student Ambassador Scheme • You can complete our online ‘Career Development THE ENTERPRISE TEAM Course’ which enables you to prepare for your A dedicated support to develop your skills, professional life and further enhance your gain valuable experience and test your business graduate career ideas through our range of services, including: • College-specific employability initiatives workshops, competitions, schemes and business • Annual careers fair mentoring alongside corporate partners with a wealth of industry experience. FIND OUT MORE [email protected] swansea.ac.uk/sea swansea.ac.uk/enterprise
24 EMPLOYER LINKS INCLUDE:
RAVS (Retro and Vintage Store) Picton Arcade, Swansea Swansea University Student Start-up
‘RAVS’ was Co-Founded by Sion Williams from the School of Management at Swansea University. Sion initially set-up his business as part of his module on the Entrepreneurship Pathway. After a great success selling vintage clothing on Depop, Sion set-up his very own store in the centre of Swansea, which he is still currently running alongside his studies.
Sion has had continued support from the Enterprise Team after a successful pitch at the Big Pitch competition, where he was awarded £2,000 and an Enterprise Work Placement.
The Enterprise Team have been extremely supportive throughout the process of setting-up and running my business. I have a lot of engagement with members of the team who provide me with opportunities for seed funding and events at which I can sell my products. The resources and information that they have gone out of their way to provide me with
have been a real boost to the business Found from website recreated PMS and I have much to thank them for. I look forward to working with them again next year and hopefully beyond that!
25 Go Global Swansea University recognises that enhancing its future graduates’ employability has never been more important. As more and more businesses recruit from a global talent pool, it is vital that you stand out from the crowd with additional skills.
Employers highly acknowledge the value of international experience and students who spend time abroad develop and demonstrate the qualities that employers seek: global and intercultural awareness, maturity, confidence and adaptability to new environments and challenges.
Studying and working abroad:
• Rewards you with an international outlook and experience • Enables you to gain confidence and become more self-reliant • Helps you develop independence and initiative
FIND OUT MORE
swansea.ac.uk/goglobal
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26 Ulrike Leonhard
As part of the Extended MA in Translation and Interpreting, Ulrike spent a semester at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a semester at Université Catholique de Louvain, both located in Belgium.
My year abroad in Belgium has been a great experience. I made new friends from all over the world and was able to travel throughout Belgium. The As a Swansea University student, Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France are all you will have the opportunity to gain within close distance so there are no limits when it comes international experience during your to exploring! My student experience at both universities degree. Some courses provide you could not have been better. with the option to spend a period overseas, undertaking a study or research placement for example. STUDENT Details of these options are available on specific course pages.
You can also explore the many cultural, Experiences volunteering and study programmes available via: What a great opportunity it was to take the Extended Master’s which has enabled me to study swansea.ac.uk/summerprogrammes abroad at the Bush School Texas A&M. It has been an incredible experience as the Bush School boasts one of the best International Relations courses in There are a range of funding opportunities available to support students who choose American public schools. Not only has this opportunity to go abroad – please refer to our furthered my career opportunities but it has allowed website for the latest information: me to study my course from a different perspective. I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of my course swansea.ac.uk/goglobal/funding and I am so glad I chose to further my study here at Swansea University.
Natalie Pittman Natalie Pittman studied an Extended Master’s in International Relations and spent a semester abroad in The Bush School at Texas A&M University.
27 WELSH-MEDIUM Opportunities Swansea University provides a number of SWANSEA UNIVERSITY BRANCH OF opportunities for you to study though the medium THE COLEG CYMRAEG CENEDLAETHOL of Welsh at postgraduate level. If you have Swansea University works in partnership with the Coleg been studying through the medium of Welsh at Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the University’s branch is situated within Academi Hywel Teifi. Its main aim is to undergraduate level, continuing to study through provide students with assistance and support to study the language at postgraduate level is a natural and socialise through the medium of Welsh. The Coleg step and we actively encourage you to do so. Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Research Scholarships Scheme supports students studying for a doctorate through the Since 2011, there has been a 113% increase in the medium of Welsh. Recent Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol number of students studying through the medium of Welsh funded PhDs at Swansea University include, Psychology, at Swansea University and our TEF data over the last two Translation, Welsh, Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences. years shows that Welsh-speaking students are high achievers with regards to employability. FUNDING FOR WELSH-MEDIUM In line with the Welsh Language Standards, your academic POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT work can be submitted and assessed through the medium PROGRAMMES of Welsh across all subject areas and you will receive The Welsh Government offers a bursary to Welsh support from a Welsh-speaking personal tutor. domiciled students willing to complete at least 40 credits of their taught master’s degree through the medium of ACADEMI HYWEL TEIFI Welsh. Each bursary is worth £1,000. Students who The University’s Academi Hywel Teifi is a centre of excellence choose to study a qualifying course in an aspect of for studying the Welsh language, its literature, and culture. science, technology, engineering, maths or medicine It gives Welsh-speaking students, or those keen to learn the can also receive an additional bursary of £2,000. language, the opportunity to study courses through the Further details can be found on page 23. medium of Welsh and significantly increase their graduate employment prospects in the process. For detailed *Swansea University TEF return 2017 and 2018 information about the Welsh-medium provision on offer, please pick up a Welsh prospectus or visit our website.
swansea.ac.uk/academi-hywel-teifi Arwain Arwain is a bilingual mobile app for students and prospective students who speak or are learning Welsh. Arwain brings together the essential information needed by students who want to study and live through the medium of Welsh at Swansea University.
28 You have a legal right to receive services in MY LANGUAGE RIGHTS Welsh. These rights have been created as a result of setting ‘Standards’ on the University.
COUNSELLING LETTERS SERVICE in Welsh in Welsh
APPLY FOR MEETINGS FINANCIAL SUPPORT in Welsh in Welsh
WELCOME CERTIFICATES BOOKLET in Welsh in Welsh
SUBMIT PROSPECTUS WRITTEN WORK in Welsh in Welsh
Welsh speaking FORMS PERSONAL in Welsh TUTOR
THE WELSH SOCIETY (GYMGYM) Whether you’re a fluent Welsh speaker or just looking to practice your Welsh, the GymGym will give you a range of opportunities to socialise with other Welsh speakers in an informal environment. The GymGym hosts regular events including quiz nights, volunteering opportunities and socials. However, the most memorable events include their annual international rugby trip (in recent years to Dublin or Edinburgh), the inter-college dance and the inter-college Eisteddfod. These three events bring together all Welsh Societies across Wales – giving you the opportunity to socialise with Welsh speakers from all over the country. The GymGym also supports the University’s Welsh-language rugby and netball club, Rygbi a Phêl-rwyd Tawe.
29 Students’UNION swanseaunisu swanseaunisu swanseaunisu
Ffion Davies SU President 2020 – 2021
Swansea University Students’ Union is run We have college and subject reps too – these are students by students, for students. We’re a registered who work with the Uni to handle any issues students may be having on their course. charity who support and represent all We also run the shops and bars on campus – JC’s, students at Swansea Uni. Every year we Tafarn Tawe, Rebound, Root Zero, Costcutter and elect full-time officers who represent students Fulton Outfitters. All of the money spent at these venues with everything university related; from goes straight back into the student experience… Societies and Services to Sports, Welsh The Students’ Union also organises Freshers’ Fortnight, Affairs and Welfare and Education. Summer Ball, Varsity, Tooters, and a host of other great events for you to enjoy!
30 SWANSEA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ UNION OFFERS: • Over 150 societies and 50+ sports clubs • Union Collective; a platform for helping students with funding and resource to take your business ideas off the ground • A chance to work for the student newspaper, TV station and radio station • An Advice & Support Centre helping with everything from landlords to academic disputes • An on-campus nursery that’s flexible around students’ lectures • A voice for the students at the University, ensuring student views are heard at every level
SUPPORTING YOU Our full-time officer team run campaigns throughout the year to raise awareness of super important issues, and initiatives to support you! Here are just a few: Study Aid: Free services to help you get through intense study periods (including a visit from cuddly pups from our friends at Greyhound Rescue Wales. Donate Don’t Ditch: At the end of every year, we take your unwanted items so that they don’t go to landfill and offer them out to new students in September. Pots, pans, dishes - you name it, we’ve probably got it! BloodyHell: To help beat period poverty, we have made sanitary items freely available to all students in our toilets and reception areas. You can follow the team on Instagram @susuofficers to find out what else they are getting up to!
31 THINK SPORT... Think Swansea Here at Swansea we pride ourselves on our dedication and commitment to sport and active lifestyles.
We have sporting opportunities to suit all of our students; from elite/international athletes to complete beginners, there is something for everyone.
swansea.ac.uk/sport
32 ACTIVE AND HEALTHY COMPETITIVE SPORT CAMPUS PROGRAMME We are the fastest improving In the 2020-2021 academic year we will be university in the British Universities offering a great, new range of activities for and Colleges Sport (BUCS) rankings, students who would like to become more active finishing 18th in the 2018-19 table. and take part in some form of exercise. So if you With membership to over 50 different sports are starting out, we have fun social activities and clubs available, there is a vast array of courses to suit you, such as our hugely popular opportunities for you to competitively represent social leagues. the University in BUCS and key domestic competitions. Our clubs provide a range of FACILITIES coach led training sessions to give you the Swansea is home to two of the leading sports opportunity to achieve your sporting goals. facility sites in Wales, including the International Sports Village and the Fairwood Training Ground, providing the training base for Swansea City Football Club. Both campuses also house excellent BUCS health and fitness facilities, including top-of-the- TH RANKING range equipment and classes. The University also 18 offers a high-end strength and conditioning facility British Universities and Colleges (The Shed) available to elite athletes. Sport (BUCS) 2018-19 table
Our extensive range of sporting facilities for students includes: • Wales National Pool Swansea • Astroturf pitches • Playing fields • Indoor athletics track Alun Wyn Jones • Sports pavilion British and Irish Lions, • Tennis courts Wales and Ospreys player • Two multi-purpose sports halls and Swansea Law graduate and outdoor games areas • Cycle hire and running routes
The New Zealand All Blacks have used our While studying at Swansea International Sports Village as a Rugby World Cup University, the Sports Scholarship training ground and our 50m National pool has allowed me to pursue two career paths been used as a training base for two international simultaneously. I fondly remember my Paralympic teams. As a student, you will have access to these first-class facilities. time at Swansea and particularly a Varsity win. In the future, knowing a career in sport doesn’t last forever, I won’t rule out returning to further my qualifications.
33 VARSITY Varsity is the biggest student event in Wales, and is the second largest of the British Varsity Games, behind Oxford/Cambridge. Varsity sees Swansea University and Cardiff University compete in over 30 different sports, such as basketball, rowing, golf, hockey, fencing, squash and ultimate frisbee. Watch Varsity highlights here:
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HIGH PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME Our High Performance Programme offers assistance to elite athletes in a wide range of sports, with each delivered in conjunction with a professional sports club or national governing body or sport partner.
Our programme currently supports six sports and is growing annually. Each sport receives high performance coaching, sports science services, athlete lifestyle management, physiotherapy and strength and conditioning support. These sports are currently:
• Rugby • Hockey • Football • Netball • Swimming • Table Tennis
The University also offers Sports Scholarships & TASS (Talented Athlete Scholarship Schemes) to highly talented student athletes with financial benefits up to £1,000 per year and a support package which may include: strength and conditioning training, physiotherapy, psychological aid and nutritional advice, all delivered by qualified practitioners. Other benefits may include free facility membership and campus parking permit.
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34 DUE TO OUR SUPERB COASTAL LOCATION, SWANSEA HAS ONE OF THE BEST WATER SPORTS OFFERINGS OF ANY BRITISH UNIVERSITY
DUE TO OUR SUPERB COASTAL LOCATION, SWANSEA HAS ONE OF THE BEST WATER SPORTS OFFERINGS OF ANY BRITISH UNIVERSITY
35 36 37 38 EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY INTO University life At Swansea University we are blessed with a wealth of habitats, from beaches to woodland to parks, and we are passionate about sustainable development to benefit our local community, the UK and the wider world.
As a student, there are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved with practical conservation. You can volunteer to help keep these areas special by joining our regular beach Plastics, including single-use cleans, work parties and wildlife monitoring. As well as plastic bottles, are now the helping the environment, you’ll learn new skills and meet most frequently-found type new friends along the way. of litter on UK beaches. And you don’t have to look THE SUSTAINABILITY AWARD Whether you’re interested in recycling, biodiversity, far to find them littering our wellbeing, or anything in between, we’ll have towns and green spaces too. something for you! Swansea University is a leading sustainable Our stand-out student engagement programme is the university and we are delighted to be Sustainability Award. Students of any subject, in any able to support Refill (a scheme providing year of their degree, can work towards this award water refill stations in venues across throughout their time with us at Swansea University. Swansea and the University) with our Completing the award contributes to your academic partners in Plastic Free Swansea and the record and teaches you a wide range of skills. Students’ Union. Our Students’ Union officers have been busy supporting the swansea.ac.uk/sustainability launch of the campaign; we’ve now got at least 30 Refill stations located across our Bay and Singleton Park campuses for the whole community to use. GREENEST Teifion Maddocks
UK TOP UNIVERSITY Sustainability and Wellbeing Officer, Swansea University (Guardian People0 & Planet University league 2019)
39 WE’RE HERE I have grown so much as a person throughout my undergrad at Swansea and now my postgrad as well and I feel so much more confident in myself. I have come to realise just how much I For You love learning compared to when I was You can access a range of student support services throughout at school learning because I have your postgraduate studies, ensuring your time spent at chosen to study something that is so Swansea University is as stress-free and easy as possible. much more enjoyable than GCSE or A level where I felt like I wasn’t able to learn what I wanted. MYUNIHUB HOW CAN WE HELP? I have been involved with societies MyUniHub offers information and guidance on any aspect of student for the past 4 years and they have life from enrolment to graduation. The team also provides advice, made my time at uni better than I guidance and referrals for all your support requirements during your could ever have dreamed. There is time at Swansea University. You can visit our experienced and friendly such a range on offer and it’s incredibly teams on Singleton and Bay Campus. easy to start your own if there isn’t something that takes your fancy. From being on a committee I have improved my leadership and organisational skills and I would do it again in a heartbeat.
The academic feedback is very good, work is marked promptly and there is usually a lot of very useful comments and suggestions that are helpful in the future. I have used the University Advice Centre a couple of times and they have been incredible. I was able to see someone within a couple of days and I got some really useful advice and support.
Caroline (Postgraduate student, 2019, WhatUni review)
40 SUPPORTING YOU DEDICATED SUPPORT FOR YOU AS A POSTGRADUATE STUDENT:
• On-campus nursery providing flexible childcare options • Additional support for mature learners / students with caring responsibilities • Specific skills training programmes for postgraduate taught and research students • Dedicated Students’ Union Officers to represent Swansea’s growing postgraduate community
FIND OUT MORE swansea.ac.uk/student-services
HEALTH INFORMATION DISABILITY OFFICE University dental care offers a full Ensuring the same student experience for all. range of NHS and private treatments The Swansea University Transcription Centre to students. Dentist and Doctors’ surgeries (SUTC) for example, is a dedicated transcription are located on Singleton Campus. service which provides accessible learning resources to print for disabled students.
WELLBEING SERVICES MONEY (CAMPUSLIFE) A range of free student services Are always on hand that cultivates and looks after to help you max your your wellbeing, including a cash and keep your mental health support service. finances in check.
41 #WeAre International
We have a thriving international community with DEVELOPING YOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS students from all over the world choosing to study If you think you need to improve your English language skills before starting your studies, or if you need support with us. The vibrant mix of nationalities and with the English language while studying with us, our cultures on campus greatly enriches our learning English Language Training Services (ELTS) offers a range and teaching environment. of British Council accredited programmes to help you achieve your academic goals. We understand the type of support our international students need to settle into student life in a new country For further information, please contact the English and strive to provide a high level of advice and service Language Training Services (ELTS): to make sure that this happens. +44 (0)1792 295391 SCHOLARSHIPS [email protected] Swansea University offers a range of scholarships for international students. We are proud to support the swansea.ac.uk/elts Chevening Scholarship Programme. We recognise the ambition and talent of many international students by WELCOMING YOU TO THE UK offering an International Excellence (up to £4,000) We run a Meet and Greet service from London’s Heathrow scholarship for postgraduate study. For details of all our Airport, and provide all new international students with a international scholarship opportunities, please visit: full orientation programme to help them get to know the swansea.ac.uk/international-students/ University, Swansea and the region. More information my-finances/international-scholarships/ about our services for new students can be found at: swansea.ac.uk/international-students INTERNATIONAL@CAMPUSLIFE International@CampusLife provides information and TUITION FEES advice on non-academic matters, including immigration If you are an international student, the fee you will be advice and services, to all international (non-UK) charged depends on your home country and what you students and their dependants. choose to study. You will find the tuition fee clearly We support all non-UK students regardless of nationality, displayed on each postgraduate course page religion, gender, age, sexual preference or health on our website: status. Advice is offered free of charge and without swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate discrimination. For further information, please contact:
+44 (0)1792 606557 HOW TO APPLY Please see pages 160-165. [email protected]
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42 43 International Students POSTGRADUATE PATHWAYS
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44 PRE-MASTER’S This is stage one of the postgraduate pathway. It is one, two or three semesters long, depending on your chosen pathway and qualifications (English language and Academic) at the point of entry. This programme is A postgraduate pathway is a single course available in the areas of: languages, politics and culture, engineering, children and young people, business comprising two stages of study. Successful management, accounting and finance, and computer completion of both stages leads to a master’s science. Designed to prepare international students who degree from Swansea University. do not qualify for direct entry to Swansea University master’s degrees, the pre-master’s programme allows you The College, Swansea University, offers academic to adjust to the rigorous research and independent study pathways in partnership with Swansea University that requirements of a postgraduate degree. lead to postgraduate degrees. Our unique approach to education transforms international students into The pre-master’s programme will: Swansea University graduates and lifelong learners. • Help you develop fundamental knowledge and an Innovative courses are delivered by highly qualified understanding of the basic principles relevant to your teachers in a modern, dynamic environment, particular degree supported by our friendly team. • Help you develop numerical techniques, research methodologies and ICT, presentation and The postgraduate pathway is designed for students who: communication skills • Require additional English language training • Help you develop your intellectual and practical skills • Come from an academic background different building to a set of transferable skills that will support to that of the UK and do not meet university you in your onward academic studies, careers and direct-entry requirements decision-making • Have been away from studies for a period of time • Ensure you have attained the prescribed level of • Are looking to fine-tune skills already gained during interdisciplinary language competence their undergraduate studies or employment MASTER’S The language of instruction at The College, Swansea The master’s degree is stage two of the postgraduate University is English. To attain entry into the pathway, and is taught by Swansea University. postgraduate pathway you must be able to demonstrate you have a suitable level of English proficiency. For further details, contact our team at: POSTGRADUATE PATHWAYS [email protected] ARE AVAILABLE IN THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: If you do not meet the English language requirement for • Accounting and Finance direct entry to your chosen pathway, you can receive the • Children and Young People required amount of English language tuition to prepare • Computer Science you for successful entry at a later date. English language • Engineering training is delivered by the University’s English language • Languages, Politics and Culture Training Services (ELTS) with multiple entry points throughout each year. • Management • Public Health and Management For a full list of countries and entry requirements visit: Look out for this icon on the course pages swansea.ac.uk/the-college/entry to see where a pathway is on offer
45 PostgraduateSTUDY OPTIONS POSTGRADUATE Taught master’s degrees are generally year. To qualify for a Postgraduate modular in structure, meaning that Diploma, students must pursue TAUGHT DEGREES students follow a series of modules 120 credits, or 60 credits for a worth a total of 180 credits.120 Postgraduate Certificate. (Specific Postgraduate taught degrees are credits are gained from taught regulations apply – please note academically more demanding than modules, and 60 credits from that not all programmes offer undergraduate programmes. They the dissertation. these exit qualifications.) require a higher level of self-directed learning and are awarded to students Taught master’s programmes often CHOOSING A PROGRAMME who demonstrate advanced include research and methodology The University offers a range of understanding of a particular subject. skills courses and specific postgraduate taught degrees, Master’s degrees are delivered departmental training courses, including the MA, MSc, and LLM. through a combination of taught which are essential for students at You can pursue a postgraduate modules and assessed coursework, master’s level and those wishing to course in the same subject as your and there is an expectation that go onto higher degrees. Additional undergraduate degree or, in many students will complete an in-depth specialised training courses are cases, outside it. research project or dissertation. also available during the academic
46 CONVERSION COURSES If you want to change direction of your studies or career path, you have the option as a postgraduate student to move away from the area you studied at undergraduate level by studying a conversion course. These courses allow graduates of any subject area to study a postgraduate master’s course without any previous relevant qualifications.
We have a diverse selection of conversion courses available in finance, science, engineering, health science, medicine, law, business management and arts and humanities.
CAN I STUDY PART-TIME? Master’s, Postgraduate Diplomas and Postgraduate Certificates can normally be studied on a full-time or part-time basis in a wide variety of subject areas. You are encouraged to contact the academic department in question before applying. Look out for the PT symbol on the following course pages.
IS A POSTGRADUATE TAUGHT DEGREE RIGHT ASSESSMENT FOR ME? THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF WELSH Yes, if you want to: You may present research • Enhance your career prospects. work in the Welsh language • Acquire new and specialised skills. if your supervisors are able • Prepare for a research degree. to oversee work through the • Develop your subject knowledge. medium of Welsh. of your first degree subject. • Study an entirely new subject
47 POSTGRADUATE Even if you have a more developed MA/MSc/LLM by Research: Typically research proposal in mind, we one year full-time, two to three years RESEARCH DEGREES recommend that you approach the part-time. This is an individual relevant Admissions Tutor for advice. research project written up into Research degrees are academically a thesis of 30,000 words. rigorous programmes that require Applicants are partnered with in-depth study of a topic for a potential supervisors at an early stage. MRes: The aim of the MRes (Master sustained period of time. The award This is vital to ensuring: of Research) is to provide relevant of a doctorate or other research • That you receive the advice and training to acquire the knowledge, degree recognises the commitment of guidance you need to decide techniques and understanding successful candidates, the high-level whether or not a research degree at needed for a professional career, or skills they have gained, and their Swansea University is right for you. for progression to higher academic ability to present original research studies, normally a PhD. The MRes is • That the supervisor is enthused that furthers understanding of the achieved through a combination of and motivated by the topic. subject matter. taught modules (worth 60 credits) • That you move smoothly into and a research thesis which presents As a research student, you will an appropriate research group the outcome of a significant research normally undertake some training in (where applicable). project (worth 120 credits). research methods before embarking on • That you complete and write your programme of research. You will EngD: The Engineering Doctorate up your research within the have an academic supervisor who will prepares Engineering students for required timeframe. advise and support the direction of research and technology leadership your research for the duration of the careers in industry and is fully WHICH RESEARCH DEGREE? degree, and a co-supervisor will supported by the Engineering and The University offers a number of provide additional support as required. Physical Sciences Research Council. research degrees, including: The EngD is a four-year scheme CHOOSING A PhD: PhD students undertake consisting of one year of taught RESEARCH TOPIC supervised research over three to four modules followed by an industry- Research degrees, especially at MPhil years full-time or six to seven years linked research project. and PhD level, are very different from part-time. Research is then presented MD: In addition to the PhD, the undergraduate and taught master’s in the form of a thesis of not more Medical School offers the postgraduate programmes as there is no defined than 100,000 words. The thesis must degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) list of courses to choose from. MPhil demonstrate the student’s capacity to through supervised research within and PhD degrees can be pursued on pursue original research and should individual research groups. any academic topic, as long as the represent a distinct and significant college/school you are applying to contribution to the subject. The first DProf: Typically four years full-time, has the expertise to guide and year of registration for a PhD is a six years part-time, a Professional supervise your study. period of official probation, requiring Doctorate is a research degree departmental assessment before the structured around a particular area Once you have identified a topic area candidate is allowed to proceed. of professional practice. You will within which you would like to work, we follow a programme of directed recommend that you submit a research MPhil: May be completed in two to study, including periods of approved proposal and discuss this with an three years’ full-time study (four to five professional/industrial practice and Admissions Tutor for the subject area years part-time). Candidates are training, together with a programme before making an application. required to submit a thesis of up to 60,000 words and assessment is in of research. Assessment includes a Directory of Expertise available via: the form of an oral examination (viva). thesis of up to 80,000 words. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate Subject to academic requirement, there /research may be opportunities for students to upgrade from MPhil to PhD during the course of their studies. 48 The degree ensures that the candidate’s profession and workplace interconnect throughout the whole programme, so that research conducted is relevant to their own ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS practice and workplace. YOU WILL FIND THROUGHOUT THE FOLLOWING COURSE PAGES: CAN I STUDY PART-TIME? Part-time study is possible for UK and EU students, but you are encouraged KEY DEGREE TYPES to contact the Academic Department FT DBA Doctor of Business in question before applying. – Full-time study Administration – January intake available. Look out for the PT symbol DProf The Doctor of Professional on the following course pages. All programmes listed Studies is for advanced (Part-time study for Postgraduate in the following course practitioners. With the successful completion of Taught masters programmes is not pages have an October the examination you will available to international students. start date. Those with an additional January achieve a doctorate and All Postgraduate Research can be addressed as Doctor. programmes (excluding MRes) intake available will EngD Engineering Doctorate have a part-time study option be indicated with available to all students*.) this symbol. All MA Master of Arts Postgraduate Research MBA Master of Business *Please visit our website for conditions. programmes (excluding Administration EngD and MRes) have MD Doctor of Medicine October, January, April MEng Master of Engineering and July start dates. IS A RESEARCH DEGREE MPhil Master of Philosophy RIGHT FOR ME? PT – Part-time study MRes Master of Research Yes, if you want to: – International pathway MSc Master of Science • Pursue a career in academia route available LLM Master of Laws or research. PGCert Postgraduate certificate • Explore an individual topic in depth. • Acquire extensive and PGDip Postgraduate diploma specialised research skills. WHERE YOU'LL STUDY PhD Doctorate of Philosophy. • Enhance your career prospects. A PhD is the doctorate-level degree granted in a variety of different disciplines.
HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? The Postgraduate Admissions Office are happy to advise you on whether your qualifications are suitable for entry to the course you would like to study. For further information please email: pgradmissions@ swansea.ac.uk
49 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE BAY CAMPUS UK TOP 30 BUSINESS SCHOOL FOR ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE RESEARCH We offer programmes that will give you the expertise and knowledge to thrive in a range EXCELLENCE of dynamic financial and business environments. The first suite of programmes are for students (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) with any undergraduate degree who want a career in accounting or finance. The second is a suite of advanced MSc programmes for students who have already studied some accounting and/or finance as undergraduates and now want to specialise to enhance their employability and career prospects.
Many of our modules offer professional accreditation from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). We also have strong links with the Chartered Financial Institute (CFA), so our programmes will help to fast-track your career in accountancy and finance by affiliating you with professional bodies or giving you exemptions from key professional examinations. You will benefit from co-location with industry at our innovative Bay Campus, working
alongside companies such as Fujitsu. – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE SCHOLARSHIPS AND MSc FT TAUGHT COURSES BURSARIES Designed specifically to enhance Entry Requirements At the School of Management, employment prospects by offering MSc Accounting and Finance; we are happy to offer financial you the opportunity to acquire Finance and Big Data Analytics; support for the brightest prospects Financial Management: A 2:2 of the future. It’s not just academic an advanced and in-depth honours degree or above in any excellence we reward – we understanding of key accounting subject or an equivalent qualification. also recognise and encourage and finance topics. Graduates passion for study and involvement MSc Finance; International Banking of this programme will possess in student life. and Finance; Investment Management: an advanced knowledge of key A 2:2 honours degree or above with There are a range of funding tools and techniques in accounting significant accounting or finance opportunities available for both and finance, financial modelling, content or an equivalent qualification. taught and research degrees. and financial and management MSc Strategic Accounting: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ accounting. You can also gain up A 2:2 honours degree or above with scholarships to seven exemptions from ACCA significant accounting or finance content fundamental examinations on as well as the relevant exemptions PROGRAMMES FOR STUDENTS this programme. from ACCA F1 to F9 papers. FROM ANY SUBJECT BACKGROUND Modules typically include: MSc Professional Accounting: These programmes are ideal if you Students will have the equivalent are looking to move into a career • Financial Accounting of 120 credits of prior learning in an accounting or finance related • Financial Statement Preparation i.e. qualified as an accountant with area. They all cover the key and Analysis a recognised professional body principles of finance and the • International Financial Markets within the last five years. quantitative methodologies • Management Accounting related to the accounting • Quantitative Research Methods English Language Requirement and finance arena. • Principles of Finance IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 50 FINANCE AND BIG DATA Students who wish to study finance INTERNATIONAL BANKING ANALYTICS MSc FT alongside a management AND FINANCE MSc FT Designed to pair the key areas of specialisation should refer to the This programme is aimed at graduates finance and business analytics, this MSc Management (Finance) who wish to acquire a solid foundation ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE programme takes a data-driven programme on page 62. in international banking and finance approach to analysis of financial PROGRAMMES FOR STUDENTS to prepare them for a career in markets and organisational WITH AN ACCOUNTING OR banking, trading or financial analysis. information. In addition, it covers FINANCE BACKGROUND OR It will equip you with an advanced the key principles of finance, RELATED DISCIPLINE understanding of the principles and financial modelling and financial These programmes are designed to techniques of international finance, markets and will equip you to work enhance your undergraduate study development, trade and banking, in the data-driven areas of finance and accelerate your career. Entry to knowledge of the activities of and financial management. You can these programmes require a study financial markets and financial also gain up to five exemptions from background in accounting or institutions in advanced and emerging ACCA fundamental examinations finance. This need not necessarily economies, and an appreciation of on this programme. be a degree with ‘Accounting and the role of risk management in
Finance’ in the title, but could be complex organisations. MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL Modules typically include: economics, business, or any general • Applied Data Analytics Modules typically include: programme with significant • Big Data in Finance • Corporate Finance accounting or finance content. • Empirical Finance • Empirical Finance • Financial Statement Preparation FINANCE MSc FT • Financial Econometrics and Analysis Designed for graduates who are • International Banking and Regulation • International Financial Markets seeking a specialist programme • International Financial Markets • Principles of Finance to enable an accelerated start to and Institutions • Quantitative Research Methods a career in finance, this programme INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT MSc FT combines the academic theory FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT This programme focuses on finance of finance with a strong practical PGDip/MSc FT and investment management and is perspective, using current trends and Designed for students who are accredited with the Chartered industry practice to inform teaching interested in moving into a career Financial Institute (CFA) with University and discussion. You will develop in finance, this programme combines Affiliated Status. Students will gain a sound understanding of the role the academic theory of finance with an advanced understanding of and importance of accounting a strong practical perspective, managing assets and risk in complex information in the financial facilitating a sound understanding of organisations, preparing you to management of complex finance and associated disciplines. become traders and investment organisations and graduate with You can also gain up to five managers of the future. a strong comprehension of finance exemptions from ACCA fundamental and its associated disciplines. Modules typically include: examinations on this programme. Modules typically include: • Asset Management Modules typically include: • Corporate Finance • Corporate Finance • Corporate Governance and Ethics • Empirical Finance • Financial Econometrics • Financial Statement Preparation • Financial Econometrics • Financial Reporting and and Analysis • International Financial Markets Statement Analysis • International Financial Markets and Institutions • Empirical Finance • Independent Project • International Financial Markets • Principles of Finance and Institutions • Quantitative Research Methods • Risk Management The three programmes above feature significantly enhanced taught contact time to allow you to complete a conversion to accounting or finance in a single year.
51 ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE BAY CAMPUS ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
STRATEGIC ACCOUNTING MSc FT CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY You will already have a relevant RESEARCH COURSES Swansea University’s School of first degree and have passed your Entry Requirements Management has a careers team ACCA Fundamental papers prior to PhD: An undergraduate degree at dedicated and tailored solely to beginning this programme. As part 2:1 level and a master’s degree with you as a management student. of this rigorous master's degree, you a minimum overall grade at ‘Merit’ This service ensures that will be taught the latest theories and employability is actively promoted practices and how to apply them as English Language Requirement and remains an important focus an accountancy professional, while IELTS 6.5 Overall (with no individual throughout your studies. The team we prepare you for the ACCA component below 6.5) or Swansea has an impressive track-record of Professional examinations. University recognised equivalent. getting students into employment.
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL Students who graduate from this They have already helped MSc and pass all of the ACCA numerous students secure their Professional papers will require no FINANCE PhD FT PT dream jobs and placements. further study and will be able to We invite applications from They’re who you need to speak to concentrate fully on their career. well-qualified candidates whose for: Modules typically include: research interests correspond to our areas of research expertise. • Placement advice • Advanced Audit and Assurance • CV tips • Advanced Performance Applicants are encouraged to • Interview tips (general interviews Management explore the research expertise of the and psychometric testing) • Corporate Reporting School to ensure a good fit between • They’ll even research the brands • Strategic Business Leader PhD proposals and potential you want to work for and advise supervisors. Information about on their interview formats FT PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTING MSc current faculty and the School’s MSc Professional Accounting will research groups can be found at: allow qualified accountants to join swansea.ac.uk/som/research an independent project module to gain the MSc. You must have gained your qualification as an accountant with the professional bodies within the last five years, and will have credits from your prior learning as a qualified accountant.
You will also be required to complete a second module in Quantitative ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: Research Methods to prepare you for the independent project which will be made available remotely, allowing you to complete as distance learners. Modules Include: MEMBERSHIP: • Independent Project • Research Methods
52 STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT
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I felt it was imperative that I gain “a more thorough education to help me prepare for a career in accounting. My course provided me with the necessary knowledge to enhance and develop my capabilities. The course content is structured around professional accountancy exams and with the preparation provided through the relevant modules, I have already passed three external ACCA exams. My favourite modules are Corporate Reporting and Advanced Performance Management; the lecturer is very good and helped me to really Wing Man understand the topic. As this is my first time studying
abroad, I attended some activities
held by the Hong Kong Society where Natalie KO I was able to meet other students “ MSc STRATEGIC ACCOUNTING from my home country and familiarise myself with the Swansea area.
53 AMERICAN STUDIES UK TOP SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
AMERICAN STUDIESAMERICAN 10 Understanding the forces that have moulded and continue to shape America helps us to make SUBJECT sense of our contemporary world. The comparative study of the history and culture of the (The Complete University Guide 2021) United States addresses themes such as immigration, democracy, slavery, imperialism, multiculturalism, race and ethnicity, urban history, the economy and terrorism. These issues do not just concern the past - they are directly relevant to the world we live in.
In the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework, 70% of our staff research activity was judged world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*).
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AMERICAN STUDIES MA Our American Studies Department RESEARCH COURSES By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT is involved in collaborative research We welcome proposals for projects with several universities Entry Requirements postgraduate research projects that across the United States and there Typically a 2:1 honours degree, complement staff research interests. is a programme of visiting speakers. or higher degree, or Swansea Staff have written and edited University recognised equivalent Research Strengths: book-length studies of American qualification. Staff research interests cover the literature, popular culture, modern core disciplines of American Studies: poetry, urban history, war and English Language Requirement literature, history, politics and film. memory, labour leaders, political IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each Particular research strengths include: processes and philosophy. component) or Swansea University • African-American Literature recognised equivalent. and Culture Our extensive library holdings • The American City support our research needs. A • The American Civil War particular strength is the Allan Milne SCHOLARSHIPS AND • American Politics and Government Collection of approximately 3,000 BURSARIES • American Race, Ethnicity works pertaining to the American We offer a range of funding and Multiculturalism Civil War, which was gifted to opportunities for research degrees • The American South American Studies in 2010 and and have recently attracted • The American West significant funding from the Economic continues to grow. One of the and Social Research Council (ESRC) • Contemporary American Literature largest of its kind in the United to offer postgraduate scholarships. • The Harlem Renaissance Kingdom, the Milne Collection is swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Hollywood Film and particularly varied and boasts an scholarships American Society impressive assemblage of primary • The Impact of War on and secondary source materials that American Society document many social, political, • Representations of the economic and military aspects of Vietnam War mid- to late-nineteenth century • Silent Cinema and Popular Culture American history and politics. • Surveillance and Urban America • The UN and International Drugs Policy • US “War on Drugs” • US Foreign Policy
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 54 AMERICAN STUDIESAMERICAN Graduate Research Centre The College of Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Centre offers a vibrant and supportive environment for students pursuing postgraduate research. We provide training to enhance your academic and professional development. You
will have access to a dedicated study area with IT facilities within – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND comfortable surroundings. You will be encouraged to participate in the wider research community of the College by attending regular research seminar programmes and participating in the activities of our many research centres. You will also have the opportunity to present your research at the annual College Postgraduate Research Conference and other events.
Research centres and groups include: • Centre on Digital Arts and Humanities (CODAH) • CRAM: Research Group for Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory • The Global Drug Policy Observatory • International Studies, Conflict and Security (ISCAS) • Political Analysis and Governance (PAG)
55 APPLIED LINGUISTICS TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK
APPLIED LINGUISTICS APPLIED 7 RESEARCH We have built and maintain an international reputation for research and training in applied IMPACT (Research Excellence linguistics. In addition to our influential research in vocabulary studies and testing, our expertise Framework 2014-2021) covers second language acquisition, language assessment and pedagogy, bilingualism, corpus linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, second language writing, and Chinese language studies.
In the latest (2014) UK Government REF rankings of research excellence, research in English at Swansea was rated 7th in the UK and 1st in Wales, with a high proportion judged ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world leading’.
All our teaching is informed by staff research activity and we have long-established strengths in all major
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND aspects of the subject area. An exciting programme of research seminars, conferences and workshops makes the Department a stimulating and sociable place to study.
TEACHING ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS CHINESE-ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF OTHER LANGUAGES (TESOL) TAUGHT COURSES AND LANGUAGE TEACHING MA FT PT MA FT PT Entry Requirements Swansea University has one of the The MA in Chinese-English MA TESOL Typically 2:1 honours longest-established TESOL training Translation and Language Teaching degree or equivalent. The Cambridge and education centres in the UK DELTA Certificate, Trinity College Dip. is specifically designed for Chinese and is internationally known for TESOL, and Postgraduate Certificate speakers (or students with near- excellence in research on vocabulary. in Teaching English for Academic native Chinese proficiency) and aims Purposes (TEAP) are considered The course equips you with skills to to equip them with language-specific equivalent. (CELTA is not accepted engage with the theoretical and knowledge and skills in both towards this requirement.) practical challenges of teaching translation studies and applied MA Chinese-English Translation English as a foreign or second linguistics. The programme offers and Language Teaching Typically language. Students can choose both theoretical and practical 2:2 honours degree or equivalent. to complete a dissertation or modules, including observation a teaching-based project. of Mandarin teaching classes English Language Requirement Modules typically include: and possible teaching practice MA TESOL IELTS 6.5 (minimum opportunities. The translation of 6.0 in each component) • Communicative Language Teaching modules are also highly MA Chinese-English Translation • Discourse Analysis for practical and conducted at and Language Teaching IELTS 6.0 Language Teaching (minimum of 5.5 in each component). • Grammatical Analysis the professional level. • Methods for Classroom Teaching Modules typically include: • Professional Reflective Practice • Chinese-English Translation • Research Methods for Theory and Practice SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES Applied Linguistics • Chinese Language Studies • Second Language Acquisition A range of postgraduate scholarships • Classroom Teaching and bursaries are available. • Vocabulary: Teaching Practice (Chinese) and Learning • Linguistic Foundation for Translation swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships and Language Teaching • Media and Translation • Principles of Chinese Translation and Interpreting • Technology Enhanced Language Teaching and Learning
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 56 APPLIED LINGUISTICS MA By The Department, together with the RESEARCH COURSES Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT universities of Bangor and Cardiff, co-hosts ESRC Doctoral Training Entry Requirements The Department welcomes applications from students wishing Partnerships in the thematic areas LINGUISTICS APPLIED MA By Research in Applied Linguistics: to pursue graduate level research of Linguistics and Bilingualism. These Typically a 2:1 honours degree or in applied linguistics, particularly partnerships offer scholarships to above in English Language, ensure the flow of highly qualified Linguistics, or Swansea University topics related to: vocabulary recognised equivalent, with a strong learning and assessment, language people into research careers both performance in the dissertation learning aptitude, second language within and beyond academia. acquisition; corpus linguistics component. A research proposal of As well as campus-based PhD good quality, and discourse analysis. study, the Department offers a on a topic relevant to the research The Department has an excellent well-established part time strengths of the Department, is distance PhD programme. – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND also required. track record of supervising high- quality, impactful dissertations, All research students belong to the and research students work with MPhil/PhD programmes in Applied Graduate Centre in the College of Linguistics: A 2:1 undergraduate staff to foster a dynamic Arts and Humanities. The Centre degree and an MA in Linguistics, academic community. provides pastoral as well as Applied Linguistics, TESOL/ELT/TEFL, Recent and current dissertation or a related discipline, with a minimum administrative support and is also overall grade at ‘Merit’ (or Swansea topics include: responsible for research skills University recognised equivalent) • Assessing lexical organisation training and support, as well as and a strong performance in the in a second language facilitating a lively intellectual dissertation component of the MA. • Discursive witnessing practices environment for the College’s A research proposal of good quality, in television news coverage of postgraduate research community on a topic relevant to the research the 2005 London bombings of 200 students. strengths of the Department, is and their commemorations also required. • Investigating the relationship between L1 mental lexicon size English Language Requirement and organisation and L2 IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each vocabulary development component) or Swansea equivalent. • The link between the acquisition of L2 vocabulary and syntax • The mental lexicon: how do linguistic and conceptual representations interact? • Modelling difficulty and measuring uptake in L2 lexical acquisition • Online grooming from communicative patterns to paedophile profiles • Purism and populism: the contested roles of code-switching and borrowing in minority language evolution • Strategic bilingualism: identifying optimal context for Welsh as a second language in the curriculum
57 BIOSCIENCES TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
BIOSCIENCES 7UK RESEARCH Swansea is a fantastic location to study biosciences. There are diverse habitats on the nearby IMPACT Gower Peninsula (a site of Special Scientific Interest, and the UK’s first area of Outstanding (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) Natural Beauty), in the Swansea Valley, and Brecon Beacons National Park.
We use the Research Vessel Mary Anning for teaching and research in marine science, and we
– COLLEGE SCIENCE OF are home to world class bioscientists with strong links to external organisations and research field sites all over the world. As a postgraduate student, you will be able to benefit from collaborative research and placement opportunities.
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY: Modules typically include: CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE TAUGHT COURSES • Biodiversity and Health Ecology MANAGEMENT MSc FT PT • Climate Science and Policy Entry Requirements Our MSc programme focuses on • Conservation of Aquatic Resources Typically a minimum of a 2:2 (with the relationships between living • Ecosystems, Ecology, Conservation 55% average) honours degree or organisms and the terrestrial, and Resource Management above in biosciences or a related freshwater and marine environments, • Environmental Assessment subject, or an equivalent qualification. coupled with the interactions and Management English Language Requirement that result from natural and • Geographical Information Systems anthropogenic processes. You will • Modelling Earth Systems IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each benefit from advanced training in component) or Swansea University • Satellite Remote Sensing recognised equivalent. the interpretation of local and global • Science Skills and environmental issues, field and Research Methods theoretical aspects of biology, • Research Project in Environmental SCHOLARSHIPS AND and ecology and analytical skills. Biology with a Focus on Conservation BURSARIES and Resource Management A range of postgraduate • Reviews in Biosciences scholarships and bursaries are available. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships
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What ultimately helped me get where “I am today were the opportunities provided by Swansea University to present to fellow students and lecturers at seminars, such as the Postgraduate Seminar Series which allowed me to develop my skills and get over my worries in a safe, non-judgemental space. If someone had told me that I would be assigned ‘Schools Outreach Representative’ whilst at university I would never have Chloe believed them. Throughout my undergraduate degree at Swansea University I was terrified at presenting and talking in front of people and avoided it as much as I could. However,
I received some fantastic training from lecturers
within the Biosciences department at the end RobinsonMSc ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY, of my BSc degree and during my “ MSc which PhD BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES began to really help me tackle my fears and start to build my confidence.
59 BIOSCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS BIOSCIENCES themes, and where you will gain Natural Products and RESEARCH COURSES in-depth knowledge in our Environmental Resources Entry Requirements specialist areas of expertise. Our research aims to maximise the benefits of natural resources while MPhil/PhD: Typically a 2:1 honours Our research themes are: degree or a master's degree with minimising disturbances to the Marine and Freshwater Systems merit in biosciences or a related environment. We address – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF We take an interdisciplinary subject, or equivalent qualification. environmental and societal approach and build on a strong MRes: Typically a 2:1 honours challenges through applied research, history of aquatic research at degree in Biosciences or a related and in doing so, we champion Swansea University to answer subject, or equivalent qualification. healthy and sustainable ecosystems. fundamental and applied research Our focus is broad, and ranges from questions aimed at sustaining English Language Requirement harnessing microbial systems for ecosystem services from marine and IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each novel product and process freshwater environments. We also component) or Swansea University development (bioprospecting, consider the interconnected nature of recognised equivalent. bioremediation), to addressing different freshwater, estuarine and aquatic and terrestrial food security marine environments and humans as (aquaculture, biocontrol, disease BIOSCIENCES MRes FT PT key components of these systems. ecology), and environmental BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Behavioural Ecology and Evolution stewardship (invasive species control; MPhil/PhD FT PT From molecular through to human-environment interactions). The Department of Biosciences macroevolutionary scales we Working collaboratively across conducts research on diverse interrogate the basis of behavioural disciplines with academics, subjects across natural sciences, and morphological adaptions. businesses and policymakers combining fundamental and applied We focus on understanding animal are central to our research. science to provide a well-rounded sociality, movement ecology and research environment. Our research Further information on our research the evolutionary drivers and is focused around four themes, can be found on our website: mechanisms of behaviour. which are integrated with our swansea.ac.uk/bioscience/ education mission. Biodiversity and Ecosystems research-and-impact/ Global environmental change is We invite applications from highly modifying and affecting ecosystems motivated and suitably qualified and biodiversity and the functions candidates to undertake and life-support they provide. We postgraduate research on our MRes aim to understand the mechanisms Biosciences (one-year programme and functions driving biodiversity FT), MPhil (two-year programme FT) patterns and ecosystem dynamics, to or PhD (up to 4-year programme FT). better inform management and MRes students undertake three taught policy from local to global scales. modules in the first term, including Our strengths arise from the ‘Science Skills and Research synergies of combining experimental, Methods’ undertaken by all field and theoretical approaches, postgraduate researchers. across individual to population and The major component of all our community-level scales. Our work postgraduate research degrees is the spans ecosystems across the globe, research thesis, which is embedded from tropical islands to temperate within one or more of our research reefs and coastlands; from the Atlantic forest to boreal ecosystems.
60 BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA BAY CAMPUS BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Our MBA programme will provide you with advanced knowledge of key business practices, fast tracking your career to become an effective business leader. This is a different programme for a different approach to management.
With a focus on corporate social responsibility, this programme is aimed at professionals with three years’ relevant industrial experience. Designed to equip you with skills for organising, competing and collaborating within and across public, private and third sectors, this programme will ensure you are prepared to meet future challenges.
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MBA FT Why choose Swansea University TAUGHT COURSES to study your MBA? Designed to equip learners with Entry Requirements
global skills for organising and Minimum 2:1 degree in any discipline MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL collaborating, as well as competing together with a minimum of three in the private, public and third years’ relevant industrial experience. sectors. We place emphasis on English Language Requirement imagining future possibilities - such as hybrid organisational forms, new IELTS 6.5 or higher (minimum 5.5 in each component) or Swansea business practices and responsible consumption trends - to meet the University recognised equivalent. swansea.ac.uk/som/mba challenges of securing human values in increasingly uncertain times of global transformations. SCHOLARSHIPS AND School of Management brochure: BURSARIES The MBA challenges you to be a MBA SCHOLARSHIP critical thinker, reflecting on theory There are many benefits to studying and management practice in order to an MBA, from developing that identify where change can be made enviable strong professional network to preparing you for high salary to the global business landscape. senior management roles in business. Modules typically include: We know that the cost of a course • Navigating Innovation is an important decision making and Change factor, which is why the School of • Leading with Integrity Management are excited to offer a scholarship worth £5,000 to four • Exploring Organisational Purpose MBA students. • Data Analysis and Decision Making swansea.ac.uk/som/mba/ • Creating Sustainable Value mba-scholarship/ swansea.ac.uk/som/mba • Understanding Finance
MEMBERSHIP:
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BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 27UK RESEARCH Our taught business programmes are designed to enhance your employability, giving you QUALITY access to a team of careers advisors in the School of Management. We have developed the MSc (The Complete University Guide 2019) Management programmes for students from any undergraduate degree background, with research-led, practical teaching from a team of industry experts.
Our thriving postgraduate student community is drawn from around the globe and our students benefit from the School’s co-location with industry at the innovative Bay Campus, with dedicated teaching space and study rooms, extensive IT facilities equipped with the latest hardware and a range of specialist software.
MANAGEMENT MSc FT PT • Human Resource Management –
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL TAUGHT COURSES This one-year programme is focuses on the challenges of leadership and managing Entry Requirements offered as a conversion course to a global workforce MSc Management and Management management, and can be studied • International Management – Pathways: A 2:2 honours degree by students from any undergraduate or above in any subject or an discipline. It covers core considers contemporary equivalent qualification. management concepts such as management practice in international marketing, operations a global setting English Language Requirement management, global strategy, • Marketing – focuses on the IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each finance and human resource challenges of global marketing component) or Swansea University management to give you a solid activities recognised equivalent. grounding in a range of dynamic • Operations and Supply business principles. Management – focuses on managing global operations The MSc Management is available SCHOLARSHIPS AND and supply networks BURSARIES as a generalist programme, which • Tourism – focuses on the concepts At the School of Management, gives you the freedom to pick from and characteristics of tourism in we are happy to offer financial a range of optional modules in your support for the brightest prospects second semester. This degree is also relation to business, management of the future. It’s not just academic available with specific named and social science excellence we reward – we also pathways that allow you to specialise You have the freedom to change recognise and encourage passion during the second semester and will for study and involvement in student pathway up until the end of the first feature on your final degree certificate. life. There are a range of funding semester so you can try different opportunities available for both The pathways on offer are: areas of management before taught and research degrees. • Business Analytics – designed to picking a final specialisation swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ equip students in understanding (students wishing to take this option scholarships the dynamic data-driven elements should initially register on the of the business world general MSc Management). ACCREDITATIONS INCLUDE: • Enterprise and Innovation – for students interested in the dynamics of starting their own business INFORMATION • Finance – for students interested The Tourism pathway includes a MEMBERSHIP: in the financial aspects of study tour at an additional cost. management Please visit the course web pages below for further up-to-date information. Not available part-time.
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There’s something special about “Swansea, which my friends studying at other institutions were envious of. Deciding to complete a master's in a subject which was totally different to my undergraduate degree was a welcome challenge and I loved every minute of it. The University has a great reputation for postgraduate study and I really experienced it at its best. The lecturers were incredible and went above and beyond to support me in their free time; with their support I feel as though my confidence has grown ten-fold. The modules for my master's really excited me too – they all lent themselves Amy well to a career in HR on a practical level and I could clearly see how each module would apply itself to the world
of work. I am confident that my master's
from Swansea University will set me Hillman apart from other applicants“ when MSc MANAGEMENT applying for jobs and graduate Human Resource Management (HRM) trainee programmes. (In 2019 Amy secured a role at Bosch UK as a Graduate Trainee on the Junior Manager Program) For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 63 BUSINESS MANAGEMENT IN THE BAY CAMPUS TH
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 8UK BUSINESS MANAGEMENT VALUE ADDED MPhil/PhD FT PT RESEARCH COURSES (Guardian University We invite applications from Guide 2019) Entry Requirements well-qualified candidates whose MPhil: Typically a first or upper research interests correspond to second-class degree in business our areas of research expertise. management or a related subject. CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY PhD: Applicants must normally hold MSc By Research FT PT Swansea University’s School of an undergraduate degree at 2:1 A one year research degree which Management has a careers team level and a master’s degree with offers you complete flexibility dedicated and tailored solely to a minimum overall grade at ‘merit’. through its wholly research based you as a management student.
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL Alternatively, applicants with a UK mode of study. This service ensures that first class honours degree (or non-UK employability is actively promoted equivalent as defined by Swansea Applicants are encouraged to and remains an important focus University) not holding a master’s explore the research expertise throughout your studies. The team degree, will be considered on an of the School to ensure a good has an impressive track-record of individual basis. fit between PhD proposals and getting students into employment. potential supervisors. Information They have already helped numerous English Language Requirement about the current faculty and the students secure their dream jobs IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each School’s research groups can and placements. They’re who you component) or Swansea University be found at: need to speak to for: recognised equivalent. swansea.ac.uk/som/research • Placement advice • CV tips • Interview tips (general interviews and psychometric testing) • They’ll even research the brands you want to work for and advise on their interview formats
64 CHEMISTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS CHEMISTRY
We have excellent, purpose-built modern access to diverse laboratories and research infrastructures. High-quality, high-impact chemistry research is also thriving in the University’s world-class centres such as The Centre for NanoHealth, Institute of Mass Spectrometry, Institute of Life Sciences, Energy Safety Research Institute, Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre, Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, Centre for Water
Advanced Technologies and Environmental Research and Materials Research Centre. – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF
We work closely with the College of Engineering, Swansea University Medical School and other science departments to create an environment of research excellence. This allows students and staff to invent, innovate and develop products to make step-change advances with impact on current global challenges.
CHEMISTRY MSc By Research/ Health, Food and Drug Chemistry RESEARCH COURSES MPhil/PhD FT PT Chemistry research provides new We invite applications from routes to more effective, cheaper Entry Requirements well-qualified candidates whose and less toxic therapies and to Typically a 2:1 honours degree or research interest focuses around non-invasive disease detection a master's degree with merit in the themes of Energy Chemistry; and diagnosis tools. It will lead chemistry or related subject. Health, Food and Drug Chemistry; to transformation of the entire English Language Requirement Chemistry of Materials; Semiconductor landscape of drug discovery, Chemistry and Surface Chemistry development and healthcare, IELTS 6.0 Overall (with no individual and Spectroscopy. which is currently unaffordable component below 5.5) or Swansea and needs to benefit more patients. University recognised equivalent. Energy Chemistry One of the key areas where Our areas of postgraduate advances in chemistry will be research and training are in: SCHOLARSHIPS AND needed is in providing solutions BURSARIES • Colloid Chemistry to the global energy challenge. We offer a range of funding • Drug Delivery Research areas include: opportunities for research degrees. • Drug Particles • Batteries and Supercapacitors Recently we have attracted funding • Multi-action Therapeutics • Energy Storage and Generation from organisations such as the • Pharmaceuticals Engineering and Physical Sciences • Green Chemistry Research Council (EPSRC) for • Oil and Gas Chemistry Chemistry of Materials postgraduate scholarships. • Photochemistry, Catalysts and Research areas include: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Solar Reforming of Biomass • 2D Materials, Graphene and scholarships Electronic Materials • Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering • Imaging • Micro and Nanostructures • Microfluidics • Polymer Synthesis • Recycling of Materials • Smart Scaffolds
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CHEMISTRY Semiconductor Chemistry • NMR In collaboration with the Biocontrol Research areas include: • Raman Spectroscopy and FTIR and Natural Products (BANP) Group • Chemistry of Thin Films • Scanning Tunnelling in the Department of Biosciences, • Optoelectronics and Photonics Microscopy (STM) there are also research opportunities • Organic Electronics • X-ray Photoelectron around the characterisation and
– COLLEGE SCIENCE OF • Photochemistry and Lithography Spectroscopy (XPS) application of natural products, • Plasma Chemistry in particular those derived from Surface Chemistry: • Silicon Devices and Processing fungi and microalgae, to provide Bioelectronics and Sensing therapeutics and nutraceuticals Surface Chemistry: Imaging • Electrochemistry and to act as agents for biocontrol and Spectroscopy • Organic Electronics and bioremediation. • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) • Surface Modification • Electron Microscopy (SEM and TEM) • Sensors and Biosensors Further information on our research • Fluorescence Imaging can be found on our website: swansea.ac.uk/chemistry/ research-and-impact/
66 CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE TOP SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
150 YOUNG AND CHILDREN PEOPLE IN THE WORLD The College of Human and Health Sciences is bringing about real-life benefits for the PUBLIC HEALTH health care, social care, voluntary and private sectors, ultimately leading to improvements (Academic Ranking of World Universities, for children, parents, practitioners, managers and policy makers. Our academic staff have ARWU 2020) strong links with a range of international networks and similar departments in European universities and around the world, so your learning is informed by the latest policy and practice developments. They facilitate rigorous research and evaluation, from birth through to early adulthood, with the central theme of health and well-being.
In the latest Research Excellence Framework (2014), over 75% of our research was ranked as being of international or world-leading quality.
CHILDHOOD STUDIES PGCert/ DEVELOPMENTAL AND THERAPEUTIC
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF TAUGHT COURSES PGDip/MA FT PT PLAY PGCert/PGDip/MA FT PT This programme will give you the This programme offers an exciting Entry Requirements knowledge and skills to support opportunity to gain an advanced A UK 2:2 (or above) degree in a children and their families in a range understanding of how children learn related discipline, or its equivalent. of environments. You will develop and develop through play. You will Applications will be considered if a keen understanding of issues explore evidence-based practice in you have significant relevant work experience. You may be asked to related to child development in play across a range of professional attend an interview and you will contemporary society and how contexts, combining in-depth theory be required to undergo a Disclosure policy and services for children and with fieldwork experience. This and Barring Service (DBS) check. families are planned and provided. includes how the environment and Throughout your studies, you social interactions support children’s English Language Requirement will refine critical research and growing repertoire of play skills, For all full-time taught programmes: analytical skills valued by employers with a particular emphasis on IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each and develop professional reflective the inherent value of children’s component) or Swansea University practice techniques. self-directed play experiences. recognised equivalent. Throughout your studies, you Core modules typically include: will refine critical research and • Childhood and Children: analytical skills valued by employers Sociological Perspectives SCHOLARSHIPS AND and develop professional reflective • Children’s Rights and BURSARIES practice techniques. We offer a range of funding Safeguarding Children opportunities for both taught and Young People Modules typically include: and research degrees. • Dissertation • Dissertation in Play swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Researching Childhood • Perspectives on Play scholarships • Understanding and Observing • Play Theory and Practice Child Development • Researching Childhood • Therapeutic Work with Children Optional specialist modules • Understanding and Observing typically include: Child Development • Advanced Practice with Children • Childhood Nutrition and Growth • Common Childhood Illness • Therapeutic Work with Children • Perspectives on Play
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CHILDREN AND YOUNG AND CHILDREN PEOPLE CHILD PUBLIC HEALTH Child and Youth Identity PGCert/PGDip/MSc FT PT RESEARCH COURSES Research students are currently This programme will explore the exploring the interactions between Entry Requirements many interrelated factors that have young people as individual agents, PhD applicants would normally an impact on infant, child and their social environments, and wider have, or be studying for, a master's family health. You will examine the social structures that inform their degree while our MPhil programmes evidence base underpinning current choices and opportunities. require a first or upper second public health policy relating to class degree in a discipline related Child Development children aged 0-11 in the UK to the proposed research project, Research students are currently and internationally, covering topics or a relevant, approved addressing the range of factors including perinatal health, nutrition postgraduate qualification. influencing how children learn and and immunisations. Your studies develop from early years through to will take an integrated approach English Language Requirement later adolescence, and the ways in encompassing the biological, IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each
which the effects of these factors can – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF psychological and social influences component) or Swansea University be monitored in the play of children. affecting children’s long-term recognised equivalent. educational and emotional development and the public health policies and interventions CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE MPhil/ that can support these. Throughout PhD FT PT your studies, you will refine critical We invite applications from research and analytical skills well-qualified candidates whose valued by employers and research interests correspond to our develop professional reflective areas of research expertise. These practice techniques. are focused around the following Core modules typically include: research groupings: • Childhood Nutrition and Growth Health and Welfare • Dissertation Research students are currently • Influences upon Child Health investigating factors influencing • Researching Childhood the welfare of children and young • Sociology of Child Health people such as health care Optional specialist modules provision, child abuse and neglect, typically include: learning disabilities, play, and • Advanced Practice with Children homelessness. Recent research • Children’s Rights and Safeguarding projects carried out by students Children and Young People cover children’s free play choices • Common Childhood Illness in the school and home, teaching • Understanding and Observing approaches with the Foundation Child Development Phase, and looked after children.
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The MA in Childhood “Studies is an excellent way to ground you with theoretical knowledge and understanding of child development. The multidisciplinary approach helps broaden understanding of child development and explore the current issues of early childhood development (that is children born in the digital age) from international perspectives. Swansea University also encourages you to do volunteer Ashelle work with children and this is an
opportunity to see, understand
and apply what you learn in the classroom. It is amazing“ when you discover how theory and MAParas CHILDHOOD STUDIES practice work.
69 CLASSICS, ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE AND EGYPTOLOGY TH SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
CLASSICS, ANCIENT HISTORY AND EGYPTOLOGY 10 UK RESEARCH 'To be ignorant of what took place before you were born is to remain a child forever’ (Cicero). QUALITY (The Complete University Guide 2019) From the epics of Homer and Virgil to the first novels, from Egyptian magic and Greek mythology to the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and the growth of Christianity, from Egyptian pharaohs and Athenian democracy to the fall of the Roman Empire, the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Greece and Rome are a fundamental source for our modern culture and thought.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CULTURE MA • Private Life in Ancient Egypt TAUGHT COURSES FT PT • Reaching the Public: Museums The MA Ancient Egyptian Culture and Object-handling Entry Requirements emphasises not only the study of the • Special Topics in Egyptology Typically a 2:1 degree, or equivalent, intellectual and material cultures of in an arts, humanities, or social ancient Egypt, but also its language. ANCIENT HISTORY AND CLASSICAL sciences subject. CULTURE MA FT PT Egyptology at Swansea University This MA allows you to study a broad English Language Requirement enjoys an invaluable asset in its purpose-built Egypt Centre, which range of topics related to the histories IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each houses over 3,000 objects from and cultures of the Classical world, component) or Swansea University from the Mycenaean world to late recognised equivalent. ancient Egypt (as well as Greek and Roman artefacts), the largest antiquity. The range of options
provides the opportunity to specialise
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND collection of this kind in Wales. This SCHOLARSHIPS AND impressive and important collection in history or literature, or to combine BURSARIES illustrates more than 5,000 years study of the two. A range of postgraduate scholarships of human development from the Modules typically include: and bursaries are available. prehistoric to the early Christian era • Ancient Greek or Latin Language swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ and plays an integral role in our • Archaeology and Topography of scholarships teaching. While advanced language Ancient Rome training is available in this MA, it is • Dissertation in Ancient History not required, and students wishing to and / or Classical Literature focus on topics related to heritage, • Explorers, Travel and Geography museum, and material culture in the Ancient World interpretation are also welcome. • The Poetry of Facts: History in Verse Modules typically include: • Reaching the Public: Museums • After the Empire: Egypt During the and Object Handling First Millennium BCE • Romance refracted and • Ancient Egyptian Language Novels Renewed Modules: Middle Egyptian (all • Saints and Sinners in Christian levels from beginning to Late Antiquity advanced), Old or Late Egyptian • Word, Metaphor and Allegory • Ancient Nubia: the Archaeology of Egypt's Neighbour in Africa • Egyptology Dissertation • Egyptology Research Portfolio • Explorers, Travel and Geography in the Ancient World
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 70 ANCIENT NARRATIVE LITERATURE • Explorers, Travel and Geography CLASSICS MA By Research MA FT PT in the Ancient World MPhil/PhD FT PT This MA focuses on the narratives of • Latin Language or Latin Texts Study of the languages, literature,
the ancient Greeks and Romans, • Narrative Theory and Genres philosophy, and culture of the CLASSICS, ANCIENT HISTORY AND EGYPTOLOGY both fictional and factual, in a • Romance Refracted and Classical world, from Homer to variety of literary forms, including Novels Renewed the later Roman Empire, and the the novel, epic poetry, mythology, • Saints and Sinners in Christian reception of the ancient world historiography and biography. The Late Antiquity in modern culture. programme introduces you to the key • The Poetry of Facts: History concepts of literary and cultural in Verse EGYPTOLOGY MA By Research/ MPhil/PhD FT PT theory connected with narrative, and encourages you to explore new ways Study of the history, archaeology, of reading ancient texts. As well as RESEARCH COURSES religion, languages, literature, and some of the classics of ancient Entry Requirements culture of pharaonic Egypt and the Sudan. We invite applications from literature, it also examines some less Master's By Research: Applicants familiar texts that illustrate the full should hold or expect to achieve a well-qualified candidates whose creative extent of ancient literary minimum of an upper second class research interests correspond to our imaginations. honours degree (2:1), or equivalent, areas of research expertise. Staff in a related subject or hold relevant research interests cover the core Modules typically include: work experience. disciplines of culture, religion, • Ancient Greek or Latin Language Ancient History MPhil/PhD: language, literature, history, • Dissertation in Ancient History Applicants must normally hold an and archaeology. and or Classical Literature undergraduate degree at 2:1 level • Explorers, Travel and Geography Particular research strengths include: and a master’s degree with a • Ancient Cyprus in the Ancient World minimum overall grade at ‘Merit’ • Ancient Egyptian Demonology • Narrative Theory and Genres
(or Swansea University recognised – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND • Ancient Egyptian Foreign Relations • Romance Refracted and Novels equivalent qualification). Renewed • Ancient Egyptian Religion Classics MPhil/PhD: Applicants must • Ancient Narrative Literature • Saints and Sinners in Christian normally hold an undergraduate and the Ancient Novel Late Antiquity degree at 2:1 level and a master’s • Ancient Nubia and the Sudan • The Poetry of Facts: History degree with a minimum overall grade in Verse at ‘Merit’ (or Swansea University • Ancient Technology • Word, metaphor and allegory recognised equivalent qualification). • Archaeology of Roman Egypt • Daily Life in Ancient Egypt Egyptology MPhil/PhD: CLASSICS MA FT PT • Gender in Ancient Egypt Applicants must normally hold an The MA Classics studies Greek and undergraduate degree at 2:1 level • Graeco-Roman Urbanisation Latin language, literature, and and a master’s degree with a (especially Pompeii) civilisation. The MA allows you to minimum overall grade at ‘Merit’ • Greek Social History (Archaic develop your reading skills in two (or Swansea University recognised to Hellenistic) ancient languages and to apply equivalent qualification). • Greek Tragedy them to the study of a selection of • Historiography some of the most important literary English Language Requirement • History, Society and Culture texts from the ancient world. IELTS 6.5 (minimum of least 6.5 of Late Antiquity in each component). • History of the Late Ramesside, Modules typically include: Third Intermediate and Late • Ancient Greek Language ANCIENT HISTORY MA Periods of Egypt or Greek Texts By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT • Plato • Archaeology and Topography These programmes allow in-depth • Presocratic Philosophy of Ancient Rome study of the history, culture, or • Roman Military History • Dissertation in Ancient History archaeology of the classical • Roman Republican and and or Classical Literature world, from Mycenaean Greece Imperial History to late antiquity.
71 CLASSICS, ANCIENT HISTORY AND EGYPTOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS CLASSICS, ANCIENT HISTORY AND EGYPTOLOGY • Roman Satire The Egypt Centre Library, Patrologia Latina and Computer Science at Swansea is expanding and is now housed in the new £32.5 million • The Second Intermediate The Egypt Centre Research Seminars Teubner Latin texts online, the Online Period of Egypt and Nubia provide an informal arena for Egyptological Bibliography, and the Computational Foundry building, equipped with world-class facilities to enable our discussion of innovative research Gnomon database. students and staff to pursue transformative computational and mathematical research. KYKNOS: Centre for Research pertaining to Egyptology and in Ancient Narrative Literature All research students in Classics, Our fully networked laboratories run Windows and Linux, and support a wide range of software museums, as well as a bridge of KYKNOS (Greek for Swan) Ancient History, and Egyptology including programming languages Java, C# and the .NET framework, C, C++, Haskell and Prolog. knowledge between academics stimulates, coordinates, and promotes belong to the Graduate Centre in and non-academics. There are also integrated programme development environments such as Visual Studio, Eclipse; the widely research on the narrative literatures the College of Arts and Humanities. used Microsoft Office Package; web access tools and many special purpose software tools including graphical of antiquity. Other facilities The Centre provides pastoral as The University library is stocked well as administrative support and rendering and image manipulation tools. All software is open source and freely available or provided. OLCAP: The Research Group for with original texts, literary and is also responsible for research skills Object- and Landscape-centred documentary, and subscribes to a training and support, and facilitating Approaches to the Past. wide range of general and specialist a lively intellectual environment for The group’s core aim is to promote periodicals. Online access to the College’s postgraduate research and support research, teaching, and external bibliographies and citation community of 200 students. training that falls broadly in the fields indexes is available. Resources of material culture studies and include: JSTOR, Dyabola, Thesaurus landscape, especially where these Linguae Graecae, Loeb Classical relate to the ancient world.
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8 COMPUTER SCIENCE OVERALL AND Computer Science at Swansea is expanding and is now housed in the new £32.5 million TOP IN WALES (Times & Sunday Times Computational Foundry building, equipped with world-class facilities to enable our University Guide 2020) students and staff to pursue transformative computational and mathematical research.
Our fully networked laboratories run Windows and Linux, and support a wide range of software including programming languages Java, C# and the .NET framework, C, C++, Haskell and Prolog.
There are also integrated programme development environments such as Visual Studio, Eclipse; the widely
used Microsoft Office Package; web access tools and many special purpose software tools including graphical – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF rendering and image manipulation tools. All software is open source and freely available or provided.
ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE • Logic in Computer Science FT PT TAUGHT COURSES MSc • Modelling and Verification On the MSc in Advanced Computer Techniques Entry Requirements Science course you will be • Operating Systems and Architectures Typically a 2:1 or 2:2 honours degree thoroughly prepared for a career in • Security Vulnerabilities and or above in computer science or IT or related industries. The course Penetration Testing related subject, depending on the is for you if you are a Computer • Software Testing course applied for. (A computer science degree is not required to Science graduate or if you have • Visual Analytics pursue the MSc Computer Science). gained experience of computing • Web Application Development and programming in a different ADVANCED SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY English Language Requirement first degree. MSc FT PT IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each All students take a module in This degree is for you if you are component) or Swansea University Computer Science Project Research a Computer Science graduate or recognised equivalent. Methods before undertaking an have gained some experience of *unless otherwise specified individual project over the summer. computing and basic programming Modules typically include: in your first degree. This programme will also be of interest to you if you SCHOLARSHIPS AND • Advanced Topics: Artificial have substantial relevant experience BURSARIES Intelligence and Cyber Security gained from working in a computer We offer a range of funding • Big Data and Data Mining related environment for some time opportunities for both taught and • Big Data and Machine Learning and are looking to update or research degrees. Recently we have • Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies broaden your knowledge. attracted funding from organisations and Smart Contracts such as the Engineering and Physical • Computer Vision and Deep Learning All students take modules in Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) • Critical Systems Software Engineering Project for postgraduate scholarships. • Data Visualisation Planning and Management swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Embedded System Design and Software Testing, as well scholarships • Graphics Processor Programming as undertaking a Software Team • Hardware and Devices Project, before working on an • High-performance Computing individual software project over in C/C++ the summer. • Human Computer Interaction Modules typically include: • Information Security Management • Advanced Topics: Artificial • IT Security: Cryptography Intelligence and Cyber Security and Network Security • Big Data and Data Mining For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 73 COMPUTER SCIENCE BAY CAMPUS COMPUTER SCIENCE • Big Data and Machine Learning in C/C++ • Human Computer Interaction • Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies • Human Computer Interaction • Mathematical Skills for Data and Smart Contracts • Logic in Computer Science Scientists • Computer Vision and Deep Learning • Modelling and Verification • Modelling and Verification • Critical Systems Techniques Techniques • Data Visualisation • Operating Systems and Architectures • Operating Systems and Architectures • Embedded System Design • Programming in Java • Visual Analytics • Graphics Processor Programming • Relational and Object-oriented CYBER SECURITY MSc FT PT
• Hardware and Devices Database Systems – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF • High-performance Computing • Software Concepts and Efficiency Our increasingly connected world in C/C++ • Software Engineering Principles presents continual new and serious • Human Computer Interaction • Software Testing security threats. From privacy • Information Security Management • Visual Analytics violations (hacking, monitoring • IT Security: Cryptography • Web Application Development communications, leaking sensitive and Network Security data, stealing and publishing private • Logic in Computer Science DATA SCIENCE MSc FT PT information) through to the drugs • Modelling and Verification This programme will equip you with trade, sex trafficking and terrorism, Techniques a solid grounding in data science Swansea’s Computer Science expert • Operating Systems and Architectures concepts and technologies for staff can provide the techniques • Security Vulnerabilities and extracting information and required for mitigating such risks, Penetration Testing constructing knowledge from data. in order to provide secure, reliable • Software Testing You will study the computational and trustworthy systems. principles, methods and systems for • Visual Analytics In this MSc we take a holistic and a variety of real world applications • Web Application Development interdisciplinary approach, bringing that require mathematical together modules on diverse topics COMPUTER SCIENCE MSc FT PT foundations, programming skills, such as penetration testing, formal The MSc in Computer Science course critical thinking and ingenuity. modelling, information security is for you if you are a graduate from Development of research skills will management, cryptography and one of a wide range of disciplines be an essential element of the AI in order to equip our students and are looking to change direction programme, enabling you to bring a with a suitable mind set for a career or because the needs of your chosen critical perspective to current data in cyber security. career require a solid foundation in science discipline and apply this to Computer Science. All students take future developments in a rapidly Our Cyber Security Lab provides a module in Computer Science changing technological environment. the perfect backdrop for exploring Project Research Methods before the security landscape, allowing All students take a module in undertaking an individual project students and staff to carry out Computer Science Research Methods over the summer. experiments in network security, before undertaking an individual mobile security, and to explore Modules typically include: project over the summer. threats and defence mechanisms in • Big Data and Data Mining Modules typically include: the context of the Internet of Things. • Big Data and Machine Learning • Big Data and Data Mining Following the taught component of • Computer System Concepts • Big Data and Machine Learning the course, students will carry out a • Computer Vision and Deep Learning • Computer System Concepts substantial research project which • Critical Systems • Computer Vision and Deep Learning involves using and exploring • Data Visualisation • Data Visualisation cutting-edge techniques for • Embedded System Design • Graphics Processor Programming specifying, developing, verifying • Graphics Processor Programming • High-performance Computing and accessing systems against • Hardware and Devices in C/C++ security criteria. Students will benefit • High-performance Computing from our broad range of industrial
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I currently work for Vortex IoT as an R&D “Engineer where we design and develop innovative products and IoT systems for harsh environments.
Our current work is in developing air quality – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF monitoring systems and railway intrusion and obstruction detection systems. These systems are designed and built in-house from the ground up by the R&D and Software team. As well as hardware, we design web interfaces and data management and analysis systems to gain further insight into what our sensor networks are detecting. This is done through our machine learning and AI systems which are all developed in-house. During my master's I focused on ‘Hardware and Devices’ and ‘Embedded Systems’ modules which gave me an opportunity to work at the boundary of where the physical meets the digital. This led me to conduct my research for my dissertation in mesh networking. These skills helped me to secure a job in developing embedded systems and working around the growing world of IoT systems. What I enjoyed about the MSc course and study environment at Swansea University was the free thinking environment where we are encouraged by the lecturers to face new problems and approach them from any angle. The Computer Science Department is full of very knowledgeable people with contacts and interests in many areas. As a student of the Department you have access to this vast pool of knowledge. Aidan I would encourage students to take advantage of this. Talk to your peers and lecturers about more
than computer science, and use the time you have
to explore interests that make you a more rounded individual. Your degree/qualifications“ will get you Fyans an interview but your surrounding knowledge and MSc COMPUTER SCIENCE 2018 interests will secure you the job. R&D Engineer, Vortex IoT
75 COMPUTER SCIENCE BAY CAMPUS COMPUTER SCIENCE partners and internationally leading and enhance human potential in and finishes in Grenoble – and the research expertise. big data and AI. available specialisms are: • Advanced Information Systems Modules typically include: Modules typically include: and Software Engineering • Advanced Topics: Artificial • Abuses, Biases and Blessings • AI and the Web Intelligence and Cyber Security of Data • Graphics, Vision and Robotics • Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies • Artificial Intelligence • Data Science and Smart Contracts • Big Data and Machine Learning • High-confidence Embedded • Critical Systems • Choice of Topics Relating to Law,
and Cyberphysical Systems
– COLLEGE SCIENCE OF • Embedded System Design Healthcare, and Factories • Parallel, Distributed and • Information Security Management of the Future Embedded Systems • Invention and Innovation in • Critical Systems • Ubiquitous and Interactive Systems Computing • Data-structures and Architectures • IT-Security: Cryptography and • Human-centred Evaluation Network Security and Analysis • Security Vulnerabilities and • Human-centred Perspectives Penetration Testing and Methods • Web Application Development • Industrial Partner Case Studies • Interfaces and Modalities HUMAN-CENTRED BIG DATA AND • Trust, Argumentation and Verification ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MSc FT • Visual Analytics You will be trained in adventurous and exciting computational science, *IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 working on real-world challenges in each component) that will transform society and the COMPUTER SCIENCE: INFORMATIQUE economy. While there are valid MSc (SWANSEA AND GRENOBLE concerns about what impact big data ROUTES) FT and artificial intelligence might have Swansea University and Université on individuals, communities, jobs and Grenoble Alpes offer two Dual society, this programme focuses on Award MSc degrees in Computer human potential, needs, desires and Science: Informatique. Both lead to cares, and how these motivations degrees from both Universities and can be used to drive innovation. both are two years long – one year You will undertake your major in Swansea, and one year in project in collaboration with one of Grenoble. The degrees are normally our world-class partners (including taught in English but you can choose Google, Facebook, NHS, Tata Steel, to study in French if you are Ford, Microsoft and many more), sufficiently fluent. and also take part in a range of The Grenoble route scheme starts in additional skill-enhancing activities Grenoble and finishes in Swansea such as sandpits, retreats and – and the available specialisms are: focused training events. As part of • Big Data, Graphics and a close-knit cohort, students will Visualisation learn human-centred methods, • Mobile Systems grounded in a broad range of • Software Technology theoretical, experimental, domain • Theory and Foundations and methodological perspectives to The Swansea route starts in Swansea understand how these can amplify
76 Modules typically include: The group follows an ambitious and RESEARCH COURSES • Critical Systems curiosity-driven programme to develop • Logic in Computer Science new algorithms and methods, as well Entry Requirements • Modelling and Verification as advanced software techniques COMPUTER SCIENCE Typically a 2:1 honours degree or Techniques and tools, for computer graphics, a master's degree with merit in visualisation and interactive systems. computer science or related subject. Culminating in a final research project. Logic and Computation Group VISUAL COMPUTING MRes FT PT English Language Requirement One of the largest groups of An MRes is ideal preparation for IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each theoretical computer scientists in the following a career of research or component) or Swansea University UK, with a big research programme specialism within the area of study. recognised equivalent. involving many international In particular the MRes in Visual
collaborators. Over the past forty
Computing seeks to prepare you – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF years, Swansea theoreticians have for further research in the areas COMPUTING AND FUTURE made fascinating and pioneering of Computer Graphics, Computer INTERACTION TECHNOLOGIES discoveries in the theories of data, FT PT Vision, Medical Imaging, and MRes algorithms, processes, programming Scientific Visualisation. The MRes is taught by the Future languages, specification languages, Interaction Technology (FIT) Lab Modules typically include: reasoning and system verification. within Computer Science. • Computer Vision and Pattern Future Interaction Technology Group Recognition The FIT Lab’s mission is to explore The Future Interaction Technology • Data Analytics and apply Advanced Computer Laboratory (FIT Lab) is the College of • Data Visualisation Science to make interaction Science’s Human-Computer Interaction • Graphics Processor Programming technologies dependable, enjoyable (HCI) group. Our goal is to put people • Hardware and Devices and effective. Furthermore, we aim at the heart of technological innovation to work on grand challenges, like Culminating in a final research project. – to create platforms, devices and improving safety in health care, or services that are not just functional, developing technology to reach COMPUTER SCIENCE MSc By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT but usable, efficient and enjoyable. millions of people and help us live Opened in 2006, the FIT Lab has more effective and sustainable lives. HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION MSc since grown to become internationally By Research FT PT Modules typically include: recognised as a world-leading • Hardware and Devices THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE MSc centre for HCI research. By Research FT PT • Human-Centred Visual Analytics Security Group • Human Computer Interaction VISUAL AND INTERACTIVE COMPUTING Security in the context of Computer • Interactive System Design MSc By Research FT PT Science encompasses technical Culminating in a final research project. We invite applications from aspects such as the protection of our well-qualified candidates whose digital life from a variety of attacks LOGIC AND COMPUTATION research interests focus around through to guarantees towards social MRes FT PT our themes: aspects such as privacy and use of On the MRes in Logic and policies. Computer scientists at Computation you will learn about Visual and Interactive Swansea have made and are making advanced techniques in logic and Computing Group contributions to the field – eg, in the their applications. Since 1992 when it was first digital economy, on cryptocurrencies, You will receive an elite education established, the group has grown on security and privacy of personal of direct relevance to research to an internationally visible team, data, on cyber-terrorism and and development problems in which currently consists of six cyber-crime, and on mobile security, contemporary information and academics, eight researchers, to name but a few. communication technology (ICT). 14 PhD/MPhil students and five associated staff members. Further information on our research can be found on our website: swansea.ac.uk/compsci/ research-and-impact/
77 CRIMINOLOGY % SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 96 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINOLOGY STANDARD RESEARCH The Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law is a vibrant academic and research community, (Research Excellence continuously developing to ensure that our graduates are equipped to meet the challenges Framework 2014-2021) posed by the ever-shifting landscapes of criminology and criminal justice.
As a postgraduate student, you will study an exciting range of cutting-edge modules, supported by
– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL – HILLARY academics with real-world experience at the forefront of their research.
Our research addresses major societal challenges, has impact, and makes a difference to society. We have established expertise in a variety of specialist fields including children’s rights, cyber crime, offender rehabilitation, sexuality studies, terrorism, and youth justice.
APPLIED CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CYBER CRIME AND TERRORISM TAUGHT COURSES CRIMINOLOGY MA FT PT MA FT PT The Applied Criminal Justice and The Cyber Crime and Terrorism MA Entry Requirements Criminology MA enables students is an interdisciplinary course, drawing MA: Minimum 2:1 honours degree to discover how the criminal justice on political science, psychology, in a cognate discipline (criminology system operates in practice, learn criminology, law and history to and criminal justice, law, social policy, key theories, and explore cutting- critically engage with online crime psychology, sociology, politics or computer science). Candidates with a edge themes within criminology. and terrorism. Throughout this course 2:2 or with relevant professional work Students will also have the opportunity you will learn about the threats, experience may also be considered. to develop critical skills, such as trends, issues, responses and ethical learning how to undertake questions associated with terrorism English Language Requirement criminological research. Teaching on and cyber crime. Staff are IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each the master’s is multi-disciplinary and experienced researchers in these component) or Swansea University informed by staff research interests. fields and there are opportunities recognised equivalent. for students to undertake their own Modules typically include: original research as part of their • A Critical Understanding of Policing final dissertations. SCHOLARSHIPS AND • Advanced Issues in Drugs, BURSARIES Alcohol and the Criminal Law Modules typically include: A range of postgraduate scholarships • Developing Criminological Research • Contemporary Terrorism in Historical and bursaries are available. • Human Trafficking and Modern and Philosophical Context swansea.ac.uk/ Day Slavery • Countering Violent Extremism postgraduate/scholarships • Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Online of Children • Crime in Cyberspace • Young People and Youth Justice • Digital Policing • Human Rights and Terrorism Online • Online Propaganda and Radicalisation • Research Methods and Ethics
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 78 STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT
– HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL – HILLARY
My time as a postgraduate student within “the Criminology department, at both MA and PhD level, has proven to be both rewarding and enjoyable. In undertaking my research, I have been impressed, not only by the academic expertise demonstrated by staff, but also by the level of support that they show towards postgraduate students. I have found my supervisors, as well as wider departmental staff, to be approachable, generous with their time, and always ready to share their knowledge and insights. I have also benefited massively from the wide range of experiences that are available Aaron at postgraduate level, including the planning and teaching of seminars, as well as the
various opportunities to attend and
present at conferences. Brown “ PhD STUDENT I cannot recommend postgraduate study within the Criminology department highly enough! You definitely won’t regret applying!
79 CRIMINOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS CRIMINOLOGY
Join our thriving community of Mae ennill gradd uwch yn y Gymraeg drwy astudio unrhyw elfen o iaith, cymdeithaseg CAREER PROSPECTS postgraduate students, where you iaith, cyfraith a pholisi iaith, llenyddiaeth, hanes neu ddiwylliant modern Cymru, yn RESEARCH COURSES will become part of a supportive Enhance your CV by taking part cynnig profiadau cyffrous ac amrywiol. Mae’n meithrin dealltwriaeth ac ysbryd creadigol Entry Requirements environment dedicated to in employment-related activities in the School or across the wrth i ni chwilio am ffyrdd newydd a gwreiddiol o ddehongli diwylliant Cymru a’r iaith A minimum of a 2:1 at understanding some of society’s most challenging issues. University. Our graduates have Gymraeg a chyfrannu atynt.
undergraduate level, plus a – HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL – HILLARY master’s degree with at least gone on to excel in a wide A research degree in Criminology Dangosodd canlyniadau’r Fframwaith Rhagoriaeth Ymchwil (REF) 2014 i’r Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe a merit achieved overall. range of careers in criminal ddod yn gyntaf o blith y sefydliadau o Gymru a gyflwynodd eu gwaith i’r is-banel Astudiaethau Celtaidd, ac yn ail gives you the chance to pursue a justice agencies, including the English Language Requirement project based around your own Home Office, youth offending yn y Deyrnas Unedig. Dynoda’r canlyniadau fod 100% o waith ymchwil y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe o safon passions and interests, leading to IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each teams, and the Probation ryngwladol neu’n uwch na hynny, a bod 69% ohono o safon ragoriaeth yn rhyngwladol, neu’n arwain y maes yn a qualification which can open the component) or Swansea University Service. Graduates have also rhyngwladol (3-4*). Mae’r canlyniadau hyn yn gyson â rhai’r ddau arolwg ymchwil blaenorol ac yn cadarnhau door to an academic career or recognised equivalent. pursued employment with local statws a bri Abertawe ym maes ymchwil y Gymraeg. boost employment prospects in and UK Government, and in a range of other fields. the third sector. Mae ein holl waith addysgu a chyfarwyddo’n dibynnu ar arbenigedd y staff ymchwil ac rydym yn cydweithio â sefydliadau eraill megis Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru. Mae arbenigedd y staff yn CRIMINOLOGY MPhil/PhD FT PT amrywiol, fel a welir uchod, a chewch y cyfle i ymuno â’n Seminar Gymraeg sy’n rhan o Ganolfan Richard Burton. ESRC WALES DOCTORAL Fforwm amlddisgyblaethol yw hwn sy’n rhoi llwyfan i ymchwil ein staff a’n myfyrwyr, ac rydym We invite applications from TRAINING CENTRE yn cyfrannu at nifer o raglenni seminar a chynadleddau yn y Brifysgol. candidates whose interests As part of the ESRC Wales Doctoral correspond with our areas of Training Partnership (DTP), the expertise, which include: Department focuses on providing • Children’s rights excellent postgraduate training. • Cybercrime and Terrorism We provide a mix of generic research and subject-specific • Human Rights and Drug Policy research training enabling students to • Immigration and Asylum develop and apply research • Sex Work and Sexualities methods to criminological enquiry. • Youth Justice You may also wish to view our Law PhD options. Please see page 110 for more information.
80 CYMRAEG AF CAMPWS SINGLETON YNG NGHYMRU1 AR GYFER CYMRAEG RHAGORIAETH Mae ennill gradd uwch yn y Gymraeg drwy astudio unrhyw elfen o iaith, cymdeithaseg YMCHWIL iaith, cyfraith a pholisi iaith, llenyddiaeth, hanes neu ddiwylliant modern Cymru, yn (Fframwaith Rhagoriaeth Ymchwil 2014-2021) cynnig profiadau cyffrous ac amrywiol. Mae’n meithrin dealltwriaeth ac ysbryd creadigol
wrth i ni chwilio am ffyrdd newydd a gwreiddiol o ddehongli diwylliant Cymru a’r iaith – COLEG Y CELFYDDYDAU A’R DYNIAETHAU Gymraeg a chyfrannu atynt.
Dangosodd canlyniadau’r Fframwaith Rhagoriaeth Ymchwil (REF) 2014 i’r Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe ddod yn gyntaf o blith y sefydliadau o Gymru a gyflwynodd eu gwaith i’r is-banel Astudiaethau Celtaidd, ac yn ail yn y Deyrnas Unedig. Dynoda’r canlyniadau fod 100% o waith ymchwil y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe o safon ryngwladol neu’n uwch na hynny, a bod 69% ohono o safon ragoriaeth yn rhyngwladol, neu’n arwain y maes yn rhyngwladol (3-4*). Mae’r canlyniadau hyn yn gyson â rhai’r ddau arolwg ymchwil blaenorol ac yn cadarnhau statws a bri Abertawe ym maes ymchwil y Gymraeg.
Mae ein holl waith addysgu a chyfarwyddo’n dibynnu ar arbenigedd y staff ymchwil ac rydym yn cydweithio â sefydliadau eraill megis Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru. Mae arbenigedd y staff yn amrywiol, fel a welir uchod, a chewch y cyfle i ymuno â’n Seminar Gymraeg sy’n rhan o Ganolfan Richard Burton. Fforwm amlddisgyblaethol yw hwn sy’n rhoi llwyfan i ymchwil ein staff a’n myfyrwyr, ac rydym yn cyfrannu at nifer o raglenni seminar a chynadleddau yn y Brifysgol.
CYFIEITHU PROFFESIYNOL MA FT PT YSGOLORIAETHAU A CYRSIAU A ADDYSGIR BWRSARIAETHAU Dyma’r radd berffaith ar gyfer y rhai Gofynion Mynediad Rydym yn cynnig amrywiaeth sydd am weithio ym maes cyfieithu. Gan amlaf, gradd Anrhydedd 2:1 o gyfleoedd ariannu ar gyfer Mae’n tanlinellu pwysigrwydd neu uwch yn y Gymraeg neu bwnc graddau a addysgir a graddau sgiliau gramadeg ac ysgrifennu cysylltiedig. Gellir ystyried profiad ymchwil. Mae ein myfyrwyr wedi da a defnyddio meddalwedd cof perthnasol ochr yn ochr â phortffolio cael eu hariannu yn y gorffennol cyfieithu. Bydd y cwrs yn ystyried o waith diweddar hefyd. gan Gyngor Ymchwil y Celfyddydau cyfieithu ar gyfer y cyhoedd, dull a’r Dyniaethau yn ogystal â mwy technegol o gyfieithu ar gyfer sefydliadau Cymreig fel y Coleg Gallu ieithyddol arbenigwyr, yn ogystal â chyfieithu Cymraeg Cenedlaethol ac Dylai cymwysterau a phrofiad yr Ymddiriedolaeth Pantyfedwen: ar y pryd. Defnyddir amrywiaeth ymgeisydd amlygu ei allu/gallu o dechnegau i ddatblygu safonau swansea.ac.uk/cy/ol- ieithyddol, ond gellir trafod hyn mewn raddedig/ffioedd-ac-ariannu/ cyfieithu, gan gynnwys profiad cyfweliad. Gellir llunio traethawd ysgoloriaethau/ gwaith. Mae’r cyfuniad o gyfieithu ymchwil yn Gymraeg neu Saesneg gyda thechnoleg cof a datblygu ac mae modd i fyfyrwyr ôl-raddedig meistrolaeth ieithyddol trwy adborth ddilyn cyrsiau iaith pwrpasol. yn gaffaeliad mawr i raddedigion.
Am fanylion llawn y cwrs, gan gynnwys rhestr fodiwl llawn, gweler: abertawe.ac.uk/israddedig/cyrsiau 81 CYMRAEG CAMPWS SINGLETON
CYMRAEG Mae’r rhaglen yn cynnwys: • Ysgrifennu Creadigol • Modiwlau cyfieithu uwch ym RHAGLENNI YMCHWIL • Theatr, Ffilm a Drama meysydd addysg, iechyd Gofynion Mynediad • Hanesyddiaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg cyhoeddus a’r gyfraith, lle Gan amlaf, gradd Anrhydedd 2:1 • Theorïau Llenyddol
rhoddir y pwyslais ar safon
– COLEG Y CELFYDDYDAU A’R DYNIAETHAU neu uwch yn y Gymraeg neu bwnc • Cyfraith a Pholisi Iaith eich cyfieithu personol cysylltiedig. Byddai’n ddymunol i • Modiwl ar dechnoleg gyfieithu, • Technegau a Thechnoleg Cyfieithu fyfyrwyr PhD feddu eisoes ar radd • Dwyieithrwydd a lle dysgwch sut i ddefnyddio MA, ond cysylltwch â ni ar bob Chynllunio Ieithyddol gwahanol raglenni cyfrif i drafod hyn. • Nifer o fodiwlau eraill am theori • Cymraeg i Oedolion a a natur cyfieithu, ochr yn ochr Chaffael Iaith CYMRAEG MA Drwy Ymchwil/ â’r cyfle i ddysgu iaith newydd • Ieithyddiaeth Gymdeithasol MPHIL/PHD FT PT • Cyfle i greu cysylltiadau • Diwylliant a Lle Gwahoddwn geisiadau gan gwerthfawr gyda chwmnïau ymgeiswyr cymwysedig sydd â cyfieithu ac i gael cyfnodau diddordebau ymchwil sy’n cyfateb o brofiad gwaith. i’n meysydd rhagoriaeth ymchwil ni:
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25 ECONOMICS RESEARCH Our MSc courses in economics are designed to prepare you for a career in government QUALITY or business, as an economist, or for an economics PhD or research-oriented career. (The Complete University Guide 2020) In business, economics helps provide an understanding of the motives and actions of customers, suppliers, competitors, employers and financiers. It is crucial in informing the
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strategic and operational decision-making of managers and directors. SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL You will be taught by industry leaders and internationally recognised research experts, who regularly advise organisations and government agencies with policy development and economic research, as well as publish in leading research journals.
You will benefit from co-location with industry at the innovative Bay Campus, working alongside companies such as Fujitsu in a stunning beachside location.
ECONOMICS MSc FT Optional specialist modules include: TAUGHT COURSES This programme exposes students • Development Economics Entry Requirements to contemporary economic thinking, • Labour Economics • Monetary Economics MSc Economics; MSc Economics providing you with a thorough understanding of the core aspects and Finance: A 2:2 honours ECONOMICS AND FINANCE MSc FT degree in a related discipline. of advanced micro and macroeconomics and econometrics, This joint scheme provides students English Language Requirement whilst also providing students with with a comprehensive grounding in many of the key concepts, IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each an impressive range of specialist modelling approaches and component) or Swansea University economics topics available for study. recognised equivalent research techniques deployed in Graduates of this programme may key areas of economics (such as pursue a number of professional microeconomics, macroeconomics career pathways in the finance or and econometrics), which also SCHOLARSHIPS AND management consulting industries. have important applications BURSARIES The sophisticated and multi-faceted within finance. At the School of Management, transferable skills acquired on we are happy to offer financial this programme will also provide This course will be of particular support for the brightest prospects stepping-stones to a wide variety interest if you are planning a career of the future. It’s not just academic in the finance industry or a role that excellence we reward – we also of alternative career paths in calls for advanced analytical skills. recognise and encourage passion commerce, industry, public service for study and involvement in and academia. The relationship between economics student life. and finance is close, with finance Modules typically include: There are a range of funding sometimes viewed as a specialism • Econometrics opportunities available for both within economics. The multi-faceted taught and research degrees. • Energy Economics aspects of this programme will swansea.ac.uk/ • Health Economics therefore not only allow you to postgraduate/scholarships • Macroeconomics explore a range of topics within the • Microeconomics finance and economic disciplines, • Research Methods but serve as preparation for a number of different career paths.
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ECONOMICS Modules typically include: ECONOMICS MPhil/PhD FT PT • Corporate Finance RESEARCH COURSES We invite applications from • Econometrics Entry Requirements well-qualified candidates whose • Empirical Finance research interests correspond to MPhil: Typically a first-class or 2:1 • Microeconomics honours degree in economics or our areas of research expertise.
• Macroeconomics – SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL finance or a related subject, or Applicants are encouraged to Optional specialist modules include: an equivalent qualification. explore the research expertise of • Behavioural Finance the School to ensure a good fit PhD: Applicants must normally • Corporate Governance and Ethics between PhD proposals and hold an undergraduate degree at potential supervisors. Information • International Banking and 2:1 level and a master’s degree with Regulation a minimum overall grade at ‘merit’. about current faculty and the • Monetary Economics Alternatively, applicants with a UK School’s research groups can first class honours degree (or be found at: CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY non-UK equivalent as defined by swansea.ac.uk/som/research Swansea University) not holding a Swansea University’s School of master’s degree, will be considered Management has a Careers on an individual basis. team dedicated and tailored solely to you as a management English Language Requirement student. This service ensures that IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each employability is actively promoted component) or Swansea University and remains an important focus recognised equivalent. throughout your studies. The team has an impressive track-record of getting students into employment. They have already helped numerous students secure their dream jobs and placements. They’re who you need to speak to for:
• Placement advice • CV tips • Interview tips (general interviews and psychometric testing) • They’ll even research the brandsyou want to work for and advise on their interview formats
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I had a really enjoyable time studying “my bachelor’s here; I’d made a lot of great friends and valuable relationships, so I knew I wanted to stay on for another year. I enjoyed learning and wanted to build upon the base made through my bachelor’s degree. My favourite module was Micro- economics because it was maths orientated which suits my strong skills in that area. I’ve always known the lecturers to be really helpful and supportive; they do very well in nudging you in the right direction and then leaving you to your own creativity to solve a problem. My supervisor in particular Rahat gave me a lot of room and freedom to explore the subject.
I would wholeheartedly recommend Swansea; it’s a great place“ to get a Haque really good education with a brilliant MSc ECONOMICS AND FINANCE student experience.
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The School of Education is an innovative, dynamic, research-led department within the College of Arts and Humanities. We carry out internationally excellent research, develop prestigious international partnerships and collaborate with regional pioneering education services. Our programmes develop global graduates with relevant and wide-ranging educational experience, combined with very practical expertise. We are leading on evidence-based research/enquiry
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND to support education practitioners at every level. Our research work is also policy focused and policy responsive. Globally, education is facing unprecedented change with significant education reforms in many countries. Such opportunities make it an exciting time to study education.
EDUCATION MA FT PT EDUCATION (WALES) MA PT TAUGHT COURSES This is an up-to-date, flexible and The National MA Education (Wales) Entry Requirements innovative programme designed is a truly transformative and sector Typically a 2:1 honours degree or to allow professionals exciting leading programme for educational above, or Swansea University opportunities to develop and deepen professionals in Wales, from early recognised equivalent. their knowledge and interests in career teachers to senior leaders. The education. The MA programme offers educational landscape in Wales is Education (Wales) MA you the chance to gain an insight into changing rapidly. Teaching not only Candidates must hold Qualified latest trends, debates and current requires the mastery of a complex set Teacher Status and be currently research in education, which will of skills to guide, motivate, and employed in the compulsory education inform, challenge and enhance your facilitate student learning, but also sector in the UK. Candidates may use own professional practice. The the ability to enquire into professional up to 60 credits of approved prior programme is led by internationally practice in order to improve it. The learning towards the master’s degree. known researchers in the field of National MA Education (Wales) Please contact the department for education with expertise in a wide - which has been collaboratively more details. range of specialist areas. All our developed by seven universities in teaching staff have published Wales, through direct engagement English Language Requirement widely and lead their own with a variety of key stakeholders MA Education: IELTS 6.5 (minimum research projects, both including Welsh Government - will 6.5 in Writing, 5.5 in each other nationally and internationally. ensure that all education professionals component) or Swansea University Prospective students are encouraged in Wales have the same high-quality recognised equivalent. to contact the MA programme opportunity to enhance their director Professor Alma Harris – professional knowledge, engage SCHOLARSHIPS AND [email protected] with research, and to improve their professional practice. Prospective BURSARIES Modules typically include: A range of postgraduate scholarships students are encouraged to contact • Additional Learning Needs and bursaries are available. Dr Michelle Jones - michelle.s.jones@ and Inclusion swansea.ac.uk swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Curriculum, Pedagogy scholarships and Assessment Modules typically include: • Digital Education and Practice • Advanced Research and • Education and Inequality Enquiry Skills • Leading and Managing Change • Inclusive Classroom Practice in Education • Curriculum Design and Realisation • Research Methods in Education • Evidence-Informed Practice • Leading Organisational Change
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 86 teaching their students. We offer • Parental Engagement PGCE secondary programmes in the • Professional Learning PGCE SECONDARY following subject areas: • Teacher Education WITH QTS (QUALIFIED • Widening Participation EDUCATION TEACHER STATUS) • Biology COURSES • Chemistry • Computer Science Entry Requirements • Design and Technology RESEARCH COURSES Typically an honours degree at a • English minimum of 2:2 in a relevant subject, Entry Requirements • Mathematics or a related subject with at least Typically a 2:1 honours degree, – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND • Modern Foreign Languages 50% relevant subject content; Grade and a master’s degree with a (French and Spanish) B GCSE in English/Welsh language minimum overall grade at ‘merit’, • Physics or literature (students applying for the (or Swansea University recognised Welsh medium programme will be • Welsh equivalent qualification). required to have a GCSE in Welsh); English and Welsh medium Dependent on research project, Grade B GCSE in Mathematics. pathways available. some offers are conditional upon Equivalency tests available for a successful Disclosure and Barring suitable applicants. SUSP has high expectations of Service (DBS) check or international student teachers and applicants must Police Check equivalent’. English Language Requirement demonstrate to an interview panel that IELTS 7.0 (minimum of 6.5 in each they have the intellectual qualities, English Language Requirement component) or Swansea University attitudes and values required for IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each recognised equivalent. teaching in the secondary sector. component) or Swansea University Applicants must also have the personal recognised equivalent. Completing the PGCE programme attributes that will enable them to does not provide ‘Leave to Remain’ develop as research informed status for International students to The Education programme is closely work as a teacher within the UK. reflective practitioners and the connected to the research strengths For further information review the resilience to adapt well to the demands of the academic staff who are actively UK Visa and Immigration Service of the programme. involved in the ’Education Policy and regulations that apply to study Prospective students are encouraged Practice’ research group and more and post-study in the UK. to contact Dr Helen Lewis or Dr Neil widely in other areas within the field Lucas - [email protected] of Education. Academic staff at SUSE PGCE SECONDARY WITH QTS to discuss the requirements of the produce world-class research in a wide (QUALIFIED TEACHER STATUS) FT programme or complete an enquiry range of areas linked to Education and This innovative Postgraduate form via our website: seek to promote collaboration between Certificate in Education (PGCE) scholars, educators, teachers, school programme that leads to Qualified swansea.ac.uk/education/ leaders and policymakers. Working Teacher Status (QTS) is delivered postgraduate-study/pgce/enquiry/ at an elite academic level, you will in partnership with schools across conduct original research that is Wales. The Swansea University EDUCATION MPhil/PhD FT PT impactful and publishable. Schools’ Partnership (SUSP) has We welcome applications from All Education research students designed the programme to produce students wishing to pursue graduate belong to the Graduate Centre in teachers who are research informed level research. Prospective students the College of Arts and Humanities. and able to reflect upon their practice are encouraged to contact Dr Janet The Centre provides pastoral as well in order to improve all aspects of Goodall – [email protected] as administrative support and is student learning. The programme to explore possible supervision topics also responsible for research skills produces teachers who will enter the and areas of research. Areas of training and support, and facilitating profession with subject, pedagogical expertise within SUSE include: a lively intellectual environment for and research knowledge. They will • Additional Learning Needs the College’s postgraduate research be prepared as career-long • Adult Education community of 200 students. professionals who can respond to • Digital Skills the changing nature of knowledge in • Early Childhood society and will be experts in • Leadership
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ENGINEERING 15 ENGINEERING We aim to help you develop the potential to become a future leader or champion of industry, DEPARTMENT and to equip you to meet the challenges and opportunities for a career in research. (Times & Sunday Times University Guide 2020) We are ranked 10th in the most recent (2014) UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), with 94% of research classified as ‘world-leading’ (4*) or 'internationally excellent’ (3*).
– Engineers at Swansea pioneered the development of numerical techniques such as the revolutionary
COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF finite element method, recognised as one of the top 100 discoveries and developments in UK universities to have changed the world.
With our world-class research centres and a sustained investment programme, the College of Engineering provides a superb environment for you to study or conduct research.
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MSc FT MSc FT PT TAUGHT COURSES This course is tailored to suit graduates This course prepares students for Entry Requirements interested in both advanced research the design, analysis, testing and Typically a 2:2 honours or above. and/or a career in the process flight of the full range of aerospace Please check the website for individual engineering sector. The course extends vehicles, including propeller-driven programme entry requirements and subjects typically studied at bachelor’s and jet-powered planes, helicopters for further details. level with focus upon important process and gliders. engineering themes, such as separation English Language Requirement Students on the course will gain processes, fluid systems, mass transfer IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each hands-on experience through access and material properties with a strong component) or Swansea University to one of the world’s most advanced emphasis on water processing recognised equivalent. engineering flight simulators housed technologies and advanced aspects within the College of Engineering. of process design and simulation. As The course is accredited by the a student on the master's course in SCHOLARSHIPS AND Institution of Mechanical Engineers Chemical Engineering, you will have BURSARIES (IMechE), the Royal Aeronautical the opportunity to advance your A range of postgraduate scholarships Society (RAeS), and the Institution technical knowledge via lecture- and bursaries are available. of Engineering Designers (IED). based modules and further develop swansea.ac.uk/ critical analysis competencies through postgraduate/scholarships Modules typically include: both individual research and group • Advanced Aerodynamics design projects. The course is • Advanced Airframe Structure accredited by the Institution of • Composite Materials Chemical Engineers (IChemE). • Finite Element Computational Analysis Modules typically include: • Flight Dynamics and Control • Complex Fluids and Rheology • Numerical Methods for Partial • Desalination Differential Equations • Entrepreneurship for Engineers • Structural Integrity of • Environmental Analysis Aerospace Metals and Legislation • Membrane Technology • Nanoscale Structures and Devices
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 88 • Pollutant Transport by computer communications, photonics state-of-the-art numerical and Groundwater Flows and telecommunication networks, computational techniques to solve • Polymers: Properties and Design wireless telecommunications and and simulate challenging problems.
• Principles of Nanomedicine related wireless information ENGINEERING Your general knowledge of • Water and Wastewater technologies. The course includes the computational mechanics theory Engineering essential element of modern optical will be developed alongside an communication systems based on single appreciation of computational CIVIL ENGINEERING MSc FT mode optical fibres from the core to simulation in industry and academia. The course provides training in civil the access, evaluating bandwidth- engineering analysis and design, Training is also provided in the rich contemporary approaches. –
particularly in modelling and analysis development of new software for You will be introduced to technologies COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF techniques. You will be provided the improved simulation of current underlying the compressions and with practical computer experience engineering problems. transmission of digital video over through the use of computational networking platforms, gain knowledge The MSc course is accredited by the techniques, using modern software, on the channel models and associated Joint Board of Moderators (JBM). The to provide a solution to a range of impairments that typically limit the JBM is composed of the Institution of current practical civil engineering performance of wireless systems. You Civil Engineers (ICE), the Institution of applications enabling you to apply will also learn to design optimum Structural Engineers (IStructE), the the approach with confidence in an digital communication receivers for Chartered Institution of Highways industrial context. This course is some basic communications channel and Transportation (CIHT), and the accredited by the Joint Board of models. This course is accredited by Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE). Moderators (JBM). The JBM is the Institution of Engineering and composed of the Institution of Civil Modules typically include: Technology (IET). Engineers (ICE), the Institution of • Advanced Fluid Mechanics Structural Engineers (IStructE), the Modules typically include: • Communication Skills in a Chartered Institution of Highways • Communication Skills for Research Foreign Language (French/ and Transportation (CIHT), and the Engineers German/Spanish) Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE), • Digital Communications • Continuum Mechanics and the Permanent Way Institution • Entrepreneurship for Engineers • Dynamics and Transient Analysis (PWI). • Lasers and Applications • Entrepreneurship for Engineers • Micro and Nano • Finite Element Computational Modules typically include: Electro-Mechanical Systems Analysis • Advanced Structural Analysis • Optical Fibre Communications • Fluid-Structure Interaction • Coastal Processes and Engineering • RF and Microwaves • Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics • Computational Plasticity • Signals and Systems • Numerical Methods for Partial • Dynamics and Transient Analysis • Strategic Project Planning Differential Equations • Entrepreneurship for Engineers • Wireless Communications • Reservoir Modelling and Simulation • Finite Element Computational Analysis COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS MSc FT COMPUTATIONAL ENGINEERING MSc FT PT • Flood Risk Management This is a two-year postgraduate • Fluid-Structure Interaction programme and is organised We have long been at the forefront • Numerical Methods for Partial between Swansea University and of computational research, and have Differential Equations Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya gained a significant international • Reservoir Modelling and Simulation (Barcelona, Spain) in cooperation profile as one of the key international with the International Centre for centres for research and training in COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING computational mechanics and MSc FT PT Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE, Spain). engineering. Using mathematical On this course you will be provided modelling as the basis, computational with an in-depth understanding of You will receive deep multidisciplinary methods provide procedures which, the technology and architecture of training in the application of the with the aid of the computer, allow finite element method, as well as complex problems to be solved.
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ENGINEERING This course provides a solid • Advanced Power Systems • Project Management foundation in computer modelling • Energy and Power Electronic • Smart Manufacturing and the finite element method in Laboratory • Strategy particular and utilises the expertise • Power Semiconductor Devices • Virtual Systems of academic staff to provide • Modern Control Systems high-quality postgraduate training. • Nanoscale Structures and Devices MATERIALS ENGINEERING MSc FT PT This course is accredited by the JBM. • Optical Communications
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• RF and Microwaves COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF Modules typically include: • Wide Band-Gap Electronics almost all engineering applications. • Advanced Fluid Mechanics • Wireless Communications Swansea University has key research • Communication Skills for strengths in materials for aerospace Research Engineers ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP AND applications, steel technology and • Computational Plasticity MANAGEMENT MSc FT photovoltaic materials, and has • Dynamics and Transient Analysis It is a well-known fact that engineers, established longstanding research • Finite Element Computational scientists and technical graduates have collaborations with some of the Analysis the potential to reach the very pinnacle largest multinational organisations in • Fluid-Structure Interaction of leadership and management within the field of Materials. Students will • Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics industry. This broadening MSc be provided with the depth of • Numerical Methods for Partial programme, taught jointly by the knowledge and breadth of abilities Differential Equations College of Engineering and the School to meet the demands of the • Reservoir Modelling and of Management, will strengthen your international materials industry. Simulation understanding and skills in the areas of The course provides training and • Solid Mechanics leadership, management and strategy, experience in a broad range of as well as providing core technical ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL topics including; advanced aerospace background in cutting-edge topics such ENGINEERING MSc FT PT materials, advanced steel technology, as Smart Manufacturing, Immersive This course is designed for students ceramics, polymers and composites, Systems and Environmental Analysis. who have already completed an materials selection, modern methods undergraduate degree in the field Teaching delivery utilises short, of engineering design and analysis, of Electrical Engineering or in a intensive blocks over two semesters structure-processing-property similar relevant engineering or and your dissertation topic will focus relationship in materials, and modern science discipline. on the strategic analysis of a real-world business management principles. scenario, guided by industry-leading This course is accredited by the You will develop specialist skills mentors. This MSc also aims to help Institute of Materials, Minerals and aligned with the College of you develop as an individual, with Mining (IOM3). Engineering’s research interests and one-to-one professional mentoring reflecting the needs of the electronics • Additive Manufacturing throughout the programme. This industry. You will have access to • Aerospace Materials Engineering course is accredited by the Institution industry-standard equipment, such as • Ceramics of Engineering and Technology (IET). a scanning tunnelling microscope for • Communication Skills for Research atomic scale probing or an hp4124 Modules typically include: Engineers parameter analyser for power devices • Asset Management • Composite Materials used for simulation, implementation • Circular Economy and • Environmental Analysis and and communication. This course is Sustainable Engineering Legislation accredited by the Institution of • Enterprise, Innovation and • Physical Metallurgy of Steels Engineering and Technology (IET). Intellectual Property • Polymers: Properties and Design • Leadership, Team Development, • Simulation Based Product Design Modules typically include: Communication and Engagement • Strategic Project Planning • Advanced Power Electronics • Operations Management and Drives • Project/Dissertation
90 GREAT MINDS GREAT MINDS Professor Serena Margadonna
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Pioneering multidisciplinary research for environmentally It is during the course of sustainable solutions to the global energy challenge. “your university studies that you
Professor Margadonna has, over the years, acquired knowledge learn how to think independently, and know-how in a number of fields in science indispensable establish the basis of your for the design and production of new smart materials, through knowledge, and develop the “ chemistry, condensed matter physics and process engineering. analytical skills that you will Chair in Materials Engineering, Professor Margadonna’s work use in your professional life. has been inspired by the simple realisation that major advances in modern technology are always driven by the availability of materials which possess a number of functionalities and are able to operate at different length scales, in harsh conditions such as extremes of pressures/temperatures and highly tough environments.
Professor Margadonna said: “The performance requirements for materials are increasingly demanding and necessitate a truly multidisciplinary research.”
Her interdisciplinary approach has produced a number of significant advances which have attracted peer-recognition as shown by a number of high-impact publications, number of citations and international awards.
Professor Margadonna’s current research focuses on new materials and process technologies related to energy production, transport and storage. Her vision is to give a contribution to the global energy challenge by developing cost-efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions.
Serena is committed to providing an excellent teaching and training experience. She said: “Throughout my career, I have always strongly believed that knowledge transfer and high quality education is the key for improving the standard of life for future generations."
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ENGINEERING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING At Swansea, you will benefit from Modules typically include: MSc FT PT facilities within the £22 million • Advanced Power Electronics This stimulating and rewarding Centre for Nanohealth and the and Drives programme is designed for candidates newly funded £30 million Centre for • Advanced Power Systems who have already completed an Integrative Semiconductor Materials • Communication Skills for undergraduate degree and who want including a state-of-the-art clean Research Engineers to further their knowledge. It will equip room and cutting-edge fabrication
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students with the ability to make and characterisation facilities. This • Energy and Power Electronics COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF informed judgements on the most course is accredited by the Institution Laboratory appropriate way to solve a range of of Engineering and Technology (IET). • Environmental Analysis mechanical engineering problems, Modules typically include: and Legislation providing graduates with excellent • Modern Control Systems • Bio-Nanotechnology career prospects. • Power Generation Systems • Colloid and Interface Science • Power Semiconductor Devices The course covers the development of • Micro and Nano Electro- • Wide Band-Gap Electronics mechanical engineering tools, methods Mechanical Systems and techniques for problem solving, • Nanoscale Structures and Devices STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING MSc FT the ability to formulate an adequate • Nanoscale Simulation Students on the MSc Structural representation of sets of experimental • Principles of Nanomedicine Engineering course will be provided data and the use of these tools and • Probing at the Nanoscale with in-depth knowledge and exposure techniques for real world applications. • Soft Nanotechnology to conventional and innovative ideas The research project is of high • Strategic Project Planning and techniques to enable them to industrial relevance. This course is • Wide Band-Gap Electronics develop sound solutions to structural accredited by the Institution of engineering problems. Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). POWER ENGINEERING AND SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MSc FT PT It will cover the diverse nature Modules typically include: The College of Engineering has an of structural engineering through • Additive Manufacturing international reputation for electrical the integration of knowledge from • Advanced Solid Mechanics and electronics research for energy mechanics, materials, structural • Advanced Thermo Fluid Mechanics and advanced semiconductor analysis and structural design. The • Entrepreneurship for Engineers materials and devices. programme will also cover the latest • Metallurgy and Process Optimisation This course in Power Engineering technical trend in Civil and Structural • Optimisation and Sustainable Energy places Engineering including advanced • Polymer Processing strong emphasis on state-of-the-art computational modelling skills and • Simulation Based Product Design semiconductor devices and will broadly cover technical • Strategic Project Planning technologies, advanced power challenges and solutions faced in • Systems Monitoring, Control, electronics and drives, and advanced large scale infrastructure works. Reliability, Survivability, Integrity power systems. The course also covers This course is accredited by the and Maintenance conventional and renewable energy Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the NANOSCIENCE TO NANOTECHNOLOGY generation technologies. Exciting new Institution of Structural Engineers MSc FT PT developments such as wide band gap (IStructE), the Chartered Institution of This course covers a broad range electronics, energy harvesting, solar Highways and Transportation (CIHT), of subject areas, from the latest cells and biofuels are discussed and the Institute of Highway Engineers semiconductor fabrication technology recent developments in power (IHE), and the Permanent Way through to biological and medical electronics are highlighted. This Institution (PWI). applications, with the emphasis course is accredited by the Institution Modules typically include: of Engineering and Technology (IET). throughout on characterisation and • Advanced Structural Design control of materials at the nanoscale. • Coastal Processes and Engineering • Computational Fluid Dynamics
92 • Design and Analysis for • Complexity, Uncertainty, Risk • Mobile Technology Practice (VR) Temporary Works and Failure • MSc Dissertation – Virtual Reality • Dynamics and Earthquake • Concept Development and • The Digital Revolution (VR)
Analysis of Structures Application ENGINEERING • Finite Element Method • Introduction to Development Studies • Fluid-Structure Interaction • Leadership, Team Development RESEARCH COURSES • Plasticity in Structural and and Innovative Thinking Entry Requirements Geotechnical Engineering • Monitoring and Impact Evaluation MPhil/PhD: Typically a 2:1 honours • Strategic Engineering Management for International Development degree or a master's degree or • Project Management an equivalent qualification.
SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING – COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF • Socio-economic and Political Typically a 2:1 honours MANAGEMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL MRes: Implications of Engineering degree or above in a subject DEVELOPMENT MSc FT Solutions relevant to the area of research. The majority of the world’s construction • Tools for International Development is now informal and located in the Please check the website for the latest entry requirements and for Global South, namely “developing FT PT VIRTUAL REALITY MSc further details. countries, which are located primarily Welcoming graduates from all in the Southern Hemisphere” (UNDP). subject areas, this course exploits English Language Requirement These new world environments face and encapsulates the knowledge you IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each multiple challenges, from reducing have acquired into a VR environment component) or Swansea University extreme poverty and providing food that can be deployed in an exciting, recognised equivalent. for the expected 10 billion people by interactive and immersive way for 2050, to dealing with the threats commercial, medical, research, COMPUTER MODELLING IN of man-made climate change and educational or even entertainment ENGINEERING MRes FT irreversible loss of bio-diversity purposes, broadening your This MRes is suitable for those who and natural habitats. intellectual skills from a narrower are interested in gaining a solid In the face of this, we urgently need to base of undergraduate knowledge understanding of computer modelling, develop a new generation of into a multidisciplinary skill set. specialising in either structures or practitioners who can think rapidly This programme aims to: fluids. On this course, you will have and flexibly and act in the absence of access to excellent computing complete information to support and • Define and develop effective facilities within the Zienkiewicz improve the quality of life for both computer based applications Centre for Computational Engineering, urban and rural dwellers of the future. • Enable graduates to understand including a state-of-the-art These practitioners will need to and apply modern VR technology multiprocessor super computer understand and be able to enhance in the context of social, economic with virtual reality facilities and environments through myriad and technical challenges and to high-speed networking. This course engineering issues and develop take a holistic and multidisciplinary is accredited by the Joint Board of designs in collaboration with the approach to problem solving Moderators (JBM). The JBM is communities they serve. This cross- • Explore theoretical views on composed of the Institution of Civil disciplinary programme will develop a media, marketing, culture and Engineers (ICE), the Institution of new generation of practitioners who human centred design through the Structural Engineers (IStructE), the can lead this development, devising project design process Chartered Institution of Highways practical engineering solutions to • Provide an overview of XR and Transportation (CIHT), the building in resilience for local technology and applications Institute of Highway Engineers communities in the face of rapid Modules typically include: (IHE), and the Permanent Way Institution (PWI). urbanisation. This course is accredited • Development of Virtual Reality by the Institution of Engineering and Environments 1 Modules typically include: Technology (IET). • Development of Virtual Reality • Advanced Fluid Mechanics Modules typically include: Environments 2 • Communication Skills for • Circular Economy and • Case Study in state-of-the-art Research Engineers Sustainable Engineering Virtual Reality • Dynamics and Transient Analysis • Community Engagement • Marketing Management
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ENGINEERING • Finite Element and AEROSPACE ENGINEERING MSc Visit our College of Engineering Computational Analysis By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT research website for more • Numerical Methods for Partial BIO-PROCESS ENGINEERING MSc information on: Differential Equations By Research FT PT • Our world-class strategic • Solid Mechanics technology centres CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MSc • Our thematic research centres ENGINEERING DOCTORATE EngD By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT and groups – FT PT • Our current research areas COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF CIVIL ENGINEERING MSc Our EngD projects are defined By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT and projects by our long standing industrial swansea.ac.uk/ sponsors and address operational COMPUTER MODELLING IN engineering/research requirements identified by these ENGINEERING, MRes FT companies. Projects are focused DESALINATION AND WATER RE-USE Harnessing Energy on our established areas of MSc By Research FT PT SPECIFIC was one of seven engineering expertise. Innovation and Knowledge Centres ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC We are a leader in developing ENGINEERING MSc By Research set up in 2011 to foster new new manufacturing processes /MPhil/PhD FT PT industries by closing the gap and products, such as functional between scientific research and its ENERGY INNOVATION, MSc commercial exploitation. coatings. Our research in this area By Research/PhD FT PT is led by the SPECIFIC project, in Their work is based on energy FUEL TECHNOLOGY MSc collaboration with Tata Steel. technologies and systems, from the By Research FT PT Research into advanced, fundamental science of materials structural materials is undertaken MATERIALS ENGINEERING MSc and products to full-scale in conjunction with the Rolls-Royce By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT demonstration on buildings. This all University Technology Centre (UTC) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MSc comes together in one design in Materials based at Swansea. By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT concept called Active Buildings, in These projects are funded by the which buildings are designed to MEDICAL ENGINEERING MSc EPSRC Strategic Partnership in generate, store and release their By Research FT PT Structural Metals for Gas Turbines. own renewable energy. MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY We offer EngD programmes in the Their goal is the development of MSc By Research FT PT research areas of functional coatings affordable technologies that can be and advanced manufacturing. NANOELECTRONICS MSc manufactured at scale and re-used By Research FT PT or recycled at the end of their life. swansea.ac.uk/engineering/engd NANOTECHNOLOGY MSc FIND OUT MORE By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT specific.eu.com SIMULATION DRIVEN PRODUCT DESIGN MSc By Research FT PT TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE MSc By Research FT PT
94 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK 7 ENGLISH LITERATURE CREATIVE AND WRITING RESEARCH We have been a respected centre for research into medieval, Renaissance IMPACT and 18th-century literature for nearly 100 years. (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) Today we are equally renowned for expertise in gender studies, Welsh writing in English, contemporary literature, and creative writing. Many of our staff are sought after as experts appearing on radio and TV, and write regularly for broadsheet newspapers and major reviews.
In the latest (2014) UK Government rankings for research excellence (REF), our research in English and Creative Writing was rated 7th in the UK and 1st in Wales, with a high proportion of our research judged ‘internationally excellent’ or ‘world leading’.
CREATIVE WRITING MA FT PT CREATIVE WRITING MA TAUGHT COURSES The MA in Creative Writing is a (EXTENDED) FT PT Entry Requirements unique programme offering This Extended MA programme combines the MA Creative Writing MA in English Literature and integrated teaching in literary and with a period of study abroad in the MA in Welsh Writing in English: performance writing. A prize- USA. The additional semester makes We normally require a 2:1 honours winning staff of professional writers degree or above in English Literature provide core teaching in fiction, the EMA equivalent in credits to a
or a related subject or an equivalent poetry, non-fiction and drama, and European MA. – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND qualification. We may also ask to guide students along individual ENGLISH LITERATURE MA FT PT see examples of written work. pathways through the major genres This MA offers students a wide range MA in Creative Writing: We normally of contemporary writing. Students require a 2:2 honours degree or an will also benefit from a whole raft of of options in English Literature studies equivalent qualification. A short extra-curricular activities, including and draws on the individual research portfolio of written work is required. sessions led by visiting writers and expertise of members of staff. Students can also select modules from the MA MA in Medieval Studies: We normally industry professionals. in Welsh Writing in English and the require a 2:2 honours degree Modules typically include: (average 55% or above) or an MA in Creative Writing, as well as equivalent qualification. • The Art of the Short Story literature modules from other MA • Creative Non-Fiction and programmes taught in the College English Language Requirement Travel Writing of Arts and Humanities. • Creative Writing Dissertation IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each Modules typically include: component) or Swansea University • Long Fiction (1 and 2) • After Macbeth: Stage and recognized equivalent. • Poetry (1 and 2) • Screenwriting Screen Adaptation • Writing for the Stage • Agonies and Ecstasies: Saints SCHOLARSHIPS AND • Writing Radio Drama and Mystics in the Middle Ages BURSARIES • Writing the Self • Angela Carter A range of postgraduate scholarships • English Literature Dissertation and bursaries are available. For • James Joyce and Literary Theory details, please visit: • Modernist Writing in London, swansea.ac.uk/ Paris and New York postgraduate/scholarships • Neo-Victorian Mutinies: Gender and Racial Trauma in Neo- Victorian Fiction (and Film) • Practicing Ideas: Advanced For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: Research Skills swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 95 ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CREATIVE WRITING SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS ENGLISH LITERATURE CREATIVE AND WRITING • The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, WELSH WRITING IN ENGLISH MA CREATIVE WRITING MPhil/PhD FT PT Textuality and Objects FT PT Swansea offers a ground-breaking • The Romantic Sublime The MA in Welsh Writing in English is postgraduate Creative Writing a unique programme taught as part of programme led by tutors of MEDIEVAL STUDIES MA FT PT the work of CREW (The Centre for world-class stature. The course will The MA in Medieval Studies draws Research into the English Literature provide you with a wide spectrum of on the expertise of staff working on and Language of Wales). The modules skills and a research dialogue across both medieval history and medieval offer students innovative contexts in the genres, from the worlds of poetry language and literature. which to explore the emergence and and long fiction to those of stage The MA covers Late Antiquity to the development of the English language drama, screenwriting, creative Renaissance, and the British Isles and and literature of Wales, whilst also non-fiction and travel writing. The France to Italy and the Holy Land. addressing that literature’s political, Creative Writing PhD will involve you Areas of particular staff expertise social, and gendered dimensions. in a three-year experience of close include; gender, religion and belief, Students can also select modules mentoring with a writer-teacher urban and rural cultures, health, from the MA in English Literature and distinguished in the genre in which medicine and the body, language the MA in Creative Writing, as well you write. You will also benefit from and multilingualism, and social, as literature modules from other MA the rich interchange of knowledge spiritual, and cultural identities. You programmes taught in the College of within the Creative Writing PhD will have the opportunity to become Arts and Humanities. workshops, held monthly.
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND familiar with the medieval heritage of Modules typically include: ENGLISH LITERATURE MA South Wales and the surrounding By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT region, through work with the West • Dissertation Research in English Literature at Glamorgan Record Office and the • Dylan Thomas and the Rise Swansea is innovative, collaborative, library of Hereford Cathedral and of Welsh Writing in English and often interdisciplinary. It involves through contact with the organisations • Gender, Genre and the Nation: close mentoring by an expert in your that are responsible for the preservation Women Writing Modern Wales chosen topic or field of studies, and of Welsh historical sites, Cadw and • Practicing Ideas: Advanced the opportunity to participate in a the Royal Commission for the Ancient Research Skills vibrant research culture of guest and Historical Monuments of Wales. • Welsh Identities: Literature and Nationhood lectures, seminars, academic training Modules typically include: workshops, and postgraduate • Agonies and Ecstasies: Saints student conferences. Research and Mystics in the Middle Ages RESEARCH COURSES proposals will be considered on any • Directed Reading in Medieval Studies Entry Requirements English Literature related topic, but • Enmity and Entanglement: the MA By Research/MPhil: should generally fall broadly into our Jews of Medieval England Typically a 2:1 honours degree staff’s areas of research specialism. • Introduction to Advanced or above in English or Swansea PhD programmes are supported Medieval Studies University recognised equivalent qualification. by the following University • Latin Research Centres: • Medieval Manuscripts Applicants for PhD study must • Medieval Studies Dissertation normally hold an undergraduate Centre for Medieval and Early • Medieval Studies Placement degree at 2:1 level and a master’s Modern Research (MEMO) degree (or Swansea University • Public History and Heritage MEMO supports academic staff and recognised equivalent qualification). • The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, postgraduate students who work on historical, linguistic, and literary Textuality and Objects English Language Requirement • Saints and Sinners in Christian topics from Late Antiquity to c.1800. IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 each Late Antiquity Its members have won significant component) or Swansea University funding from the AHRC, the recognised equivalent.
96 Leverhulme Trust, and the Wellcome Williams, and a recently • Business Studies Trust in recent years. rediscovered notebook by Dylan • English Literature Thomas. CREW’s research projects The Centre’s current research • History, Classics and Egyptology cover the following areas: themes are: • Media and Communication ENGLISH LITERATURE CREATIVE AND WRITING • Cultural History • The Enduring Past • Medicine and Midwifery • Digital Humanities • Nature and Nurture (including • Modern Languages • Gender Studies Gender, Health, and The Body) • Translation Studies • Power, Conflict, and Empire • Postcolonial Studies All research students belong to the • Space and Place • Transatlantic Connections Graduate Centre in the College of • Visual Culture • Texts and their Contexts Arts and Humanities. The Centre • Wales, England and the Marches The Centre for Research into Gender provides pastoral as well as and Culture in Society (GENCAS) administrative support and is also Centre for Research into the responsible for research skills English Literature and GENCAS is an interdisciplinary training and support, while Language of Wales (CREW) research body bringing together staff and postgraduate students from facilitating a lively intellectual Acknowledged as the international across the University who conduct environment for the College’s leader in this field of literary and research into gender, enabling postgraduate research community cultural study, CREW has developed members to share their expertise of 200 students. an extensive programme of teaching and work collaboratively. and research. The Centre hosts conferences, The Centre has a vibrant symposia and workshops, providing postgraduate research community a stimulating environment for PhD and benefits from unique resources, students. Scholarly work spans a – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND including the diaries of Richard range of disciplines including: Burton, the papers of Raymond
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GEOGRAPHY 10 RESEARCH We are recognised as one of the foremost global centres for teaching and research in IMPACT [Research Excellence human and physical geography. In the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework (REF), Framework 2014-2021] the Department of Geography was ranked 8th in the UK for research impact and 11th for research environment. Our research environment and the impact of our research were both
– COLLEGE SCIENCE OF judged to be 100% ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
Our internationally active research staff and large community of postgraduate researchers create a dynamic and inspirational environment in which to study. Many projects carried out by our staff and students actively contribute towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND TAUGHT COURSES CLIMATE CHANGE MSc FT PT CLIMATE CHANGE MSc FT PT This inter-disciplinary course places This course provides cross- Entry Requirements particular emphasis on the scientific disciplinary training in the scientific Typically a minimum of a 2:2 (with basis behind regional and global basis of GIS, satellite remote sensing 55% average) honours degree or climatic change, and limitations of and earth system modelling equivalent in a relevant subject. models and data collection alongside aspects of climate English Language Requirement techniques. You will develop change. The course places extensive knowledge of the current particular emphasis on the technical IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each aspects of GIS and earth component) or Swansea University scientific issues underpinning recognised equivalent. environmental change and observation as well as the past, ecosystem dynamics, and the present and future global and practical problem solving, ICT, and regional environmental and SCHOLARSHIPS AND communication skills required for a climatic change. successful career in the BURSARIES For the above two courses modules environmental service industry, A range of postgraduate scholarships typically include: and bursaries are available. regulating bodies or academia. • Climate change – past, present Please visit: and future swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Climate science and policy scholarships • Ecosystems: ecology, conservation and resource management • Environmental assessment and management • Geographical information systems • Modelling earth systems • Principles of environmental dynamics • Satellite remote sensing • Science skills and research methods
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 98 GREAT MINDS GREAT MINDS Professor Siwan Davies HEAD OF DEPARTMENT: WORLD-LEADING RESEARCHER ON RAPID CLIMATE CHANGE
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Professor Siwan Davies is a Professor in Geography COLLEGE SCIENCE OF and uses volcanic ash to help improve our understanding My work on microscopic
of when our climate changed abruptly in the past. She is “ash particles is exciting but an inspiring scientist and recipient of the Philip Leverhulme also challenging and I love it. Prize (2011) and Lyell Fund (2013). She is a Fellow of It’s also a thrill to lead and “ the Learned Society of Wales. inspire a team of researchers towards our scientific goals. Originally from Newport, Pembrokeshire, after graduating from the University of Oxford in Geography, Siwan completed a master's and PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002. Following post-doctoral appointments at Stockholm University and the University of Copenhagen, she joined Swansea University as a Lecturer in 2004 and quickly climbed the academic career ladder to be awarded a Personal Chair in 2012.
Siwan's research has secured funding from NERC, The Leverhulme Trust and the European Research Council (ERC) and she now leads a team of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. The ERC-funded research project, TRACE, aims to use volcanic ash layers present in the Greenland ice-cores and North Atlantic marine records to assess whether the atmosphere or the oceans drove Northern hemisphere climate change in the past. Professor Davies said: “This is a big question in climate science and my work on microscopic ash particles can provide the answers. The work is exciting but also challenging and I love it. It’s also a thrill to lead and inspire a team of researchers towards our scientific goals.”
Siwan also takes her work to the public and is the presenter of a hugely successful TV documentary series on climate change “Her yr Hinsawdd” for S4C. Siwan has travelled all over the world to see the impact of climate change on people today and continues her journey in the second series.
Siwan contributes to Welsh-medium teaching at Swansea and across Wales and is actively engaged with the work of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.
99 GEOGRAPHY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS GEOGRAPHY We invite applications from Migration, Boundaries, RESEARCH COURSES well-qualified candidates whose and Identities Group Our postgraduate programmes take a holistic approach that looks beyond the research interests correspond to Entry Requirements Research interests include: traditional medical model of ageing. We explore health and well-being among older our areas of research expertise • Geographies of exclusion, Typically a 2:1 honours degree or people through a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, and demography. focused around the following violence, and marginalisation, a master's degree or an equivalent research groupings: You will be based in the internationally renowned Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA), the largest – particularly in relation to race, qualification. Research-training
COLLEGE SCIENCE OF gender, culture and childhood gerontology research centre in Wales and one of the largest in the UK, with unparalleled recognition for human geography Environmental Dynamics Group • Relationships between applications is desired. Research interests include: links with policy makers in the UK and abroad. The CIA is also home to the Centre for Ageing and international migration (internal • Interactions between climate Dementia Research (CADR), which addresses internationally important questions in ageing and dementia. English Language Requirement and international), globalization change, human disturbance and and the conceptualisation of place You will benefit from a dynamic teaching and research environment, with many opportunities to make IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each catastrophic events component) or Swansea University • The social and political connections across disciplines. • Regions especially sensitive to recognised equivalent. construction of citizenship, environmental change (tropical, nationalism, and nationhood cold and wildfire-prone) • 21st century rural space HUMAN GEOGRAPHY MPhil/PhD • Understanding environmental FT PT variability throughout the Social Theory and Urban Quaternary Period and the effects Space Group PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY MPhil/PhD of future climatic change FT PT Research interests include: • Geographical political economy Glaciology Group EARTH OBSERVATION MSc • Modern and postmodern cities FT PT Research interests include: By Research • The spaces of capitalism • Glaciology and the cryosphere, ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS specialising in understanding the Further information on our research MSc By Research FT PT processes that regulate glacier can be found on our website: GLACIOLOGY MSc By Research dynamics, calving, flow instabilities swansea.ac.uk/geography/ FT PT and surging, and fast glacier flow research-and-impact/ GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING Global Environmental Modelling and MSc By Research FT PT Earth Observation Group (GEMEO) GLOBAL MIGRATION MSc Research is focused on understanding By Research FT PT how natural and man-made changes MEDIA GEOGRAPHIES MSc affect the biosphere. By Research FT PT Recent work includes: SOCIAL THEORY AND SPACE MSc • Detection of changes in forest By Research FT PT and ecosystem health URBAN STUDIES MSc By Research • Radiative transfer modelling FT PT of light interactions in vegetation canopies to simulate the signals that satellites observe • Understanding how changes in vegetation at the global scale affect the global carbon and hydrological cycles
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AGEING STUDIES RD SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 3UK GERONTOLOGY AND AGEING STUDIES RESEARCH Our postgraduate programmes take a holistic approach that looks beyond the OUTPUTS traditional medical model of ageing. We explore health and well-being among older (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) people through a range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, and demography.
You will be based in the internationally renowned Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA), the largest gerontology research centre in Wales and one of the largest in the UK, with unparalleled links with policy makers in the UK and abroad. The CIA is also home to the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR), which addresses internationally important questions in ageing and dementia.
You will benefit from a dynamic teaching and research environment, with many opportunities to make connections across disciplines.
GERONTOLOGY AND AGEING STUDIES MPhil/PhD FT PT
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We invite applications from Entry Requirements HEALTH AND COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF well-qualified candidates whose PhD applicants would normally research interests correspond to have, or be studying for, a master's our areas of research expertise. degree while our MPhil programmes require a first or upper second class These areas include the influence degree in a discipline related to of the natural and built environment the proposed research project, on an ageing population, and care or a relevant, approved provision for the older person across postgraduate qualification. such areas as social care, health English Language Requirement care, residential care, palliative care, chronic conditions, and falls IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each and their prevention. component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. Students are currently exploring topics such as the impact of lifestyle on cognitive function in later life, SCHOLARSHIPS AND dementia care environments, BURSARIES age-friendly communities for people We offer a range of funding with mobility difficulties and the opportunities for both taught driving cessation process amongst and research degrees. older drivers. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 101 HISTORY UK TOP SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
HISTORY 30 HISTORY We specialise in the history of the British Isles and Europe, and several members of staff DEPARTMENT (Research Excellence explore links between Britain, Europe, and the wider world. Wales provides a strong research Framework 2014-2021)
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COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND Our staff expertise covers public history and heritage; social and economic history; the history of science and medicine; history of disability; cultural and intellectual history; gender history; the history of conflict and power; memory studies; landscape and archaeology; and urban and industrial history. The chronological range of our work extends from the early middle ages to the 21st century.
In the latest (2014) UK Government Research Excellence Framework, research in History at Swansea was rated 27th in the UK, and over 80% of the work submitted for assessment was judged ‘world leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*).
HISTORY MA FT PT MEDIEVAL STUDIES MA FT PT TAUGHT COURSES The MA in History encompasses a The MA in Medieval Studies draws Entry Requirements wide range of topics from the Middle on the expertise of staff working on both medieval history and medieval Typically a 2:1 honours degree Ages onwards. The wide-ranging language and literature. The MA in History or a related subject. expertise of Swansea University’s historians offers the study of British, covers Late Antiquity to the For the MA in Medieval Studies, European, American, and World Renaissance, and the British Isles normally a 2:2 (average 55% or and France to Italy and the Holy above) or an equivalent qualification. History. The MA allows students to explore the history of art and culture, Land. Areas of particular staff English Language Requirement empire, gender, politics, religion, expertise include gender, religion and belief, urban and rural cultures, IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each sexuality and science. Working with component) or Swansea University materials in the Richard Burton Archive, health, medicine and the body, recognised equivalent. students also have the opportunity to language and multilingualism, develop their ability to present and social, spiritual and cultural historical research to the wider public. identities. Students have the opportunity to become familiar SCHOLARSHIPS AND Modules typically include: BURSARIES with the medieval heritage of • Directed Reading in History A range of postgraduate scholarships South Wales and the surrounding • Debates and Approaches in and bursaries are available. For region, through work with the West details, please visit: Heritage and Public History Glamorgan Record Office and the • Enmity and Entanglement: the Jews swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ library of Hereford Cathedral and of Medieval England, 1066-1290 scholarships through contact with the • Fascism and Culture organisations that are responsible • Feminism and Queer Activism for the preservation of Welsh in Postwar Britain historical sites. • Historical Methods and Approaches • Modern Medical Bodies: Major Modules typically include: Themes in the History of • Agonies and Ecstasies: Saints and Modern Medicine Mystics in the Middle Ages • New Departures in the Writing • Directed Reading in of History Medieval Studies • Swansea and the Sea • Enmity and Entanglement: the • Wales since 1945 Jews of Medieval England For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 102 • Introduction to Advanced Medieval PUBLIC HISTORY AND HERITAGE Studies 1: Skills and Approaches MA FT PT RESEARCH COURSES • Introduction to Advanced Medieval The MA in Public History and Entry Requirements Studies 2: Themes and Sources Heritage is a flexible programme HISTORY Applicants for an MA By Research • Latin designed to offer a combination of are normally expected to hold an • Medieval Manuscripts academic training and employment- undergraduate degree in history • Medieval Studies Placement related skills. You will study a module
or a related subject at 2:1 level, • The Queer Middle Ages: Bodies, exploring debates and approaches or Swansea University recognised – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND Textuality and Objects in public history and heritage, plus equivalent. Applicants for an MPhil • Saints and Sinners in Christian a work placement, and select from a or PhD should also hold or expect Late Antiquity range of options including modules to achieve a master’s degree with in ancient history, ancient Egyptian a minimum overall grade of MODERN HISTORY MA FT PT culture, history, Welsh identities, Merit, or Swansea University The MA in Modern History draws heritage themes, archive/ recognised equivalent. upon the very broad expertise in communication practice and modern history in the Department museum practice. English Language Requirement of History. It allows students to IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each explore the history of the modern PUBLIC HISTORY AND HERITAGE MA component) or Swansea University era from a variety of perspectives, (EXTENDED) FT PT recognised equivalent. including conflict, memory, gender, This Extended MA programme combines the MA Public History and culture, heritage, sexuality, science HISTORY MA By Research/ and medicine. Heritage with a period of study MPhil/PhD FT PT abroad. The study abroad is one We invite applications from Modules typically include: additional semester taken at the well-qualified candidates whose • Directed Reading in History Appalachian State University in research interests correspond with • Debates and Approaches in North Carolina. The additional our areas of research expertise. We Heritage and Public History semester makes the EMA equivalent encourage prospective applicants • Feminism and Queer Activism in credits to a European MA. to contact the Department informally in Postwar Britain to discuss your proposals. Topics • Fascism and Culture Modules typically include: that can be supervised by historians • Historical Methods and • Debates and Approaches in at Swansea include: Approaches Heritage and Public History • Modern Medical Bodies: • From Princely Possessions Medieval History Major Themes in the History to Public Museums • The Anglo-Norman ‘Realm’ of Modern Medicine • Heritage Work Placement and the Angevin Empire • New Departures in the • Historical Methods and Approaches • Archaeology and Landscape History Writing of History • New Departures in the Writing • Capetian France, especially the • Toxic Heritage of History Monarchy, Aristocracy, and • Wales since 1945 • Reaching the Public: Museums and Religious Orders Object Handling (Museum Practice) • Charters and the Documentary • Research Methodologies in Records of Medieval France Ancient History and England • Toxic Heritage • The Crusades and Latin Christendom • Understanding Ancient • Cultural Interchange Between East Egyptian Culture and West • Welsh Identities: Literature • England and Wales in the Central and Nationhood and Late Middle Ages • Gender and the Life Cycle • History of Disabilities, Medicine, and Health
103 HISTORY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS HISTORY • Kingship and Medieval • Holocaust History THE RICHARD BURTON Political Thought • Memory Studies and Oral History ARCHIVE (UNIVERSITY • Legal History of Twentieth-Century Europe ARCHIVES)
• Medieval Frontier Societies and • Public History and Heritage The publication of The Richard –
Borderlands, and Concepts of • Science, Medicine, and Disease COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND Burton Diaries edited by Chris Frontiers from the Late Roman • Sport and Leisure Williams, former Professor of Welsh Empire to the Present Day • Transnational History History and former Director of the • Medieval Historical Writing • Urban History Research Institute for Arts and • Minorities, Social Exclusion, • Wales and the Welsh Overseas Humanities, has attracted global Immigration and Ethnic Integration • War and Society in Europe attention and accolades and • The Natural World between 1750 and 1815 revealed a very different side to the • Urban Life • Western Europe after 1945, world famous actor’s public persona. including Postwar Reconstruction Early Modern History The book is a result of painstaking • European History, especially Research groups include: research of the handwritten diaries, Britain, Portugal, and the • CECSAM, the Centre for which Richard Burton began in German-speaking Lands the Comparative Study 1939 and ended just before his • History of Disabilities of the Americas death in 1984, which were donated • Maritime and Imperial History • CODAH, the Centre on to Swansea University in 2005 by • Modern Representations of Digital Arts and Humanities his wife, Sally Burton. the Early Modern Past • CRAM: Research Group for The diaries, along with other • Print Culture and History of the Book Conflict, Reconstruction personal papers, are known as • The Political and Religious Culture and Memory The Richard Burton Collection, and of Seventeenth-Century Britain • MEMO: Centre for Medieval today forms a central part of the • Science and Medicine, Intellectual and Early Modern Research £1.2 million Richard Burton Archives Life, and Museums and • The Richard Burton Centre facility at the University’s Library. Material Culture for the Study of Wales Other holdings of the Archives • The Social History of Early Modern include the South Wales Coalfield Sex and Marriage • The Research Group for Health, History, and Culture Collection, local archive collections Modern History related to the industrial, civic, and Graduate Centre • Britain and the British Empire religious history of Swansea and the from 1800 to the present All History research students surrounding area, and the papers of • British and American Legal belong to the Graduate Centre in the University itself. History, Post-1750 the College of Arts and Humanities. • The Cold War and the Nuclear Age The Centre provides pastoral as • Crime, Policing, and Punishment well as administrative support and in Twentieth-Century Europe is also responsible for research • Education and Intellectual History skills training and support, and • Emigration and Urbanisation in the facilitating a lively intellectual British Isles between the Eighteenth environment for the College’s and Twentieth Centuries postgraduate research community • The First World War of 200 students. • Italy in the Twentieth-Century; Italian Fascism • History of Disabilities • History of Political Thought • History of Protest and Activism in the 1960s and 1970s
104 GREAT MINDS Alex Langlands GREAT MINDS MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGIST AND HERITAGE PROFESSIONAL
Dr Alex Langlands is a medieval archaeologist and historian who joined Swansea University – in 2015. He contributes to the undergraduate and postgraduate history and heritage programmes. COLLEGE ARTS HUMANITIES OF AND
Alex brings a wealth of industry experience Sunday Times Bestseller status in the to our teaching having worked for long Hard-back Non-Fiction category and his It has never been periods in the heritage sector and current book, based on his academic more important, not just broadcast media industries. He was a research, is titled The Ancient Ways of “ presenter and producer for the BBC’s Wessex and critically examines the to critically examine our Victorian Farm, a series that garnered character of the early medieval landscape history as we wrestle with nearly six million viewers and one that of southern England. new identities and new was nominated for the prestigious British meanings for ourselves, With his experience in both the media,
Broadcast Awards in the category of Best and the heritage and commercial but to find new and Factual Programme. Edwardian Farm, “ archaeology sectors, Alex offers a broad innovative ways of Wartime Farm, Full Steam Ahead and portfolio of teaching ranging from engaging the wider public Victorian Bakers have all followed suit on traditional lectures and seminars to field with our findings. BBC, regularly achieving viewing figures trips, software training, and supported of over two million. But Alex has also work-placements. The extra-curricula worked for Channel 4 on productions such activities Alex offers in industrial heritage as Britain at Low Tide and Time Team and and archaeological excavation provide co-presents Channel 5’s Digging Up our students with vital industry experience. Britain’s Past, currently in its third series. His BBC2 series Tales from the Green “Swansea is an amazing place to come Valley won the prestigious Learning on and live and study. It has everything; from Screen Award given by the British a bustling city with excellent rail links to Universities Film and Video Council. Manchester and London, to some of the best beaches in the UK. It is spacious and In 2018 Alex published Cræft: How tranquil, with first-class access to civic traditional crafts are about more than just parks, National Parks and landscapes of making, a book that has received critical outstanding natural beauty. There is also acclaim both in the UK and the USA where no shortage of opportunities for fun it was given a cover review in the New and festivities in a college that provides York Times weekly Book Review. His the very latest in up-to-date provision popular history publications have achieved for the graduates of the future.”
A short film showcasing the research work that Alex Langlands and the Heritage team at Swansea University have been undertaking with community partners, funded by UKRI.
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The travel and tourism sector continues to grow faster than the overall economy. In addition to the fiscal benefits The Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law is a vibrant community, continuously it offers, tourism can also contribute to environmental improvements and enhanced quality of life. At the same time, developing to ensure our graduates are equipped to meet the demands of an tourism is also increasingly associated with a variety of economic, sociocultural and environmental challenges. ever-changing, modern legal world. As a postgraduate student, you will study an exciting range of cutting-edge modules supported by academics with real-world experience at the Founded on the principles underpinning the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, Swansea University’s forefront of their research. Our research addresses major societal challenges, has impact and makes a difference. MSc in International Tourism Management will equip you with the skills and insights needed to critically evaluate We have established expertise in the fields of children’s rights, cyberterrorism, environmental law, human rights, the future of the tourism industry, whether in the UK or overseas. Blending key concepts from business, management intellectual property, international law, LegalTech, and shipping and trade law. and the social sciences, and examples from across the globe, you’ll leave prepared to advocate for more responsible forms of tourism at the local, national and global level.
INTERNATIONAL TOURISM understand the complexities TAUGHT COURSES MANAGEMENT MSc FT and requirements of running a If you want to develop the advanced tourism destination. Please visit Entry Requirements knowledge and skills to make vital the course web pages for further Minimum 2:1 degree in tourism decisions that influence the future up-to-date information. or business-related subject. of the tourism industry locally and Modules typically include:
internationally, our MSc International
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL English Language Requirement • The Global Context of Tourism Tourism Management is perfect IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each • Digital Tourism for you. component) or Swansea University • Marketing Tourism Experiences recognised equivalent. The MSc International Tourism • Tourism Planning and Policy Management programme includes a compulsory Tourism Study Tour SCHOLARSHIPS AND at an additional cost. Previous trips BURSARIES have included visits to Penderyn The School of Management also offers Whisky – a premium whisky a Developing Futures Scholarship for postgraduate (taught) students who distillery, Scarlets rugby ground have an offer to study at the School and a trip to Nepal. Field trips of Management. The scholarship are designed to make students is to the value of £3,000 for one academic year, which is automatically deducted from tuition fees. swansea.ac.uk/som/developing- futures-scholarships/
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INTERNATIONAL LAW STANDARD The Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law is a vibrant community, continuously RESEARCH developing to ensure our graduates are equipped to meet the demands of an (Research Excellence CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL – HILLARY Framework 2014-2021) ever-changing, modern legal world. As a postgraduate student, you will study an exciting range of cutting-edge modules supported by academics with real-world experience at the forefront of their research. Our research addresses major societal challenges, has impact and makes a difference. We have established expertise in the fields of children’s rights, cyberterrorism, environmental law, human rights, intellectual property, international law, LegalTech, and shipping and trade law.
CYBER CRIME AND TERRORISM MA children’s rights, and human rights TAUGHT COURSES FT PT and technology. The Cyber Crime and Terrorism MA Entry Requirements Compulsory modules typically include: is an interdisciplinary course, drawing MA: Minimum 2:1 honours degree in • Advanced Legal Research on political science, psychology, a cognate discipline (criminology and • Confronting Global Challenges criminology, law and history to criminal justice, law, social policy, • Global Challenges Research Project critically engage with online crime psychology, sociology, politics or • International Human Rights Law computer science). Candidates with a and terrorism. Throughout this course • Transforming Law and Policy 2:2 or with relevant professional work you will learn about the threats, trends, experience may also be considered. issues, responses and ethical questions Optional specialist modules typically include: LLM: 2:2 honours degree, minimum associated with terrorism and cyber 55% in law or cognate discipline. crime. Staff are experienced • Countering Violent Extremism Online (LLM LegalTech and LLM Human researchers in these fields and there • Crime in Cyberspace Rights minimum 2:1 honours degree) are opportunities for students to • Human Rights and Terrorism Online MA Global Challenges: Law, Policy undertake their own original research • Human Rights and the Environment and Practice: Please see the course as part of their final dissertations. • Human Rights, Asylum and Migration web page for more information: Modules typically include: HUMAN RIGHTS LLM FT PT swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Contemporary Terrorism in taught/law/ma-global-challenges Focus on contemporary challenges for Historical and Philosophical Context global human rights and how to Candidates with alternative professional • Countering Violent Extremism Online respond through law, policy and qualifications or experience are also • Crime in Cyberspace encouraged to apply. practice. Students undertake advanced • Digital Policing studies in human rights law, research International students: Visit • Human Rights and Terrorism Online and implementation. swansea.ac.uk/international/ • Online Propaganda and students/requirements for Radicalisation Compulsory Modules: more information. • Research Methods and Ethics • Dissertation on a Human Rights Topic • Human Rights Implementation English Language Requirement GLOBAL CHALLENGES: LAW, POLICY • International Human Rights Law IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each AND PRACTICE MA FT • Researching Human Rights component) or Swansea University This fully funded master’s, a key part recognised equivalent. of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Optional specialist modules Challenges Programme, will develop typically include: the next generation of outstanding and • Human Rights and Terrorism Online real-world focussed leaders in legal • Human Rights and the Environment scholarship, activism and practice. • Human Rights, Asylum and The programme addresses urgent Immigration challenges, including: climate change, • Human Rights of Children For more detailed course content, racial injustice, online harms, • Rights Based Approaches including a full module list, visit: to Development swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 107 LAW SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
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LAW International International International Commercial Property and Renewable Commercial Maritime Law Trade Law and Maritime Commercial Energy Law Law LLM LLM LLM
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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL HILLARY Admiralty Law • • Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air • • Charterparties: Law and Practice • • • Electronic Commerce and Payments • • • • • Finance Law Relating to Ships and Other • • • • Mobile Assets International Commercial Arbitration (Accredited • • • • • • by the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators (CIArb)) International Corporate Law and Governance • • • International Energy Law • International Intellectual Property Law • • • International Trade Law • • • • IP, Innovation and Law • • • • Law and Practice Relating to International • • • • Banking and Commercial Payments Law of the Sea • • • Marine Insurance Law • • • • Oil and Gas Law: Contracts and Liabilities • • •
LEGAL PRACTICE AND ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW LLM Modules typically include: DRAFTING LLM FT PT FT PT • Artificial Intelligence and Law See opposite. Master international trade and focus • Blockchain and the Law INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW on the legal and commercial issues • Computational Thinking LLM FT PT associated with international • Digital Intellectual Property Learn about the legal and practical sale contracts. and LegalTech • LegalTech Entrepreneurship challenges of diverse, international, OIL, GAS AND RENEWABLE • Rights and Accountability: commercial transactions. ENERGY LAW LLM FT PT Technology and Law INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL Gain an in-depth understanding of AND MARITIME LAW LLM the law concerning the oil and gas SCHOLARSHIPS AND FT PT industry and new sources of energy, BURSARIES Develop your knowledge of diverse especially renewables. A range of postgraduate scholarships international commercial transactions LEGALTECH LLM FT and bursaries are available. and the challenges of maritime law. Gain new skills at the intersection of swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW law and computer science to drive FT PT innovation in the legal profession, Identify the different contracts for the applying cutting-edge technologies, CAREER PROSPECTS carriage of goods, marine insurance, such as artificial intelligence and Our graduates have gone on to international trade and law of the sea. blockchain, to legal practice. become specialist lawyers or barristers, undertaken further INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY research, or have entered the AND COMMERCIAL PRACTICE FT PT world of academia and teaching. Examine intangible or ‘hidden’ assets and how companies can manage them in an effective commercial manner.
108 Course structure: Stage 2 – Electives PROFESSIONAL • Two-weeks (pre-course) of directed (choose 3 of the following) COURSES reading on the English Legal • Advanced Commercial Law Entry Requirements System and the principles of legal • Advanced Criminal Law LAW GDL: A 2:2 honours degree or above in scholarship (no attendance • Business Leases
any non-law discipline from a UK required, home study) • Commercial Dispute Resolution CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL – HILLARY or recognised overseas university. • Four-week induction period (entire • Employment Law month of September) which • Family Law and Practice LPC: A 2:2 or above in a UK includes lectures and seminars on • Personal Injury and Clinical qualifying honours degree in law (as specified by the SRA) from a the English Legal System, legal Negligence skills, and European Union law UK recognised university or a HOW TO APPLY (attendance required) Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) Full time or similar qualification. • The foundation subjects of contract law, law of tort, public law, equity Apply through the Central LLM in Legal Practice and Advanced and trusts, land law, criminal law Applications Board at: Drafting: A 2:2 or above in a UK qualifying honours degree in law and European Union law are lawcabs.ac.uk taught by means of a series of (as specified by the SRA) from a Part time UK recognised university or a lectures and compulsory seminars Apply directly to: Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) spanning two teaching blocks swansea.ac.uk/ or equivalent qualification. • A further legal subject is studied postgraduate/apply Candidates with alternative by means of a supervised professional qualifications or research project LEGAL PRACTICE AND ADVANCED experience are also encouraged HOW TO APPLY DRAFTING LLM FT PT to apply. Apply through the Central Enhance your employability and Applications Board: legal skills by upgrading your Legal English Language Requirement Practice Course (LPC) to a master’s lawcabs.ac.uk IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each degree. Complete a minimum component) or Swansea University LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE (LPC) 10,000 word project in your own recognised equivalent. FT PT time during stage two of the LPC GDL only: IELTS 6.0 (minimum of The Legal Practice Course (LPC) is a (March to June). 5.5 in each component) or Swansea professional practical course that HOW TO APPLY University recognised equivalent. develops the key skills and Full time knowledge needed for a successful Apply through the Central GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW career in law in England and Wales. Applications Board: (GDL) FT Students are offered excellent The Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) pastoral care and support from lawcabs.ac.uk is a full time, 36-week programme professionally qualified staff along Part time for non-law graduates or those with with best practice guidance for Apply directly to: equivalent qualifications, wishing personal development and training. either to enter the legal profession or swansea.ac.uk/ postgraduate/apply work in law-related employment. No Stage 1 – Core Subjects prior knowledge of law is required. • Business Law and Practice • Litigation (Criminal and Civil) The GDL is accredited by the Solicitors • Professional Conduct and Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Regulation Board and the Chartered Institute of • Property Law and Practice Legal Executives, and satisfies all the • Solicitors Accounts academic requirements for admission • Wills and Administration of Estates to the vocational stage of training as a solicitor, barrister or legal executive.
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LAW supportive environment dedicated to We invite applications from candidates understanding some of society’s whose interests correspond with our Developed with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), our MSc will give you an
RESEARCH COURSES – most challenging issues. areas of research: Entry Requirements advanced understanding of contemporary marketing that you can apply in a variety HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON LAW OF RODHAM SCHOOL HILLARY • Common Law, including Contract MPhil/PhD: A minimum of a 2:1 at A research degree in law gives of contexts and situations. After the taught elements of the course, you can complete a undergraduate level (with no failed you the chance to pursue a project and Commercial Law work-based marketing project, applying your new skills and knowledge to real-life. modules), plus a master's degree based around your own passions • Criminal Law and the Law relating The programme will equip you for a successful marketing career or for a research-oriented career, with at least a merit achieved overall. and interests, leading to a to Terrorism, Cyberterrorism and through a PhD after you graduate. Our academic staff include internationally acclaimed research experts and English Language Requirement qualification, which can open Counter Terrorism • Environmental Law those with a wealth of industry experience, and our student community comes from around the globe, bringing IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each the door to an academic career component) or Swansea University or boost employment prospects • International Human Rights diversity and a broad range of perspectives to the classroom. The School is co-located with industry at the recognised equivalent. in a range of other fields. • LegalTech innovative beachfront Bay Campus. • Maritime Law LAW LLM By Research FT PT • Oil and Gas Law Join our thriving community of LAW MPhil/PhD FT PT • Public Law postgraduate research students, You may also wish to view our where you will become part of a Criminology PhD options. Please see page 80 for more information.
The best thing about studying at “the School of Law is the academic resources. From the teaching materials, to the interactive seminars, employability opportunities made available, and finally the one-on-one personal tutor advice sessions. Take a proactive role in your academic studies, especially where time management is concerned. Engage in the non-grading modules. However, try not to restrict yourself to just the classroom. Join a non-academic society. Engage with your peers, and form connections. The Law School and
university have staff and students from Sean Ebenezer a plethora of cultural and educational backgrounds who contribute“ to enriching your learning experience Marte Markwei and student life. LLM IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL AND MARITIME LAW
110 MARKETING IN THE BAY CAMPUS TOP UK BUSINESS MARKETING MANAGEMENT Developed with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), our MSc will give you an AND MARKEING advanced understanding of contemporary marketing that you can apply in a variety (WhatUni2019) of contexts and situations. After the taught elements of the course, you can complete a work-based marketing project, applying your new skills and knowledge to real-life.
– SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF – SCHOOL The programme will equip you for a successful marketing career or for a research-oriented career, through a PhD after you graduate. Our academic staff include internationally acclaimed research experts and those with a wealth of industry experience, and our student community comes from around the globe, bringing diversity and a broad range of perspectives to the classroom. The School is co-located with industry at the innovative beachfront Bay Campus.
STRATEGIC MARKETING MSc FT PT TAUGHT COURSES This programme will equip you with RESEARCH COURSES Entry Requirements strong grounding in both practical Entry Requirements MSc Strategic Marketing: 2:1 honours and theoretical aspects of MPhil: Typically a first-class or degree or above in a related discipline contemporary strategic marketing; 2:1 honours degree in marketing (business or marketing). understanding ethical issues and or a related subject, or an social responsibility and develop equivalent qualification. English Language Requirement students to deliver a sustainable, PhD: Applicants must normally hold IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each inclusive and innovative future an undergraduate degree at 2:1 component) or Swansea University marketing strategy. The programme level and a master’s degree with a recognised equivalent. has been designed in line with the minimum overall grade at ‘Merit’. CIM Postgraduate Diploma and will Alternatively, applicants with a provide you with the opportunity UK first class honours degree SCHOLARSHIPS AND to gain chartered status upon (or Non-UK equivalent as defined BURSARIES successful completion of CIM by Swansea University) not holding At the School of Management, accredited assessments. You will a master’s degree, will be considered we are happy to offer financial also have the opportunity to on an individual basis. support for the brightest prospects complete a three-month placement, MSc By Research: Must hold an of the future. It’s not just academic or more traditionally, can choose undergraduate 2:1 honours degree. excellence we reward – we also to complete a dissertation in a recognise and encourage passion English Language Requirement for study and involvement in student specialised area of marketing. IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each life. There are a range of funding Modules typically include: component) or Swansea University opportunities available for both taught and research degrees. • Consumer Psychology recognised equivalent qualification. • Digital Marketing swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships • Integrated Marketing Communications ACCREDITATIONS & AWARDS INCLUDE: • Marketing in Society For more information on • Marketing Research MSc Business Management • Strategic Marketing (Marketing) see page 62. • Work Placement or Dissertation
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MARKETING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT STRATEGIC MARKETING able to evaluate the challenges MSc By Research FT PT Our Mathematics department is expanding and is now housed in the new Computational Foundry building. This WORK PLACEMENT of working in the real world with One year research degree An alternative to the traditional responsibilities and gaining £32.5 million world-class facility provides the most up-to-date and high-quality teaching and research facilities, as which offers complete flexibility dissertation module, this work opportunities to develop plans well as networking and inspiration space. The Foundry is a place where industry partners can work with us, test new through its wholly research based placement opportunity enables for future personal development ideas and allow our students and researchers to work on real-world problems. students to gain practical – mode of study. in this field.
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL experience of working on a We place a strong emphasis on developing graduate employability, and our graduates have been employed by a In addition to supervisor meetings BUSINESS MANAGEMENT marketing project within industry, wide range of organisations including: AXA, BA, Deutsche Bank, Shell Research, health authorities, Zurich Financial MPhil/PhD FT PT without extending their degree or throughout the period, students are required to spend a minimum of Services, and local government. We invite applications from sacrificing academic credit. 300 hours undertaking this well-qualified candidates whose Students will experience a three- graduate-level marketing project research interests correspond to month unpaid placement at a local work. This equates to a minimum our areas of research expertise. SME, working on a specific of 25 hours per week over the marketing based project. On 3 month period, allowing students Applicants are encouraged to completion of this work-based to dedicate 10 hours of time per explore the research expertise of the project, students will not only have week to conduct necessary School to ensure a good fit between critically applied theoretical concepts research and studies in PhD proposals and potential learned in class to a real-world preparation for the industrial supervisors. Information about business situation, but will have been report assessment submission. current faculty and the School’s research groups can be found at:
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I completed an exchange semester in Swansea “University when I was studying my undergraduate degree in Denmark. During this time, I realised just how good a university Swansea was. One lecturer in particular sparked an idea of returning to Swansea to complete my Master's. I stayed in touch with the university throughout the application process and the team were so helpful. Studying a postgraduate course means that you can build even stronger relationships with lecturers which is great. I loved the modules I could select from, which included digital marketing and marketing in society.
I’ve met so many students from across the world
and I now have friends who are from Mongolia Bianca “ and China. Settling in wasn’t difficult; Swansea is a safe city with a friendly community and it is Kronemann great being so close to a beautiful beach. MSc STRATEGIC MARKETING
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Our Mathematics department is expanding and is now housed in the new Computational Foundry building. This £32.5 million world-class facility provides the most up-to-date and high-quality teaching and research facilities, as well as networking and inspiration space. The Foundry is a place where industry partners can work with us, test new ideas and allow our students and researchers to work on real-world problems.
We place a strong emphasis on developing graduate employability, and our graduates have been employed by a –
wide range of organisations including: AXA, BA, Deutsche Bank, Shell Research, health authorities, Zurich Financial COLLEGE SCIENCE OF Services, and local government.
MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING MATHEMATICS MSc FT PT TAUGHT COURSES FOR FINANCE MSc FT PT The MSc Mathematics course has The MSc Mathematics and Entry Requirements been designed for students who Computing for Finance course has wish to build on their BSc, extending Typically a 2:2 honours degree been designed to meet the growing their range of mathematics expertise or equivalent in mathematics or demand for specially trained across a broader spread of topics, related subject. mathematicians to work in the and demonstrating their literature English Language Requirement world’s financial markets and research skills through an insurance. On the course you IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each extended dissertation. will study different elements component) or Swansea University Such a qualification will mark of mathematics, finance and recognised equivalent. graduates out as having a computing in addition to broader and deeper understanding developing your communication of mathematics, and the skills and presentation skills through a SCHOLARSHIPS AND required to pursue a significant BURSARIES project you will undertake. You will project with a high level of be fully supported to ensure that A range of postgraduate scholarships independence, presenting their and bursaries are available. your project is best suited to support results in a written report. This your future career plans. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ will give MSc Mathematics scholarships Modules typically include: graduates an edge in the ever • Black-Scholes Theory more competitive jobs market. • Differential Equations Modules typically include: • Financial Mathematics • Analytical Dynamics • Fourier Analysis • Applied Algebra: Coding Theory • Itô Calculus and Stochastic • Biomathematics Differential Equations • Black-Scholes Theory • Numerics of ODEs and PDEs • Differential Geometry • Numerical Analysis • Financial Mathematics • Partial Differential Equations • Functional Analysis • Probability Theory • Itô Calculus • Programming in Java • Numerical Analysis • Stochastic Processes • Partial Differential Equations • Stochastic Processes
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 113 MATHEMATICS BAY CAMPUS MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS MSC By Probability Group RESEARCH COURSES Research/ MPhil/PhD FT PT Our research explores many aspects of modern theories of stochastic Entry Requirements We invite applications from processes, and more generally Typically a 2:1 honours degree well-qualified candidates whose random fields with applications or a master's degree with merit research interests correspond to our
to finance, mathematical biology,
– in mathematics or related subject areas of research expertise focused
mathematical physics, data COLLEGE SCIENCE OF or an equivalent qualification. around the following research groups. simulation and beyond. Algebra, Geometry and English Language Requirement Topology Group Mathematics Education IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each Our research explores many aspects The education research group component) or Swansea University of modern theories of geometry was formed in 2014 as part of the recognised equivalent. and associated algebraic machinery. Mathematics Department’s growing interest in and influence over school Analysis and Nonlinear Partial STOCHASTIC PROCESSES: THEORY mathematics education in Wales. Differential Equations Group AND APPLICATION MRes FT PT We are a vibrant group working Further information on our research The MRes in Stochastic Processes is on an analysis of nonlinear partial can be found on our website: delivered through optional modules differential equations (PDEs) from swansea.ac.uk/maths/ for the taught element followed by a range of perspectives. research-and-impact a large research project that contributes to the field in an explicit Biomaths Group way, rather than merely applying The group applies state-of-the-art existing knowledge. mathematical and computational Topics typically include: techniques to address research problems from biosciences, life • Financial mathematics sciences, and medicine. • Lévy processes and more general jump processes Computational Mathematics Group • Stochastic infinite We develop and analyse novel dimensional analysis computational and numerical methods, studying their applications to multiple areas such as Computational Topology, Data Science, Lattice Gauge Theory, Mathematical Biology, Cancer Research and Applied Algebraic Geometry.
114 Since completing my BSc, I developed “research interests in probability and became PROFILESTUDENT passionate about coming up with solutions to real-world problems with my skill set. The Department of Mathematics at Swansea University is at the forefront of innovation in this field with a strong research culture. Moreover, among research staff within the department, the areas
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of expertise include; core disciplines of probability COLLEGE SCIENCE OF theories and stochastic processes, and interdisciplinary areas of applied statistics and biomathematics. The Department works closely with professional organisations, i.e. London Mathematical Society and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. My supervisors provided excellent academic supervision and mentoring during my MRes in Stochastic Processes and my PhD in Mathematics, and members of staff were always available for consultations when required. The Department of Mathematics also supports training programmes, resources on research skills and professional development including scientific writing, project management and communication skills. Throughout my time in Swansea, I particularly enjoyed cycling or ambling to Mumbles along the beach, and the quick access among campus, beach and town. I am now holding a statistician post in the Research and Development division in Public Health Wales. I provide advice and leadership Jiao on the design and analysis of complex research and evaluation programmes supporting population health. Utilising routinely collected electronic
health records and applying mathematical and
statistical modelling on big data in health, to Song help improve understanding of the impact “ MRes STOCHASTIC PROCESSES: and effectiveness of public health policies THEORY AND APPLICATIONS and interventions, and eventually save lives. PhD MATHEMATICS
115 MEDIA, COMMUNICATION UK TOP AND PUBLIC RELATIONS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS 10 From traditional print and broadcast media to film and television, digital publishing, social SUBJECT networking, and public relations, the media increasingly defines the way we interact with our (The Complete University society. It shapes the way we see ourselves and others, and can be a powerful tool for social Guide 2021) change, good or bad.
We take a broad research, practical and international outlook that reflects the challenges of our media-rich world. Our staff have particular theoretical expertise in digital media, public relations, journalism and film studies. Teaching in these areas is informed by staff research activity and our long-established strengths in these subject areas. Informed by these theoretical approaches, there is also a prominent practical element (both in teaching and work placements) in journalism, public relations, the digital media landscape and film making.
COMMUNICATION, MEDIA DIGITAL MEDIA MA FT PT PRACTICE AND PUBLIC RELATIONS The programme offers a wide range TAUGHT COURSES MA FT PT Entry Requirements of themes including the history, This programme offers practice and business, politics and development Typically a 2:2 honours degree theory in professional, contemporary of digital and social media, legal (with an overall average of 55% or media, PR and communication skills, above) or an equivalent qualification. issues, digital war, drones, cyber- taught by academics with industry hacking, mobile technology practice, backgrounds. The programme allows English Language Requirement digital media design, digital journalism, graduates to learn valuable and IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each public relations, branding and
desirable professional media and
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND component) or Swansea University promotion and professional writing. communications skills for careers in recognised equivalent. You can choose a project which business, public and media relations, focuses on blogs, social media outputs broadcasting, communications, and and a work placement, or a research marketing. It also enables industry SCHOLARSHIPS AND dissertation. The programme offers professionals to acquire new media BURSARIES a contemporary look at some of the skills and qualifications that will A range of postgraduate scholarships biggest issues facing societies today, enhance their continuing and bursaries are available. For drawing upon expertise in Media professional development. details, please visit: and Communication. swansea.ac.uk/ Modules typically include: postgraduate/scholarships Modules typically include: • The Business and Politics • The Business and Politics of Digital Media of Digital Media WORK PLACEMENT • The Digital Edge • The Digital Edge: Contemporary OPPORTUNITIES • The Digital Revolution Issues in Digital Media • Global Media We work with a range of media • The Digital Revolution • Online Journalism organisations and other related • Digital War • PR, Branding and Promotion industries to offer a variety of • Dissertation • Professional and Promotional Writing media, marketing and • Global Media and Journalism • Video and Documentary Making communications placements for • MA project including • Visual Communication and our MA media students on all our work placement Media Design programmes. These are typically • Mobile Technology Practice an addition to the taught • Public Relations, Branding programmes, although for some and Promotion, Including students they can be integrated on Social Media with their summer project. • Visual Communication and For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: Media Design swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 116 INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM • The Digital Revolution Modules typically include: MA FT PT • Digital War • The Business and Politics The MA in International Journalism • Global Media of Digital Media provides a cross-cultural approach • Terrorism, Conflict and the Media
• Comparative Journalism MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS to journalism in the twenty-first • Video and Documentary Making • Digital Journalism Portfolio century. It is aimed at those interested • Visual Communication • Mobile Technology Practice in developing their knowledge and and Media Design • PR, Branding and Promotion understanding of the role of SPORTS COMMUNICATION AND • Promotional and contemporary global society, and JOURNALISM MA FT Professional Writing exploring how journalism is evolving The MA in Sports Communication • Sports Communication – in the ever-changing communication and Journalism combines practical Journalism and Promotion environment characterised by digital and academic study of contemporary For more detailed course content, technologies. The course provides professional communication, journalism including a full module list, visit: students with essential knowledge of and public relations in a sports-related how journalism is practiced in swansea.ac.uk/mediastudies/ context. The programme offers five different cultures worldwide as well media-communication-and-pr- compulsory modules, one optional as responding to their interest in postgraduate-study/ module and a dissertation or practice comparative study in the field of project. The project incorporates media Media Department Online Newspaper: journalism and communication studies. practice and a short work placement swanseamumbler.com Modules typically include: to put into practice transferable • Comparative Journalism sports communication skills. • Digital Journalism Portfolio
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117 MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC RELATIONS The relationships between media Media and Communication also RESEARCH COURSES technology, cultural form and the benefits from research groups shift from ‘atoms to bits’ are exploring gender, technology, war, Entry Requirements addressed through a range of and global journalism, and PhD: Typically a 2:1 honours degree innovative methodological incorporates work on moral panics and an MA in a relevant field, or approaches together with a focus and media and identity in small Swansea University recognised on placing these developments nations, with particular reference to equivalent qualification. within a historical and social context. Wales. It is possible to undertake MA By Research or MPhil: your postgraduate research through Globalization, Journalism, Media, A 2:1 honours degree or equivalent. the medium of Welsh, there are Politics and Communication Welsh medium staff with media English Language Requirement This group brings together expertise expertise within the College of Arts IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each in global media, journalism and and Humanities. component) or Swansea University communication from across the recognised equivalent qualification. social sciences and humanities. All research students in Media and Its particular strengths lie in political Communication belong to the communication and the coverage of Graduate Centre in the College of DIGITAL MEDIA MA By Research/ elections, the analysis of trends and Arts and Humanities. The Centre MPhil/PhD FT PT patterns, news outputs ranging from provides pastoral as well as MEDIA STUDIES MA By Research TV and radio to online blogging and administrative support and is also FT PT social media, economic, business, responsible for research skills MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION financial and political issues. training and support, and facilitating
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COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND World Cinema the College’s postgraduate research SCREENING/STAGING EUROPE This group brings together substantial community of 200 students. MA By Research FT PT expertise in the history, theory and The department is home to the We invite applications from reception of World Cinema and is research group Centre on Digital well-qualified candidates whose engaged in a variety of provocative Arts and Humanities (CODAH). research interests correspond to analyses of films, filmmakers, our areas of research expertise movements and film-watching focused around the following communities and nations in relation research groupings: to history, literature, philosophy, new media and politics. The group offers Media History, Theory, particular expertise in transnational Philosophy and Technology cinema, migrant cinema and Eastern This group combines research at the European cinema. nexus between media history, theory, the Philosophy of Technology and Public Relations and Branding technological change, addressing This group focuses on the impact of key issues in the emerging global branding and public relations on digital world. The group seeks to contemporary society and culture, develop a critical understanding alongside consideration of the of networked digital media and impact of digital media on 21st online social practices and their century public relations and social, economic and political branding practice. dynamics in order to inform academic research, wider policy issues and public debates.
118 MEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES ST IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK 1 LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICAL RESEARCH At Swansea University Medical School, a leading UK centre for medical research ENVIRONMENT (Research Excellence consistently ranked in the UK’s top ten for medicine, research quality and research Framework 2014-2021) environment, we offer outstanding postgraduate opportunities in medical sciences as well as medicine and healthcare.
Whether you are choosing to undertake a postgraduate degree to pursue your interests, enhance your career, or take a new direction, our modular framework allows you to study either full or part-time, online, on campus or blended.
Our students, researchers and partners can draw on the expertise of the School’s international researchers and educators and benefit from state-of-the-art research and teaching facilities, including the multi-million pound Institute of Life Science, Centre for NanoHealth and Data Science Building. – SWANSEA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL MEDICAL
CLINICAL SCIENCE (MEDICAL Entry requirements TAUGHT COURSES PHYSICS) MSc PT Typically a 2:2 honours degree MSc Clinical Science builds on an Entry Requirements or equivalent in engineering or the existing collaboration with the NHS physical sciences. See individual courses. in providing the primary route for GENOMIC MEDICINE attaining the professional title of English Language Requirement PGCert/PGDip/MSc FT PT Clinical Scientist in the field of Typically IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 MSc Genomic Medicine has been Medical Physics. in each component) or a Swansea commissioned by Welsh Government University recognised equivalent The programme is accredited by the as part of the all-Wales strategy to unless otherwise stated in individual NHS and provides the academic provide training in Genomics. course details. component of the Scientist Training Informed by Health Education Programme for medical physics England, NHS England and trainees, within the Modernising SCHOLARSHIPS AND Genomics England Ltd, the course BURSARIES Scientific Careers framework defined equips graduates, scientists and by the UK Department of Health, and We offer a range of funding Health Care Professionals to opportunities for both taught and offers students the chance to specialise understand and interpret genomic research degrees. For details, in either radiotherapy physics or data to inform scientific research please visit: radiation safety. This master's degree and clinical practice to ultimately swansea.ac.uk/ is only suitable for trainees sponsored improve patient care. postgraduate/scholarships by an NHS or an equivalent health care provider. Modules typically include: • Bioinformatics Modules typically include: • Cancer Siagnosis, Screening CPD • Advanced Radiation Safety and Treatment We work closely with our NHS and • Advanced Radiotherapy • Ethical, Legal and Social Issues industry partners to provide a vibrant, • Introduction to Clinical Science • Human Genetics and Genomics innovative CPD learning environment • Medical Imaging • Infectious, Rare and to meet individuals and business • Nuclear Medicine and needs with a flexible approach. Diagnostic Imaging Inherited Diseases For details, please visit: • Radiation Protection • Laboratory-based Research Project or Literature Review swansea.ac.uk/medicine/cpd • Radiotherapy Physics • Research Methods • Machine Learning in Healthcare • Specialist Radiation Safety • Omics Techniques • Specialist Radiotherapy For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 119 MEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICAL Entry requirements HEALTH INFORMATICS PGCert/ The programme benefits from clinical Typically a 2:2 honours in a relevant PGDip/MSc FT PT practice through hands-on instruction subject such as biochemistry, Government policies, professional with equipment used routinely in the genetics, pharmacology, pharmacy, bodies and European strategies hospital setting, including state-of- medical biosciences or nursing. have all made explicit reference to the-art MRI and CT facilities, and IELTS: 7.0 or equivalent the need for healthcare staff with medical linear accelerators, which health informatics education and will prepare you for research or HEALTH DATA SCIENCE training to keep in line with new clinical training in this rapidly PGCert/PGDip/MSc FT PT developments and the changing changing field. It also includes Healthcare, with an already nature of new technology. computer-based modelling, established strong relationship with research methodology and the This programme is designed for Information and Communication ethical dimensions associated healthcare professionals and with medical research. – SWANSEA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL MEDICAL Technologies (ICT), is continuously those who want to increase their expanding the knowledge forefront knowledge and skills in health This programme is accredited by the as new methods of acquiring data informatics, and is accredited by the Institute of Physics and Engineering concerning the health of human UK Council for Health Informatics in Medicine (IPEM). beings are developed. Processing Professions (UKCHIP). this data to extract valuable Modules typically include: information about a population Modules typically include: • Advanced Radiotherapy (epidemiological applications) or the • Communications and Coding • Advanced Radiation Safety individual (personalised healthcare • Health Informatics in Context • Medical Imaging applications) is the work of health • Health Informatics Research • Nanoscale Simulation data scientists. Their work has the • Knowledge Management • Nuclear Medicine and potential to improve quality of life • Leadership in Project Management Diagnostic Radiology on a large scale. • Research Dissertation or Work- • Radiotherapy Physics based Project Portfolio • Radiation Protection Modules typically include: • Systems and Technologies • Research Methods • Scientific Computing • Using Secondary Health Data • Research Project and Health Care • Health Data Modelling Entry requirements Entry requirements • Analysis of Linked Health Data Candidates with two years of Typically a 2:2 honours degree or • Machine Learning in Healthcare relevant employment are welcomed, equivalent in engineering or the • Health Data Visualisation as well as graduates of a relevant physical science. • Bioinformatics for Genome Analysis discipline with a 2:2 honours, or an • Dissertation on a relevant health equivalent recognised qualification. NANOMEDICINE PGCert/ FT PT data science topic PGDip/MSc MEDICAL RADIATION PHYSICS This innovative programme combines Entry requirements MSc FT PT a multidisciplinary approach of Candidates with two years of The MSc in Medical Radiation nanotechnology and medical science relevant employment are welcomed, Physics is designed to give that promises to bring significant as well as graduates of a relevant engineering and physical sciences advances in the diagnosis, treatment discipline with a 2:2 honours, or an graduates the necessary theoretical and prevention of disease. This equivalent recognised qualification. knowledge and understanding of course is suitable for graduates with fundamental aspects of the use of experience in disciplines of biology, radiation in medicine. life sciences or engineering who wish to develop their understanding
120 of the application of nanotechnology to medicine and to undergo training MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE STUDIES RESEARCH COURSES MSc /MPhil/ in experimental design and By Research Entry Requirements PhD/MD FT PT experimental practice in a
Swansea University Medical School LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICAL novel research topic. PhD/MPhil/MRes/MSc By Research: Applicants must hold an initial UK invites applications from well-qualified Modules include: degree or an equivalent qualification, candidates whose research interests • Analytical Techniques and would typically have achieved, correspond to the following expert- • Data Analysis for Health and or be predicted to achieve a led research themes: minimum classification of 2:1 Medical Sciences • Biomarkers and genes or equivalent. • Diagnostics and Imaging • Medical devices • Dissertation • Microbes and immunity MD Degrees: Applicants should • Nano(geno) toxicology typically have a Bachelor of • Patient and population health • Nanomedicine and Therapeutics Medicine or Surgery awarded and informatics • Regenerative Medicine at least three years prior to the The School also has strong links with • Research Design and Ethics submission of the thesis. the NHS and welcomes applications • Separation science and molecular from candidates with a clinical techniques for Nanomedicine English Language Requirement research interest in: – SWANSEA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL MEDICAL IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each Entry requirements • Accidents component) or Swansea University Typically a 2:2 honours degree • Ageing recognised equivalent. or above in a biological science • Ambulatory care or related subject; Engineering; • Burns and plastics Physics; Chemistry or an • Cancer equivalent qualification. • Cardiovascular disease
121 MEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICAL • Diabetes RESEARCH IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS HEALTH INFORMATICS MRes PT EDUCATION MRes/DProf FT PT • Epilepsy The developing discipline of • Gastroenterology These Professional Doctorate health informatics is becoming an • Hospital at home research degrees are aimed at increasingly important component • Infectious diseases generating evidence for the of health provision in the 21st • Pre-hospital care education of Health Professionals. Century. The MRes in Health • Psychiatry They are suitable for anyone who Informatics is designed for those • Rheumatology wishes to undertake rigorous, with experience in health informatics • Trauma surgery practice focused research into the and who want to make a education of health professionals. contribution to the field by helping APPLIED ANALYTICAL SCIENCE (LCMS) Trainees are also welcome. MRes FT PT develop the knowledge base. Candidates can enrol for either a World demand for mass short, master's level programme The focus is on primary research, with – SWANSEA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL MEDICAL spectrometry and chromatography (MRes) or a long, Doctoral Level skills developed over two years. The has grown at an unprecedented rate, research degree (DProf) in a research project may be undertaken with qualified graduates in short programme which combines an within your own place of work. supply and highly sought after. initial taught phase with supervised Key features include: research. The research is normally The unique combination of industry • Focus on primary research undertaken in, and on, the participation and course content • Research skills developed through student’s workplace. will provide you with a vocationally- three short modules as you relevant qualification with invaluable Key features include: develop your own health training and experience sought in the • Full training and support in a informatics research project in UK and worldwide. The programme broad range of research methods the first nine months of the course is designed in two phases: • Focused, taught analysis of the • The second year comprises Taught Modules: evidence base for current practise supervised completion of a research-based thesis • Data analysis and method in health professions education • The research is supported within development • Supported development of a an organisation with a strong • Mass spectrometry – research proposal, including research reputation and you will basics and fundamentals literature review, methodological have one-to-one supervision at all • Professional management approaches and ethical approval stages of the research process of laboratory practice • Support from an outstanding • Through partnerships with • Separation science and community of experienced National Health Service sample handling researchers to address specific training and research needs (NHS) bodies in Wales, Research: • Use of an experienced supervisory we are able to offer a range • Master’s level research project, team approach to ensure broad of research opportunities focused on your own research support across a range of needs • Practice-focused learning interests and existing practice • Emphasis is research-on, meaning research can be conducted in place of work
122 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS UK TOP10 MEDICINE At Swansea University, we offer outstanding postgraduate opportunities in medicine and (Complete University healthcare with courses that build on our long-established links with the NHS in the UK, Guide 2021) social services and industry. Our internationally renowned research staff are continually working to tackle the challenges facing the healthcare system while our teaching staff are active in practice and research. Together, they have a wealth of professional experience offering an unrivalled mix of academic excellence and practical expertise.
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MEDICINE – GRADUATE Entry requirements TAUGHT COURSES ENTRY MBBCh FT In order to be eligible to apply for Entry Requirements The Graduate Entry Medicine Graduate Entry Medicine, you must Please see individual course details. Programme (MBBCh) in Swansea have achieved, or be predicted to is one of a small group of similar achieve, the following (or equivalent) English Language Requirement programmes of medical study in the by 31st July of the year in which you Typically IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 UK. It is a fully integrated, innovative, wish to start the programme: four-year accelerated medical degree. in each component) or a Swansea • Either an upper second (2:1) or University recognised equivalent With its integrated medical curriculum, first class degree in any subject unless otherwise stated in individual the basic biomedical sciences are • Or a merit or distinction course details. learnt in the context of clinical (equivalent to 2:1 or first) in medicine, public health, pathology, an integrated undergraduate therapeutics, ethics and psycho- SCHOLARSHIPS AND master's degree BURSARIES social issues in patient management. • Or a lower second (2:2) PLUS a We offer a range of funding This, together with a high emphasis opportunities for both taught on clinical and communication skills, postgraduate master's or PhD and research degrees. will provide you with everything you • And GCSE Mathematics For details, please visit: will need to practise medicine and English/Welsh at grade swansea.ac.uk/ competently and confidently. C or above postgraduate/scholarships Key features include: If you hold more than one The course benefits from a high level undergraduate degree, the result from of structured clinical contact, including: the most recent degree is considered. CPD • Clinical apprenticeships, including • IELTS 7.0 with no less than 7.0 We work closely with our NHS one week of nursing practice in speaking and 6.5 in listening, and industry partners to provide • Junior Assistantship reading and writing a vibrant, innovative CPD learning • Specialty attachments, including (international candidates) environment to meet individual's acute surgery, acute medicine, and business needs with a flexible women’s health, child health, Qualifications awarded in countries approach. For further details, mental health, sub-specialities of other than the UK can be accepted if please see: medicine and surgery, and frailty. they are confirmed to be equivalent to awards in the UK system. swansea.ac.uk/ • Community based learning humanandhealthsciences/ • Senior assistantship, GAMSAT/MCAT professional-development shadowing F1 doctors All candidates must sit one of the • Elective following professional selection tests swansea.ac.uk/medicine/cpd for medical schools prior to application: For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 123 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
• UK/EU candidates must sit the For further information please visit: honours degree in a biomedical GAMSAT. You must achieve a swansea.ac.uk/medicine science or health related discipline. minimum overall GAMSAT score Applicants who have achieved a high of 50, together with a minimum PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE STUDIES degree (2:1 honours or above) in a of 50 in Paper 3 (Reasoning in MSc FT non-related discipline and can Biological and Physical Sciences) The integrated two-year MSc Physician provide evidence of relevant work in order to be considered. Associate Studies degree will help you experience and values in line with the develop the knowledge and clinical NHS constitution may be considered • International candidates may sit the – skills to pass the National Examination on an individual basis.
SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF GAMSAT or MCAT. You must achieve a minimum overall MCAT score of Certificate and start your new All applicants must provide a personal 500 in order to be considered. healthcare role. Throughout your statement that demonstrates evidence degree you will have opportunities of caring experience, an understanding Interviews will be offered to to work effectively with patients, of the role of a Physician Associate candidates that meet an overall develop a range of practical and and the personal and academic cut-off score in their entry exam, reasoning skills, and reflect on qualities required for the course which is determined annually once practice to identify your individual and future practise. all scores have been received. learning needs. Interviews will be offered to applicants Any offer made is conditional, There’s a growing demand for that meet the entry requirements subject to evidence of qualifications, Physician Associates across the UK and based on their personal statement. satisfactory references, a Disclosure your skills and degree qualification Any offer made is conditional, subject to and Barring Service (DBS) or will be highly sought after in a range evidence of qualifications, satisfactory police check and occupational of settings. One of the first courses references, a Disclosure and Barring health clearance. of its kind in Wales, this programme Service (DBS) or police check and has been developed in line with Graduate Entry Medicine is not occupational health clearance. Government guidance to help meet open to transfers with credit from the strategic need for a modernised other Medical courses but applicants ADVANCED PRACTICE IN HEALTH healthcare workforce. who have previously been students CARE PGDip/MSc PT at other medical schools may apply The Physician Associate Studies MSc This programme is designed for to join the programme from Year 1, is currently supported through a experienced healthcare practitioners provided that they meet the entry Welsh Government bursary. There who want to consolidate their skills requirements. are currently 40 funded places per and develop to an advanced level. year on this programme. You will develop enhanced assessment, Please note: At the end of this diagnostic and disease management course you will receive your MBBCh Modules typically include: skills and have the opportunity to (or equivalent) degree, which is a • Clinical Skills carry out studies for non-medical primary medical qualification (PMQ). • Foundations in Clinical Medicine prescribing. Throughout your studies, This qualification allows our graduates • Introduction to Health Care Law you will refine critical research and to practise in the UK and many and Ethics analytical skills in relation to clinical other countries. • Introduction to Research, Evidence- practice and develop professional based Practice and Reflection Applicants are advised to ensure that reflective practice techniques. • Introduction to Sociology and Swansea University’s PMQ is recognised Core modules typically include: by the medical standards authority of Psychology • Advanced Practice and Education the country in which they wish to • Dissertation • Anatomy, Physiology and practise. Holding a PMQ entitles you to Entry requirements Pathophysiology for Advanced provisional registration with the General GCSE Mathematics and English/ Clinical Practice Medical Council, subject only to its Welsh at grade C or above (or • Clinical Assessment Skills acceptance that there are no Fitness to equivalent), and a minimum of a 2:2 • Clinical Diagnosis and Patient Practise concerns that need consideration. Management for Advanced Practice • Foundations in Research 124 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE Optional specialist modules Entry requirements Entry requirements typically include: To apply for this course you need to You should hold a relevant • Advanced Practice Portfolio be a social worker, mental health professional qualification and work Dissertation nurse, psychologist or occupational in an area where a clinical need is • Clinical Assessment and Decision therapist working in mental health or identified. You should have at least 3 Making in Non-Medical Prescribing learning disabilities. You should be year's post-registration experience in • Pharmacology Principles and Practice registered with a professional body, your specialist clinical area, with Entry requirements have at least two years’ post frequent exposure to blood component To apply for this course you need to qualifying experience and have transfusion. You should have the be qualified for a minimum of 3 relevant experience of working with support of your line manager and will years and have a UK 2:2 degree or people with mental disorders. You need a designated medical mentor, its equivalent in a relevant subject. will need to be employed in one of who is responsible for supporting your
You may be able to enrol without an the 16 Local Authorities in Wales or work-based learning and assessment. – initial degree and/or may be required the related Health Boards. You will Please note: This programme is not SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF to undertake pre-requisite studies at be selected and funded by your open to international applicants. level 6. Prior to applying, you need employer to train to undertake the to discuss whether your employers are statutory role of an AMHP. Either COMMUNITY AND PRIMARY HEALTH CARE PRACTICE willing to support your application. a bachelor or master’s degree is PGCert/PGDip/MSc PT Acceptance on to the course is made required, or in exceptional Designed for practising healthcare collaboratively between the University circumstances, where this academic professionals wishing to enhance and your employer and all applicants requirement is not met, you must their leadership, research and will be interviewed in conjunction demonstrate how your experience educational expertise, this course with their respective health board. and qualifications equip you to undertake postgraduate study. This will provide the skills and knowledge Please note: Advanced Practice can be evidenced by, for example, to progress in your career and in Health Care is not open to a relevant post-qualifying award. explore innovative cross-disciplinary international applicants. If you do not hold a degree you may research and practice to improve public health. Throughout your APPROVED MENTAL HEALTH be required to attend an interview. studies, you will refine critical PROFESSIONAL PGCert FT Please note: This programme is not research and analytical skills in This programme will give you the open to international applicants. relation to healthcare policy and professional knowledge and skills practice and develop professional required by the Welsh Government BLOOD COMPONENT TRANSFUSION PGCert PT reflective practice techniques. and Social Care Wales to be considered by their agency to become Designed for non-medical healthcare Core modules typically include: warranted and practice as an practitioners (HCPs), this innovative • Continuing your Professional Approved Mental Health Professional programme will equip you with the Development in Community and (AMHP). An AMHP is responsible for skills and knowledge to make the Primary Health Care Practice assessing a person with a mental clinical decision and provide the • Dissertation disorder when considering the need written instruction for blood • Foundations in Research for an application for formal component transfusion to patients Optional specialist modules admission to a psychiatric hospital. within your clinical specialism. We have developed this work-based, typically include: Core modules typically include: accredited course to support the • Working in Community and • Policy and Law in Mental Health All Wales Policy for non-medical Primary Health Care Practice Services authorisation of blood • Working in Community and Primary • Professional Decision Making component transfusion. Mental Health Care Practice and Partnership in Mental Health • Working with Individuals, Families Core modules typically include: • Understanding Mental Health and Communities in Primary • Advancing your own Practice in and Mental Distress Health Care Practice • Values Based Practice and Blood Component Transfusion Ethical Decision Making in • Principles of Safe Practice in Mental Health Services Clinical Transfusion Management
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Entry requirements Entry requirements Modules typically include: You should have a minimum of a UK To apply for this course you must be • Diabetes Basics second class honours (2:2) degree, or registered with the NMC on part 1 of • Diabetes Complications an equivalent recognised qualification the register and have a BSc/BA/BN • Diabetes Events and must be a registered practitioner honours degree or equivalent. You • Diabetes Management working in a community role. Relevant must provide evidence of post- • Diabetes Situations experience may also be considered registration experience within the • Dissertation or Work-based Portfolio where appropriate. specialised area of practice and
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Please note: This programme is not confirmation of any recent study (e.g. SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF Typically a 2:1 honours degree in continuing professional development open to international applicants. a relevant subject, preferably module preferably within the last 5 with clinical experience. COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDIES, years). You will also require an SPECIALIST PRACTICE AWARD up-to-date enhanced DBS disclosure EDUCATION FOR THE IN DISTRICT NURSING and provide copies of academic HEALTH PROFESSIONS PGDip/MSc FT PT qualifications and any other PGCert/PGDip/MA PT This programme aims to prepare documents required by the admissions This programme has been designed district nurses to work independently department, for verification during the specifically for healthcare and autonomously in a complex, selection process. If you are professionals teaching in an rapidly changing environment, considering transferring any prior academic or clinical settings and helping you to become an learning, a full transcript of the module looking to consolidate their skills. inspirational leader of the future, outline is required at interview. It will equip you with an in-depth who transforms practice and understanding of educational contributes to the wider healthcare DIABETES PRACTICE PGCert/ principles and values and to develop agenda. Successful completion of the PGDip/MSc FT PT your expertise in teaching, assessing programme will enable registrants to This flexible postgraduate distance and supervision. Throughout your meet the NMC standards for learning programme has been studies, you will refine your critical specialist practice in district nursing designed for health care professionals research and analytical skills and (SPDN) and the V100 qualification with a special interest in Diabetes. develop professional reflective (community nurse prescriber). The Its aim is to provide fundamental practice techniques. On successful course is made up of 50% practice and advanced knowledge, clinical completion of this course you will be and 50% theory, there is a strong skills and experience to bridge the eligible for membership of the emphasis on the relationship current knowledge gap in diabetes Academy of medical educators between practice and theory. care and meet the health and care (AoME), and Fellowship or Associate Modules typically include: needs of people with diabetes, Fellowship of the Higher Education • Advancing Skills in Management including the support of effective Academy (HEA). self-care management. and Leadership for District Nurse Core modules typically include: Practice The programme benefits from the • Assessment and Feedback • Application of Nurse Prescribing option of a work-based portfolio in • Designing and Evaluating Experience to a specialist place of a dissertation. This is a your Teaching field of practice unique opportunity for Health Care • Dissertation • Developing clinical expertise in Professionals to review, appraise and • Mentoring and Supervision contemporary District Nurse Practice evaluate the application of their new • Researching Educational Practice • Dissertation in SPDN practice knowledge within their own clinical • Teaching and Learning for the • Nurse Prescribing for Community work environment. There is also a Health Professions' Educators Practitioners (V100) residential module each year, which Optional specialist modules • Research and Development in features practical skills workshops typically include: District Nurse Practice (SPDN) and expert speaker symposiums. • Evidence and Theory • Working in Community and Based Education Primary Health Care Practice 126 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE • Leadership in Practice • Teaching and Learning in Practice Entry requirements You will need an appropriate degree or its equivalent from an approved institution (preferably 2:2 or above) and evidence of recent academic study of a professional qualification, with a minimum of 2 year's relevant work experience and responsibilities. If you are a registered nurse or a midwife seeking to achieve either:
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(2008) Standards for Supporting SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF Learning and Assessment in Practice (SLAiP)) or Teacher status (Stage 4 of the NMC (2008) SLAiP) you will need to demonstrate that you have developed your knowledge, skills and competence beyond registration i.e. registered and worked for at least 2 years, and gained additional qualifications that will support students (NMC 2008). Please note: This programme is not open to international applicants. ENHANCED NEONATAL CARE PGCert PT This programme will help staff working in this specialised clinical field to further develop and consolidate their knowledge and understanding. You will learn clinical neonates. You must be currently relation to midwifery. skills necessary to the holistic health working with neonates, with With the support of an academic and care needs of sick and premature access to a suitable clinical mentor. mentor you will also develop newborn babies, including areas Please note: This programme is not professional reflective such as venepuncture and blood gas open to international applicants. practice techniques. analysis, and practice these skills ENHANCED PROFESSIONAL MIDWIFERY Core modules typically include: under expert supervision. We are the PRACTICE PGCert/PGDip/MSc PT • Professional Midwifery only university in Wales to offer this This work-based programme will Practice Portfolio specialist postgraduate certificate. enhance your midwifery knowledge, • Starting your Professional Modules Include: clinical reasoning, and decision- Development • Developing your Neonatal making skills. The course is a highly Optional specialist modules Clinical Skills flexible and modular programme led typically include: • Enhancing your Neonatal by your learning and professional • Advancing your Own Practice Clinical Skills development objectives as both a • Clinical Supervision Entry requirements student and a busy midwife. You will • Developing Expertise in the cover key policy and practice related You should be qualified in speciality, Supervision of Midwives topics and refine your critical with experience of caring for • Developing Expertise in the research and analytical skills in Supervision of Midwives (CPD)
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• How Can I Make a Optional specialist modules Core modules typically include: Change in Practice? typically include: • Dissertation • Leadership and Professional • Advancing your Own Practice • Evidence and Research for Health Studies in Midwifery • Assessing your Current Practice Care Management • Policy Influences on your Practice • How the Evidence Base Can • Organising Health Care • Professional Practice in Sexual Help you Change your Practice • Politics and Policies and Reproductive Health • How Can I Make a Change in • Social, Cultural and Economic Practice? Context of Health Entry requirements –
This course is aimed at graduate • Management and Leadership • Theory and Practice of Leadership SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF midwives who are NMC registered. in Health Care Practice (WBL) and Management in Health and Requirements regarding clinical • Policy Influences on your Practice Social Care experience will be individual; • Starting your Professional Optional specialist modules however, most midwives would be Development typically include: • Teaching and Learning in Practice expected to consolidate their • Economic Evaluation in Health Care practice as a newly qualified Entry requirements • Foundations in Public Health midwife before seeking further You should have an appropriate and Primary Health Care education opportunities. Admission degree or its equivalent from an • Quality Improvement to study, for most applicants, will be approved institution (preferably 2:2 • Psychology of Healthcare based on agreement from your or above) and evidence of recent Management employer in relation to funding or academic study and/or Continuous Entry requirements study leave but we will also consider Professional Development. You should You should have a UK 2:2 degree you if you choose to self-fund and be employed within the health and from a recognised university or undertake studies in your own time. social care sector with a minimum of awarding body, or its equivalent. two years’ experience and possession Please note: This programme is not Professional qualifications in a relevant of a relevant professional portfolio. open to international applicants. field or at least two year's relevant work experience will also be considered. ENHANCED PROFESSIONAL Please note: This programme is not open to international applicants. PRACTICE MSc/PGDip/PGCert PT LEADERSHIP FOR THE HEALTH If you are a health and social care HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONS PGCert/PGDip/MSc practitioner undertaking work-based MSc FT PT PT (BLENDED LEARNING) learning, this programme is an If you are currently working in a This unique inter-professional, excellent way for you to gain formal health-related management role and multi-level, leadership development academic credit for your professional want to build on your experience or programme has been designed development. The course is a highly are looking to develop your career primarily for health professionals flexible and modular programme led in this area, this programme will give actively working in health-care, by your needs as a student and as a you the perfect grounding. You will education, research or management. busy professional. You will cover key learn how to plan and deliver service The course is suitable for doctors policy and practice related topics improvements, manage change, work (including doctors in training), and refine critical research and with others to achieve organisational nurses, academic staff and other analytical skills in relation to health goals, communicate effectively, and health professionals at all stages of and social care. With the support of make the best use of resources. their career with a leadership or an academic mentor, you will also Throughout your studies, you will gain management role or those aspiring develop professional reflective leadership tools that can be applied to one. The programme has been practice techniques. in a wide variety of healthcare and designed specifically for busy related management roles. working professionals, combining face-to-face contact days supplemented by online learning and
128 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE tutor, mentor and peer support. This • Chronic Condition • Research Methods in Education programme is accredited by the Management: Diabetes • Teaching, Learning and Assessment Faculty of Medical Leadership and • Chronic Pain Management • Two Research Projects Management (FMLM). • The Management of Parkinson's (No dissertation) Modules typically include: Disease-Related Conditions Entry requirements • Developing Leadership, Innovation Entry requirements Typically a 2:2 honours degree or and Change You should hold an appropriate equivalent. Applicants should also • Leadership in Practice degree or its equivalent from an provide a CV and personal statement • Leading Yourself and Others approved UK institution (preferably to demonstrate intent for current and Effectively 2:1 or above) with evidence of recent future teaching, training, educating, • The Learning Organisation, Groups academic study. You may also hold research, management or leadership
and Teams a professional qualification and a in Medical Education –
• Professional Development in Practice minimum of 2 year's relevant work SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF • Portfolio Project Based on your experience and responsibilities. NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIBING FOR PHARMACISTS PGCert PT own Needs, Role and Aspirations • Understanding Organisations, MEDICAL EDUCATION PGCert/ Accredited by the General PGDip/MSc FT PT Systems and Services Pharmaceutical Council (GPHC), this This multidisciplinary programme is programme will equip you with the Entry requirements suited to those currently working, or competency to practise within current Typically a 2:2 honours degree or working towards a role in Medical legislation as an independent or equivalent in an appropriate subject. Education, including educators, doctors, supplementary non-medical prescriber. LONG TERM AND CHRONIC nurses and Allied Health Professionals. It will provide you with the knowledge CONDITIONS MANAGEMENT Designed to reflect the diversity of and skills you need to prescribe safely MSc FT PT roles within Medical Education, the and appropriately within your area This programme will equip you with course will link educational theory to of practice. the knowledge and experience to its application in medicine, exploring Core modules typically include: understand the needs of people a range of topics from practical • Non-Medical Prescribing (GPhC) living with and affected by long-term teaching skills to innovations and • Pharmacology Principles and Practice and chronic conditions and to design digital medical education. It benefits Entry requirements and manage health and care from a series of workshops and You can apply for this course if you: services accordingly. Your studies practical sessions at the Medical • Have a prescribing budget in place will take a multi-disciplinary School, with opportunities to develop • Meet specific entry requirements approach with collaboration peer-support networks and get to set by the General Pharmaceutical encouraged across the various know faculty. professions involved in long-term Healthcare Council (see below) MSc Medical Education is aligned and chronic condition management. • Have been approved by a Health to the UK Professional Standards Board Prescribing Lead and Core modules typically include: Framework (UKPSF 2011) for Higher Clinical Manager • Dissertation Education and the Academy of • Hold a current criminal identity • Foundations in Health Promotion Medical Educators Standards, both check to meet specific requirements • Foundations in Research recognised frameworks for excellent of your professional body • Health Psychology of Long Teaching and Learning in the field • Have identified an appropriately Term and Chronic Illness and the GMC recognition of qualified designated medical • Social Aspects of Long trainers framework. practitioner Term and Chronic Illness Modules typically include: • Demonstrate the ability to study • Theory and Practice of Long Term • Evidence Based-Education at academic Level 7 and Chronic Conditions Management • Innovations and Trends in Education Recognition of previous learning is not Specialist optional modules include: • Leadership in Practice applicable for this programme. Part • Applied Anatomy and • The Learning Organisation, Groups accreditation of a module, regardless Pathophysiology for Long Term and Teams of previous learning or experience, Chronic Conditions Management • Mentoring and Supervision isn't possible.
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Pharmacists applying to undertake an Recognition of previous learning is not prescribing practice should be in independent prescribing programme applicable for this programme. Part clinical/health assessment/ must be registered with the General accreditation of a module, regardless diagnostics/care management or Pharmaceutical Council or the of previous learning or experience, planning and evaluation of care Pharmaceutical Society of Northern isn't possible. The Health and Care • Demonstrate the ability to study Ireland and have at least 2 years’ Professions Council (HCPC) have no at academic Level 7 appropriate patient-orientated specific requirements for Allied Applicants for V300 supplementary/ experience in a UK hospital, community Health Professionals (AHPs) but they independent prescribing programmes –
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SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF have been registered with the NMC their pre-registration year. established in the role in which for a minimum of 5 years prior to they wish to prescribe. application for entry onto the NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIBING FOR programme. ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS NON-MEDICAL PRESCRIBING FOR PGCert PT PT NURSES AND MIDWIVES PGCert NURSING PRE-REGISTRATION Accredited by the Health and Care Accredited by the Nursing and (ADULT) MSc Professions Council (HCPC), this Midwifery Council (NMC), this Designed for non-registered healthcare programme will equip you with the programme will equip you with the practitioners, this two-year programme competency to practise within current competency to practise within current will give you the skills and experience legislation as an independent or legislation as an independent or to launch a rewarding career in this supplementary non-medical supplementary non-medical prescriber. essential profession. You will learn prescriber. It will provide you with It will provide you with the knowledge about the holistic needs of people from the knowledge and skills you need and skills you need to prescribe safely early adulthood until old age and to prescribe safely and appropriately and appropriately within your area develop the professional skills to within your area of practice. of practice. provide high quality nursing care in Core modules typically include: Core modules typically include: in a range of clinical and community • Clinical Assessment and Decision • Clinical Assessment and Decision settings. As you progress, you will Making in Non-Medical Making in Non-Medical develop the skills to assess, plan, Prescribing (HCPC) Prescribing (NMC) deliver, and evaluate evidence-based • Pharmacology Principles • Pharmacology Principles care to promote the health and and Practice (HCPC) and Practice (NMC) wellbeing of adults with acute and chronic conditions. Entry requirements Entry requirements Core modules typically include: You can apply for this course if you: You can apply for this course if: • Have a prescribing budget in place • You are a registered nurse (Level 1), • Acute and Unscheduled Nursing Care • Meet specific entry requirements a registered midwife or a SCPHN • Care of the Person with set by Health and Care Professions • Your practice area has the necessary Complex Needs Council (see below) governance structures in place • Dissertation • Have been approved by a Health (including clinical support, access to • The Essentials of Nursing Board Prescribing Lead and protected learning time and • Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Manager employer support where Nursing Research • Hold a current criminal identity appropriate) to enable you to • Leadership, Management and check to meet specific requirements undertake, and be adequately Decision Making in Service of your professional body supported throughout the Evaluation and Improvement • Have identified an appropriately programme • Promoting Health and qualified designated medical • You are capable of safe and Preventing Illness practitioner effective practice at a level of Entry requirements • Demonstrate the ability to study proficiency appropriate to the This MSc course is pre-registration at academic Level 7 programme. Your intended area of only. It is not suitable for registered
130 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE nurses. This programme is open to Entry requirements • Leadership, Management and graduates with a 2:2 honours degree This MSc course is pre-registration Decision Making in Service or above and a GCSE grade C or only. It is not suitable for registered Evaluation and Improvement above in Mathematics and English/ nurses. This programme is open to • Promoting Health and Welsh. You will be required to graduates with a 2:2 honours degree Preventing Illness demonstrate the achievement of 750 or above and a GCSE grade C or Entry requirements hours of relevant clinical practice, above in Mathematics and English/ This MSc course is pre-registration working in health related environments, Welsh. You will be required to only. It is not suitable for registered such as care homes, hospitals, demonstrate the achievement of nurses. This programme is open to community or homecare. 750 hours of relevant clinical graduates with a 2:2 honours degree Any offer made is conditional, subject practice, working in health related or above and a GCSE grade C or to evidence of recent study (within the environments, such as care homes, above in Mathematics and English/ last 1 year), satisfactory academic and hospitals, community or homecare. Welsh. You will be required to – character references, a Disclosure and Any offer made is conditional, subject demonstrate the achievement of SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF Barring Service (DBS) check, or an to evidence of recent study (within the 750 hours of relevant clinical approved equivalent and occupational last 5 years), satisfactory academic practice, working in health related health clearance. and character references, a Disclosure environments, such as care homes, and Barring Service (DBS) check, or hospitals, community or homecare. NURSING PRE-REGISTRATION an approved equivalent and (CHILD) MSc Any offer made is conditional, subject occupational health clearance. Designed for non-registered healthcare to evidence of recent study (within the practitioners, this two-year programme NURSING PRE-REGISTRATION last 5 years), satisfactory academic will give you the skills and experience (MENTAL HEALTH) MSc and character references, a Disclosure to launch a rewarding career in this Designed for non-registered healthcare and Barring Service (DBS) check, or essential profession. You will learn practitioners, this two-year programme an approved equivalent and about the holistic health and wellbeing will give you the skills and experience occupational health clearance. needs of children, young people, and to launch a rewarding career in this PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH their families. As you progress, you essential profession. You will learn to PROMOTION PGDip/MSc will develop the professional skills to provide high quality, compassionate FT PT provide high quality, evidence-based nursing care for improving mental This programme will enable you to gain nursing care and health protection health and wellbeing. During the the knowledge and insight necessary measures in a range of clinical and course you will improve the care and to achieve change and influence health community settings, often working as treatment of people using mental policy at all levels. You will study the part of a multi-disciplinary team across health services, their carers and their historical background, current the health and social care sectors. families. As you progress, you will developments, and potential future Core modules typically include: develop keen interpersonal and directions of public health and health • Acute and Unscheduled communication skills to prepare you promotion, alongside key theoretical Nursing Care for working as part of a team that and philosophical perspectives. Your • Care of the Child and Young includes psychiatrists, psychologists, research and analytical skills will be Person with Complex Needs social workers, community workers honed as you assess the evidence base • Dissertation and occupational therapists. for public health interventions, while • The Essentials of Nursing Core modules typically include: an observation placement will give • Evidence-Based Practice and • Acute and Unscheduled you valuable experience in real-life Nursing Research Nursing Care application of health promotion theory. • Leadership, Management and • Care of the Person with Complex The course is mapped to the National Decision Making in Service Mental Health Needs Occupational Standards, Public Health Evaluation and Improvement • Dissertation Career Framework. On successful • Promoting Health and • The Essentials of Nursing completion, you will be eligible to Preventing Illness • Evidence-Based Practice and apply for registered practitioner Nursing Research and/or specialist status with the UK Public Health Register.
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Core modules typically include: SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC a range of public health community • Developing Programmes and HEALTH NURSING (HEALTH settings. The course will prepare you for Evaluation VISITING) WITH INTEGRATED work in complex and varied settings V100 PGDip/MSc FT PT • Dissertation including homes, schools and the This programme will develop • Foundations in Health Promotion wider community. You will become a Specialist Community Public Health • Foundations in Research knowledgeable practitioner with Nursing practitioners to work • Health Protection excellent managerial and interpersonal • Management and Leadership for autonomously in a range of public capabilities. Successful completion
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of this programme will lead to a SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF • Public Health Ethics course will prepare you for work professional award in Specialist • Public Health Evidence and in complex and varied settings Community Public Health Nursing Epidemiology including homes, schools and the practice in Health Visiting and will • Public Health Practice wider community. You will become enable registration on the SCPHN part Entry requirements a knowledgeable practitioner with of the Nursing and Midwifery Council You should hold a relevant degree excellent managerial and (NMC) register. at 2:1 or above. Alternatively you interpersonal capabilities. Successful should have an equivalent recognised completion of this programme will Modules typically include: qualification and/or 2 years of enable you to gain the recordable • Dissertation in SCPHN practice relevant employment, with evidence of qualification of Specialist Community • Facilitating the Health and Well- educational/professional achievements. Public Health Nurse Health Visitor Being of Individuals and Families (HV) and the V100 qualification • Professional Development of ENTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR (community nurse prescriber). Specialist Community Public Health ALL SPECIALIST COMMUNITY Nursing (SCPHN) Practice Modules typically include: PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING: • Promoting the Public Health • Dissertation in SCPHN practice To apply for these programmes of Populations • Facilitating the Health and you will need: • Promoting Emotional Well-Being of Well-Being of Individuals and • To be an NMC registered Children and Young People Families (HV) nurse or midwife • Research and Development in • Nurse Prescribing for Specialist • Successful completion of a UK Specialist Community Public Health Community Public Health Nursing honours degree Nursing (SCPHN) Practice (V100 Community Formulary) • Evidence of recent academic study • Safeguarding in Specialist • Professional Development of • An enhanced current DBS Community Public Health Nursing Specialist Community Public Health disclosure (SCPHN) Practice Nursing (SCPHN) Practice • An appropriate Health Board • Promoting the Public Health of host organisation and the SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC Populations HEALTH NURSING (SCHOOL availability of a suitable practice • Research and Development in NURSING) WITH INTEGRATED placement that has a current Specialist Community Public Health V100 PGDip/MSc FT PT educational audit and the support Nursing (SCPHN) Practice This programme will develop of a Practice Teacher that meets • Safeguarding in Specialist Specialist Community Public the NMC requirements Community Public Health Nursing Health Nursing practitioners to • To have negotiated a secondment (SCPHN) Practice work autonomously in a range of • Secured funding (HEIW funded public health community settings. places only apply to nurses or SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC The course will prepare you for midwives working for the NHS HEALTH NURSING (HEALTH VISITING) work in complex and varied in Wales). Nurses/midwives PGDip/MSc FT PT settings including homes, schools working outside the NHS or This programme will develop Specialist and the wider community. You outside Wales must provide Community Public Health Nursing will become a knowledgeable evidence of funding practitioners to work autonomously in practitioner with excellent on application
132 MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE managerial and interpersonal Modules typically include: HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT capabilities. Successful completion • Dissertation in SCPHN practice MPhil/PhD FT PT of this programme will enable you • Facilitating the Health and This programme will give you the to gain the recordable qualification Well-Being of Children, Young opportunity to pursue your particular of Specialist Community Public People and Families personal or professional interest in Health School Nurse and the • Professional Development of the leadership and improvement of V100 qualification (community Specialist Community Public Health health services, how they provide nurse prescriber). Nursing (SCPHN) Practice treatment for people with physical • Promoting Emotional Well-Being and mental illnesses, and how they Modules typically include: of Children and Young People can contribute to health improvement • Dissertation in SCPHN practice • Promoting the Public Health of through targeted interventions. • Facilitating the Health and
Populations Recent student research projects in Well-Being of Children, Young – • Research and Development in Healthcare Management include People and Families SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF Specialist Community Public Health research into patient and public • Nurse Prescribing for Specialist Nursing (SCPHN) Practice involvement, data security in Community Public Health Nursing • Safeguarding in Specialist information systems, and improved (V100 Community Formulary) Community Public Health Nursing methods for evaluating large capital • Professional Development of (SCPHN) Practice expenditures in health care. Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) Practice HEALTH ECONOMICS MPhil/PhD/ • Promoting the Public Health of MSc By Research FT PT RESEARCH COURSES Populations Health Economics is at the core of Entry requirements • Research and Development in innovation, health technology Specialist Community Public Health MPhil: Applicants would normally assessment, prioritisation and Nursing (SCPHN) Practice have an honours degree (2:1 or programme budgeting within the UK above) in a discipline related to the • Safeguarding in Specialist NHS and worldwide. Studying Health chosen speciality, or a relevant, Community Public Health Nursing Economics at the Swansea Centre for approved postgraduate qualification. (SCPHN) Practice Health Economics (SCHE) offers an PhD: Applicants would normally outstanding opportunity to make an SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC have a first class undergraduate original contribution to the HEALTH NURSING (SCHOOL degree in a relevant discipline, or development and application of health NURSING) PGDip/MSc FT PT a 2:1 and/or an master's degree economics and outcome research to This programme will develop Specialist in a relevant discipline. real life issues in healthcare delivery Community Public Health Nursing MSc By Research: Applicants should and policy. You will develop skills in practitioners to work autonomously have a first or a 2:1 (or equivalent) core health economic methods and in a range of public health community in an undergraduate degree from analysis to design and deliver your own settings. The course will prepare you a UK or other approved university. research project, supported by a tailor- for work in complex and varied Dependent on research project, made programme of supervision and settings including homes, schools some offers are conditional upon training. This can include developing and the wider community. You will a successful Disclosure and Barring knowledge and skills in aspects of the become a knowledgeable practitioner Service (DBS) check or international use of epidemiology, quantitative with excellent managerial and Police Check equivalent. research and routine data analysis as interpersonal capabilities. Successful well as applying health economic completion of this programme will English Language Requirement analysis as part of health technology enable you to gain the recordable IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each assessment, public health and qualification of Specialist Community component) or Swansea University evaluation of health and social care Public Health School Nurse and will recognised equivalent. interventions and services. We also enable you to register on the SCPHN offer particular expertise in the area part of the Nursing and Midwifery of prioritisation and in the design, Council (NMC) register. use and interpretation of patient reported outcomes.
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HEALTH HUMANITIES HEALTH SCIENCE interests in this vital field, while MPhil/PhD FT PT MPhil/PhD FT PT contributing to new ways of thinking The application of the concepts and Designing and carrying out the about mental health care, services, and methods of history, literature and the bioscientific research that provides policy. Currently students are looking visual arts to the analysis of health the evidence base for health policy at evidence-based practices in mental and healthcare. Disability history is and practice, our researchers are health (in particular early intervention a particular area of expertise, with actively contributing to improvements services), care co-ordination in forensic an oral history of people affected by in services for patients and mental health care and the influence
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the drug, Thalidomide, currently practitioners alike. Currently students of service user participation in SWANSEA HEALTH AND COLLEGE UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL SCIENCES HUMAN MEDICAL OF underway. Recent student research are exploring the anti-fungal professional role development. projects include research into properties of maggot secretions and narratives of childbirth to images the antimicrobial properties of NURSING MPhil/PhD FT PT of disability in the post-war English invertebrates, and the physiological With a clear focus on translating language literature of Wales. effects of a cardiac rehabilitation academic theory into positive programme on myocardial infarction practical outcomes for practitioners, HEALTH POLICY MPhil/PhD FT PT patients in Kuwait. patients, and carers, our cutting-edge Exploring the decision-making nursing research addresses an processes within health services HEALTH AND WELLBEING MSc By extensive range of issues from in the UK and abroad, our research Research FT PT professional working and patient work supports policy changes that The UK’s health and social care care, to the development of new improve outcomes both for patients systems continue to provide high- treatments and interventions. Our and healthcare practitioners. We quality care, however, it is crucial students are currently researching have specific expertise in finance that we explore new technologies topics including the emotional and service contracting, policy and ways of working to ensure the experiences of children’s nurses implementation studies, quality standards of care that we've come while caring for life-limiting systems and public involvement. to expect are maintained. This course conditions, and nursing students’ Recent research projects carried gives you the opportunity to pursue care towards obese patients. out by our students include purchaser your own personal or professional provider reforms, national health research interests in this wide-ranging PUBLIC HEALTH MPhil/PhD FT PT insurance system design, the UK field, which encompasses such diverse By providing an evidence base private medical insurance sector, policy areas as health, education, through empirical investigation, audit, and public and patient involvement. housing, disability, crime, poverty, and evaluation, our research actively and the family. It offers an outstanding contributes to improvements at all HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY opportunity to make an original levels in public health policy and MPhil/PhD FT PT contribution to the development and practice. Recent research projects The importance of psychological application of outcome research into carried out by our students include factors in promoting good health real-life issues in healthcare delivery the impact of a structured education and managing illness and health and policy. package on nurses’ knowledge and risks is an increasingly important practice in Hepatitis B and Hepatitis field of study. Research students are MENTAL HEALTH MPhil/PhD FT PT C in Saudi Arabia, and health currently examining the psychological Developing and evaluating effective visitors, understanding of the principle factors in promoting good health, evidence-based mental health services ‘influencing policies affecting health’. and developing interventions to to support people at some of the most encourage children, young people, challenging times of their lives depends and pregnant women to engage in on high quality research. Studying for healthy lifestyle behaviours. a MPhil/PhD in Mental Health will give you the opportunity to pursue your own personal or professional research
134 MODERN LANGUAGES, TH IN THE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 7UK MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING RESEARCH IMPACT Our research-active staff specialise in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian (Research Excellence and Spanish. Our taught MAs have a long track record of inspiring excellent general linguists Framework 2014-2021) to become practising translators and interpreters.
Our staff research interests range from linguistics (descriptive, historical and theoretical) to a very wide range of topics in literature, film and cultural history, to translation and interpreting studies, terminology, literary translation, and translation tools and technologies.
In the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework we were rated 7th in the country for the impact of our research.
All our taught programmes are Our long-standing expertise in TAUGHT COURSES designed, with professional input from translation tools and technologies active participants in the language is reflected in the 60-credit Entry Requirements services industry, to be as up-to-date Postgraduate Certificate in Typically a minimum 2:1 honours and professionally relevant as Translation Technology (PGCTT), degree or equivalent in modern possible, with a high proportion of of particular interest to practising languages, translation, interpreting practical, hands-on learning and translators looking to update their or a related subject. project-based assessment. technological skills.
English Language Requirement The Department offers two linked, PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION MA IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each highly international taught MA (MAPT) FT PT component) or Swansea University programmes, in Professional By combining advanced translation recognised equivalent. Translation (MAPT) and in Translation work in administrative and technical and Interpreting (MATI). We are domains with in-depth
proud that both programmes are computer-assisted translation SCHOLARSHIPS AND – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND currently members of the European technology training, this practical BURSARIES Commission’s European Master's in master's programme provides A range of postgraduate scholarships Translation (EMT) Network. MAPT graduates with the skills and and bursaries are available. For experience to become immediately details, please visit: has been a member since the EMT’s inception in 2009 and MATI has productive in a modern professional swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ environment. In addition to practical scholarships been accepted as a member from 2019. Both MAs are available in translation and terminology work in two forms: Standard (180 Credit / one or two language pairs, in the first 90 ECTS, 1 year full time, 3 years two semesters students take a part-time) and Extended (240 Credits compulsory module in Foundations of / 120 ECTs, 16-21 months full time, Translation and Interpreting, which 4 years part-time). The Extended offers an introduction to relevant MAs are designed to be of particular areas of linguistics and translation interest to students based in theory, presentations by professionals continental Europe or planning to of key aspects of the language work or study there after their degree. services industry, and practice in They are compliant with EU 'Bologna' methods for researching specialised pattern of higher education and, as domain knowledge and terminology. such, fully recognised around Europe.
ec.europa.eu For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: – search European swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate master's in Translation 135 MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING The other compulsory modules TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING include Advanced Translation and MA (MATI) FT PT RESEARCH COURSES Translation Tools. The latter includes This programme builds on the Entry Requirements a multilingual translation project using Professional Translation MA with Typically a minimum 2:1 honours SDL Trados Studio, Memsource, and an additional emphasis on Public degree or Swansea University other software, and offers the Service Interpreting and Conference recognised equivalent qualification opportunity to take Trados certification Interpreting. Like its sister programme, in modern languages, translation, tests at all levels without charge. it is available in both Standard (180 interpreting or a related subject. credit, 90 ECTS) and Extended (240 A range of other taught options are For PhD entry, applicants must credits, 120 ECTS) versions – see available, including the Translation normally hold an undergraduate above. It is designed to provide degree at 2:1 level and a master’s Work Experience module, where students with a qualification which degree (or Swansea University students set up and run their own validates a wide range of professional recognised equivalent qualification). (simulated) translation agency. skills, and allows them to respond Part 2 of the Standard programme flexibly to the changing challenges English Language Requirement may consist of either a Dissertation, of the language services market. In IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each or two Extended Translations, or a the first two semesters, students take component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. 12-week Internship, in the UK or one or more practical modules on abroad which we will help you to interpreting in Health Care, or Police organise with our extensive range and Court settings (not all options LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES MA of industry contacts (tests and are available every year). By Research FT PT interviews apply). The second half Also available are modules on LITERARY TRANSLATION MA of the Extended programmes can Consecutive Conference Interpreting By Research FT PT be built flexibly from a combination and Simultaneous Conference MODERN LANGUAGES MA of additional taught modules (at Interpreting (not available in every By Research/PhD/MPhil FT PT Swansea or abroad), and/or one
– COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND language combination every year). or two of the Part 2 options from All these modules are taught by a TRANSLATION MPhil/PhD FT PT the Standard programmes. The dedicated team including ARABIC 4-semester version offers a unique practitioners and academics. opportunity to study for one Areas of expertise include: Part 2 of the Standard degree and semester each at two partner • The Egyptian Islamic Group the second half of the Extended institutions abroad belonging to • Islamists and the State programme are identical to those in the prestigious METS Consortium, • Modern and classical Arabic the MA in Professional Translation leading to the award of a METS text discourse analysis (see above). Certificate in addition to the MA • Policing Arab and Islamist communities in the UK and Egypt from Swansea University: TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY • Populist and Islamic movements isit-paris.fr PGCERT FT in the Arab world This programme, which is Alternatively, Extended MA students • Pragmatics and context in particularly attractive to working with the necessary language skills interpretation of Arabic translators wanting to enhance can study their 3rd or 4th semester • Qur’anic text and discourse Analysis their qualifications and technical on an exchange with our strategic expertise, consists of three modules partner, Université de Grenoble FRENCH drawn from the MA programmes Alpes in France. Staff specialisms encompass a opposite: Translation Tools and wide range of periods and themes Translation Technologies (both in concerning France and the French- Semester 1) are compulsory and the speaking world. Recent PhD topics final module is an optional choice. include: ‘Au carrefour des ruptures:
136 une analyse de certains romans de Aesthetic for its Time? Currency and Wales. It has recently obtained a Gisèle Pineau, de Tony Delsham et Anachronism in Heinrich Böll’s Regional Seminar Series Grant from d’Axel Gauvin’; ‘Malady and Mal(e) “Ästhetik des Humanen”’. Our the Institute for the Study of the
contents: Negotiations of Masculinity students have received funding from Americas (University of London) MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING in Francophone Men’s Writing’ and the Arts and Humanities Research which has brought together Wales- ‘Wales in Continental Guidebooks Council, the Pantyfedwen Trust and based Latin Americanists to work on (1850-2013): A Country on the the College of Arts and Humanities. a project entitled ‘Memory, Place and Imaginative Periphery’. Research Space in Latin America’. CEPSAM The Centre’s focal points include: supervision is also available through members also participated in the the medium of Welsh. Our students • Baader Meinhof and the Novel Green Humanities Conference 2019, have received funding from the Arts • The Films of Andreas Dresen and are currently venturing into and Humanities Research Council • German Writing from Eastern and multidisciplinary ecocriticism and the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Central Europe and related-areas. • Turkish-German and German- Areas of expertise include: Areas of special interest include: Jewish Writing • Contemporary poetry and • Afro-Latin American Studies • Women’s Writing the visual arts • Contemporary Spanish- • Dada and Surrealism Other staff specialisms include: American Film • Francophone literatures • Ballads and popular culture from • Spanish-American Nation Building and migrant cultures the seventeenth century to the • Twentieth-century Argentine • Medical humanities present day Literature and Culture • Medieval and early modern • Nineteenth-century realism, • Twentieth-century Colombian literature (including Marie de particularly Stifter and Fontane Literature and Culture France, the fabliaux, Rabelais) • Twentieth-century Cuban • Memory studies / conflict studies, HISPANIC – GENERAL Literature and Culture e.g. Occupied France, le Shoah, • Comparative literature; • Twentieth-century Prose and Poetry the Algerian War Cultural Semiotics. • Welsh Patagonia • Travel writing and • Hispanic and Lusophone 20th and • Wilderness and Eco-Literature transnational studies 21st century cultures and literatures. • Women’s Writing and • Twentieth- and twenty-first-century Feminist Theory
literature and drama SPANISH – SPAIN • Twentieth-century Uruguayan – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND • Women’s writing and gender Spanish Language: Literature theory (e.g. de Beauvoir, • Learning Spanish Bilingually or Current and recent PhD topics: Duras, Darrieussecq) as a Second/Heritage Language ‘Welsh Travellers to Latin America’; • Narrativity and Semiotics ‘Rosas and Perón in the GERMAN of the Spanish Crisis Contemporary Argentine Novel’; Much of our activity in German is • Spanish-Latin America and 'Insularity, translation and concentrated in the Centre for • Spanish Linguistics and genre, the case of two Caribbean Contemporary German Culture which Psycholinguistics has produced more than a dozen writers, Hazel Robinson and PhDs since its foundation in 1993. Current literary topics include: Edwidge Danticat.' Research ‘Female Role-Play in Drama’ and supervision is also available through Recent and current topics are: ‘English Translations of Don Quixote’. the medium of Welsh. Our students ‘Affective Affinities: Memory, have received funding from the Arts Empathy and the Weight of History SPANISH – LATIN AMERICA and Humanities Research Council, in the Work of Herta Müller’; Research in this area is conducted the Maney Fund, the Pantyfedwen ‘Intercultural Encounters in the through the Centre for the Trust and SUSPRS, the Swansea Writings of Michael Roes’ (now Comparative Study of Portugal, University Strategic Partner Research published in the Bithell Series of Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) Excellence Scholarships. Dissertations); ‘Ambiguous Heroes: in collaboration with staff and Translation and Interpreting Re-visioning the Holocaust and research students in American Nazism in Hollywood and German Studies. The Centre is the leading Staff research interests in Translation Cinema since 1990’; and ‘An research organisation in its field in and Interpreting cover a range of
137 MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS MODERN LANGUAGES, TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING themes, including: All research students belong to the into Gender in Culture and Society • Audiovisual Translation Graduate Centre in the College of Arts • MEMO: the Centre for Medieval • Comparative Translation Studies and Humanities. The Centre provides and Early Modern Research • Computer-Assisted Literary pastoral as well as administrative As a PhD or MPhil student you will be Translation (CALT) support and is also responsible for expected to attend research events • Computer-based Lexicography research skills training and support, and Terminography (such as colloquia or weekly seminars) and facilitating a lively intellectual • Corpus-based Translation Analysis with guest speakers. environment for the College’s • History of Translation • Literary Translation postgraduate research community STING: Swansea Translation and • Theatre Translation/Adaptation of 200 students. Interpreting Group holds weekly events that gathers those who are • Translation and the Lexicon We have three major Research Centres: • Translation and Social Discourse interested in translation and • Translation Processes: • Richard Burton Centre for the interpreting. Students, staff members Psycholinguistics of Translation, Study of Wales an interdisciplinary and visitors are all welcome to give a Translation Workflows forum that focuses on the cultural talk, share an idea, or even discuss • Translation Theory (Including and historical traditions in the their current projects and get valuable Non-Western) Welsh and English languages feedback from others in a friendly • Translation Tools and Technologies swansea.ac.uk/cultural- atmosphere. For more information on • Translation Visualisation institute/richard-burton-centre the group, please follow the link: Current and recent PhD topics: • Digital Humanities runs a series of tinyurl.com/stingswan ‘Use of Translation Memory Systems interdisciplinary projects in Heritage in Wales’; ‘Improving Translator and History, Literature, Linguistics, ARG: ARG is our Arabic PGR student Training in Saudi Arabian Universities’; Political and Social Sciences, community which brings together 'A Study of English to Arabic TV Film Media Studies, Future Media/ all Arabic PGR students in the Subtitling in the Kingdom of Saudi Human-Computer Interaction department/college and interested
individuals from across the university – Arabia'; ‘The Witcher 3 – Wild swansea.ac.uk/digital-
COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND Hunt: Playability of Slavic Folklore humanities/dh-projects/ and the community. The group, led by in English- and Spanish-speaking Arabic MLTI PGR students, organises • Language Research Centre a global Games’; ‘A Comparative Assessment social and research activities including hub for single, inter- and multi- of the Performance of Computer- research seminars, annual Arabic disciplinary empirical research into Aided and Machine Translation PGR conference, social events and language data and processes tools in English and Arabic’; ‘An community relations. Evaluation of Translation Programmes We have a wide range of other QTL: QTL is a scholarly research in Saudi Arabian Universities’; research groups, which provide a group bringing together scholars ‘Nominal Compounds in English focus for specialist projects, from across the world to promote and Their Translations into Spanish postgraduate research, grant and enhance the study of the and Slovak.’ applications, seminar series, and language of the Qur’an as a text. The Department benefits from contact with external partners. Those Research activities include extensive library holdings in print to which researchers in Modern conferences, academic publications, and online form. All postgraduate Languages, Translation and and an online academic journal. students have access to two computer- Interpreting contribute include: based language laboratories, and • CCGC: Centre for Contemporary advanced Translation computing German Culture labs, housing the latest digitisation, • CEPSAM: Centre for the corpus analysis and computer- Comparative Study of Portugal, assisted translation tools. Spain and the Americas • GENCAS: the Centre for Research
138 STUDENT PROFILE STUDENT
I am a PhD student in the Department of Physics and the student representative in
“ the Swansea-Grenoble Co-tutelle programme. – COLLEGE SCIENCE OF I am undertaking a joint degree with Université Grenoble Alpes which involves spending 18 months in Swansea and 18 months in Grenoble. The focus of my research is to understand a novel biocompatible protein-based material, called Ubx, which can be used in implanted devices for tissue regeneration. In other words, this material can be used to regenerate damaged tissues, such as the heart following a heart attack. Amazingly, some years ago, my scientific mentor discovered this protein by accident: material formed when a column wasn’t cleaned up until the next day. Sometimes accidents can bring significant discoveries. Actually, there are only two laboratories in the world that can produce the proteins involved in this material formation efficiently and in large quantities, and one of these laboratories is in the Department of Physics at Swansea University. Valeria I am really proud and excited to be part of this team, to contribute to new discoveries and to develop the potential of this interesting material. The Department of Physics provides
a dynamic, stimulating and multicultural Italia working environment and gives students PhD PHYSICS – JOINT “ DEGREE WITH UNIVERSITÉ the opportunity to develop new skills and GRENOBLE ALPES leadership abilities and I am really happy Applied Physics and Materials Research Group that I chose to come here for my PhD.
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PHYSICS 7 PHYSICS More than 80% of our physics research outputs were judged to be world-leading or DEPARTMENT internationally excellent in the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework (REF). Our (Guardian University state-of-the-art facilities include: a low-energy positron beam with dedicated instrumentation Guide 2020)
– COLLEGE SCIENCE OF for the study of positronium; continuous-wave and pulsed laser systems, and scanning tunnelling; near-field optical and Raman microscopes. We provide high-performance computing resources via clusters and dedicated supercomputers. Staff members lead the ALPHA collaboration at CERN, aiming to create, trap and manipulate anti-hydrogen.
The new Sêr SAM programme funded by the Welsh Government and European Regional Development Fund focuses on the physics of advanced materials with low embodied energy for applications in optoelectronics and bioelectronics. Areas of expertise are next generation semiconductors, hybrid conducting electronic-ionic materials, photodetection and solar energy.
We invite applications from well- • Nanomedicine RESEARCH COURSES qualified candidates whose research • Sustainable Advanced Materials: interest focuses around the fields of, next generation semiconductors, Entry Requirements Atomic, Molecular and Quantum bioelectronic materials and Typically a 2:1 honours degree or a Physics (AMQP), Applied Physics and devices, optoelectronics including master's degree with merit in physics Materials (APM) and Particle Physics photodetection, solar energy or related subject. and Cosmology Theory (PPCT). conversion, advanced electro- optics and transport physics English Language Requirement The Atomic, Molecular and Quantum of disordered solids IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each Physics Group (AMQP) is supported component) or Swansea University by grants from EPSRC, the EU, The The Particle Physics and Cosmology recognised equivalent. Royal Society, the Higher Education Theory (PPCT) Group is one of the Funding Council for Wales and various five largest particle physics groups SCHOLARSHIPS AND industrial and government sources. in the UK. It is supported mainly by STFC, but also has grants from BURSARIES The areas of research are: EPSRC, the EU, the Royal Society We offer a range of funding • Analytical laser spectroscopy and the Leverhulme Trust. opportunities for both taught and • Antihydrogen, positronium research degrees. Recently we have and positrons The areas of research include: attracted funding from organisations such as the Engineering and Physical • Cold atom physics • Amplitudes in gauge and Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), • Ultrafast Dynamics, Imaging supergravity theories the Science and Technology Facilities and Microscopy, Optomechanics • Gauge/string duality, Higher spin Council (STFC) and the Royal Society holography, Integrability, Large-N The Applied Physics and Materials for postgraduate studentships: gauge theories, supersymmetry (APM) Group is supported by grants swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ and duality from the European Union, Welsh scholarships • Holography and lattice theories in Government, National Science physics beyond the Standard Model Foundation, Australian Research APPLIED PHYSICS AND MATERIALS • Hot and Dense matter, FT PT Council, Welsh European Funding MSc By Research high-performance computing Office, and EPSRC. EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS MSc • Quantum fields in curved spacetime By Research FT PT The areas of research include: and theoretical cosmology • Biophotonics: Nano and THEORETICAL PHYSICS MSc Further information on our research micro-structured materials, By Research FT PT can be found on our website: biomimetics, analyte sensing PHYSICS MPhil/PhD FT PT and light-tissue interaction swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 140 POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES UK TOP SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
20 POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES RESEARCH Politics, public policy, international relations, philsophy and development studies are IMPACT disciplines that have explored different visions for a more just society for thousands of (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) years, and as a result are able to address some of today’s most pressing challenges. Whether you are interested in theory, the study of government and politics or international relationships, these are disciplines that can sustain the highest standards of social science.
We have a strong emphasis on producing original research. In the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework, 70% of our staff research activity was judged ‘world-leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). These subjects ask the key research questions that we need to address to lead in the development of international scholarship.
DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RIGHTS MA FT PT MA FT PT
TAUGHT COURSES –
This MA is a multidisciplinary scheme This MA offers advanced research COLLEGE ARTS OF AND Entry Requirements combining insights from the fields in International Relations, providing Typically a 2:2 honours degree of development studies, politics/ students with a detailed understanding (with an overall average of 55% political theory and international of the international system, key issues, or above) in a related subject or an equivalent qualification. law. The programme examines the the crucial actors, and alternative comparatively new interface ways of analysing and interpreting English Language Requirement between human rights and the subject. With an appreciation of IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each international development. the global dynamics at work, you then have the opportunity to specialise in component) or Swansea University Modules typically include: examining specific areas of the world.
recognised equivalent. HUMANITIES • Approaches to International Relations Modules typically include: • Critical Security • Approaches to SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES • The Global Governance of Drugs International Relations • Human Rights and Humanitarian • Critical Security A range of postgraduate scholarships and bursaries are available. Intervention • The Global Governance of Drugs • International Human Rights Law • Human Rights and Humanitarian swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships • Rights Based Approaches Intervention to Development • Postcolonialism, Orientalism • Violence, Conflict and Development and Eurocentrism • War, Identity and Society • Violence, Conflict and Development
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 141 POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC POLICY MA FT PT MA (EXTENDED) FT PT DEVELOPMENT MA (EXTENDED) FT PT The Public Policy MA provides a solid This Extended MA programme This Extended MA programme grounding in the key theoretical combines the MA International combines the MA International Security approaches to the study of public Relations with a period of study and Development with a period of policy, and seeks to develop the abroad. The study abroad is one study abroad. The study abroad is one knowledge and skills of those wishing additional semester taken at the additional semester taken in the to engage in further academic study. Bush School of Government and Department of International and Area At the same time, it focuses on the Public Service at Texas A&M, USA. Studies at The University of Oklahoma, necessary skills involved in working The additional semester makes the USA. The additional semester makes in a public policy landscape now EMA equivalent in credits to a the EMA equivalent in credits to a increasingly characterised by change European MA. European MA. and interdependence.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND POLITICS MA FT PT Consequently, it will also develop
DEVELOPMENT MA FT PT – The MA in Politics provides a broad the knowledge and skills of those COLLEGE ARTS OF AND Issues of security, violence and introduction to the study of politics, wishing to, or already, pursuing a conflict have become central to covering the structures and processes career in public policy research, international politics and to of contemporary politics. It then allows policy advice, lobbying, public developing policy and discourse. students to select options that focus on sector management or journalism. In order to comprehend the modern global, comparative and/or British Modules typically include: world, a full appreciation of the politics as well as political theory and • Comparative Governance realities of conflict and violence philosophy. The degree is enriched by in Complex Systems has become essential. possible opportunities (awarded on a • Critical Security Modules typically include: competitive basis) for work-based • Democracy and HUMANITIES • Critical Security placement learning in a variety of Constitutional Design • The Global Governance of Drugs governmental and non-governmental • Devolution in Comparative • Human Rights and Humanitarian sectors within Wales. Perspective Intervention Modules typically include: • The Global Governance of Drugs • Postcolonialism, Orientalism • Comparative Governance in • Human Rights and and Eurocentrism Complex Systems Humanitarian Intervention • Rights-based Approaches • Critical Security • Politics in Contemporary Britain to Development • Democracy and • The Policy Making Process • Violence, Conflict and Constitutional Design • War, Identity and Society Development • Devolution in Comparative PUBLIC POLICY MA (EXTENDED) FT PT Perspective • The Global Governance of Drugs This extended MA programme • Politics in Contemporary Britain combines the MA Public Policy with • The Policy Making Process a period of study abroad. This study • Violence, Conflict and abroad is one additional semester Development taken at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, USA. The additional semester makes the EMA equivalent in credits to a European MA.
142 GREAT MINDS GREAT MINDS
– Dr Krijn Peters COLLEGE ARTS OF AND
Krijn Peters is a rural development sociologist who has specialised in armed conflict and post-war reconstruction in non-Western I strongly believe that university “ countries. Educated at Wageningen University “education should be based as much in the Netherlands, he learned to appreciate as possible on real-life research. the importance of rigorous fieldwork. HUMANITIES
As an undergraduate, he spent 6 months in war-torn Sierra Leone to interview recently demobilised child soldiers and then went to Cambodia to study the reintegration process of Khmer Rouge fighters. Following his graduation, he worked for Save the Children evaluating their demobilisation and reintegration programmes for ex-child soldiers in Liberia. For his PhD he returned to Sierra Leone to study the infamous RUF rebel movement, resulting in the monograph ‘War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone’ (2012, Cambridge University Press). His current research – funded by ESRC/DFID – looks into the role of rural road construction and its impact on poverty alleviation in post-war rural Liberia. Many of the ex-combatants Krijn interviewed have become part of West Africa’s booming motorbike taxi sector, but aid donors and governments remain reluctant – without hard data – to invest in what has become the most common means of rural (and urban) motorised transport. Krijn strongly believes that university education should be based as much as possible on real-life research.
The above mentioned study and a number of other research projects on youth and technology, in which Krijn is involved, form the bedrock of a new and exciting MSc degree delivered by the department of Political and Cultural Studies and the College of Engineering at Swansea University, in collaboration with the Prince’s Foundation, entitled ‘Sustainable Engineering for International Development’.
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POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES We welcome new proposals for THE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COURSES postgraduate research projects that The research side of the Department Based in a thriving research environment that enthuses academic staff, research officers complement staff research interests. of Political and Cultural Studies Entry Requirements and students alike, we have earned an outstanding reputation both in the UK and centres around four key research Typically a master's degree or a Staff research interests cover internationally. According to the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework, we are one groups – each grouping staff and minimum 2:1 honours undergraduate three broad areas: of only four psychology departments in the UK to achieve a 100% 4* rating (maximum their research students according to degree, (or Swansea University • Political and cultural theory: This score possible) for the reach and significance of our work in areas such as psychopharmacology, nutrition, human overlapping areas of specialism. recognised equivalent qualification) focuses on political theory and Postgraduate research students will performance, sleep and cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Our state-of-the-art research facilities include a high which has included research philosophy related to be able to engage in a wide range density eletroencephalography (EEG) suite, a fully fitted sleep laboratory, a social observation suite, eye-tracking, training appropriate for the developments in globalisation, of training and dissemination events psychophysiological, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and conditioning labs, a lifespan lab and baby proposed thesis project. Applicants democracy, liberal culture, through these groups, as well as room, plus more than 20 all-purpose research rooms. are encouraged to contact the sovereignty, civil society, religion participating in their governance. department informally to discuss and new media technologies. their proposals and can contact the For details of each of these groups, Specialisms include: liberalism Director of Research, Dr Dennis please see the below: and its critics, human rights,
– Schmidt ([email protected])
COLLEGE ARTS OF AND continental political thought, to develop research proposals and RESEARCH CENTRES identify potential supervisory teams. poststructuralism; and theories • Centre on Digital Arts and of gender and masculinity. Humanities (CODAH) English Language Requirement • Political Analysis and Governance: • International Studies, Conflict IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each This focuses on empirical studies and Security (ISCAS) component) or Swansea University of government, politics and public • Political Analysis and recognised equivalent. policy with a strong interest in Governance (PAG) theory and methods. Specialisms • The Global Drug Policy Observatory DEVELOPMENT STUDIES include: comparative politics,
HUMANITIES MPhil/PhD FT PT regional politics, policy studies, All research students in Politics, development politics, civic INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT International Relations, International participation in Europe, the EU, MA By Research FT PT Security, Philosophy, Public Policy Eastern Europe and political and Development Studies belong to INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MA economy, American politics, the Graduate Centre in the College By Research/MPhil/PhD FT PT UK politics, devolution and local of Arts and Humanities. The Centre POLITICS MA By Research FT PT government, quantitative methods, provides pastoral as well as populism, elections. POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL administrative support and is also RELATIONS MPhil/PhD FT PT • International politics and responsible for research skills inter-cultural communication: This training and support, and facilitating PHILOSOPHY MA By Research/ focuses on the study of various a lively intellectual environment for FT PT PHD dimensions of conflict, power and the College’s postgraduate research Current research includes cutting empire. Specialisms include: Just community of 200 students. War theory, security studies and edge projects on issues such as All research students in Politics, terrorism, space policy, politics Brexit, digital politics, political International Relations, International under Empire and in post-colonial campaigns and voting behaviour, Security, Public Policy and states, terrorism, post-conflict the international political system, Development Studies also have access reconstruction, international drugs new technologies and warfare, to the training resources of the Wales policy, conflict education, and civil gender-based violence policy, Economic and Social Research wars and genocides. Area development infrastructure, Council Doctoral Training Centre. specialisms include; South-East international drugs policy and Each year there is a programme of Asia; the Middle East and Africa. development regimes, the politics conferences and seminars organised of public health threats and the rise in conjunction with Cardiff and of terrorism and targeted killings. Aberystwyth Universities.
144 PSYCHOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS DEPARTMENT RATED
% PSYCHOLOGY Based in a thriving research environment that enthuses academic staff, research officers 100 RESEARCH IMPACT and students alike, we have earned an outstanding reputation both in the UK and (Research Excellence internationally. According to the latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework, we are one Framework 2014-2021) of only four psychology departments in the UK to achieve a 100% 4* rating (maximum
score possible) for the reach and significance of our work in areas such as psychopharmacology, nutrition, human – COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF performance, sleep and cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Our state-of-the-art research facilities include a high density eletroencephalography (EEG) suite, a fully fitted sleep laboratory, a social observation suite, eye-tracking, psychophysiological, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and conditioning labs, a lifespan lab and baby room, plus more than 20 all-purpose research rooms.
Many of our academic staff are COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE TAUGHT COURSES leaders in their specialist fields of MSc FT PT research, including clinical and This programme has been designed Entry Requirements health psychology, brain injury, to bridge the gap between A UK 2:1 or a 2:2 honours degree sleep, cognition, neuroscience and undergraduate study and PhD in psychology or a related discipline, developmental psychology. research in cognitive neuroscience, or its equivalent. We can help you to secure clinical experimental psychology, and English Language Requirement placements to provide valuable imaging methods. You will learn how experience and enhance your to design, analyse, and evaluate For all full-time taught programmes: neuroimaging experiments that IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each employment prospects. contribute to our understanding of the component) or Swansea University Core modules typically include: recognised equivalent. brain mechanisms underpinning • Affective Disorders and Trauma aspects of cognition and behaviour • Coping with Chronic Disease such as memory, attention, object • Dissertation recognition, neurodegeneration, and SCHOLARSHIPS AND • Eating Disorders brain trauma. You will get in-depth BURSARIES • Generic Research Skills in Clinical training in cognitive neuroscience We offer a range of funding Psychology and Mental Health research, introducing the principles of opportunities for both taught • Neuropsychology neuroimaging and gain hands-on and research degrees. • Psychotherapy experience in structural and functional swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Psychopathy and magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI scholarships Sexual Offending and fMRI), electroencephalography • Psychosis (EEG), and transcranial direct current CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL • Statistical and Research Methods stimulation (tDCS). HEALTH MSc FT PT A minimum of a UK 2:1 degree in This programme will equip you with Core modules typically include: Psychology or a related discipline, • Basic fMRI Analysis a high level of understanding of the or its equivalent is required. theory and practice of clinical • Critical Issues in Cognitive psychology within healthcare Neuroscience settings, preparing you for further • Dissertation professional clinical training at • EEG Analysis doctoral level. • Experimental Design – Brain Stimulation, Brain Recording and Neuroimaging
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 145 PSYCHOLOGY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS PSYCHOLOGY • Generic Research Skills in development. Current research topics Cognitive Neuroscience RESEARCH COURSES include the representation of colour • Introduction to Python and shape in memory, and word Entry Requirements for Psychology recognition and production. PhD and MPhil • Statistical Methods MPhil/PhD: applicants would normally have, Brain and Behaviour • Structure and Function of the Brain Exploring the integration of
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF or be studying for, a master's RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY degree or a relevant, approved neuroscience and behaviour, MSc FT PT postgraduate qualification and including brain chemistry, This programme will provide training require a 2:1 honours degree in a neuropsychology, and brain injury. in advanced psychology research discipline related to the proposed Student research currently underway research project. methods. You will learn how to includes substance abuse factors carry out basic and applied MSc By Research applicants should affecting attention, and learning, research projects, using a range of have a first or a 2:1 (or equivalent) memory and reading in individuals research tools, such as databases, in an undergraduate degree from with autistic spectrum disorders. a UK or other approved university. statistical software, and computer Forensic Psychology programmes. You will develop English Language Requirement Exploring the interface between extensive practical research skills IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each psychology and the law. Research in to apply in any context where component) or Swansea University Forensic Psychology includes many human behaviour is important. recognised equivalent. aspects, such as legal process, the You will gain a keen understanding assessment, supervision and of the nature and limitations of treatment of those who have the scientific method and the PSYCHOLOGY MSc By Research/MPhil/ offended, working with victims of main alternatives, alongside a PHD FT PT crime, and addressing knowledge of the historical, We invite applications from risk and re-offending. theoretical, and philosophical well-qualified candidates whose issues underlying psychological research interests correspond to our HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY MPhil/PhD and behavioural science. areas of research expertise. These FT PT We can help you to secure clinical are focused around the following We invite applications from placements to provide valuable research groups: well-qualified candidates whose experience and enhance your Clinical and Health Behaviour research interests correspond to employment prospects. Addressing how behaviours develop our areas of research expertise in Health Psychology. The importance Core modules typically include: and influence people’s decisions relating to their health and well- of psychological factors in promoting • Computing Skills good health and managing illness • Dissertation being, and the impact of health interventions. Recent student research and health risks is an increasingly • Empirical Projects important field of study. Research • Generic Research Skills – projects have explored the role of students are currently examining Research Methods in Psychology social marketing in preventing child the psychological factors in • Philosophy of Psychology obesity, and trauma following promoting good health, and • Qualitative Methods acute illness. developing interventions to • Statistical Methods Cognition and Perception encourage children, young people, Covering areas such as perception, Optional specialist modules and pregnant women to engage identification, and processing of typically include: in healthy lifestyle behaviours. objects and events, and the cognitive • Applied Behaviour Analysis and neural basis for language • Introduction to Forensic Psychology • Structure and Function of the Brain
146 STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT
I chose the Clinical Psychology “and Mental Health master’s at Swansea University to develop the clinical skills I needed to achieve my career goals. The course involves developing a thorough
understanding of the theory and practice HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF of clinical psychology, including developing personal views on the appropriateness of diagnosis, understanding the importance of psychological formulation and critically analysing the effectiveness of treatments. On my first day, we were introduced to our lecturers. It was great to meet so many people who felt so enthusiastic about improving mental health services and I enjoyed interacting with academic staff and discussing their research. The course gives students the opportunity to contribute to the scientific community by undertaking research alongside world-class academics…I really enjoyed planning and conducting my own research project. My supervisor was supportive of all my ideas and encouraged me to choose a subject about which I felt passionately. Since graduating, I’ve taken an Assistant Psychologist role with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working Cecily with young people with eating disorders. The course has really enhanced my
understanding of mental health and clinical
psychology and these skills will allow me to continue to grow as a psychological“ Donnelly practitioner, and give me the confidence to train as a clinical psychologist. MSc CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTH GRADUATE
147 SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS TH
SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY 14 UK RESEARCH The College of Human and Health Sciences is bringing about real-life benefits for the social QUALITY care, voluntary and private sectors. Our work is making positive impacts on service users, (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) practitioners, managers and policy makers across a range of areas, including: mental health, inclusion, welfare, older people, children and families, service organisation and workforce practices. Our academic team is made up of highly-respected, internationally-published professionals active in a range of research areas including criminology, social work, human geography, research leadership and management. Our programmes are accredited by bodies including Social Care Cymru and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and we have excellent links with local authorities and voluntary sector organisations across south and west Wales.
You will also learn to use a variety SOCIAL WORK MSc FT TAUGHT COURSES of research tools such as databases, Our accredited two-year master's statistical software, and computer degree in Social Work will equip you
Entry Requirements
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF programmes and develop extensive Please see individual course details. with the theoretical and practical practical research skills to apply in knowledge to launch a rewarding a range of social science contexts. English Language Requirement career as a registered social worker. This degree provides an excellent For all full-time taught programmes: You will study the ethics and values training basis to pursue a PhD. Our IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each of social work, critical practice wide range of optional modules component) or Swansea University relating to the law around child and recognised equivalent. means that you can tailor your adult care, and the key theories and studies to your particular interests perspectives underpinning social and goals for further study. work policy and practice. You will SCHOLARSHIPS AND Modules typically include: spend half of your time on placement BURSARIES • Data Collection Methods with social work agencies, learning We offer a range of funding • Dissertation through observation and practice, opportunities for both taught • Ethics and Philosophy of and the other half being taught and research degrees. Social Research on our Singleton Park campus. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Introduction to Research Throughout your studies, you will scholarships and Study Skills refine critical research and analytical • Qualitative Research Methods skills in relation to social work SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS • Quantitative Research Methods practice and policy, and develop MSc FT PT professional reflective practice Entry Requirements techniques. Social Work students This Economic and Social Research A UK 2:1 (or above) degree in can undertake some elements of the Council (ESRC) accredited programme a social science subject. If you programme in Welsh. will enable you to gain advanced have a degree in a related discipline training in a range of qualitative and this may also be considered. Modules typically include: quantitative research methods used Applications will be considered • Critical Practice in Adult in the social sciences. You will if you have at least two years Care and Law develop a keen understanding of relevant work experience. • Critical Practice in Child research ethics and governance, Care and Law and learn about theoretical research • Dissertation concerns across the spectrum of • Ethics and Values in Social Work social science disciplines. • Social Work Skills and Knowledge and Service Users' Perspectives
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 148 STUDENT PROFILESTUDENT
Having an MSc in Social Work helped
me to gain immediate employment, as well “ HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF as the knowledge, skills and understanding necessary to move confidently into a diverse range of settings, from childcare to mental health. I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to study and embark upon a new career in adult social services and enjoyed the whole course. I particularly enjoyed studying ethics and values. It helped me to articulate my own values, to justify my decisions and to question those of others with greater confidence. The course included an equal balance of class based study and placement learning opportunities, allowing me to develop a range of practical skills and the theoretical understanding needed to practice with confidence. There was a strong emphasis on reflective practice which enabled me to not only see how these elements fitted together, but also to consider how my personal values could impact upon my practice. Sian Writing my dissertation was probably the most challenging experience, but also the most rewarding. It taught me the value of perseverance and open mindedness, as
Eynon- well as arousing an interest in undertaking further research in the future. I would definitely recommend Swansea“ University to other students. It is a friendly JonesMSc SOCIAL WORK university with supportive staff.
149 SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL POLICY • Social Work Skills and SOCIAL POLICY MSc By Research/ The latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework (REF) ranks us 5th in the UK for Knowledge in Practice MPhil/PhD FT PT RESEARCH COURSES research impact and 15th for overall research quality. 72% of our research is rated • Theories and Perspectives for What human beings need and how Entry Requirements Informing Social Work societies meet those needs is at the ‘world-leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). We have well-established links with PhD applicants would normally have, • Undertaking and Using Social heart of social policy. Our research organisations and commercial partners such as Diabetes UK, the Sugar Bureau, Haemair, or be studying for, a master's degree, Work Research for Practice addresses key contemporary social Haemaflow Ltd, Play Wales, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Hywel Dda NHS Trusts, the Welsh while our MPhil programmes require issues from national and international Rugby Union, the Premier League, and Active Swansea. Entry Requirements a first or upper second class degree perspectives, examining themes such A UK degree (2:2 or above) in a in a discipline related to the proposed We also work with elite sports teams including UK Sport, Swansea City FC, Scarlets Rugby, Biarritz Rugby, research project, or a relevant, as social justice, equality, fairness, social work/social science related Ospreys Rugby, WRU 7s, GB Swimming, and GB Bobsleigh. Our staff regularly consult in exercise settings approved postgraduate qualification. and citizenship. discipline, plus Maths and English with populations with chronic disease, including diabetes, cardiac rehabilitation and renal care. or Welsh GCSE at grade A*-C MSc By Research applicants should have a first or a 2:1 (or equivalent) SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL or equivalent. You will need to in an undergraduate degree from CARE MPhil/PhD FT PT demonstrate awareness and a UK or other approved university. Our research generates vital new understanding of the Code of knowledge about developments
Professional Practice for Social English Language Requirement
– COLLEGE OF HUMAN AND HEALTH AND – COLLEGE SCIENCES HUMAN OF that have an impact both on the Care and have relevant IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each social care workforce and on employment/experience, with a component) or Swansea University service provision, addressing minimum of 455 hours social care recognised equivalent. social outcomes such as quality work experience within the last 5 of life, social inclusion and social years. This may involve voluntary capital measures. or paid work in social care with We invite applications from individuals, groups or communities. well-qualified candidates whose SOCIOLOGY PhD/MPhil FT PT research interests correspond to Build your interest in sociology and our areas of research expertise. extend your knowledge in a dynamic research environment, with a strong MENTAL HEALTH MPhil/PhD FT PT focus on research training. Our team Developing and evaluating effective of multi-disciplinary staff can offer evidence-based mental health supervision across a wide range of services to support people at some social science research themes and of the most challenging times of methods. Their work reflects shared their lives depends on high quality principles of promoting social justice, research. Currently students are equality and diversity as a basis for looking at evidence-based practices human well-being. Our research in mental health (in particular plays a vital role in emerging and early intervention services), care novel intellectual areas and addresses co-ordination in forensic mental the widest range of trends, problems health care and the influence of and dilemmas of a rapidly changing service user participation in social world. professional role development.
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9UK SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE RESEARCH The latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework (REF) ranks us 5th in the UK for QUALITY research impact and 15th for overall research quality. 72% of our research is rated (Times & Sunday Times University Guide 2020) ‘world-leading’ (4*) or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). We have well-established links with organisations and commercial partners such as Diabetes UK, the Sugar Bureau, Haemair, Haemaflow Ltd, Play Wales, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Hywel Dda NHS Trusts, the Welsh Rugby Union, the Premier League, and Active Swansea.
We also work with elite sports teams including UK Sport, Swansea City FC, Scarlets Rugby, Biarritz Rugby, Ospreys Rugby, WRU 7s, GB Swimming, and GB Bobsleigh. Our staff regularly consult in exercise settings with populations with chronic disease, including diabetes, cardiac rehabilitation and renal care.
SPORTS ETHICS AND INTEGRITY MA FT – COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF TAUGHT COURSES Responding to the global crisis in RESEARCH COURSES Entry Requirements sports integrity, this course is a Entry Requirements Typically a first-class or 2:1 honours world-first innovation for sports Typically a 2:1 honours degree degree in a relevant discipline. administration and governance. or above in sports science or The MAiSI will equip students for a relevant subject or an English Language Requirement high-level careers in sports equivalent qualification. IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each administration and governance, component) or Swansea University with a focus on ethical sports, English Language Requirement recognised equivalent. integrity and compliance. Students IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each will receive training that enables component) or Swansea University them to identify ethical issues, recognised equivalent. SCHOLARSHIPS AND engage in moral thinking, and BURSARIES translate decisions into moral actions We offer a range of funding – the three core skills required to SPORTS SCIENCE MSc FT PT opportunities for both taught develop sports integrity. By Research/MPhil/PhD and research degrees. We invite applications from Modules typically include: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ well-qualified candidates whose scholarships • Ability, Disability and research interests correspond to our Sports Integrity areas of research expertise in elite • Advanced English for and professional sports, exercise, Sports Ethics and Integrity medicine and health or sports ethics, • Anti-doping Ethics, integrity and governance. Policy and Practice Recent MSc By Research • Ethical Theory, Sports topics include: Ethics and Integrity • Visualisation of Fundamental • Governance, Law and Movement Skills (FMS): An Iterative Sport Integrity Process Using An Overhand Throw • Olympism and the • Physical and Physiological Olympic Movement Profiling in Elite Women's Rugby • Research Methods and Skills • Understanding Lower-Body • Sports Management and Integrity Neuromuscular Asymmetries in • Sport Values, Fair Play and Integrity Professional Rugby Union Athletes
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SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE • Blood glucose response to Recent PhD topics include: • Pre-competition and recovery cardio-pulmonary exercise testing • Understanding the influence of strategies in elite sport: the use of War has been the powerful catalyst for change throughout history. It inflicts terrible in type 1 diabetes. air quality on physical activity vacular occlusion and ischemia suffering and degradation, yet evokes great bravery and heroism, and inspires great art. • Influence of carbohydrate ingestion in youth in order to develop • Fairness and Difference: An This programme asks critical questions about conflict, society, war, culture and politics. Is on fatigue and injury risk in female specific nudges to promote Ethical and Philosophical football players physical activity and reduce Framework for Classification in war a cultural or a political activity? Can the logic of peace lead to the logic of war? To what • The effect of Constant Intensity Asthma attacks Paralympic Sport extent is technology the deterministic factor in winning a modern military conflict? Is there ever a case for a ‘just Endurance Training (CIET) and • Moving together: A technology- • Protecting the Health and war’? How do ordinary people experience military conflict, and what are the cultural and artistic responses to war? High Intensity Interval Training based intergenerational Wellbeing of Children in Sport Among our research interests are militarisation of society and culture, laws and ethics of war, World War I and II, (HIIT) on aerobic and anaerobic intervention to increase physical • Understanding, promoting, and Spanish Civil War, and post-war reconstruction. parameters in youth activity and well-being in older protecting the wellbeing of adults and children competitive swimmers • Exercise in cystic fibrosis – Please check out our website for a
effects on physiological and – COLLEGE ENGINEERING OF full list of research projects available. psychological parameters
152 WAR AND SOCIETY TH IN THE SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
7UK WAR AND SOCIETY RESEARCH War has been the powerful catalyst for change throughout history. It inflicts terrible IMPACT suffering and degradation, yet evokes great bravery and heroism, and inspires great art. (Research Excellence Framework 2014-2021) This programme asks critical questions about conflict, society, war, culture and politics. Is war a cultural or a political activity? Can the logic of peace lead to the logic of war? To what extent is technology the deterministic factor in winning a modern military conflict? Is there ever a case for a ‘just war’? How do ordinary people experience military conflict, and what are the cultural and artistic responses to war?
Among our research interests are militarisation of society and culture, laws and ethics of war, World War I and II, – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND Spanish Civil War, and post-war reconstruction.
Modules typically include: Studies postgraduate research TAUGHT COURSES • Critical Security director, Dr Dennis Schmidt • Digital War – ([email protected]) to Entry Requirements • Fascism and Culture explore possible supervision teams Typically a 2:2 honours degree • Human Rights and and topics. The War and Society or Swansea University recognised Humanitarian Intervention MA programme is closely connected equivalent (with an overall average • Introduction to Advanced to the research strengths of the of 55% or above) in a related subject. Medieval Studies academic staff who are actively English Language Requirement • Terrorism, Conflict, and the Media involved in the International Studies, Conflict and Security (ISCAS) IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 5.5 in each • Violence, Conflict and Development research group. Its members produce component) or Swansea University • War, Identity and Society recognised equivalent. • War, Technology and Society world-class research in the areas of conflict and security, empire and post colonialism, conflict and development, ‘digital’ war, and SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES RESEARCH COURSES war and culture. ISCAS also Entry Requirements seeks to promote collaboration A range of postgraduate scholarships and bursaries are available. Typically a 2:1 honours degree, between scholars, policymakers or higher degree, or Swansea and cultural providers. swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ scholarships University recognised As a War and Society research equivalent qualification. student you will be part of the Graduate Centre in the College of English Language Requirement WAR AND SOCIETY MA FT PT Arts and Humanities. The Centre IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.5 in each The MA in War and Society is an provides pastoral as well as component) or Swansea University advanced, interdisciplinary degree administrative support and is also recognised equivalent. that stands at the intersection of responsible for research skills history, memory studies, political training and support, and facilitating science, and strategy studies. Located a lively intellectual environment for in the Department of Political and WAR AND SOCIETY the College’s postgraduate research Cultural Studies, War and Society MA By Research FT PT community of 200 students. draws on the strength of history, We welcome applications from American studies, classics, ancient students wishing to pursue graduate history and egyptology, politics level research. Prospective MA and international relations, as students and those who are interested well as literature and media in MPhil/PhD, are encouraged to and communication. contact the Political and Cultural For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate 153 WELSH SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS 1ST IN
WELSH WALES RESEARCH Gaining a further degree in Welsh is an exciting and varied experience, which nurtures EXCELLENCE understanding and creativity as we search for new ways to interpret and contribute to the
(Research Excellence – COLLEGE ARTS OF HUMANITIES AND cultural life of Wales and its language. Framework 2014-2021)
The latest (2014) Research Excellence Framework (REF) ranked Welsh at Swansea University as 1st from those departments which submitted their work to the Celtic Studies sub-panel, and 2nd for Celtic Studies in the UK. It ranked 100% of our research as ‘world-class’ or above, and 69% of the research presented as of international excellence or leading the field internationally (3-4*). Our expertise includes language projects, language law and policy, literature of all periods, literary criticism and creative writing.
PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION TAUGHT COURSES MA FT PT RESEARCH COURSES Entry Requirements This is an ideal degree for those Entry Requirements wishing to work within the translation Typically a 2:1 honours degree Typically a 2:1 honours degree profession. It stresses the importance or above in Welsh or in a related or above or Swansea University of good grammar and writing skills subject. Relevant experience recognised equivalent qualification alongside a portfolio of recent and the use of translation memory in Welsh or in a related subject. It is work can also be considered. software. The course looks at desirable that PhD candidates already translating for the public along with hold a master's degree, but please Linguistic Ability a more technical way of translating contact us to discuss any questions. The applicant’s qualifications and for specialists. A variety of techniques experiences should highlight their are used to develop the student’s Linguistic Ability linguistic ability, but this could be standard of translation, including The applicant’s qualifications and discussed during an interview. work experience. The combination experiences should highlight their Research can be conducted through of translation memory software and linguistic ability, but this could be discussed during an interview. Research the medium of Welsh or English. developing language standards can be conducted through the medium through feedback is a great asset of Welsh or English. Students can attend for graduates. SCHOLARSHIPS AND language courses for Welsh learners. BURSARIES The programme includes: We offer a range of funding • Advanced Translation modules WELSH MA By Research/MPhil/ opportunities for both taught and in the fields of education, public PhD FT PT research degrees. Our students health and law, where the focus We invite applications from have also previously been funded will be on the standard of your well-qualified candidates whose by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Welsh institutions personal translating research interests correspond to and organisations such as the • A module on translation our areas of research expertise: Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol technology, where you will learn • Bilingualism and Language Planning and Pantyfedwen Trust. how to use different programmes • Creative Writing swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ • Several other modules in theory • Culture and Place scholarships and the use of translation, • The Historiography of the alongside the opportunity to Welsh Language learn a new language • Language Law and Policy • An opportunity to gain valuable • Literary Theories contacts and work experience • Sociolinguistics with translation companies • Techniques and the Technology of Translation • Theatre, Film and Drama For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: • Welsh for Adults and Language Acquisition 154 swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate New courses SOON COURSESNEW – COMING COMING SOON
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155 156 Keeping IN TOUCH Swansea University’s Alumni are just as likely to be managing the Network ensures that you can stay smaller, entrepreneurial businesses ARE YOU A SWANSEA closely connected to the University that drive the economy, or delivering UNIVERSITY GRADUATE? healthcare in hospitals, or teaching long after the applause of your Our alumni help shape and refine in schools. graduation ceremony has faded. our courses and your feedback is There is also a growing community important to us. Find out more and All our graduates automatically of international alumni, meaning that take part in the national Graduate become life members of the Network, you will find like-minded friends and Outcomes survey and keep your a warm, welcoming community of colleagues wherever you are in the contact details up to date here: graduates united by their experiences world. Make the most of this network. swansea.ac.uk/alumni/ of studying in Swansea. You never know what doors may be new-graduates/ opened in the UK or overseas as a The Network is a vibrant group of graduate-outcomes/ 80,000 active members who are result of the relationships forged through working at every level in industry, being an alumnus of Swansea University. commerce, sport and the public Get connected at: sector. They are heading divisions swanseauniconnect.com of multinational companies, but they
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157 FEES AND
We commit to a significant investmentFunding in postgraduate education. In 2019/20 over £8 million in scholarships and bursaries were available to study postgraduate courses at Swansea University.
Our master’s scholarships are available across all academic colleges and schools and advertised throughout the year, offering funding to UK, EU and International students.
TUITION FEES Please check our Fees and Funding SWANSEA UNIVERSITY Tuition fees are determined by your web page before making an MASTER’S SCHOLARSHIPS year of study, the type of course application to study at Swansea. Available to UK/EU students wishing you are undertaking and your to pursue full-time or part-time master’s swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ country of domicile. level programmes. In 2020, each fees-and-funding award was worth £5,000 towards You will be asked to pay your fees, fees (pro-rata for part-time). or show evidence of sponsorship, FUNDING before or during enrolment. You There are now more ways than ever *Details for 2021 funding to can find tuition fee details for to fund your postgraduate studies. be confirmed. each course on our website: As well as the scholarships and bursaries that Swansea University RESEARCH PROGRAMME swansea.ac.uk/ postgraduate provides, postgraduate funding SCHOLARSHIPS is available from numerous Swansea University research Tuition fees are subject to annual organisations, including the Student scholarships are listed via the increases and the new rates are Loans Company, research councils, link below. (Please note that this published on our website as soon industry and charities. Many web page is updated throughout as they become available. postgraduate students fund their the year). If you would like more information on studies through ‘portfolio funding’ swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ the fees payable for your particular in which they gather funds from a scholarships/research programme, please contact the variety of sources. Examples of the Student Finance Office on: types of funding available include: Details of how to apply for a scholarship are listed on each +44 (0)1792 602700 POSTGRADUATE individual advert. [email protected] GOVERNMENT FUNDING INTERNATIONAL Please note, for the MRes Biosciences Postgraduate government funding is EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS programme, a bench fee of £1,000 is available to all UK and EU domiciled In recognition of the high calibre of required in addition to the tuition fee. students studying master’s and PhD level courses at a UK university. The many international students choosing STUDENTS FROM THE EU method of application and amount to study at Swansea University and to At the time of going to print Swansea you could receive is dependent on reward academic excellence, we University is not able to confirm the your country of domicile. You can have launched the prestigious tuition fee levels for students from find all the latest information on International Excellence Scholarships the EU. We will publish details our website: for postgraduate taught courses. on our website as soon as they These scholarships are open to swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ become available. students from a range of non-EU fees-and-funding/pg-loans countries.
158 INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FOR CARE LEAVERS ALUMNI POSTGRADUATE CRISIS FUND We administer and deliver the BURSARY SCHEME We have also established a small Care Leavers Support Package, Students from non-EU countries fund to provide emergency assistance a comprehensive range of measures who have successfully completed an for international students who face to help care leavers settle in and undergraduate or postgraduate financial difficulties not anticipated focus on their studies. Eligible taught degree at Swansea University at the start of the course, and not postgraduate students can receive will be considered for a bursary within their control. a postgraduate Care Leaver (dependent on subject area) towards bursary which is a one off postgraduate tuition fees. The scheme CHARITIES, FOUNDATIONS payment per course. is open to eligible candidates AND TRUSTS applying for a taught or research A large number of charities, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY degree at Swansea University. foundations and trusts award funding OPPORTUNITY AWARD for postgraduate study. Details can Once enrolled, UK and EU students COLLEGE/SCHOOL AND be found in The Grants Register are able to apply for the Swansea DEPARTMENT SCHOLARSHIPS (published by Palgrave Macmillan) University Opportunity Award. The AND BURSARIES and The Directory of Grant Making award is intended to support students Many of our academic colleges Trusts (published by the Directory through any unexpected or difficult and schools also offer additional of Social Change), both of which financial circumstances whilst at scholarships and bursaries for should be available in your university university. Each application will be taught and research programmes. careers service and local library. considered and assessed on an individual basis, with the strictest Scholarships and bursaries become EARN WHILE YOU LEARN confidentiality by our expert advisors. available throughout the year and There are plenty of part-time jobs to we advertise them on our website. be found in and around Swansea, You can be the first to know and the Swansea Employability about the funding opportunities Academy has information on a wide we offer by visiting: range of opportunities for temporary swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ and part-time work, as well as scholarships summer placements and internships. For further information, please visit:
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159 MAKING AN Application The quickest and most efficient RESEARCH DEGREE INTERVIEWS way to apply for one of our APPLICATIONS The majority of programmes do not postgraduate programmes is to In order to allow sufficient time for require an interview as part of the apply online. This way, you can consideration of your application by an selection process. If an interview is also track your application at academic, for potential offer conditions required, the purpose and format will each stage of the process: to be met and travel/ relocation, we be communicated to you by the College/ swansea.ac.uk/applyonline recommend that applications are made School so you know what to expect before the dates outlined below. and what role this plays in the overall Please contact the Admissions Please note that applications can still selection process. Some programmes Office if you would prefer to be submitted outside of the suggested (for example, MA Creative Writing) complete a paper application: dates below but there is the potential require candidates to provide additional written work to +44 (0)1792 295358 that your application/potential offer supplement an application. [email protected] may need to be moved to the next appropriate intake window. When we receive your Following consideration of your application, you will application, we will: October Enrolment be informed whether: • Make sure that you meet our • UK Applicants – 15th August academic entry requirements • You are to be offered a place • EU/International applicants – and non-academic requirements • You are to be invited for interview 15th July (if appropriate) • We are unable to offer you a place • Check that you have the January Enrolment You will receive either a conditional or experience and skills necessary • UK applicants – 15th November unconditional offer from us, or we will inform you that we are unable to offer to study the subject • EU/International applicants – you a place. We will notify you of our • Look for evidence of your 15th October decision by email. commitment and motivation, and pay attention to your achievements April Enrolment Please note that formal offers are only • UK applicants – 15th February made by the University’s Admissions • Take into account your references • EU/International applicants – Office, following recommendations from TAUGHT MASTER’S 15th January the relevant academic college/school. DEGREE APPLICATIONS Your offer letter will contain full details Once we have received all the July Enrolment of the terms and conditions of the offer. necessary supporting documentation, • UK applicants – 15th May If you are a candidate for full-time study, you will also receive details of how to we aim to notify you of our decision • EU/International applicants – apply for University accommodation. (or issue an invitation for interview) 15th April within 9 working days from the If you have a disability, medical date we acknowledge receipt of condition, or a specific learning your application. difficulty, you will be invited to contact the University’s Disability Office or Wellbeing Service so we can be sure that we are able to give you the support you need throughout your studies.
160 If, following receipt of our offer, you do DATES AND DEADLINES OUR ADMISSIONS POLICY not meet the precise conditions, your Some of our departments have The University welcomes applications application may be reconsidered in fixed closing dates for their taught and enquiries from people regardless light of available vacancies, and it may programmes. Please see the individual of age, ethnic or national origins, still be possible to confirm your place. programme entries for further race, religion, gender, sexual information. We recommend that you preference, marital status, family If your application is unsuccessful, and submit your taught master’s applications responsibility, physical or sensory you think we’ve got it wrong, you can as early as possible by the end of July disability, and political or religious ask us to reconsider your application. for September intake and by the end beliefs and activities unless those Contact the Admissions Office for of November for January intake, in activities are unlawful or contrary further details. the year you wish to start your studies. to the policies of the University. Please take note of scholarship NON-STANDARD The University treats all applicants deadlines as many of our taught APPLICATION PROCESS on their individual merits and scholarships and bursaries have Some programmes have a different welcomes applications from closing dates earlier than dates application process. Please visit the candidates with a range of mentioned above. website to find out the application qualifications and work experience. process for your chosen programme: ENROLMENT Full details of our policies can swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Information about the enrolment be found at: apply/application-process process will be sent to you in advance swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ of the start of your studies. Enrolment WHAT DO YOU NEED? admissions-policies for taught programmes usually takes To study a postgraduate programme place in late September. Enrolment at Swansea you will normally need for research degrees takes place an appropriate honours degree or in October, January, April or July. postgraduate qualification. Relevant work experience may also be All students are required to comply considered for entry to taught degree with the University’s enrolment programmes. Please see the programme procedures and observe the listings for detailed entry requirements. University’s General and Academic Regulations – please see: swansea.ac.uk/academic- services/academic-guide
NOTES FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS We welcome applications by prospective students A full list of acceptable English language tests from around the world, and we are happy to advise and qualifications can be found at: you on whether your qualifications are suitable for swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ entry to the programme you would like to study. english-language-requirements Details of entry requirements for You may also like to know that we offer our your country can be found at: own professional, high quality English swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply/ language training: entry-requirements swansea.ac.uk/english-language- If your qualification is not listed please training-services email us at: [email protected]
161 02 APPLY AND RECEIVE OFFER You can apply directly to Swansea Taught University for most of our postgraduate courses (with some exceptions). You can also find out if you have been offered a place to study on your chosen course usually within 5 working days. Master’s You can apply by the end of July APPLICATION TIMELINE (for September entry) and end of November (for January entry) at the Whether your course starts in September or January, latest but don’t leave it too late as you it’s good to start thinking about postgraduate study may miss scholarship opportunities. options at least six months before the course starts.
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S W START PLANNING A 03 A N S E Are you thinking about continuing with your ACCEPT OFFER current subject or studying something completely Let us know within 28 days to different? You may also want to think about ensure you secure a place on whether a taught course or a research your chosen course. programme is right for you. Our Postgraduate Open Days give you the opportunity to explore all of your options at our beach side campuses. Swansea University offers a range of great study, employability and funding schemes. It’s a good idea to contact your referees and prepare a personal statement before starting your application.
162 04 05 GET READY You may want to start considering where you want to live whilst studying with us. There’s a range of flexible university and private accommodation APPLY FOR FUNDING options available We offer a range of postgraduate in Swansea. scholarships in all subject areas, as well as alternative sources of funding. Applications for student finance usually open in June. 07 ENROL Before you arrive in Swansea, you will receive full instructions about the enrolment process. All postgraduate students can also attend a college induction event – a great opportunity to meet new friends!
06 RESULTS If you’re sitting any exams, please send us your results and if you meet the terms of your offer, your place to study at Swansea University will be confirmed. You will also find out if you have been successful with any university scholarship applications you may have made.
163 You can start your PhD at Swansea University in October, January, April or July. Give yourself 3 to 6 months to plan and research before you submit your application. At Swansea, we offer two main types Applying of PhD project: • Those that are pre-designed by an FOR A PhD? academic (more common in science and engineering subjects) • Those that you design yourself
Pre-designed project: A pre-designed project will often be part of wider research being undertaken by an academic or research group. These usually have a defined title, fixed aims and objectives, and you’ll normally be supervised by the academic that designed the project. Swansea University advertises a large number of these opportunities throughout the academic year in all subject areas.
FUNDING: Research scholarships at Swansea University usually provide funding for the duration of your studies. There are also PhD loans available through Student Finance England and Student Finance Wales.
APPLICATION: Applying is straightforward – you’ll just need to follow the instructions on the project advertisement. These will usually have a specific application deadline so allow yourself plenty of time to complete any paperwork and gather references if required.
164 Self-designed project: A self-designed PhD will take a little more effort and thought to get started, but you should ultimately end up with a project theme that truly excites and interests you.
CONTACT POTENTIAL SUPERVISORS: After coming up with an initial idea for a project, you will need to identify and contact an appropriate academic supervisor. A good starting point is to find the University department with the areas of strength that are most relevant to your research. You can use Swansea University’s directory of expertise, speak to your current supervisor, or attend a study fair or a Postgraduate Open Day.
FUNDING: If you’re looking to start a self-funded project, you’ll have to ensure that you can cover the cost of tuition fees and your living expenses for the duration of your studies. There are various ways to fund your PhD including:
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PhD loans available through Student Finance England and Student Finance Wales.
APPLICATION: Once you have identified a potential supervisor for your own research idea, you’ll need to contact them prior to submitting a formal application. Academics welcome informal approaches from prospective students and they will also be able to help shape your research proposal. Do your research before you submit and take your time preparing. Good luck! INDEX Conservation and Resource Management 58 A H INDEX Creative Writing 95-97 Accounting and Finance 50 Health Care Management 128, 133 Criminal Justice and Criminology 78 Advanced Computer Science 73 Health Data Science 120 Criminology 78-80 Advanced Practice in Health Care 124 Health Economics 133 Cyber Security 74 Advanced Software Technology 73 Health Humanities 134 Cyber Crime and Terrorism 78 Aerospace Engineering 88, 94 Health Informatics 120, 122 Cymraeg 81-82 Ageing Studies 101 Health Policy 134 American Studies 54 D Health Professions Education 122, 126 Ancient Egyptian Culture 70 Health Psychology 134 Data Science 74 Ancient History and Classical Culture 70 Hispanic 137 Desalination and Water Reuse 94 Ancient Narrative Literature 71 History 102-105 Developmental and Therapeutic Play 67 Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology 78 Human Computer Interaction 77 Development and Human Rights 141-144 Applied Linguistics 57 Human Geography 100 Diabetes Practice 126 Applied Physics 140 Human Rights Law 107 Digital Media 116, 118 Approved Mental Health Professional 125 Human Resource Management 62 Arabic 136 E Human-Centred Big Data and Artificial Intelligence76 B Earth Observation 100 Ecology 98 I Bio-process Engineering 94 Economics 83-84 Biosciences 58-60 Intellectual Property and Commercial Economics and Finance 83 Biological Sciences 60 Practice 108 Education 86-87 Blood Component Transfusion 125 Intelligent Wireless Networks for Education for the Health Professions 122, 126 Health Care 94 Business Administration MBA 61 Egyptology 70-72 International Banking and Finance 51 Business Management 62-64 Electronic and Electrical Engineering 90, 94 International Commercial Law 108 Business Analytics 62 Energy Innovation 94 International Journalism 117 C Engineering 88-94 International Management 62 Engineering Leadership and Management 90 International Maritime Law 108 Chemical Engineering 88, 94 English Literature and Creative Writing 95, 96 International Relations 141-144 Chemistry 65-66 Enterprise and Innovation 62 International Security and Childhood Studies 67 Environmental Biology 58 Development 141-144 Child Public Health 68 Environmental Dynamics and Climate International Tourism Management 106 Children and Young People 67-69 Change 98, 100 International Trade Law 108 Chinese-English Translation and Experimental Physics 140 Interpreting 136 Language Teaching 56 Investment Management 51 Chronic Conditions Management 129 F Civil Engineering 89, 94 Finance 51, 53, 62 J Classics 70-72 Finance and Big Data Analytics 51 Journalism (International) 117 Climate Change 98 Financial Management 51 Clinical Science (Medical Physics) 119 French 136 L Clinical Psychology 145 Fuel Technology 94 Cognitive Neuroscience 145 Law 107-110 Leadership for the Health Professions 128 Communication, Media Practice G and Public Relations 116 Legal Practice Course (LPC) 109 Communications Engineering 89 Genomic Medicine 119 Legal Practice and Advanced Drafting 109 Community Health Studies 126 Geographic Information and Climate LegalTech 108 Change 98 Community and Primary Health Logic and Computation 77 Care Practice 125 Geography 98-100 Long Term and Chronic Conditions Computational Engineering 89 Gerontology and Ageing Studies 101 Management 129 Computational Mechanics 89 German 137 Computer Modelling in Engineering 93, 94 Glaciology 100 Computer Science 73-77 Global Environmental Modelling 100 Computing and Future Interaction Global Migration 100 Technologies 77 Graduate Diploma Law (GDL) 109
166 M O T MBA Business Administration 61 Oil, Gas and Renewable Energy Law 108 Teaching English to Speakers of Other Management 62 Operations and Supply Management 62 Languages (TESOL) 56 Marine Biology Theoretical Computer Science
54 77 INDEX Marketing 62, 111-112 P Theoretical Physics 140 Materials Engineering 90, 94 PGCE 87 Tissue Engineering 94 Mathematics 113-115 Philosophy 144 Tourism 62, 106 Mathematics and Computing for Physical Geography 100 Translation 135-138 Finance 113 Physician Associate Studies 124 Mechanical Engineering 92, 94 U Physics 140 Media, Communication and Public Politics 141-144 Urban Studies 100 Relations 116 -118 Power Engineering and Sustainable Media Geographies 100 Energy 92 V Media Studies 118 Professional Accounting 52 Virtual Reality 93 Medical Education 129 Psychology 145-147 Visual and Interactive Computing 77 Medical Engineering 94 Public Health 131-134 Medical and Life Sciences 119-122 Public History and Heritage 103 W Medical Radiation Physics 120 Public Policy 142 Medicine and Healthcare 123-34 War and Society 153 Medicine 119-13 4 Welsh 154 S Medicine – Graduate Entry Programme 123 Welsh Writing in English 96 Simulation Driven Product Design 94 Medieval Studies 96, 102 Social Care 150 Membrane Technology 94 Social Policy 150 Mental Health 150 Social Research Methods 148 Midwifery 127 Social Work 148 Modern History 103 Sociology 150 Modern Languages, Translation and Spanish 137 Interpreting 135-139 Specialist Community Public Health Nursing 132-133 N Sports Communication and Journalism 117 KEY Nanoelectronics 94 Sports Ethics and Integrity 151 Nanomedicine 120 Sport and Exercise Science 151 FT – Full-time programme Nanoscience to Nanotechnology 92 Stochastic Processes: Theory and – January start available Nanotechnology 94 Application 114 Neonatal Care 127 Strategic Accounting 52 PT – Part-time programme Non-Medical Prescribing 129-130 Strategic Marketing 111 – International pathway Nursing 130-131, 134 Structural Engineering 92 available (see page 45) Sustainable Engineering Management 93
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