Postgraduate 2013
Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1792 205678 www.swansea.ac.uk Postgraduate 2013 Swansea University
Cover Location: The Sail Bridge, Swansea Marina As a postgraduate student at Swansea Our collaborative research links with We’re also a university with a vision with University, you’ll be part of a vibrant industry are among the best in the UK, plans for an ambitious campus expansion A proud history community that thrives on exploration and our long history of working closely programme that will enable us to double and discovery, and you’ll join researchers with multinational organisations ensures our size and provide even more facilities and academics who are making a real that our postgraduate programmes to enhance our award-winning student impact on the health, wealth, culture, equip you with practical skills that experience. and wellbeing of our society. meet employers’ needs. Studying in a {an exciting vision} research-led university means that you The new Science and Innovation Campus We’ve been equipping students for will benefit from the knowledge and skills will harness Swansea University’s world- exceptional personal and professional of internationally renowned academics, leading research strengths and promote achievement since 1920. We believe many of whom lead their field. the growth of high-technology clusters of that postgraduate study should be about companies, creating a uniquely career- nurturing the creativity, innovation, and enhancing learning environment for high-level skills necessary for a successful students. knowledge economy, and that it should always be inspirational.
Tel: +44 (0)1792 205678 www.swansea.ac.uk
Swanseauni swanseauniversity Welcome Croeso
The results of the Research Assessment Dangosodd ganlyniadau Ymarferiad Asesu Exercise 2008 showed unequivocally that Ymchwil 2008 yn glir fod y Brifysgol yn darparu the University is providing high-quality arweinyddiaeth ymchwil rhyngwladol o ansawdd international research leadership and the uchel a bod y momentwm yr ydym wedi’i ennill momentum we have gained as one of the fel o brifysgolion mwyaf uchelgeisiol y DU a UK’s most ambitious, research-led universities arweinir gan ymchwil wedi ein gwneud ni’n has made us a natural university of choice for ddewis prifysgol naturiol i nifer fawr o a great many talented postgraduates. ôl-raddedigion talentog.
The pace of development is continuing. Last Mae datblygiad yn parhau’n gyflym. Y llynedd, year, Swansea academics received more derbyniodd academyddion Abertawe fwy na than £30 million research grant income. This £30 miliwn o incwm grant ymchwil. Mae’r level of research activity on campus exceeds lefel yma o weithgaredd ar y campws yn fwy that of many larger universities and ensures na llawer o brifysgolion mwy ac yn sicrhau a stimulating environment for postgraduate amgylchedd sy’n ysgogi ar gyfer gwaith ôl- work. However, this has been achieved raddedigion. Fodd bynnag, cyflawnwyd hyn heb without sacrificing the friendly and relaxed aberthu’r awyrgylch cyfeillgar a hamddenol a atmosphere which has always characterised fu bob amser yn nodwedd o “brofiad Abertawe”. the “Swansea experience”. Credaf ein bod wedi dod o hyd i’r cydbwysedd I believe that we’ve struck the right balance of cywir o addysgu ac ymchwil gwych i gyd-fynd excellent teaching and research, matched by ag ansawdd bywyd ardderchog. Gobeithiaf y a superb quality of life. I hope you’ll join us. byddwch yn ymuno â ni.
As a postgraduate student, you will Fel myfyryiwr ôl-raddedig, byddwch be a valued member of our academic yn aelod gwerthfawr o’n cymuned community. We encourage you to be academaidd. Anogwn chi i gymryd rhan involved in all aspects of university ym mhob agwedd o fywyd y brifysgol a life and to help shape the challenging helpu llunio’r amgylchedd heriol y mae ein environment in which our research and hymchwil ac ysgolheictod yn ffynnu ynddo. scholarship flourishes.
Professor Richard B. Davies Vice-Chancellor
Yr Athro Richard B Davies, Is-ganghellor
2 3 Welcome to Swansea 03 Accommodation 144 Postgraduate pathways – ICWS 156 Maps 178 Great Minds at Swansea 08 Where to eat? 146 Careers, skills and employability 158 History and Heritage 182 Student life in Swansea 12 Welfare and disability support 147 Study and work abroad 162 Alumni 183 Research at Swansea 18 Students’ Union 150 Library and information services 166 Sports clubs 151 Welsh medium opportunities 167 Sport at Swansea 22 International students – information Tuition Fees, scholarships and bursaries 168 Swansea students 26 Contents and support 152 Application and admissions 176
Courses
Master’s Degrees Engineering 50 Medicine – Graduate Entry Programme Research Degrees Engineering 110 Politics, International Relations and English 54 Mb Bch (Wales) 80 English 114 Development Studies 136 Ageing Studies 30 Geography 56 Politics, International Relations and Ageing Studies 92 Geography 116 Psychology 138 Biosciences 32 Health Science 60 Development Studies 82 American Studies 94 Health and Social Sciences 118 Sport and Exercise Science 140 Business Management 34 History 66 Psychology 84 Biosciences 96 History 120 War and Society 141 Childhood Studies 36 Law 68 Translation and Interpreting Studies 86 Business Management 98 Law 122 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology 38 Law: Professional Legal Training 70 War and Society 89 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology 100 Mathematics 124 Computer Science 40 Mathematics 72 Computer Science 102 Media Studies 126 Criminal Justice and Criminology 44 Media and Communication Studies 74 Criminal Justice and Criminology 104 Medicine 128 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi 46 Medicine 76 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi 106 Modern Languages and Translation 132 Economics 48 Economics 108 Physics 134
4 5 Your journey of discovery {continues right here}
Study and live by the sea Funding your future When you choose to continue your We commit to a significant investment in university education, you’re embarking on postgraduate education. In 2011 over a new adventure and a career-enhancing £2.68 million in postgraduate scholarships experience. and bursaries was made available.
We believe that postgraduate study at The University Master’s Scholarships Swansea should be an inspiring scheme provides several scholarships experience which offers great rewards. usually worth 75% of the standard full-time Our Master’s and Research programmes UK/EU tuition fee for taught Master’s and are carried out in a dynamic, challenging MRes schemes across all academic and intellectual environment with the schools. In 2012 there were 100 Master’s support and guidance of leading Scholarships worth £2,700 towards fees. academics. You will have opportunities to Students pursuing PhD, MPhil or MRes Postgraduate study is be part of developments in your field and studies can apply for a wide range of contribute to projects that break boundaries stretching me to the very best of awards including, fully-funded PhD and lead discovery. Studentships and Postgrad Solutions my ability and I know that when “ Bursaries. I’ve finished I’ll have achieved Our campus lifestyle fosters a welcoming, cosmopolitan community that offers For full, up-to-date details of all funding something I can be proud of. something for everyone. Then there’s our opportunities available please visit: location, which gives you the best of every world: we’re situated in rolling parkland on www.swansea.ac.uk/ Claire Thomas, ” the majestic three-mile sweep of Swansea postgraduate/scholarships PhD Translation Bay, and within easy reach of the bustling city of Swansea. See for yourself Seeing is believing – so why not come and When you choose to study at Swansea take a closer look? Our Open Days will University, you not only become part of an give you a feel for campus life and what ambitious, research-led institution but you you can expect from the Swansea also benefit from living in the one of the experience. Our Open Days for 2013 UK’s most naturally beautiful regions. It’s no entry see below: wonder many of our graduates choose to stay here long after their studies.
Open Days: Wednesday 14th November 2012 Wednesday 6th March 2013 Tuesday 4th June 2013
6 7 1. Professor David Blackaby with the University of Valencia. She is the figure in management research whose Economics Director of the Language Research Centre recent projects have used feminist research and Chair of the International Association methodologies to investigate gendered Accomplished labour economist, working for the Study of Spanish in Society. bullying in organisation, gendered on econometric (multivariate) models to test identities in customer service work in the economic theory and evaluate policy. 1. finance industry, and ethics, identity and Professor Blackaby’s work makes a 5. Professor Feng-Yu Wang health in the NHS. substantial contribution to furthering our Mathematics understanding of the earnings inequalities A world-leading mathematician in the field of ethnic minorities, women and people 9. Professor Mark I. Rees of Functional Inequalities and Applications. GREAT MINDS with disabilities. He is Co-Director of the Medicine Awarded the National Prize of Natural Wales Institute of Social and Economic 2. Science (China, 1999), the Top Prize Research Director of the Institute of Life Universities are more than teaching organisations: many of the Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) for Progress of Science and Technology Science, founder and Director of the real battles against disease, poverty and climate change are and leader of the WISERD Advanced (Educational Ministry of China, 1998) Wales Epilepsy Research Network and taking place right now in university laboratories and seminar Quantitative Research Programme. and the Top Prize of Natural Science Co-Director of Cardiovascular Research 3. rooms. (Educational Ministry of China, 2009). Group for Wales. Elected Fellow of the Studying in a research-led environment means that you benefit 2. Professor Huw Bowen Royal College of Pathologists in 2009, from the knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm of History and Honorary Fellow of the Association 6. internationally renowned scholars who teach on Master’s An internationally-renowned expert on Professor Rodger Wood of British Neurologists. He is Chair of the programmes and supervise doctoral students. the economic, imperial and maritime Psychology Epilepsy Research UK Scientific Committee history of Britain during the eighteenth and recently was awarded a DSc from Some of our world-class academics include: A Fellow of the British Psychological and nineteenth centuries, Huw is principal Society and a world authority on Swansea University for neurology investigator on two RCUK-funded research neurobehavioural disability following research. projects examining the global and local traumatic brain injury. His clinical work dimensions of the Welsh copper industry. on rehabilitation after brain injury was 10. Professor Rory Wilson He is Coordinator of Cu@Swansea, a recognised with a Lifetime Achievement major heritage-led regeneration project Award by the Welsh Government in Biosciences funded by the Welsh Government, 2012. In 2006 Rory was awarded the Rolex 4. Convenor of History Research Wales and Award for Enterprise for his creation of a Co-investigator on the EPSRC-funded generic animal tag, the Daily Diary that 7. Professor R. Gwynedd Parry 7. ‘Bridging the Gaps’ programme. details the movements, behaviours and Law 5. 6. energy expenditures of elusive creatures Notable legal historian whose writings (including man!). He leads the Swansea 3. Professor Oubay Hassan examine law’s relationship with identity, Moving Animal Research Team whose Engineering language and culture. As a leading members use the tag to work on animals Extensive experience in the development expositor of the concept of Welsh legal ranging from penguins at the poles to of computational techniques for the identity, Professor Parry’s work sharks on the equator. aerospace industries. He was awarded demonstrates the importance of legal the MBE in January 1998 for his contribution heritage and the legal past in shaping that 11. Professor Judith Phillips to the aerodynamic design of THRUST identity, informing the legal present and Ageing Studies SSC, the car which broke the World guiding the course of the legal future. An 8. 9. 10. 10. Land Speed Record. accomplished author in both Welsh and Judith is a leading expert in Gerontology. English, he is the founder and co-director She represents Wales on a number of UK advisory bodies and has been awarded 4. Professor Nuria of the Hywel Dda Research Institute. over £7 million in research funding since Lorenzo-Dus 2008 for work on different environments English 8. Professor Alison Pullen of ageing. Business 11. A leading expert in discourse analysis, media discourse and (cross-cultural) An internationally acclaimed scholar pragmatics, Nuria has recently concluded widely acknowledged for her cutting edge a major AHRC-funded research project on research into the dynamics of identity and media communication and memory and gender in organisational contexts. Central is currently involved in a Spanish to her work is a focus on questioning and government-funded project on cross- changing oppressive and repressive cultural and cross-gender communication workplace relations. She is a leading
8 9 Swansea A vibrant student city, Swansea has it all. From a thriving cultural and sporting scene with a premiership football club to an awesome night life, stunning coastal scenery to tranquil parks, and great a breath of fresh air shopping to the best of modern city living, Swansea is the ideal { } place to build your future.
96% of our students agree that Swansea University is ‘a good place to be’ (i-graduate Student Barometer™, Autumn 2011) Out and about
You’ll discover that Swansea and the Gower encompass the best • our parkland campus is situated of all worlds, balancing exciting city living with a natural paradise on the three-mile beach of just a stone’s throw from your front door. Our campus sits in the midst Swansea Bay of Singleton Park and Singleton Botanical Gardens, one of the four • the Gower Peninsula – 19 miles parks in Swansea to be awarded the 2009 “Green Flag” award. of dramatic and picturesque The University grounds themselves won the 2009 Swansea in coastline – is ideal for the great escape when you need a break Bloom Gold award. from lectures and the library You’ll also be just a few footsteps from the sea… • Three Cliffs Bay reached the finals of ITV’s “Britain’s Best View” • some of the UK’s best surfing is just around the corner • W orm’s Head at Rhossili voted “the most romantic place to see a sunset in the UK” by readers of Country Living magazine • clean, award-winning beaches – including five “Blue Flag” beaches – that have featured in national television campaigns • the fishing village of Mumbles on the southern tip of Swansea Bay is a real gem – chill out in one A whole new world {a whole new you} of the popular village pubs or sample some award-winning local ice-cream
The surrounding area is also worth Broaden your mind exploring. Within just a few miles Studying in Swansea gives you many opportunities to indulge If you want to venture off campus, you can: you’ll find: your artistic and cultural side. • visit the Dylan Thomas Centre, which hosts an annual • Car marthenshire – the At the heart of our campus is the Taliesin Arts Centre, a lively Dylan Thomas Festival, regular poetry evenings and “Garden of Wales” venue that hosts a broad programme of live drama, dance, jazz performances that are open to all • “W aterfall country” – the and world music, and cinema screenings. The Taliesin is also • make the most of Swansea’s Grand Theatre’s Arts Wing, home to the Ceri Richards Gallery, which exhibits work by Vales of Afan and Neath a popular comedy and jazz venue, with two exhibition areas, emerging and established artists, and the Egypt Centre, a a rooftop bar and café, and a 120-seat performance space • the wild, mountainous beauty two-storey gallery displaying over a thousand Ancient Egyptian of the Brecon Beacons objects dating back from before 3,500BC to AD500. • explore the National Waterfront Museum, which preserves Wales’ rich industrial and maritime heritage, or Wales’ • countless medieval castles oldest museum, the Swansea Museum, which houses and historic monuments treasures from Swansea’s past • Singleton Park houses the annual “Escape in the Park”
12 13 Cafes, culture {and breath-taking countryside}
Modern and cosmopolitan with its waterfront development, café quarters and thriving student population, Swansea is also steeped in tradition, culture and character.
Whether you’re living on or off campus, you’re always within easy reach of the City’s great leisure facilities and buzzing nightlife. Choose from a variety of pubs, clubs and bars on Swansea’s famous Wind Street, enjoy the atmosphere in the City’s £6 million leisure complex Oceana, or soak up a more earthy vibe in one of the many excellent live music venues – you’ll soon feel a part of Swansea’s social scene.
New landmark developments, including Wales’ tallest building, give the place a real sense of purpose and vision, whilst the stunning scenery of the surrounding area means You’ll also find: that you will be studying in one of the UK’s most beautiful locations. • the City Centre and Quadrant • the Maritime Quarter – a breezy • all the main supermarkets: Tesco, shopping centre – home to a wide venue for marina scenery, sailing, Co-op, Lidl and Sainsbury’s are For leisure and entertainment, local venues include the LC2, range of independent retailers and exhibitions, pubs and places to eat closest to the University in the home to the Boardrider, the world’s first deep water standing major high street stores. The latest City Centre wave machine. The 20,000+ seat Liberty Stadium is home • Swansea’ s famous undercover development, a £30 million retail to professional football and rugby in the City, and also hosts market – unbeatable for fresh • nothing is too far away – there’s a project, promises even more major pop and rock concerts. produce and local seafood frequent bus service, an extensive choice for shoppers And if you love film, look no further than Swansea’s network of traffic-free cycle paths, state-of-the-art 12-screen Vue cinema and the Odeon Cinema and good coach, rail, and complex, which also houses a ten-pin bowling alley. motorway connections
14 15 Dr Ben Evans is CFD modeller on the The CFD modelling continues to be one BLOODHOUND project. He is studying of the dominant tools used to develop Engineering adventure the car’s aerodynamics to understand the surface geometry of BLOODHOUND. how it will behave.
His computational models have influenced BLOODHOUND’s design, including its at 1,000mph front wheel configuration, the shape of { } the nose, and the jet engine intake. The BLOODHOUND Supersonic Car (SSC) aims Swansea University’s primary role in the to increase the current land speed record by over BLOODHOUND project has been the development 30% to 1000mph by 2013. The five-year science of the pioneering Computational Fluid Dynamics and engineering adventure is the vision of current (CFD) technology used to aerodynamically design land speed record holders Sir Richard Noble the THRUST SSC. That CFD technology has since and Wing Commander Andy Green, whose been further refined and customised to address THRUST SSC took the record to 763mph. BLOODHOUND SSC’s ambitious and specific challenges in science, engineering and maths.
www.bloodhoundssc.com
16 17 Leading the way {driving potential}
Swansea University’s researchers are pushing back the boundaries of scientific and academic thought – undertaking research that has global significance, and which touches every aspect of society, from culture, climate change, and business, to engineering, science, health and well-being.
Many of our researchers are recognised internationally for their contributions to their field. We are particularly proud of our productive collaborative links with industry, which are amongst the best in the UK.
www.swansea.ac.uk/research
Low Cost Biomedical Sensors Revealing secrets of
Swansea researchers are using the latest expertise and complexity of equipment the universe
printing technologies to develop a low needed – introducing the possibility of Physicists at Swansea are part of a cost biosensor capable of diagnosing a hand held electronic scanners and far team which has made a major research range of health conditions. The project quicker diagnosis. It allows this aspect breakthrough: the first direct measurement aim is to place living antibodies into a of patient care to be moved from of any kind on a pure antimatter atom. suitable ink which would then be printed hospital or laboratory to the GP surgery, The team, made up of scientists from onto a compatible substrate or material releasing expensive hospital resources eight countries, were working on the to form a disposable sensor that can be for other activities. It could also prove ALPHA experiment at CERN, the mass produced at low cost. invaluable for use in emergency European Organisation for Nuclear humanitarian situations and in remote A printed array of antibodies will speed Research in Geneva. They were areas. up the testing process while reducing the examining antihydrogen atoms – the antimatter counterpart of the simplest atom, hydrogen. By precise comparisons The Richard Burton of hydrogen and antihydrogen, the Centre for the Study ALPHA team hope to study fundamental symmetries between matter and of Wales antimatter and cast light on the puzzling absence of bulk antimatter in the The Centre takes its name from the universe today. renowned stage actor and film star. In 2005 Richard Burton’s personal papers were deposited in Swansea University, and form a central part of the new Hywel Dda Richard Burton Archive facility, which Research Institute opened in April 2010. Predicting Sea Swansea’ Glaciologists are working on a The lack of understanding of how Greenland’s The School of Law’s new Hywel Dda Level Rises five-year, Leverhulme Trust-funded initiative to outlet glaciers are changing means that The Centre recognises and respects the Research Institute provides intellectual investigate the future stability of the Greenland models will consistently under-predict the rate ways in which Wales can be regarded, leadership and direction for research ice sheet. The key outcome of the Greenland of sea-level rise from Greenland. The GLIMPSE understood and valued, whilst also that falls under the broad heading of Ice Margin Prediction, Stability and Evolution project will help ensure these models make placing Wales within global contexts and ‘Legal Wales’, the process whereby the (GLIMPSE) project will be better predictions in better predictions of the Greenland ice debates to seek out appropriate legal system in Wales has acquired its the rate of future sea level rise. sheet’s future. comparative frameworks through which own distinctive legal identity in response the Welsh experience may be clarified. to constitutional change and devolution. 18 19 “Great migrations”
The groundbreaking National Geographic Channel series chronicling epic animal migration was made possible through the Innovative Ageing expertise of a team of researchers at the The Centre for Innovative Ageing is an has strong links with the Wales University. Filming for the series involved interdisciplinary centre with a growing Dementias and, Neurodegenerative using some of the Swansea Smart Tag international reputation for its Diseases Research Network. Group’s revolutionary electronic logging excellence in ageing research and tags, to track and analyse the behaviour of The Centre’s work is targeted at training. The Centre provides a focus marine animals – including elephant seals, identifying gaps in ageing research for ageing research across the penguins, cormorants, whales, and sharks and generating new interdisciplinary Colleges of Human and Health – around the globe. knowledge. Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. It is also home to the Older People and Ageing Research and Development Network, and the Wales Stroke Research Interest Group, and www.swansea.ac.uk/research
Exploring the origins of industry
Swansea University and the City Changing face of algae and County of Swansea have been awarded funding by Cadw Welsh Swansea scientists are involved in research into the cause of an abundance of harmful algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Government to investigate how The dramatic changes are akin to a garden’s bushes being replaced by grass, with a switch in the prevalence of dinoflagellates to Swansea became a Mecca of diatoms – two groups which include many of the microscopic planktonic plants forming the base of the ocean’s food chain. The findings industry through copper mining. The have shown that the changes are partly driven by increases in water temperature, a well known factor of global warming, but also of an Cu@Swansea regeneration project is increase in the windiness in the North Atlantic over the last 50 years. This windiness has profound impacts on surface nutrient levels and undertaking first phase work on the the vertical distribution of plankton. site of the former Hafod-Morfa Copper works in the Lower Swansea Valley.
The project runs parallel to the Global and Local Worlds of Welsh Copper project funded by the Economic and Social Research Centre (ESRC) which is enabling Swansea University and its The Artificial Lung partners to raise awareness of Wales’ internationally famed Welsh copper A collaborative two-year project between Swansea industry. University’s College of Engineering and industry is helping to develop respiratory aids that mimic the performance of healthy lungs. Skeletons from the deep – the lives of Henry The project will allow immobile patients with lung disease VIII’s archers to enjoy a better quality of life. The work builds on the collaboration between the University and the Abertawe Bro A research project on remains from Henry VIII’s sunken flagship, the Mary Rose, is Morgannwg University Health Board, which has established revealing fascinating detail about the lives of those lost on board, thanks to 21st Swansea as a major centre in the understanding of blood Century technology. The warship, which sunk in 1545, was raised from the Solent and its properties. Supported by the Welsh Government, the in 1982 and 92 fairly complete skeletons were amongst the remains recovered. It project aims to develop a prototype small-scale respiratory is documented that there was a company of archers aboard when the ship sank, aid, which is capable of regulating blood oxygenation and at a time when many archers came from Wales and the South West of England. carbon dioxide removal, in response to patients’ different Sports Scientists from the College of Engineering are basing their research on the metabolic requirements. biomechanical analysis of the skeletons to examine how a lifetime of using longbows can affect the musculoskeletal system. 20 21 I’ve been really involved while I’ve “been at Swansea in the sailing team and it’s been great to be able to do a lot of extra curricular activities.”
For students who take their sport seriously, it’s always refreshing to find a university that shares their commitment and ambitions. But we’re just as serious about promoting sport for all – whatever your level. Julie, MRes Computing and Future Interaction Technologies A True Sporting Sports Village www.swansea.ac.uk/sport/varsity • Wales National Pool Swansea – a 50-metre University pooland 25-metre “warm-up” pool • fully equipped UniGym withover 80 fitness stations Sporting Excellence Varsity • indoor training centre The University is building a reputation as a The Welsh Varsity Challenge is the biggest natural centre for sporting excellence, and student event in Wales, and is the second • climbing wall our facilities will be instrumental in helping largest of the British Varsity Games, athletes to achieve their dreams at the behind the Oxford/Cambridge game. • physiotherapy suite and sports massage facilities London 2012 Olympics, and beyond. Varsity sees Swansea and Cardiff Many Olympic, Paralympic, Universities competing in over 20 • multipurpose sports hall Commonwealth and World Championship Beach and different sports, from basketball, rowing, athletes have studied at Swansea Watersports golf, and hockey to fencing, squash, and • rugby pitches University. Some have been products of our Located on the foreshore, at the very Ultimate Frisbee. The competition culminates undergraduate “Elite Athletes” scholarship heart of Swansea Bay, 360 Beach in the showpiece rugby match, which in 2012 • football pitches scheme; others have enhanced their and Watersports is a brand new took place in front of a crowd of 14,000 at the Varsity is always a massive potential as a result of the competitive and facility offering a variety of sporting home of Welsh rugby, the Millennium Stadium • cricket squares supportive environment here in Swansea. in Cardiff. fixture attracting superb support activities and training opportunities including kite surfing, paddle from“ University students and alumni. Many students have gone on to represent and gain • tennis courts boarding, kayaking, beach volley contracts with semi-professional and professional Swansea’s successful record to date ball and more. This, together with the clubs on the back of great performances in the • all-weather pitches shows the passion and preparation Wales National Pool and our coastal Welsh Varsity Match. Previous teams fielded by that the University shows at each environment, means Swansea has Swansea University have included Welsh • five-a-side courts one the best water sports offerings of internationals Alun-Wyn Jones, Richie Pugh and Varsity fixture. any British University. Dwayne Peel. To date, Swansea has won ten of the • lacrosse pitch sixteen Varsity rugby matches, drawing once. Alun-Wyn Jones, Wales and Ospreys • eight-lane athletics trackght-lane athletics track Rugby,” and Swansea graduate www.welshvarsity.com
22 23 {Sport} set your goals Our sporting alumni include: • Daniel Caines • Alun-Wyn Jones – Athletics, GB (Olympics) – Rugby, Wales and GB • Jo Crerar • Daniel Jones – Lacrosse, England – Hockey, Wales • Adrian Dale • Robert Howley – Cricket, England – Rugby, Wales and GB • Martyn Davies • Katherine Lenaghan – Swimming, Wales (CG) – Rugby, Welsh Ladies • Tim Dolton • Katrina Lowe – Sailing (Global Challenge) – Karate, England • Tim Dykes • Sarah Powtle – Hockey, – Golf, Wales Wales (CG) • Steven Evans • Phillipa Roles – Swimming, Wales (CG) – Athletics, GB (Olympics) • Renee Godfrey • Paul Thorburn – Surfing – Rugby, Wales • Victoria Hale • Stephanie Watson – Swimming, Wales (CG) – Swimming, Scotland (CG) • Emma James – Hockey, Wales (CG)
London 2012 - Swansea University had four student athletes and two alumni athletes competing in the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
I moved to Swansea for the degree programme as much as for the facilities, but of course it was ideal to be so close to the Wales National“ Pool Swansea. The University was really supportive in helping me to balance my studies with training and competing.
Swimmer Liz Johnson struck Gold at the Paralympic Games in Beijing. She graduated from Swansea in Business Management ” and Finance in 2007. (CG) – Commonwealth Games 24 25 Mithileysh, Andrew, MRes Communication Systems MSc Marketing
The MBA at Swansea University“ was very relevant to current work practices all over the world. Most of my friends have been promoted going back to their different countries.”
In terms of the campus itself, it’s a My supervisor has been “brilliant location. It’s right next to the beach, “absolutely brilliant, he has been the city is nearby, the resources are brilliant, guiding me and motivating me a lot Linda, you can’t complain! PhD Business Studies in my research programme. ” ”
Victoria, The staff were fantastic, they helped make I chose to study at Swansea I now work at Zurich MSc Finance “the best of my time, it really encouraged me “because it offered the best Master’s “Financial.... and I believe to come back and I have now enrolled on and programme and I even enjoyed that the skills and knowledge started a PhD in Health. Studying these courses writing my dissertation with all the I learnt at Swansea really has given me the confidence and the knowledge help from the staff. helped give me the edge over to push the boundaries of my practice.” ” other candidates. ”
Nigel, Kate, MSc Advanced Clinical Practice MA English 26 27 MASTER’S DEGREES
Master’s degrees are academically available during the academic year. MA/MSc/LLM by Research: more demanding than undergraduate Some Master’s programmes offer Typically one year full-time, two to three programmes. They require a higher Postgraduate Diplomas and Postgraduate years part-time. This is an individual level of self-directed learning and are Certificates as exit qualifications. research project written up into a thesis awarded to students who demonstrate of 30,000 words. advanced understanding of a particular To qualify for a Postgraduate Diploma, subject. Master’s degrees are delivered students must pursue 120 credits, or 60 Is a Master’s degree right for me? through a combination of taught modules credits for a Postgraduate Certificate (please Yes, if you want to: and assessed coursework, and there is note that not all programmes offer this exit an expectation that students will qualification). Specific regulations apply. • Prepare for a research degree complete an in-depth research project • Acquire new and specialised skills or dissertation. Choosing a Master’s programme • Enhance your career prospects The University offers a range of Master’s • Develop your subject knowledge of Master’s programmes are generally degrees, including the MA, MSc, LLM your first degree subject modular in structure, meaning that and MBA. • Study an entirely new subject. students follow a series of taught modules worth a total of 180 credits. 120 credits Students can pursue postgraduate courses Can I study part-time? are gained from taught modules during in the same subject as their undergraduate Master’s, Postgraduate Diplomas and Part One of the degree, and 60 credits degree or, in many cases, outside it. Postgraduate Certificates can normally be from the dissertation (Part Two). All Many of the University’s postgraduate studied on a full-time or part-time basis in candidates must complete Part One courses are multidisciplinary in nature, a wide variety of subject areas. You are before being allowed to progress to allowing students to cross boundaries encouraged to contact the academic Part Two. between traditional subject areas and to department in question before applying. follow courses outside their first degree The part-time study option is not normally Master’s programmes generally include subject. applicable to international students. research and methodology skills courses and specific departmental training In addition, conversion-style courses – For details of the University’s range of courses, which are essential for students available in Law, Business, Computer research degrees, please see pages at Master’s level and those wishing to go Science and Engineering – are open to 90 – 141. onto higher degrees. Additional graduates of any subject. specialised training courses are also
MASTER’S DEGREES – INDEX
30 Ageing Studies 66 History 32 Biosciences 68 Law 34 Business Management 70 Law: Professional Legal Training 36 Childhood Studies 72 Mathematics 38 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology 74 Media and Communication Studies 40 Computer Science 76 Medicine 44 Criminal Justice and Criminology 80 Medicine – Graduate Entry Programme Mb Bch (Wales) 46 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi 82 Politics, International Relations and Development Studies 48 Economics 84 Psychology 50 Engineering 86 Translation and Interpreting Studies 54 English 89 War and Society 56 Geography 60 Health Science
29 Master’s Degrees – Ageing Studies 31 Robert Workman, Robert Workman, MSc Studies Ageing
” The most enjoyable part of the course was having access to such Visit the University: for details see page 174 Applications can be made at: online www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further – 177 – see pages 176 information of details research degreesFor please Studies, Ageing available in see page 92. a wide variety of specialist speakers. Video conferencing facilities a wide variety of specialist speakers. Video places as Ireland and India. enable students to discuss issues in such and enabled a more critical This global perspective was fascinating view of more local issues. University to other students, I would definitely recommend Swansea particularly the MSc in Ageing Studies course. In fact, I have already next year! Apartpersuaded a colleague to enrol in the course from numerous coffee library, the practical benefits, such as a well stocked University is staffed with a shops and the beautiful location, Swansea variety of expert and helpful people, committed to the development of students. “
[email protected] + 44 (0)1792 295783 + 44 (0)1792 How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/ humanandhealthsciences/ the degree is structured How The programme is comprised of six modules and a dissertation. Each module provides the opportunity to examine cutting-edge debates and issues on ageing in an international context. The programme is offered on a full-time or part-time basis. Full-time students attend lectures one day per week and will normally six modules and submit complete their dissertation by the end of the first Part-time students normally take two year. years to complete six modules, and a further year to complete the dissertation. postgraduate/taughtmasters Contact the Admissions Tutor: Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby, Dr. Ageing forCentre Innovative Email: Tel:
e reserve the right to withdraw Population Ageing and Policy: An Introduction Older People, Citizenship and Participation W optional modules Ageing Population • Perspectives on Ageing • Foundations in Research • Health and Ageing Optional Modules* • Policies and Practices for an • Critical Practice with Older People • Environment and Ageing • * Scholarships and Bursaries ofA range postgraduate scholarships and bursariesavailable. is please details, For visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate Compulsory Modules • MSc in Ageing Studies This programme acknowledges that ageing is accompanied by biological changes, but takes a holistic approach to ageing. It shifts the central focus from the medical model of ageing, to one that encompasses a range of disciplines, viewing the process as a positive experience. The staff delivering the course have connections to policy makers that are unparalleled in other parts of the UK. The course is also exceptional in its acknowledgment of differences in policy between the devolved countries of the UK, and in the global context. Assessment degree availableThe is by Master’s assessed coursework and a dissertation The dissertation words. of 20,000 around may be based or review on a literature empirically grounded research. English Language requirement: English Language each in of 5.5 a minimum (with 6.5 IELTS component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.
including team working, communication, presentation, and analytical skills a rewarding career working with older people, and managing and delivering services for an older population • help you to gain transferable skills, • prepare you for a research degree. This degree will: • equip you with the skills necessary for Population ageing is an issue that will is It dominate the twenty-first century. unprecedented and profound and will have an enduring effect across the globe. Changes in the population structure will touch all aspects of life, from family composition and living arrangements, and to social support, economic activity, the consumption as well as social security, of goods and leisure activity. Entry requirements orApplicants expecting holding, to Honours an achieve degree be or will above) considered. (2.2 Candidates non-standard with entry encouragedare qualifications applyto and may be admitted on the basis of workrelevant experience or professional Two approval. requisite with qualifications years employment experiencelocal in private health, andauthorities, voluntary and industryorganisations be will considered as relevant. Ageing Studies Ageing 30 Biosciences Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the degrees are structured For full details of the modules available, How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: A 2.2 degree is normally required for the MSc programmes are modular in structure. please visit the website. Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – see pages 176 – 177 for further MSc programme, and a 2.1 degree for Students must obtain a total of 180 credits The Department benefits from an extensive www.swansea.ac.uk/biosci information the MRes programmes. to qualify for the degree. This is made up range of modern analytical equipment, of 120 credits in Part One (the taught specialised culture facilities for a range of Contact the Postgraduate For details of the research degrees English Language requirement: element) and a project (Part Two) which is organisms, and a custom designed 12.5m Recruitment Officer: worth 60 credits and culminates in a Tel: + 44 (0)1792 295142 available in Biosciences please see IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each coastal research vessel, the RV Noctiluca. research project/dissertation. Students page 96. component and 6.0 in writing) or must successfully complete Part One before Swansea University recognised equivalent. Assessment Visit the University: being allowed to progress to Part Two. see page 174 for details – Biosciences The taught Master’s and MRes degrees Scholarships and Bursaries MRes programmes consist of 180 credits: are assessed through a combination of 60 credits for taught components and 120 A range of postgraduate scholarships and examinations, coursework and a credits for the research project dissertation. bursaries is available. For details, please dissertation or research project. visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate
The diverse habitats available locally set processing technologies and complex Together with the Department of Modules include: legislation have reinforced the need to This MRes offers research training in the Swansea apart for study and research. fluids processing. Geography, the Department of • Science skills and research methods develop frameworks for the sustainable fields of sustainable aquaculture and These habitats are located on the nearby Biosciences forms the multidisciplinary • Conservation of aquatic resources use of water and the wider aquatic fisheries. The programme specifically Gower Peninsula (a site of Special Areas of specialty include: nutritional Institute for Environmental Sustainability to • Scientific literature review environment. The course will furnish focuses on the interface between Scientific Interest, and the UK’s first Area requirements and feed formulation/ provide additional research facilities of • Ecosystems students with the ability to engage in a aquaculture and fisheries and the of Outstanding Natural Beauty), in the evaluation for farmed fish and shellfish; relevance to pure and applied • Remote sensing of the changing piece of independent research leading to sustainability issues surrounding the Swansea Valley and further afield in the crustacean applied immunology and environmental research. environment a dissertation written as a scientific paper. exploitation of aquatic resources. The Brecon Beacons National Park and health management; microalgal • Environmental Impact Assessment course will furnish students with the ability Pembrokeshire. biotechnology; water quality control and We offer one MSc and two MRes Modules include: to engage on a piece of independent biosecurity management in recirculating programmes which equip students with Visiting external experts deliver selected • Science skills and research methods research leading to a dissertation written The Department houses the £2 million aquaculture systems; and bioremediation skills relevant for a rewarding career in a materials, and students also benefit from • Conservation of aquatic resources as a scientific research paper. Students Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research and valorisation of aquaculture effluents. range of diverse fields, including visits and field work to off-site locations • Scientific literature review benefit from access to the University’s fully (CSAR). Operating from state-of-the-art sustainable aquaculture and fisheries, (for example, local artificial wetlands). resourced, state-of-the-art Centre for controlled environment facilities, the CSAR As well as offering applied research aquatic ecology, conservation biology The course will appeal to graduates who Sustainable Aquatic Research, and from team carries out research and services from its Swansea University base, and natural resource management. Our MRes programmes want to engage in aquatic ecology the position of the University at the cutting technological development, training and the CSAR team provides information and comprehensive programme also helps In addition to the taught Master’s research. It offers an excellent one year edge of aquatic biology research. advice on behalf of commercial farmers/ advice to industry and governments. students gain transferable skills, including programme, the Department offers two platform for students wishing to pursue a aquaculture service providers, funding Recent examples include developing the team working, communication, one-year research Master’s degrees. They PhD at a later stage. Modules include: agencies and governmental institutions, in aquaculture section of the Wales Fisheries presentation, and analytical skills. consist of one-third taught material and • Science skills and research methods the UK and internationally. Equipped with Strategy (2008) and its associated two-thirds research. MRes Sustainable Aquaculture • Conservation of aquatic resources modern, fully programmable recirculating Implementation Plan, and formation of the MSc Environmental Biology: Conservation and Fisheries • Scientific literature review aquaculture systems, CSAR is designed for Welsh Aquaculture Producers’ Association and Resource Management MRes Aquatic Ecology and Conservation Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing applied research on a diverse range of (WAPA). This course emphasises the relationships This MRes offers research training in the food production sectors worldwide, This course will appeal to graduates who aquatic organisms, from temperate to between living organisms and the terrestrial, fields of aquatic ecology and conservation. providing food for millions of people and want to engage in aquaculture and tropical and marine to freshwater Education and training activities at CSAR freshwater and marine environments, as Processes in the aquatic environment differ constituting an essential source of income fisheries research. It offers an excellent environments. In addition to its own top include hosting a vibrant research well as the interactions that result from in key areas from those in the terrestrial for many rural economies. The large scale one-year platform for students wishing to quality experimental facilities, CSAR has studentship (PhD) programme, supervising natural and anthropogenic processes. environment, and this course aims to and rapid growth rate of the aquaculture pursue a PhD at a later stage. direct access to comprehensive expertise MSc and MRes research projects, provide students with the practical skills to sector is inevitably accompanied by and laboratories across the Swansea vocational training for undergraduate and Advanced training is offered in the enable them to carry out a piece of sustainability challenges. Some farming University campus, encompassing postgraduate students and tailored training interpretation of local and global scientific research on the ecological issues practices lead to the depletion of natural biochemistry, molecular biology, courses for industry and public institution environmental issues, field and theoretical underpinning the conservation and resources and, significant negative impact physiology, histo-pathology, water personnel. aspects of biology and ecology, and in management of aquatic ecosystems. aquatic ecosystems. chemistry, systems engineering, bio- analytical techniques. Recent European, national and regional 32 33 Master’s Degrees – Business Management 35
Facilities Postgraduate students have access to dedicated IT facilities within both the Library and Information Centre University’s and the Business School: The School has extensive PC and multi-user computer facilities which give students access to a wide range of software including the latest Microsoft packages, statistical packages such as SPSS and SAS, and a range of specialist Business and Economics software including Nvivo, and Datastream. STATA EViews, Additional software and support is central available through the University’s Information Services and Systems (ISS). This includes a comprehensive digital library which includes iFind of resources Research, official publications and journals, library catalogues, Athens and a comprehensive online reference collection. Visit the University: for details see page 174 Applications can be made at: online www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further – 177 – see pages 176 information of details theFor research degrees Businessavailable in Management, please see page 98. Graduates of this programme will develop an advanced understanding of the principles and techniques of international finance, development, trade and banking, a knowledge of the activities of financial markets and financial institutions in advanced and emerging economies, and an appreciation of the role of risk management in complex organisations.
[email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)1792 606862 How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/business Office: Postgraduate the Contact Email: Tel: MSc Finance The MSc Finance is a twelve-month, full-time programme that has been designed for Business and Management (or related) graduates or those with a strong quantitative background, who are seeking a specialist programme to enable an accelerated start to a career in finance. The programme combines the academic theory of finance with a strong practical perspective closely related to the world of finance, facilitating a sound understanding of finance and associated areas. The programme will extend students’ existing knowledge, whether from previous study or practical experience, and has consistently produced successful, high-achieving graduates. MSc International Banking and Finance The MSc International Banking and Finance is a twelve-month, full-time programme aimed at Business or Management graduates (or those with appropriate and relevant work experience) who wish to acquire a solid foundation in international banking and finance which will equip them for careers in banking, trading or financial analysis. Scholarships and Bursaries ofA range postgraduate scholarships and please details, For bursaries available. is www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ visit Postgraduate employability, and equip graduates with and equip employability, a sound knowledge and understanding of the key theories and current topics within their chosen field. Each of the programmes covers the main business and management subjects and allows students to focus on a specific area (such as HRM, marketing, finance, international management, or international standards), or to continue studying the main general areas of management in more depth. MSc Marketing The MSc Marketing is a twelve-month, full-time CIM accredited programme that has been designed for Business and Management (or related) graduates. by experienced marketing Taught professionals with a wealth of industry experience, this programme combines the academic theory of marketing with a practical perspective that closely reflects true to life marketing issues and situations, facilitating a sound understanding of marketing. The programme will extend students’ existing knowledge, whether from previous study or practical experience, and has a proven track record of enhancing employability. Management) Standards) How the degrees are structured the degrees How programmes of theEach taught Master’s combines academic excellence a with practice-oriented perspective, ensuring that content both is intellectually demanding to the and relevant practical management. of world Assessment degreesThe assessed taught Master’s are by means of coursework and/or completedexaminations for each module, of to up and a project/dissertation words. 20,000 Part Two, a management project, starts in Part Two, students to The project enables July. develop, integrate and apply the concepts, skills and techniques acquired during the MBA programme to address a management problem or issue. The report allows students to focus their analysis on a company or organisation. The Business School is actively engaged in a number of collaborative projects with the business community and encourages students to capitalise on its extensive network of partner companies and organisations. MSc Management Programmes • MSc Management • MSc Management (HRM) • MSc Management (International • MSc Management (International • MSc Management (Marketing) • MSc Management (Finance) All six Masters in Management degrees are intensive, twelve-month, generalist management programmes that have been designed primarily to meet the needs of graduates who have not previously specialised in Business Management. The programmes develop a sound understanding of a broad range of management disciplines, enhance Ethics Management MBA For candidates seeking to accelerate their career in management, the MBA provides a comprehensive set of skills and an in-depth knowledge of the principal managerial disciplines. The full-time MBA at Swansea University is a twelve-month programme. Part One, of two consists from October to May, semesters covering the following modules: • Managing Finance • Managing People • Managing Markets • Managing Processes • Management Skills • Strategic Case Analyses • Report Preparation Elective Modules • Two The two elective modules are selected from options which may include: • Corporate Responsibility and Business • E-Business • Financial Markets and Institutions • Financial Derivatives and Risk • International Management • Leadership • Cultures and Organisations • Consumer Behaviour • Management of International Finance English Language requirement: eachin of 6.0 (minimum 6.5 IELTS component) or Swansea University recognised international equivalent. For students, alternative pathways the into MSc and Management, MSc Finance, MSc International Banking and Finance available our International via partner, are informationCollege For Swansea. Wales see: www.icws.navitas.com MSc in Marketing, MSc in Finance and MScMSc Marketing, Finance in in MSc International in Banking and Finance: degree needyou or will at least a 2.2 equivalent a related in Work subject. experience not is required.
rewarding management career in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, finance, accounting, and the public sector including team working, communication, presentation, and analytical skills (CIM) Accountants (CIMA) Accountants (ACCA) These degrees will: • equip you with skills relevant for a • help you to gain transferable skills, • prepare you for a research degree • The Chartered Institute of Marketing • The Chartered Institute of Management • The Association of Chartered Certified Business Management at Swansea courses provides a core of taught Master’s that offer an academically rewarding experience and an excellent foundation for a wide range of careers. The Business School has been accredited by professional bodies, including: Management is about making decisions and getting the most from people at all levels in all types of organisations. It is interdisciplinary: social, environmental, psychological, economic, and technical factors play important roles. Masters Management: in need you will at or equivalent a degree, in least a 2.2 non-business experience Work subject. is not required. Entry requirements degreeMBA: need you will at least a 2.2 or equivalent and be able to demonstrate abilityan toand benefit contribute from, Candidates the a from programme. to, ofrange work experience backgrounds welcomeare to apply and each beapplication will considered on its Themerits. majority of MBA students hold at least work experience, two year’s although not is compulsory. this Business Management Business 34 Childhood Studies Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements Scholarships and Bursaries dissertation, which provides the opportunity How can I find out more? Dawn Alderson Visit the University: Applicants will be required to undergo a A range of postgraduate scholarships and to explore in depth an area of particular Visit our website: Email: [email protected] see page 174 for details Criminal Records Bureau/police check. bursaries is available. For details, please interest. www.swansea.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)1792 518695 Applications can be made online at: A 2:1 degree in a cognate discipline is visit; www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ humanandhealthsciences Susan Williams www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline requested on entry, although applicants Postgraduate. Assessment Programme Administrator – see pages 176 – 177 for further who have extensive experience of working The taught Master’s degrees are assessed Contact the Admissions Tutors: Email: [email protected] information within a related field can apply via the How the degrees are structured by means of coursework completed for Dr. Justine Howard Tel: +44 (0) 1792 518697 non-graduate route. Email: [email protected] Each of the taught Master’s programmes each module (which might include essays, Tel: +44 (0)1792 602830 combines academic excellence with a presentations and practical portfolios), and – Childhood Studies English Language requirement: practice-oriented perspective, ensuring a dissertation of approximately 20,000 IELTS 6.5 or Swansea University that content is both intellectually words. recognised equivalent demanding and relevant to the practical world of working with children. The degrees are generally comprised of a range of compulsory and optional modules and a research project/
The College of Human and Health MA Childhood Studies MA Developmental and Therapeutic Play from a wide range of contexts as well as Sciences is committed to providing a Childhood Studies is a multidisciplinary Play is integral to a range of children’s new graduates wishing to pursue careers I studied my undergraduate degree at Swansea and due to genuinely interdisciplinary approach to postgraduate programme which involves services. This scheme offers an exciting in children’s services. “the excellent level of teaching, the resources on campus and the the study of children and childhood. Our exploring how children develop from birth, opportunity to study children’s play at an Academic team have expertise within the how they begin to learn and think for advanced academic level, combining Modules include: postgraduate course they offered in Childhood Studies I decided fields of education, psychology, sociology, themselves, and how their development is demanding intellectual work with fieldwork • Play Theory and Practice to return. The support I received was also excellent especially the health and social care. influenced by their families and the experience and sophisticated reflection. • Therapeutic Work with Children careers service when I was finishing my undergraduate degree as communities in which they live. It explores The aim of the course is to deepen • Perspectives on Play We currently offer two taught Master’s topics from broad historical, psychological, understanding about the developmental • Understanding and Observing Child they helped me with my CV and filling out application forms. programmes, the MA in Childhood Studies and sociological perspectives. This course and therapeutic potential of play across Development Hayley Scotto-D’Abusco, and the MA in Developmental and will appeal to all students who wish to a range of contexts and to facilitate the • Research Methods ” MA Childhood Studies Therapeutic Play. develop their careers working with development of professional skills that can • Thesis children from birth through to eighteen. strengthen and broaden children’s Both courses attract students from a variety The programme covers a broad range of repertoire of play behaviours. The focus The MA Developmental and of backgrounds, for example health, issues and encourages students to critically is on ensuring that environments and Therapeutic Play can also be studied education, children’s services and social reflect on their practice, addressing theory interactions maximise the inherent value at PgCert or PgDip level. work professionals, as well as new and research specific to their own interests. of play, and on being able to identify graduates of cognate disciplines. when further assistance may be required. Developmental and Therapeutic Play is very transferable to Compulsory modules include: The course focuses on children’s growing These degrees will: ability to play, as well as development “classroom work with children because the programme is essentially • Children’s Rights and Safeguarding • provide you with a solid foundation for • Researching Childhood through play and variation in children’s all about the most effective ways to support and nurture children. a rewarding career working with • Understanding and Observing Child play. Laura Patterson, children and young people or enhance Development ” the repertoire of skills relevant to your • Child Health Graduates of the MA in Developmental MA Developmental and Therapeutic Play current role and Therapeutic Play have gained employment in a range of interesting • help you to gain transferable skills, Optional modules include: contexts. Positions have included work including team working, communication, • Perspectives on Play with domestic violence teams, the prison presentation, and analytical skills • Therapeutic Work with Children service, teaching and behavioural support • Advanced Practice with Children • prepare you for a research degree or work and counselling services. Some have • The Montessori Method within further professional training. also set up their own businesses, are Contemporary Early Years Practice pursuing research degrees or further • Thesis clinical training. It attracts professionals
36 37 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements Each scheme includes some compulsory For a full list of compulsory and optional Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: Normally a 2.1 degree, or equivalent, in modules, and the number is made up by modules please refer to the website. A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline choosing from a list of options. The – see pages 176 – 177 for an Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences Regular research seminars and lectures are bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities dissertation component is written on a further information subject. run by the Research Institute for Arts and visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ specialist research topic of your choosing. Humanities (RIAH), which students are Postgraduate Contact the Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Admissions Office: For details of the research degrees English Language requirement: Part-time students normally take three encouraged to attend. The Department of Classics, Ancient Email: [email protected] available in Classics, Ancient History IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each modules in each of their two years History and Egyptology may, at its own Tel: + 44 (0)1792 606980/606981 and Egyptology, please see page 100. component) or Swansea University (compulsory methodology modules in the Assessment discretion, enter strong applicants for a recognised equivalent. first year) and write their dissertation in the Swansea University studentship. Assessment is based on in-course written and Egyptology – Classics, Ancient History third year. Visit the University: work and oral presentations, and a see page 174 for details How the degrees are structured Modules deal with literary texts; dissertation of 15,000-20,000 words. The full-time course structure is split across documentary evidence; archaeological the year with three modules offered in evidence; and the study of sexuality, each academic semester (a total of six religion and society. Students are required modules in Part One) and then a to study Greek or Latin, or Ancient dissertation over the summer (Part Two). Egyptian at an appropriate level.
From the empire building of Alexander, The purpose-built Egypt Centre on campus and either Ancient Greek or Latin or both. the Caesars, and Rameses II, to the wit is an invaluable asset, housing around A wide range of optional modules is I studied the MA programme in Ancient Egyptian Culture at and wisdom of Aristotle, Plato, and 3,000 objects from Ancient Egypt. The also available. “Swansea University. After graduating I worked for a year in Cairo as an Cicero, the ancient world has captivated collection illustrates more than 4,000 us for thousands of years. years of human development, from the studies Greek and Latin language, assistant to the Secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. I have prehistoric to the early Christian era, and literature, and civilisation. Compulsory returned to Swansea to earn my PhD in Egyptology and become a Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology plays an integral role to teaching and modules include Narrative Genres and at Swansea University encompasses research. Theory, and both Ancient Greek and Latin. university professor. My time at Swansea helped me to make important history and literature, archaeology and A wide range of optional modules is also connections and put me in an excellent position to succeed in the field art, and philosophy and religion to shed Taught Courses available. of Egyptology. light on the ancient civilisations that The Department offers four taught MA shaped our modern world. schemes: ” Jennifer Willoughby, MA Ancient Egyptian Culture These degrees will: studies the material culture and language • equip you with skills relevant to careers of ancient Egypt. Compulsory modules in a wide variety of roles, including include Understanding Ancient Egyptian management, administration in the Culture and Egyptian language. private and public sectors The MA Ancient History and Classical • provide you with a solid foundation for Civilisation studies the history, culture, a rewarding career in teaching, and languages of the classical world. heritage management, and museum Compulsory modules include Research work Methodologies in Ancient History and • help you to gain transferable skills, Classical Culture and either Ancient Greek including team working, imaginative or Latin. A wide range of optional modules problem-solving, communication, is also available. presentation, and analytical skills • prepare you for a research degree is the first of its kind in the world. It is designed for students who have an interest in the narrative literature of Greece and Rome (e.g. epic poetry, fiction, historiography). Compulsory modules include Narrative Genres and Theory,
38 39 Computer Science Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements English Language requirement: Scholarships and Bursaries Contact the Admissions Tutor: MRes/MSc/Diploma/Certificate Visit the University: MRes: normally a 2.1 degree in Computer IELTS 6.0 (minimum of 5.5 in each A range of postgraduate scholarships and MSc/Diploma/Certificate Advanced Computing and Future see page 174 for details Science, Mathematics, or a closely related component) or Swansea University bursaries is available. For details, please Computer Science and MSc/Diploma/ Interaction Technologies (FIT) Certificate Computer Science Applications can be made online at: discipline. recognised equivalent. visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Professor M Jones www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Postgraduate Email: [email protected] Candidates with substantial relevant Dr J A Sharp – see pages 176 – 177 for further MSc in Advanced Computer Science (all Tel: +44 (0)1792 295259 experience are also encouraged to apply. Email: pathways); MSc Modelling, Uncertainty How can I find out more? [email protected] information and Data: a 2.2 Honours degree (or Tel: +44 (0)1792 295560 Visit our website: MRes Logic and Computation above) in Computer Science or other Assessment For details of the research degrees www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci Dr A G Setzer Dr A G Setzer available in Computer Science, please – Computer Science relevant discipline. The taught Master’s and MRes degrees Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] are assessed through a combination of see page 102. Contact the Postgraduate Tel: +44 (0)1792 513368 Tel: +44 (0)1792 513368 MSc in Computer Science: a 2.2 Honours examinations, coursework and a Recruitment Officer: MRes Visual Computing degree (or above) not in Computer dissertation or research project. MSc Modelling, Uncertainty and Data Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 Dr X Xie Science. Dr I M Davies Email: [email protected] Email: i.m.davies @swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 602916 Tel: +44(0)1792 602760
Computer Science affects every aspect of These degrees will: • Visual Computing Visual Computing seeks to prepare of the great intellectual disciplines, having • understanding and knowledge of our lives, placing increasing demands on • equip you with skills relevant for a • Safe and Secure Systems graduates for further research in the areas a profound influence in philosophy, usability issues including interface education, business, and industry to rewarding career in a range of diverse of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, linguistics, mathematics, computer design, user cognition, testing, and ensure that the workforce of the future is fields, including hi-tech companies and Students will be awarded an MSc Medical Imaging, and Scientific science, and electronics. In computing, evaluation equipped with the skills necessary to the public sector in Advanced Computer Science Visualisation. throughout the century, logic has been the • a substantial knowledge of the thrive in the Digital Age. Computer with chosen specialism. It will also primary source of ideas and techniques advanced literature and issues within IT • provide an elite education of direct Science at Swansea is at the heart of the be possible to study for an MSc in We seek strongly motivated students who for the theoretical and practical • the knowledge and understanding of relevance to research and development technological innovation that is redefining Advanced Computer Science without are able to carry out substantial individual development of programming. Today, as appropriate analysis and evaluation problems in the Information and the way we live, learn, and work. choosing a particular specialism. study. Such students are likely to want to the scope of programming technology techniques including their limitations Communication Technology sector control their own time, carry out curiosity expands, and the horizon of users’ • the application of computer science to Facilities • help you to gain transferable skills, MSc Modelling, Uncertainty and Data driven research to an advanced level, applications widens, research in logic human computer and mobile interaction and follow self-study material in The Department is well equipped for including team working, communication, This MSc programme is offered jointly by and its applications in software and issues advanced topics. teaching, and is continually upgrading presentation, and analytical skills the Departments of Computer Science, hardware development is thriving. its laboratories to ensure equipment is • prepare you for a research degree Mathematics and Physics. It provides a How the degrees are structured Students will decide upon their topic of Taught modules include Critical Systems, up-to-date – equipment is never more than structured introduction to several modern MSc programmes are delivered through a research in discussion with their supervisor Concepts of Programming Languages, IT three years old, and rarely more than two. MSc/Diploma/Certificate modelling approaches, focusing on combination of compulsory and optional in an exciting and recent area of Visual Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Design Currently, students use three fully Computer Science techniques and strategies best suited to modules, and a dissertation. Teaching is Computing. In collaboration with their Patterns and Generic Programming. networked laboratories: one, running This generalist MSc is intended for physical systems displaying uncertainty, supervisor the student will evaluate current by a mixture of formal lectures, tutorials, Windows; another running Linux; and a graduates from disciplines other than that require High Performance Computing, workshops, and scheduled laboratory research and carry their own research MRes Computing and Future project laboratory, containing specialised Computer Science, who wish to pursue a or that generate large data sets. The classes. The wide range of modules programme based on the contribution Interaction Technologies (FIT) equipment. These laboratories support a career in the Computing/IT industry. The resulting portfolio of cross-cutting includes: they will make. The FIT MRes is designed for students who wide range of software, including the programme is intensive, and starts with an techniques covering both theory and wish to learn and practise the science programming languages Java, C# and assumption of no prior knowledge beyond applications will enable the graduate to The research programme is supported Software Technology underlying new interaction technologies. the .net framework, C, C++, Haskell basic IT skills and GCSE-equivalent acquire a broad range of the skills needed by taught courses covering useful literature • Distributed Object-Oriented After undertaking a FIT MRes programme, and Prolog among many; integrated Mathematics. for the study of (interdisciplinary) problems and skills. Taught modules include Programming students will be able to demonstrate: programme development environments in the physical, information and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, • High Performance Computing in such as Visual Studio and Netbeans; the MSc/Diploma/Certificate environmental sciences. The admissions Data Visualisation, Graphics Processor • understanding and knowledge of C/C++ widely-used Microsoft Office package; Advanced Computer Science process is coordinated by the Mathematics Programming, and State-of-the-Art Visual fundamental technical concepts, and • Design Patterns and Generic web access tools; and many special This flexible programme allows students Department – see page 72. Computing. current ideas concerning future Programming purpose software tools including graphical to specialise in a range of different areas. interaction technologies, mobile • Advanced Database Systems rendering and image manipulation tools; Currently the specialised pathways MRes Visual Computing MRes Logic and Computation technologies, appliance design, expert system production tools; concurrent include: An MRes is ideal preparation for following Logic is about what we can express, web-based and security-related compute and reason. In the twentieth interaction system modelling tools; World Wide Web • Software Technology a career of research or specialism within century, formal logic developed into one authoring tools; and databases. • Human Computer Interaction the area of study. In particular the MRes in 40 41 Computer Science
Human Computer-Interaction • Interaction Technologies: Hardware and I chose to study Computer Science in Swansea University because Devices • Interaction Technologies: Lab and Field “of its international reputation of high quality computer science research. Work My MRes in Human Computer Interaction was particularly stimulating • Interactive Systems Design • Interaction Technologies: Information and exposed me to great opportunities to collaborate with some world Retrieval leading researchers in the field of computer science, psychology and • Interaction Technologies: health care. I am now in the second year of my PhD, researching ways Seminars and Reading of designing user friendly and safe interactive medical devices. Apart Visual Computing • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition from my research, I enjoy the vibrant and affordable student life as well • Data Visualisation as walking on the beach on my way into the university. • Research Methodology • Visual Computing Project Development Patrick” Oladimeji, PhD Computer Science Safe and Secure Systems • Critical Systems • IT Security: Theory and Practice • Software Testing • Embedded Systems • Modelling and Verification Techniques • Logic for Computer Science
For a full list of modules please contact the Admissions Tutor.
approximately one-third of these degrees is delivered through taught modules, with the balance achieved through a large, research-style project. The MRes project requires a very substantial research component that is contributing to the field in an explicit way rather than merely applying existing knowledge.
42 43 Criminal Justice and Criminology Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements English Language requirement: Assessment How can I find out more? Visit the University: Normally a good Honours degree IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 The taught Master’s degree is available by Visit our website: see page 174 for details (first-class or 2.1) in an appropriate in each component) or Swansea University assessed coursework and a dissertation. www.swansea.ac.uk/criminology/ discipline, or a minimum of two year’s recognised equivalent. Applications can be made online at: relevant and responsible work experience. Scholarships and Bursaries Contact the Admissions Tutor: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Mr John Minkes – see pages 176 – 177 for Students who have previously studied in a How the degrees are structured A range of postgraduate scholarships and Email: [email protected] further information related discipline are encouraged to Each taught Master’s degree scheme is bursaries is available. For details, visit: Tel: +44 (0)1792 295768 apply, as are those currently working in characterised by a combination of www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ For details of the research degrees the field of criminal justice who can compulsory and optional modules, and scholarships available in the Department of – Criminal Justice and Criminology contribute to the programme through their students also complete a supervised, Criminology, please see page 104. personal experience, and who can apply 20,000-word dissertation based on an learning on the programme in their individual research project carried out professional setting. under the guidance of a personal supervisor. The focus of the research may be any topic within the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Criminology is the study of why people MA Applied Criminal Justice and This newly redesigned degree will: • Corporate and White-Collar Crime Oklahoma, USA in Counter-terrorism and commit unlawful acts; how – and why Criminology • equip you with an advanced skill set • Criminal Justice System in England and Criminal Justice as well as a number of – we characterise crime in the way we This taught Master’s programme focuses that is relevant for a rewarding career in Wales voluntary opportunities with local do, and how the criminal justice system on criminological theories about the criminal justice system • Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of businesses in the surrounding area. You works. It encompasses a range of punishment and causation of crime, Children will also be able to take part in the • help you to gain transferable skills, academic fields, including history, social analyses of specific types of crime such as • Ethics and Philosophy of Social range of employability related activities including team working, communication, policy, politics, and sociology, to provide sexual crimes against children and Research that are arranged throughout the year by presentation, and analytical skills a view of crime from a social and corporate and white-collar crime, and the • Quantitative Methods a dedicated Careers and Employability individual perspective, and it looks ways in which the criminal justice system • prepare you for a research degree in • Qualitative Methods tutor. Our graduates have gone on to critically at how the sentencing system responds to crime. It includes detailed criminal justice and criminology • Case Studies in Applied Social work with the prison service, the Home works. exploration of the use of prisons and Research Office, Youth Offending Teams and the community sentences, the ways in which How is this degree structured? • Data Visualisation Probation Service. The Department of Criminology at young offenders are dealt with, and the The programme has recently been Swansea University has an internationally specific effect criminal justice intervention reviewed and restructured in the light of • 60 credits from the dissertation The College of Business, Economics recognised reputation in research, has on women and people from ethnic Swansea University’s designation as a and Law particularly in the evaluation of offender minorities. member of the Wales Doctoral Training The dissertation element of the course The Department of Criminology is part management and probation work, youth Centre and now provides a significant will help project management and of Swansea University’s College of justice and crime prevention. It has close This Master’s is an up-to-date, high-quality element of research methodology in its independent research skills, as well as Business, Economics and Law. Global links with Probation Services in South programme that includes some of the most teaching, alongside substantive subject your ability to deal with complex issues in its outlook, the College has a truly Wales and the Channel Islands, and with important theory and research in criminal knowledge and understanding in the independently and critically assess the international feel with numerous overseas local Youth Offending Teams, and is justice and criminology. It also provides a discipline of criminology itself. All students work of others. links and students drawn from over 100 accredited by the ESRC as a postgraduate focus on the application of criminal justice must complete 180 credits of study in countries. With consistently high student training provider. and criminological knowledge to the order to obtain the MSc as follows: For full details of the modules offered or satisfaction scores and excellent graduate operation of the criminal justice system, to find out more about the course please employability rates, it offers an outstanding Students studying Criminology at Swansea with a particular emphasis on the 120 credits from a selection of compulsory contact the Admissions Tutor. environment for undergraduate and University benefit from being taught by understanding and treatment of offenders and optional taught modules including postgraduate studies. The College academic staff who have been recognised in the community. Enhancing your career prospects provides a complete education for • Crime, Drugs and Alcohol for their teaching excellence and who have Whilst studying on this course, you will students seeking to gain expertise in • Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice “real life” experience in this area. The have a wealth of opportunities to take business, economics, law and criminology. • Offender Rehabilitation Department regularly receives high student advantage of in order to boost your CV • Understanding Crime satisfaction scores and boasts an impressive and form important employment links for • Youth Justice: Research, Policy and graduate employment rate of 96%. the future. You will have the opportunity Practice to take up a four week internship in
44 45 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements Ysgoloriaethau a Bwrsariaethau Strwythur y graddau estynedig yn ystod y drydedd Asesu Ymwelwch â’r Brifysgol: Gweler Ar gyfer yr MA yn y Gymraeg a’r MA Mae ystod o ysgoloriaethau a Y mae strwythur y cwrs llawn-amser wedi’i flwyddyn. Caiff y graddau hyn eu hasesu trwy tudalen 174 am fanylion Cyfieithu gyda Thechnoleg Iaith, fel rheol bwrsariaethau ar gyfer myfyrwyr ôl-radd rannu ar draws blwyddyn gyda thri waith cwrs a thraethawd estynedig. Cynhelir darlithoedd a seminarau bydd gan fyfyrwyr eisoes radd ar gael. Am fanylion, ewch i: modiwl yn cael eu cynnig ym mhob Gellir gwneud ceisiadau ar-lein trwy: ymchwil yn rheolaidd gan Academi Anrhydedd dda (dosbarth cyntaf neu 2.1) www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ semester academaidd (cyfanswm o Gweler tudalennau 176 – 177 am fwy Hywel Teifi, gan Ganolfan Am fwy o wybodaeth cysylltwch â yn y Gymraeg neu ddisgyblaeth arall Postgraduate neu cysylltwch â’r Academi chwech modiwl yn Rhan Un) ac yna o wybodaeth Astudiaethau Cymreig Richard Burton Swyddog Cyrsiau ôl-radd yr Academi: berthnasol drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, yn uniongyrchol am arweiniad pellach. cwblheir traethawd estynedig yn ystod yr a chan Sefydliad Ymchwil y Gwefan: www.abertawe.ac.uk/ ond nid bob amser. Ystyrir pob cais yn haf (Rhan Dau). Byddwch yn astudio tri Mae rhaglenni MPhil neu PhD ar gael Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau, ac academihywelteifi unigol. modiwl gorfodol a thri modiwl dewisol. yn Academi Hywel Teifi yn ogystal. Am anogir myfyrwyr i’w mynychu. Chi, yn sgil trafodaeth gyda thiwtor, sydd fanylion o’r graddau ymchwil hyn ewch Teifi – Cymraeg Academi Hywel Ar gyfer yr MA Cyfryngau a Chreadigrwydd Swyddog Derbyn: â’r dewis o bwnc ymchwil arbenigol ar i dudalen 106. Digidol, fel rheol gofynnir am radd Ebost: [email protected] gyfer y traethawd estynedig. Fel arfer, Anrhydedd dda (dosbarth cyntaf neu 2.1) Ffôn: +44 (0)1792 602070 mae myfyrwyr rhan amser yn cymryd un yn y Cyfryngau neu ddisgyblaeth arall modiwl gorfodol a dau fodiwl dewisol yn berthnasol megis Drama, Cymraeg, eu blwyddyn gyntaf ac yn eu hail Hanes, Saesneg, Gwleidyddiaeth, flwyddyn gan gyflawni’r traethawd Addysg, y Gyfraith a’r Gwyddorau. Ystyrir pob cais yn unigol.
Sefydlwyd Academi Hywel Teifi yn 2010 Mae gan yr Academi lyfrgell eang ac • Darlithoedd/seminarau wythnosol • Nifer o fodiwlau eraill ym maes theori • Modiwlau gorfodol ar Sgiliau Ymchwil, yn bwerdy ac yn sefydliad o ragoriaeth ar adnoddau clyweledol sylweddol. Darperir • Asesu trwy draethodau neu waith cwrs ac arfer cyfieithu, ynghyd â’r cyfle I Sgiliau Allweddol ar gyfer Gwaith gyfer y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe. adnoddau cyfrifiadurol a gweithle ar gyfer • Traethawd hir, dan gyfarwyddyd (hyd at ddechrau dysgu iaith o’r newydd Amllwyfan Cyfunwyd Adran y Gymraeg a Chanolfan holl fyfyrwyr ôl-radd. 20,000 o eiriau). • Cyfle i elwa ar gysylltiadau’r Academi • ac Arweinyddiaeth a Gwerthoedd Cymraeg i Oedolion De-Orllewin Cymru, â chwmnïau cyfieithu. Cynhyrchu. gan greu un Academi newydd a chanddi’r MA yn y Gymraeg MA Cyfieithu gyda Thechnoleg Iaith • Modiwlau dewisol ar Y Gynulleidfa a’r statws a’r adnoddau angenrheidiol ar Mae’r cynllun MA hwn yn adlewyrchu ystod Dyma gynllun gradd delfrydol ar gyfer y MA Cyfryngau a Chreadigrwydd Digidol Defnyddiwr Aml-lwyfan, Delweddu a gyfer creu a chynnal cymuned ddysgu eang y diddordebau llenyddol ymhlith y staff sawl sydd am weithio ym maes cyfieithu. (i’w ddilysu yn 2011) Dehongli Cenedl,Busnes a’r Tirlun fywiog, sy’n cynnwys ynddi fyfyrwyr MA, academaidd yn Academi Hywel Teifi ac Mae’n rhoi pwyslais ar loywi safonau Ym Medi 2011, bydd Academi Hywel Amllwyfan, Creadigrwydd Aml-lwyfan, MPhil a PhD. Mae’r Academi hefyd yn mae’n rhoi cyfle i chi astudio meysydd a ieithyddol a defnyddio meddalwedd cof Teifi, Prifysgol Abertawe yn cyflwyno am y Sefydliadau Diwydiannau Creadigol. hyrwyddo pynciau eraill a ddysgir trwy chyfnodau mewn mwy o ddyfnder nag a cyfieithu. Gall myfyrwyr a enillodd radd tro cyntaf gwrs MA cyfrwng Cymraeg gyfrwng y Gymraeg, gan ddwyn ynghyd y wnaed ar gyfer gradd gyntaf, a hynny dan 2.1 yn y Gymraeg neu mewn disygblaeth newydd a chyffrous ar y cyd â Phrifysgol • Darlithoedd/seminarau/gweithdai nifer cynyddol o ysgolheigion ar draws gyfarwyddyd staff sy’n ymchwilio ac yn arall berthnasol ddilyn y rhaglen MA hwn. Cymru: Y Drindod Dewi Sant o’r enw MA ymarferol trwy gyfrwng cyfnodau dysgu gwahanol ddisgyblaethau sy’n gweithio cyhoeddi yn y maes. Os yw eich bryd ar Edrychir ar gyfieithu ar gyfer y cyhoeddi, Cyfryngau a Chreadigrwydd Digidol. dwys. trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol fynd ymlaen i wneud ymchwil bellach ar cyfieithu mwy technegol ar gyfer Bydd y cwrs arloesol a blaengar hwn, yn • Asesu trwy draethodau, adroddiadau, Abertawe. gyfer doethuriaeth, dyma gynllun delfrydol ar arbenigwyr, a hefyd gyfieithu ar y pryd. ymdrechu i gyflwyno’r datblygiadau cyflwyniadau llafar a gwaith cynhyrchu eich cyfer gan fod ei bwyslais ar feithrin Defnyddir amrywiaeth o dechnegau ar diweddaraf ym maes y cyfryngau • cyfryngol ymarferol. Bydd y graddau hyn yn: sgiliau ymchwil sy’n ateb gofynion y corff gyfer datblygu’r safonau cyfieithu uchaf, amllwyfan – yn benodol radio, teledu a’r • Cynigir dewis i fyfyrwyr gyflawni ariannu perthnasol. Fel arall, gall y radd gan gynnwys profiad gwaith. Y mae sawl cyfryngau newydd – trwy gyfuno y wedd • meithrin ynoch sgiliau perthnasol ar traethawd hir (hyd at 20,000 o eiriau), fod yn estyniad delfrydol ar gyfer eich un a enillodd MA Cyfieithu o Abertawe academaidd a’r wedd ymarferol. Yn gyfer gyrfa lwyddiannus mewn neu brosiect cynhyrchu 360º o safon gradd gyntaf. Dyma rai o nodweddion bellach yn gweithio yn y proffesiwn, ac ogystal â rhoi arweiniad i fyfyrwyr ar sut i amrywiaeth o feysydd, gan gynnwys broffesiynol ar gyfer Rhan Dau y cwrs. amlycaf y rhaglen: mae’r cyfuniad o bwyslais ar dechnoleg lunio cynyrchiadau mewn oes o dysgu, cyfieithu, rheoli, y cyfryngau a’r Darperir arweiniad gan diwtor cof cyfieithu a safonau ieithyddol yn gydgyfeiriant a digido cynyddol, y mae’r Gwasanaeth Sifil academaidd yn ogystal â mentor o’r • Modiwlau gorfodol ar sgiliau ymchwil gaffaeliad mawr i’n graddedigion. Mae’r cwrs hefyd yn meithrin sgiliau • eich cynorthwyo i ennill sgiliau diwydiant cyfryngau ar gyfer pob ac egwyddorion beirniadaeth cynllun yn cynnwys: arweinyddiaeth a busnes ac yn ymdrin â trosglwyddadwy, gan gynnwys gweithio myfyriwr. • Astudir pynciau megis, rhyddiaith a sut y mae’r tirlun darlledu yn datblygu yng fel rhan o dîm, cyfathrebu, cyflwyno a barddoniaeth yr Oesoedd Canol, yr • Modiwlau cyfieithu uwch ym maes Nghymru. Bydd y cwrs yn rhoi cyfle i bob sgiliau dadansoddi Anterliwt, y Diwygiad Methodistaidd, y addysg, iechyd cyhoeddus a’r gyfraith, lle myfyriwr gydweithio’n agos gyda rhai o • eich paratoi ar gyfer gradd ymchwil canon llenyddol, cynhyrchu llenyddiaeth y creffir ar safon eich cyfieithu personol ymarferwyr proffesiynol amlycaf Cymru er Gymraeg gyfoes, treftadaeth lenyddol, • Modiwl cyfieithu ar y pryd, dan ofal mwyn hybu ei g/chyflogadwyaeth a’I b/ beirniaid llenyddol, arddulleg, cyfieithydd proffesiynol phrofiad. Dyma rai o nodweddion blodeugerddi’r Ugeinfed Ganrif a • Modiwl technoleg cyfieithu, lle y dysgir sut amlycaf y rhaglen: chyfieithu llenyddol. i ddefnyddio gwahanol offer cof cyfieithu
46 47 Economics Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements Assessment How can I find out more? Visit the University: Normally a 2.2 Honours degree or above Assessment is by coursework, written Visit our website: see page 174 for details in Economics or a related subject. examination, and a dissertation. www.swansea.ac.uk/economics Applications can be made online at: English Language requirement: Scholarships and Bursaries Contact the Admissions Tutor: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Email: [email protected] – see pages 176 – 177 for further IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each A range of postgraduate scholarships and Tel: +44 (0)1792 295172 information component) or Swansea University bursaries is available. For details, please recognised equivalent. visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ For details of research degrees scholarships/ For international students, an alternative available in Economics, please see – Economics pathway into these programmes is page 108. available via our partner, International College Wales Swansea. For information see: www.icws.navitas.com
The study of economics provides the skills knowledge of modern economics. MSc Business Economics with Finance latest techniques to operate effectively in How the degrees are structured Facilities and knowledge required for a range of Students will develop a thorough and Also with ESRC recognition, this a globalised industry. Each taught Master’s degree scheme is Postgraduate students have access to financially rewarding careers. It also in-depth understanding of contemporary programme covers similar modules to the characterised by a combination of dedicated IT facilities within both the helps in understanding more fully the economic theories, their scope and MSc Business Economics, with an Topics covered include Modern compulsory and optional modules, and University’s Library and Information Centre world in which we live and work. limitations, their application in the additional focus on financial topics such Microeconomics, Contemporary students also complete a supervised and the College of Business, Economics interpretation of facts, and their usefulness as Empirical Finance and Financial Macroeconomics, Quantitative Financial dissertation in which they are required to and Law: The College has extensive PC Master’s students in the Economics in decision making. Students will also Markets and Institutions. Analysis, Economics of Money and produce a critical review of the literature and multi-user computer facilities which Department benefit from high-quality acquire enhanced IT, mathematical, Banking, Business and Economic and make a contribution to any field of give students access to a wide range of research-led teaching and close interaction statistical and econometric skills which will MSc Business Economics with Computing Forecasting, and Research Methods. study selected from the taught syllabus. software including the latest Microsoft with academic staff. The Department has enable them to carry out quantitative This programme shares a number of For a full list of the compulsory and packages, statistical packages such as received 10 national teaching awards analyses of both economic and financial modules with the MSc Business Economics, MSc International Banking, optional modules available, please SPSS and SAS, and a range of specialist - more than any other UK University, firmly economic problems, both on the course but includes additional modules covering Finance and Economics contact the Admissions Tutor or visit Business and Economics software establishing it at the forefront of Economics and in future careers. topics such as Distributed Programming in This one-year, full-time Master’s degree the website: . These schemes are including Nvivo, EViews, STATA teaching in the UK. Java, Algorithm Design and Analysis, provides excellent training for careers in designed to be academically rigorous and Datastream. Topics covered include Modern Critical Systems, Data Storage and banks, financial institutions, insurance and to meet the needs of employers for These degrees will: Microeconomics, Contemporary Manipulation, Relational and Object- companies, Central Banks and Ministries high-quality personnel who have Additional software and support is • equip you with skills relevant for a Macroeconomics, Econometric Methods orientated Database Systems and of Finance/Economics as analysts and/ advanced available through the University’s central rewarding career as a professional and Research Methods, with students able Distributed Object-orientated Programming. or advisers, as well as in the relevant training in business economics, Information Services and Systems (ISS). economist, analyst, researcher or to choose one-third of their taught modules In total one-third of the taught credits are departments of higher education. finance and computing. This includes a comprehensive digital adviser from a wide selection of options. devoted to Computing topics. library of resources which includes iFind The degree focuses on the use of advanced Research, official publications and • equip you for roles in management MSc Business Economics MSc Economics with economics, quantitative methods, finance journals, library catalogues, Athens consultancy, or in the finance or This taught Master’s degree, which has International Banking and banking (financial intermediation) and a comprehensive online accountancy sectors ESRC recognition, provides students with This exciting new, one-year taught theory in the understanding of the reference collection. • help you to gain transferable skills, an understanding of the ways in which Master’s programme allows students to functions and problems of the international including team working, communication, economic principles are applied in the focus on specific issues related to money markets and financial institutions. presentation, and analytical skills business world. Topics covered include International Banking. It will place • prepare you for a research degree Contemporary Macroeconomics, Firm emphasis upon the challenges resulting This programme shares a number of Organisation and Innovation, and from the new banking and finance modules with MSc Economics with MSc Economics Business and Economic Forecasting. environment which is taking shape International Banking, but there is a This one-year programme combines the following the recent financial crisis. greater emphasis on financial topics academic study of advanced theoretical It will equip the bankers, analysts and through modules such as Principles of and quantitative methods with a traders of the future with the theory and Finance.
48 49 Master’s Degrees – Engineering 51 Students will then move to one of the other Universities, depending upon their preferred specialisation, to complete their second semester of taught modules and their research thesis. or for further details, please apply, To visit MSc Electronics for Sustainable Energy The College of Engineering has an international reputation for electronics research for energy and advanced semiconductor materials and devices. This course places strong emphasis on state-of-the-art electronics for energy efficient devices and power electronics. The course also covers renewable energy generation technologies. Exciting new developments such as plastic electronics, energy harvesting, solar cells and biofuels are discussed and recent developments in nanotechnology are highlighted. Students will learn about numerical simulation techniques and have the chance to visit electronics industries with links to Swansea.
Visit the University: for details see page 174 Applications can be made at: online www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further – 177 – see pages 176 information of details theFor research degrees please see Engineering, available in p a g e 110. technologies. This is supported with some practical knowledge and skills for project and business management principles. MSc Computational Mechanics This is an 18-month, taught Master’s course offered in collaboration with other leading European research centres at CIMNE: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), Universität Stuttgart (Germany) and École Centrale de Nantes (France). The programme aims to provide in-depth, multidisciplinary training in the application of the finite element method and related numerical and computational techniques to the solution of problems in engineering analysis and design and simulation of current engineering problems. It provides students with a wide choice of specialisation areas by incorporating modules from the four Universities and, in allowing them to experience this way, postgraduate education in more than one European institution. Students following this course will take their first semester in either Swansea or Barcelona, where they will follow an agreed common set of core modules leading to common examinations.
[email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)1792 295514 How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering Engineering Recruitment and Admissions Team: Email: Tel: ranked second in the UK for research staff with 95% of academic quality, classed as producing world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) research. programme provides This taught Master’s high quality postgraduate training and is suitable for both recent graduates and practising professionals from related industries who are required to pursue a further learning matching section in order to achieve a Chartered Engineer status. MRes Computer Modelling in Engineering; MSc/Diploma Computational Modelling and Finite Elements These programmes provide a solid foundation in computer modelling, and the finite element method in particular. Following the taught component, students undertake project work. A Diploma may be awarded if the taught component only is completed. These programmes can also be studied part-time. MSc/MRes Communication Systems This course aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the technology and architecture of computer communications, photonics and telecommunication networks, wireless telecommunications and related wireless information Assessment The of the award MSc and MRes is dependent upon satisfactory performance continuous assessment examinations, in and research dissertation. The examinations January in and, taken are and May/June theseif passed are students satisfactorily, move on to the full-time research project Theresearch theduring summer. dissertation submitted is September in externally. examined is and accredited in parts by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). Chemical Engineering (Diploma) Chemical Engineering graduates are highly sought after by industry; biochemical and chemical engineers’ starting salaries are second only to those of medics. The Diploma in Chemical Engineering is a conversion course for graduates who wish to work in the chemical engineering field but who have not obtained a first degree in Chemical Engineering. The course is set at first-degree level and lasts a full calendar The Diploma programme consists of year. 12 coursework modules over two semesters followed by a six-module plant design project over the summer period. The Diploma ranks as a potential qualification for entry to higher degrees in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. It is recognised and accredited by the IChemE and given exemption from Part III examinations. of the Institution’s MSc Civil Engineering In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, an independent review of the quality of research across the UK Higher Education at Swansea Civil Engineering sector, MSc Aerospace Engineering This flexible MSc course is based on the world-class expertise available in the Materials Engineering Research Centre and the computational expertise in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre. It provides students with a systematic understanding of advanced knowledge, critical awareness of current problems, and new insights required by effective practising Aerospace Engineers. Students will gain comprehensive knowledge, understanding and skills that will enable them to contribute to the creation and maintenance of aerospace and aeronautical equipment needed by and with due regard industry and society, to the environment. MSc Chemical Engineering degree is a modern This taught Master’s course that provides a breadth and depth of learning to equip graduates to meet the challenges and opportunities of a career in industry research. The course is or designed primarily for graduates in chemical or biochemical engineering, although graduates from allied disciplines will be considered for entry with supplementary training (see Chemical Engineering Diploma). The MSc in Chemical Engineering is recognised and Scholarships and Bursaries ofA range postgraduate scholarships and bursariesavailable. is The College currentlyis offering a number scholarships of European Social (ESF) Fund for MScand MRes programmes to UK are scholarships These students. EU and industrydesigned Welsh to with link diverse The students. postgraduate portfolio of projects means graduates from a wide of range science and engineering For to apply. invited backgrounds are of pleasedetails our all scholarships, visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate
rewarding career in a range of diverse engineering sectors, including automotive, aerospace, power generation, communications, and medical instrumentation and devices including team working, communication, presentation, and analytical skills These degrees will: • equip you with skills relevant for a • help you to gain transferable skills, • prepare you for a research degree. Engineering at Swansea University is a cutting-edge multidisciplinary learning environment with state-of-the-art teaching and research facilities. The College offers a broad portfolio of postgraduate courses that reflect our research strengths and the and welcomes changing needs of industry, proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. Engineering is the practical application of scientific and technical theories to everyday challenges. It touches every part of our lives, from the largest construction projects to developing medical devices newest at the nanoscale, Engineering’s frontier. English Language requirement: each in of 5.5 a minimum (with 6.5 IELTS component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. Entry requirements Honoursdegree MSc: normally or a 2.2 above Honours degree or normallyMRes: a 2.1 a subjectabove in to the relevant area of research. Engineering 50 Master’s Degrees – Engineering 53 Roberto Morujo, Roberto Morujo, ” How the degrees are structured the degrees How are modular in MSc programmes of must obtain a total structure. Students to qualify for the degree. 180 credits credits in This is made up of 120 Partand a One (the taught element) which is worth project (Part Two) in a written 60 credits and culminates dissertation. Students must successfully complete Part One before being allowed to progress to Part Two. of 180 credits: MRes programmes consist and 60 credits for taught components 120 credits for the project/dissertation. The research project can either be carried a For out in industry or at the University. full list of modules available in each programme, please visit the website. MSc Engineering Aerospace areas across the life science, physical the life science, physical areas across engineering disciplines. science and broad courses cover a These Master’s from the latest range of subject areas, technologysemiconductor fabrication medicalthrough to biological and throughoutapplications, with the emphasis control of materialson characterisation and inat the nanoscale. The MRes isNanoScience to Nanotechnology in partsrecognised and accredited by the (IChemE).Institution of Chemical Engineers A key partability to of this course is the of state-of-the-artgain hands-on experience fabrication and characterisation techniques such as atomic force microscopy and scanning tunnelling microscopy. MRes Steel Process and Product Development (part-time only) Career development of engineers already working in industry is supported by a series of EPSRC IGDS programmes in Steel Process and Product Development, which leads to the MRes The current degree by part-time study. programmes build on the full-time MRes schemes and offer specific options to satisfy the requirements of the steel industry. After passing all the modules on the MSc course, I had the possibility to develop my final thesis in an After passing all the modules on the MSc industrial environment. I learnt team work and about avionics and electronic equipment and developed communication skills. My favourite memory of the course is our team winning the International Aircraft Design and Handling competition. Our effort really paid off when we won the first prize! Before starting my final thesis, I found a job as an Applications Engineer in one of the most important aerospace engineering degree in a university with a great reputation I think obtaining a Master’s Personally, companies, MTorres. provides a fantastic such as Swansea University makes it much easier to find a job. Swansea University opportunity due to the professional and friendly staff. to study any field of engineering “ MSc Nanomedicine refers to diagnosis of disease Nanohealth interventionand medical taken at the achieve this, To molecular scale. imaging and technologies capable of nanoscale (a controlling matter on the of a metre) are nanometre is one-billionth biological being used to manipulate and proteins molecules such as genes goal is to inside living cells. The ultimate the improve health by understanding of physical and chemical characteristics the molecular machinery of the human and devices body and to engineer tools control the that interact with and ultimately biological nanoworld. Building on the strengths of the £22 million Centre for NanoHealth, this programme is taught jointly by the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine and accepts applications from both life and physical scientists. MSc/MRes Nanoscience to Nanotechnology The growth of nanotechnology is one of the most exciting developments in science and engineering in recent years. Much of the research in this area is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing expertise from different MSc Mechanical Engineering MSc Mechanical is designed for This MSc programme who have already completed candidates wish degree and who an undergraduate to further entering their knowledge before on this course employment. The modules standalone can also be studied as seeking modules for those in employment or furtherprofessional development knowledge in particular fields. subject a high quality The course will give students overview of the techniques of modern and to present Mechanical Engineering of disciplines examples from a wide range and industries. It enables students to develop the potential to become future leaders and champions of industry. MSc in Medical Radiation Physics Medical physics is a highly multidisciplinary subject, offering an exciting career with the additional satisfaction of contributing directly to patient treatment and care. With the extensive use of technology in medicine there is a growing need for specialists trained in the physical sciences. This accredited MSc in Medical Radiation Physics is the first step graduates take towards the professional qualification of Clinical Scientist in Medical Physics. The MSc is taught by staff from the Colleges of Engineering and Medicine and by specialist Medical Physicists from Singleton Hospital. Through hands-on instruction with equipment used routinely in the hospital setting, you will acquire knowledge and understanding of fundamental aspects of the use of radiation in medicine. The programme will prepare you for research and clinical practice in a rapidly changing field, including tuition in computer modelling, human engineering It and the medico-legal issues they imply. enables students to develop the potential to become leaders, defining and influencing future medical practice. The scheme has consistently demonstrated has consistently demonstrated The scheme major degree with a how a Master’s can successfully research component a degree graduates with produce higher skills that is balance of knowledge and very much in demand. (Steels Training MRes in Steel Technology Partnership)Research and Innovation Research and The Steels Training Innovation Partnership Master of – STRIP an industrially led, Research programme is scheme in which the one-year Master’s research student embarks on a large A industry. project related to the metals number of technical and non-technical courses will be given at the start of the course to ensure the student has a solid base from which to tackle the research project. The research project will be in partnership with a local company. MSc Materials Engineering Materials Engineering underpins almost all Engineering applications, and employment prospects are excellent within a very wide range of sectors, ranging from large-scale materials production through to R&D in highly specialised advanced materials. This MSc scheme is an excellent route for students with a first degree in any technical subject to become qualified in long this field. It is based on the College’s history and excellent record of education, training and research in structural Materials and links with existing MRes and EngD schemes in Materials. The course focuses specifically on the strengths of main research College’s materials for aerospace applications and modules allow Taught steel technology. students to specialise in one of these areas to a certain degree, and the scheme also includes modules on financial, management, and environmental aspects of Engineering.
MRes Materials Engineering This full-time MRes degree scheme includes modules covering a range of areas within the Materials field, some of which are linked to our strengths in the steel and aerospace sector. The MRes in Environmental Management is recognised and accredited in parts by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE). This exciting course is relevant to those with a strong interest in gaining a solid understanding of the relevance, development, and implementation of environmental management processes. MRes Environmental Management Environmental management has become a necessity for many organisations as they respond to commercial, regulatory and consumer pressures. The international standard for environmental management systems, ISO 14001, is increasingly being implemented by industry and governmental organisations to satisfy these pressures and provides a structured basis for achieving continual environmental improvement, for maintaining regulatory compliance and for the prevention of pollution. The course will provide students with The course will provide for furtherthe educational components learningto matching sections needed as set out qualify as a Chartered Engineer, and by the Institution of Engineering and other UK and European Technology engineering professional institutions. Engineering and Electronic Engineering MSc Electrical complements the This programme current suite of undergraduate College’s is in this field. It degree programmes have already suitable for candidates who degree in completed an undergraduate either the field of Electrical Engineering in the UK oroverseas. 52 English Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the degrees are structured The MA English Language Studies and the Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Normally a good Honours (first-class or The MA schemes are available to full-time MA TEFL offer the options of a dissertation A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: 2.1) in English. For the MA Creative and part-time students. The full-time course or professional practice portfolio. bursaries are available. For details, www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities Writing: normally a minimum of a lower structure is split across the year with three Regular research seminars and lectures are please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ class BA Honours degree 2.2 (with overall modules offered in each academic run by the Research Institute for Arts and scholarships/Postgraduate. Funding may Contact the Admissions Tutor: average of 55% or above) in a related semester (a total of six modules in Part Humanities (RIAH), which students are also be available from the Arts Email: [email protected] subject. Applicants for the MA TEFL One) and then a dissertation over the encouraged to attend. and Humanities Research Council. Tel: + 44 (0)1792 606980/606981 programme should normally have a good summer (Part Two). The dissertation first degree and/or relevant experience, component is written on a specialist Assessment Postgraduate Diplomas Visit the University: see page 174 for and Cert. TESOL or TEFLA holders will research topic of your choosing. Part-time – English The taught Master’s degrees are available and Certificates details also be considered favourably. students normally take one compulsory by assessed coursework and a dissertation Full-time or part-time Postgraduate and two optional modules in their first Applications can be made online at: or a professional practice portfolio. Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate English Language requirement: and second year and write their dissertation www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – in the third year. Diploma (120 credits) is available. IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in see pages 176 – 177 for further each component) or Swansea University information recognised equivalent. IELTS 6.0 for MA English Language Studies.
The study of English language and There are also two compulsory modules: OR MA in English Language Studies Students seeking a purely practical entry literature encourages the exploration of • Study and Research Skills in • Historical Methods and Approaches, The MA in English Language Studies level professional qualification are one of the most diverse, stimulating, and the Humanities OR includes elements of language advised to take a Certificate in TESOL at The MA in English Literature challenging of disciplines. It also cultivates • Research Practice (in English) • Research and Study Skills description, analytic approaches to Swansea (ELTS Centre) or elsewhere. sensitivity towards language, and seeks to (Social Research) language in use and techniques for “offers students a unique answer some provocative questions. MA Welsh Writing in English • Research Practice (in Gender studying discourse, as well as a The MA programme offers a range opportunity to expand their Students choose four modules, with one and Culture) consideration of the practical applications of modules, covering: These degrees will: of them (if desired) being drawn from of the skills and knowledge associated • Enhanced understanding of intellectual horizons in an • equip you with skills relevant for a another scheme (the MA in English and In addition students choose four with these. The scheme is intended to the area of TEFL environment that brings people the MA in Gender and Culture, or from optional modules. allow students to enhance their • Training in relevant research methods rewarding career in a range of diverse together from across the globe. fields, including communications and literary modules available elsewhere understanding of the structure, • Experience of completing a media, publishing, education, speech in the College of Arts and Humanities), MA Creative Writing components and use of the English research dissertation At Swansea you have the unique and complete a dissertation in Welsh A unique programme that provides core language, and to develop the skills • Professional practice porfolio therapy, and the Civil Service experience of reading a poem by Writing in English. training and individual pathways in the needed to analyse language in a variety • Second Language Acquisition Processes • help you to gain transferable skills, major genres of contemporary literary of contexts, according to a range of • Communicative Language Teaching Dylan Thomas or William including team working, communication, There are also two compulsory modules: and media writing. theoretical approaches. Students study • Discourse Analysis for ELT presentation, and analytical skills Wordsworth and then walking • Study and Research Skills in three compulsory modules, research • Research Methods for ELT • prepare you for a research degree. the Humanities Compulsory modules: methods or Language Teaching, two • Vocabulary: Teaching and Learning the same streets and countryside • Research Practice • Writing Fiction optional modules and then a dissertation • Computer Assisted Language Learning For a full list of the compulsory and that inspired that poet. Studying (in Welsh Writing in English) • Writing Poetry I or professional practice portfolio. • Teaching Young Learners optional modules available, please here has both deepened my love contact the Admissions Tutor. MA Gender and Culture In addition students choose four optional The MA will equip students to enter of literature while allowing me to An interdisciplinary MA scheme taught modules. After the compulsory and professions in which English Language MA English Literature by gender specialists across the Arts optional elements, students write a plays a central role, such as teaching, come to view it from a more Students choose four modules in any and Humanities – in the subject areas of dissertation portfolio in a genre of their translation and interpretation, publishing, combination from the MA in English, the global perspective. Classics and Ancient History, English, choosing. This is a creative piece trade and diplomacy. MA in Welsh Writing in English, the MA European Languages, History, Media – in prose, poetry or drama script Robert Tretin, in Medieval Studies, the MA in Gender ” Studies, and Political and Cultural Studies. accompanied by a commentary placing MA Teaching English as a MA English Literature and Culture (or from literary modules the work in its academic context. Foreign Language (MA TEFL) available elsewhere in the College of Arts Compulsory modules: The MA in TEFL is intended for those who and Humanities), and complete a • Gender and Culture: An Introduction have already begun to develop an dissertation. • Study and Research Skills in the informed interest or have some previous Humanities training or relevant experience in the field.
54 55 Geography Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements which is worth 60 credits and culminates Assessment How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: Normally a good Honours degree (2.1) in in a research project/dissertation. Students Taught Masters and MRes degrees are Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline an appropriate subject. must successfully complete Part One assessed through a combination of www.swansea.ac.uk/geography – see pages 176 – 177 for before being allowed to progress to Part examinations, coursework and a further information Two. English Language requirement: dissertation or research project. MRes Contact the Postgraduate degrees require that taught modules are Recruitment Officer: For details of the research IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in MRes programmes consist of 180 credits: passed; the MRes dissertation is Tel: + 44 (0)1792 295142 degrees available in Geography, each component) or Swansea University 60 credits for taught components and 120 subsequently examined in a viva voce please see page 116. recognised equivalent. credits for the research project/dissertation. examination in the same way as other Visit the University: see page 174 for details
For full details of the modules available, research degrees. – Geography How the degrees are structured please visit the website. MA and MSc programmes are modular in Scholarships and Bursaries structure. Students must obtain a total of A range of postgraduate scholarships and 180 credits to qualify for the degree. This bursaries is available. For details please is made up of 120 credits in Part One (the visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ taught element) and a project (Part Two) Postgraduate
Geography, the study of the world we live MSc Environmental Dynamics and MSc Geographic Information and MA Human Geography MRes Media Geographies • City Visions in, helps us to understand how Climate Change Climate Change The MA in Human Geography will The MRes Media Geographies gives you • Social Theory and Space landscapes are shaped, how populations This interdisciplinary course offers training This interdisciplinary course offers training provide you with a deeper understanding the opportunity to study the various ways • Thinking About Digital Media move and interact, and how climate in the scientific basis of past, present, and in the scientific basis of past, present, and of the vital role that Geography plays in which the media increasingly shapes • Consumer Culture: Modern and change will affect us all. Key research future changes in the Earth’s climate and future changes in the Earth’s climate and within the social sciences and the the world. From the latest developments in Postmodern themes at Swansea include environmental environment. It places particular emphasis environment, and is focused particularly on difference that space and place make to digital technologies, to ways in which • The Digital Edge: Contemporary Issues and climatic change, migration and on environmental and climatic change at the application of a variety of methods that the key social processes, such as mass communications and media and Trends national identity, glaciology and ice-sheet the regional and global scale. may be used to analyse geographic international migration, economic representations influence our perceptions, • The Political Economy of Media dynamics, global environment modelling patterns and processes, and to model development, and urbanisation. to the power and influence of media • Qualitative Research Methods and Earth observation, and social theory The MSc combines the international dynamics of climate and Earth systems. institutions, we live in an ever more • Designing Digital Media and global cities. research strengths of staff in environmental This course is aimed at students with an The course provides subject-specific complex media environment, shaped by • Climate Change: Past, Present and Future and climate dynamics (processes and interest in Geographical and climate knowledge and an advanced forces operative across global, national, These degrees will: mechanisms involved in stability and science, who have good analytical and understanding of contemporary issues regional, and local scales. The Your choice of modules relates to your • equip you with skills relevant for a change), climate change, sustainability, mathematical skills. within Human Geography, combined programme provides you with an choice of dissertation topic. The rewarding career in a range of diverse and marine and ecosystem biology. with a capability to conduct theoretically advanced understanding of these issues, dissertation is a major piece of fields, including environmental The MSc combines the international informed and methodologically giving you the skills to conduct independent research, guided by management, conservation, planning, Compulsory modules include: research strengths of staff in GIS rigorous research. theoretically informed and appropriate supervisors, which represents local authorities, education, computing, • Science skills and research methods applications, satellite remote sensing and methodologically rigorous research. the culmination of the programme and management, finance, and insurance • Satellite remote sensing modelling, and climate change. The course draws on the Department’s provides an outstanding basis for both a • Principles of environmental dynamics research strengths, including social and The programme offers you an exciting range of research- and media-related • give you transferable skills, including • Climate change Compulsory modules include: cultural geography; cities, space and opportunity to undertake an advanced career options and for future PhD research. team working, communication, social theory; urban/economic policy research dissertation, tailored to your own presentation, and analytical skills • Geographic Information Systems The breadth of the course means that the • Satellite remote sensing formulation and evaluation; migration and individual interests, on a theme relating Related programmes include the MSc by • prepare you for a research degree dissertation project can range from • Modelling of Earth Systems refugee policy; and rural geographics. the media to space and place. As the Research Media Geographies. This computer modelling to applied science. • Climate change basis for this research, you take any three scheme has no taught element and is most Geographers at Swansea benefit from Compulsory modules include: taught modules, offered by members of suitable for candidates with an existing exceptional computing facilities that The course develops practical research The course equips students with theoretical • Social theory and space the University’s Geography and Media background in Human Geography or include fifteen dual-processor workstations skills, and provides methodological knowledge of climate change, practical • Data collection in context Studies Departments, from a list that Media Studies who wish to pursue a for Earth Observation, a 20-node expertise. research skills, and excellent applied • Qualitative research methods OR typically includes: wholly dissertation-related programme of multiprocessor Beowulf cluster, and the numerical skills, which are much • Quantitative research methods study. Appropriate topics of study may be Department’s IBM ‘Blue Ice’ sought-after by employers. discussed in advance with the staff supercomputer, used mainly for member most closely related to the area climate and glaciological modelling. in which you wish to specialise.
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MRes Social Theory and Space MRes in Urban Studies Related programmes include the MSc by The MRes Social Theory and Space gives The MRes Urban Studies gives you the Research Urban Studies. This scheme has you the opportunity to study the profound opportunity to study the world’s cities and no taught element and is most suitable for impact of geography on society from the the process of urbanisation from a variety candidates with an existing background in perspective of social and spatial theory. of theoretical and thematic perspectives. Human Geography or Urban Studies who Spanning structuralism and post- From the roles of consumption and wish to pursue a wholly dissertation-related structuralism, semiotics and psychoanalysis, globalisation in shaping cities in advanced programme of study. Appropriate topics of and modernism and postmodernism, the economies, to the livelihood and study may be discussed in advance with programme provides an advanced development challenges facing cities in the the staff member most closely related to understanding of contemporary social and developing world, the programme the area in which you wish to specialise. spatial theory, combined with a provides you with an advanced theoretically informed and methodologically understanding of contemporary issues rigorous research project. within Urban Studies, giving you the skills There have been many to conduct theoretically informed and “highlights to my studies at Swansea. The programme offers you an exciting methodologically rigorous urban research. opportunity to undertake an advanced One particular one that stands out research dissertation, on a topic tailored to The programme offers you an exciting was the MSc Environmental your individual interests, on a key aspect opportunity to undertake an advanced of social and spatial theory. As the basis research dissertation, on a topic tailored to Dynamics and Climatic Change for this research, you take three taught your individual interests, on any urban introductory field excursion to modules, offered by members of the theme or issue. As the basis for this Stackpole. This was an interesting University’s Geography Department, from research, you take three taught modules, a list typically including: offered by members of the University’s educational weekend away and Geography Department, from a list • Social Theory and Space also a great way to meet the other • Consumer Culture: Modern and typically including: Postmodern • Urban Networks and the Knowledge students on the course at an early • The Culture and Politics of Nature Economy stage. I also greatly enjoyed the • Urban Networks and the Knowledge • Urban Livelihoods and City dissertation period of the course as I Economy Transformation • Qualitative Research Methods • Global Cities had an interesting topic and it • City Visions allowed me the freedom to put Your choice of modules relates to your • Social Theory and Space choice of dissertation topic. The • Consumer Culture: Modern and some of the writing practice from dissertation is a major piece of Postmodern earlier on in the course to good use independent research, guided by • Qualitative Research Methods appropriate supervisors, which represents • Quantitative Research Methods in my own independent study. the culmination of the programme and Adam Bruce-Smith, provides an outstanding basis for both a Your choice of modules relates to your ” Environmental Recruitment range of research-related career options choice of dissertation topic. The and for future PhD research. dissertation is a major piece of Consultant independent research, guided by Related programmes include the MSc by appropriate supervisors, which represents Research Social Theory. This scheme has the culmination of the programme and no taught element and is most suitable for provides an outstanding basis for both a candidates with an existing background in range of research and urban-related Human Geography or cognate discipline career options and for future PhD research. who wish to pursue a wholly dissertation- related programme of study. Appropriate topics of study may be discussed in advance with the staff member most closely related to the area in which you wish to specialise.
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Entry requirements Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Degrees Master’s Please see individual course details A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: The MSc Public Health and Partnerships in Care gives me highly bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/ “sought after knowledge in Public Health, and also provides the insight English Language requirement visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ humanandhealthsciences into social care and social sciences which I was looking for. In my opinion, For all full-time Health Science taught Postgraduate programmes: Visit the University: appropriate health care cannot be achieved if it is not considered along see page 174 for details IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 in each with the social setting in which it deemed to take place. The part of the component) or Swansea University Applications can be made online at: course that I enjoyed most was the synergy and continuous links established recognised equivalent. www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – Health Science – see pages 176 – 177 for further between health and social care, as well as the friendly attitude of teaching information staff, (you never feel helpless!). I’m now hoping to pursue PhD studies in
For details of the research degrees Health Science at Swansea University. available in Health Science, please see Serge Engamba, MSc Public Health and Partnerships in Care p a g e 118. ”
Health Science programmes at Swansea We are seeking Nursing and Midwifery i. Health professionals (nursing, medicine Sharon Harvey Dr Hugh Upton Practice Innovation Network University are aimed at multi-professionals Council approval for a recordable and other allied health professionals) [email protected] [email protected] Within the last year the two local Health encompassing a range of themes, including teaching qualification and approval for who teach in the workplace +44 (0)1792 518540 +44 (0)1792 295611 Boards and Swansea University have midwifery, nursing, infection control, fellowship with the Higher Education ii. Members of either a medical or a collaborated to establish the Practice chronic conditions, public health and Academy (HEA) and the Academy of health care profession who are MA Health Care Law and Ethics MSc Advanced Practice in Health Care Innovation Network (PIN). This aims to policy, healthcare, law and management. Medical Educators (AoME). members of a university faculty. (part-time) (part-time) share ideas and resources for mutual The College’s mission is to conduct high This course provides an opportunity to This programme prepares experienced benefit and for the common good of quality research, deliver high quality This programme is designed for health Applicants must either: examine the structure and operation of the healthcare professionals to develop into practice development in nursing and educational programmes, and promote professionals involved in education in the • Have an appropriate degree or its legal system in England and Wales, to advanced practitioners. Key areas health care. The PIN is already having a evidence-based clinical practice that clinical and/or academic setting, who equivalent from an approved institution look critically at the real life impact of law covered include advanced clinical positive effect with the establishment of contributes to the health, social wellbeing would like to broaden their understanding (preferably 2:1 or above) and evidence on practice within the healthcare system, practice, research, education, Practice Innovation Units. The first of these and prosperity of the communities of of educational processes and practice of recent academic study and to do so in the context of an management and leadership. Students is centred around the Rehabilitation South-West Wales and beyond. and develop their careers in the field of Or: understanding of the ethical problems that will develop their critical thinking and Service at Bridgend where a team of professional healthcare education. Nurses, • A professional qualification and a arise in healthcare. enhance their clinical role. nurse practitioners are based. These These degrees will: doctors, dieticians, general practitioners, minimum of two year’s relevant work clinicians and staff from the programme • help you to develop your knowledge occupational therapists, physiotherapists, experience and responsibilities Modules available include: Compulsory modules include: are already involved in creating closer and skills in your chosen profession audiologists, university lecturers/tutors considered by the University to be • Philosophy, Ethics and Health Care • Foundations in Research working relationships which will be of • develop and enhance your transferable skills would all benefit from the programme. acceptable for the purposes of • The Boundaries of Life • Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic mutual benefit to the service and to postgraduate admission. • Introduction to Law and Health Care Skills 1 education. For the programme these MA Education for the Health Modules to be taken include: • Patients, Professionals and the Law • Anatomy, Physiology and benefits will include the addition of Professions (part-time) • Teaching and Learning for the Health Registered nurses and midwives seeking • Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Pathophysiology experienced advanced practitioners to the Education is a core element of professional Professions’ Educators to achieve either Practice Teacher (Stage 3 the Law • Advanced Practice: Management and teaching team, collaborative educational practice. Mentors, supervisors and teachers • Teaching and Learning for Practice of the NMC (2008) Standards for Leadership projects and the possibility of placements are vital to the preparation of the next Teachers Supporting Learning and Assessment in The degree will be of interest to healthcare • Advanced Practice and Education for students. generation of practitioners and clinicians. • Designing and Evaluating your Teaching Practice (SLAiP)) or Teacher status (Stage 4 professionals seeking to study legal issues • Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic • Assessment and Feedback of the NMC (2008) SLAiP) must be able relevant to their work. Lawyers interested in Skills 2 This course is taught at the St David’s Park The Education for the Health Professions • Researching Educational Practice to demonstrate that they have developed healthcare provision, regulation and campus in Carmarthen. Programme will enable you to develop an • Mentoring and Supervision their own knowledge, skills and delivery will also find this programme useful. This taught Master’s degree will appeal in-depth understanding of educational competence beyond registration i.e. to healthcare professionals looking to Normally a 2.2 degree or its equivalent principles and values to develop your Entry Requirements registered and worked for at least two Normally an Honours degree (2:2 or further enhance and develop their in a relevant subject. Students do not expertise in teaching, assessing and This course will be offered to two years, and gained additional above) or a period of professional clinical knowledge and skills. necessarily require an initial degree in supervision in the clinical and kinds of teachers: qualifications that will support students experience in a relevant field. order to undertake the MSc Advanced academic settings. (NMC 2008). Practice in Health Care. 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prerequisite studies that could include the This course is aimed at qualified healthcare Core Modules to be taken: prospectus if they wish. For the work- The course aims to enhance their skills MSc Public Health and Health Promotion Master’s Degrees Master’s Foundations in Health Assessment module, professionals who work with infection risks • Theory and Practice of Chronic based modules students will, in and knowledge by teaching them to: (full-time or part-time) or others that the admission tutor may and communicable diseases, as well as Conditions Management conjunction with a practice facilitator and • Plan and deliver service improvements Designed to provide an understanding of deem as suitable and relevant prior to those who would like to widen their • Foundations in Health Promotion the programme manager, develop • Work with others to achieve the theoretical underpinnings of public formal commencement of the programme. knowledge and develop their practice in • Foundations in Research learning contracts which will be aimed at organisational goals health and health promotion, this infection control and public health. • Health Psychology of Chronic Illness meeting the learning requirements for the • Optimise resources used programme enables students to This would be viewed as pre-clinical • Social Aspects of Chronic Illness module and practice development needs • Manage and motivate change experience health promotion in practice, study and may be required to provide This course is taught at the St David’s Park • Dissertation in their practice areas. • Communicate effectively and be gain theoretical knowledge and apply it an adequate knowledge base in human campus in Carmarthen. accountable for performance to practice – facilitating both their physiology, pathology and applied Entry requirements: Normally an Honours Starting your professional practice is the personal and professional development. It therapeutics and developing clinical Normally a relevant Honours degree (2.2 degree (2:1 or above) and evidence of only taught module delivered at Swansea The MSc Health Care Management was develops the students’ ability to provide – Health Science diagnostics. or above) and recent academic study or a period of University campus. The other modules are revised in 2011. There are six others with health information and the evidence of recent academic study, OR at professional experience in a relevant field all work-based. compulsory modules. support necessary to achieve change and This prerequisite study will also provide a least two years’ experience as a first level with clinical experience and to influence health policy at all levels. mechanism of ensuring that students have healthcare professional. Applicants also responsibilities. This programme is also available to study The compulsory modules are: adequate academic skills for Master’s level need to be registered as first level as a postgraduate diploma or • Theoretical Perspectives for Managing This programme is designed to meet the study and could be utilised in the healthcare professionals with possession of Tessa Watts postgraduate certificate. and Leading within Health Care needs of health promotion practitioners at acquisition of a first level degree. a good professional portfolio. Please note [email protected] • Managing and Leading in Practice Level Five and above and the developing that because of the clinical nature of this +44 (0)1792 518573 All applicants need to be employed in • Organising Health Care public health agenda. The course is All applicants will be profiled to course, applicants will need to be working the health or social care sector. An • Social, Cultural and Economic Context mapped to the National Occupational consider any equivalent prior learning. in clinical practice and the support of their MSc Enhanced Professional Practice appropriate degree or equivalent from an of Health Standards for the Practice of Public Health If you would like further information on manager is essential. (part-time only) – Work Based Learning approved institution • Politics and Policies and the Public Health Career Framework entry requirements or have a query The MSc Enhanced Professional Practice is (preferably 2.2 or above) and evidence • Evidence and Research for Health Care competences. regarding your eligibility please Dr Jayne Cutter an academic award developed to enable of recent academic study is required, or Management don’t hesitate to contact us. [email protected] health and social care professionals evidence of undertaking continuous Modules available include: +44 (0)1792 295790 undertaking work-based learning and professional development, with at least Students will also have a choice of two • Foundations in Health Promotion Dean Snipe practice development to gain academic two years experience, and possession of optional modules, selected from: • Foundations in Research [email protected] MSc Chronic Conditions Management credit for their learning. Work-based a good and relevant professional • Public Health and Primary Health Care • Foundations in Management +44 (0)1792 518558 (full-time or part-time) learning values learning which takes place portfolio. • Economic Evaluation in Health Care and Leadership The increasing burden of chronic illness is outside of an educational institution and • Quality Improvement • Research Development to Improve MSc Advanced Practice in Health Care one of the greatest challenges facing integrates practice with theory. This is a Sally Williams Or Health – Infection Control Option (part-time) health systems globally. These conditions work-based modular Postgraduate Degree [email protected] • Comparative Health Care Systems – • Developing Programmes and Evaluation This taught Master’s degree was can have profound and far reaching which will be assessed by portfolio and a +44 (0)1792 518581 International Perspectives on Health • Partnership, Public Health and developed in conjunction with the NHS implications on all aspects of peoples’ reflective narrative. Care Systems. Epidemiology and is designed to equip healthcare lives and can present patients (and MSc Health Care Management professionals with the skills to lead families) with a spectrum of needs. Indeed, Compulsory modules include: (full-time or part-time) Applicants should possess either a 2.2 The programme is suitable for a wide innovative infection control practice. people living with a chronic condition • Starting your Professional Development Designed to meet the management degree from a recognised university or range of people with an interest in public Students will learn how to approach the require support, care and rehabilitation • Personal Practice Development Portfolio development needs of a modern health awarding body, or equivalent health and health promotion, including subject critically, evaluating and promoting from a wide range of people in health, care system, this course attracts students qualifications, or have professional nurses, midwives, health visitors, sport and progressive practices and sound patient social and voluntary care sectors. In Optional modules include: from overseas as well as the UK. The qualifications in a relevant field with at fitness workers, teachers, and care in their workplace. addition, effective health promotion, • Policy Influences on your Practice course is provided in a research-based least two years work experience. physiotherapists and health promotion prevention, self-care and self-management • Assessing your Current Practice environment that engages students to practitioners. New graduates and Modules to be taken include: will help ensure that chronic illnesses are • How the Evidence Base Can Help learn and develop as health care Dr David Rea international students are welcome to apply. • Infection Control Theory avoided wherever possible and that Change your Practice managers. [email protected] • Clinical Decision Making people are more informed to safely and • How Can I Make a Change in Practice? +44 (0)1792 295316 Normally an Honours degree (2.1 or • Advanced Practice: Management effectively manage their health and well • Advancing your own Practice People working in healthcare above) or a period of at least two years and Leadership being. This requires complex responses • Teaching and Learning in Practice management, and health and social care, relevant professional experience with • Infection Control Strategy, Policy over extended periods of time, wishing to develop and update their appropriate qualifications. and Practice coordinated, proactive and collaborative This is a flexible programme and students practice and those interested in entering • Advanced Practice and Education input from the health, social care and can study up to 30 credits from the taught the healthcare sector in a management Jane Thomas • Dissertation voluntary sectors, patients, carers and lay modules within the College’s module, capacity, will benefit from this [email protected] personnel (as in the Expert Patient post-registration and postgraduate programme. +44 (0)1792 518533 Programme). MSc Public Health and Partnerships
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in Care (full-time or part-time) social care agencies, governmental and Compulsory modules include: by the Care Council for Wales to be contact with the Agency Liaison Person healthcare professional. Applicants also
Effective public health can only be non governmental agencies. These include • Research and Study Skills appropriate for the role. from their Local Authority to seek need to be registered as first level Degrees Master’s developed and delivered through nurses, midwives, medical practitioners, • Data Collection in Context agreement for nominations. healthcare professionals with possession successful collaboration between different social workers, community development • Ethics and Philosophy of Social The programme has been introduced to of a good professional portfolio. Please disciplines and agencies and a strong workers, project workers and managers, Research meet the new roles and responsibilities for Candidates should also have either a note that because of the clinical nature of commitment to public participation. The voluntary sector staff, health sector • Qualitative Research Methods professionals working with individuals who Bachelor or Master’s Degree or in this course, applicants will need to be MSc Public Health and Partnerships in managers, social care managers, housing • Dissertation are considered for, and who become exceptional circumstances, where this working in clinical practice and the Care course is concerned with addressing officers and those working in public health • Quantitative Methods subject to compulsory hospital admission academic requirement is not met, support of their manager is essential. the ways in which contemporary and environmental health departments. • Case Studies in Applied Social and/or treatment and aftercare introduced applicants must satisfy the Director of the population health needs and policy Research Methods: Criminology in the Mental Health Act 2007. This Programme that their experience and Dr Jayne Cutter
demands can be met and put into practice Normally an Honours degree (2:2 or or Social Work course is for social workers, registered qualifications equip them to undertake [email protected] – Health Science through partnership working. The course above). Registered mental health nurses, occupational postgraduate study. This can be +44 (0)1792 295790 facilitates the acquisition of knowledge, healthcare professionals, or those with two Assessment is normally through therapists and clinical psychologists who evidenced by, for example, a relevant understanding and skills necessary for years’ experience in a position of continuous course assessment; can demonstrate that they have the support Post Qualifying Award. Candidates who working in a wide range of practice and responsibility in a health or social care however, potential students should contact of an employer who will ensure that they do not hold a degree may be required to leadership roles in public health, community field relevant to the course, are also the admissions tutor for detailed are provided with the necessary context attend for interview. health and social care. This opportunity for eligible to apply. information on assessment. within which to develop both the skills and shared education among a diverse group to meet the requirements of the Deborah Davies provides a valuable opportunity to share Janice Lewis Students also undertake a 20,000 word programme’s approach to assessment. For [email protected] perspectives, challenge assumptions and [email protected] dissertation on a topic off their choice. practical purposes this will almost +44 (0)1792 295798 build partnerships. +44 (0)1792 602384 This enables them to conduct a small invariably be within Local Social Service social research project in their speciality. Authorities (LSSAs). Postgraduate Certificate in Infection The course meets the Skills for Health MSc Social Research Methods Prevention and Control (part-time) competencies for Public Health Practice This multidisciplinary programme has Normally an initial degree (usually an Modules include: This taught postgraduate certificate was and has been part of an ongoing project Research Training (RT) status from the upper 2.2 or above) in one of the social • Values Based Practice and Ethical developed in conjunction with the NHS mapping the Public Health Career Economic and Social Research Council sciences. Enquiries from applicants with an Decision Making in Mental Health and is designed to equip healthcare Framework competencies. (ESRC), and is designed to equip students initial degree in a cognate subject or other Services professionals with the skills to lead with the essential skills needed to excel as relevant qualifications are also welcome. • Policy and Law in Mental Health innovative infection control practice. Modules available include: a social science researcher. Applicants who do not possess these Services Students will learn how to approach the • Foundations in Public Health qualifications may be considered if they • Understanding Mental Health and subject critically, evaluating and and Primary Care The degree will be of interest to those who have at least two years relevant Mental Distress promoting progressive practices and • Foundations in Research want to add a valuable Master’s experience at a responsible level • Professional Decision Making and sound patient care in their workplace. • Understanding Health and Social Care qualification as part of developing a full and can demonstrate the ability to Partnership in the Mental Health • Foundations in Management and academic career; people who are already cope with the academic requirements Services Modules include: Leadership professionally involved in working with of the programme. • Infection Control Theory • Public Health Ethics people in the social sector and want to This programme is funded through health • Infection Control Strategy, • Partnership Working develop their own skills and professional Sherrill Snelgrove and social service employers and you Policy and Practice • Diversity and Difference in Health and expertise, and people who are simply [email protected] should seek agreement for nomination to Social Care interested in ‘society’, ‘social behaviour’, +44 (0)1792 513466 allow you to access this programme (see This course is aimed at qualified • Partnership, Public Health and and ‘social change’ and would like to Entry requirements below). healthcare professionals who work with Epidemiology learn more about them. Postgraduate Certificate Approved Mental infection risks and communicable • Public Health in Practice Health Professional (full-time) The requirements for AMHP training diseases, as well as those who would like The course develops practical research Training and preparation for working as include that all candidates (who may be to widen their knowledge and develop This programme is relevant to a range of skills, imparts methodological expertise an Approved Mental Health Professional social workers, nurses, psychologists or their practice in infection control and people with an interest in public health (both qualitative and quantitative), instils validated by the Care Council for Wales. occupational therapists) to be registered public health. including health care and social care familiarity with research ethics and with their professional body, have at least professionals and individuals who currently governance, and promotes a thoughtful The only course of its kind in Wales, the two years post qualifying experience, This course is taught at the St David’s Park work in the public, private or voluntary engagement with theoretical concerns programme of study at Swansea University together with relevant experience of campus in Carmarthen. sectors. The programme recruits across a across the full spectrum of social for those intending to become Approved working with people with mental disorder. diverse range of professional groups and science disciplines. Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) is They should have the support of their Normally a relevant Honours degree interests and includes people who work in designed to meet the key competencies employer and access to appropriate (2.2 or above) and a variety of healthcare organisations, required by the Welsh Assembly learning opportunities. Interested health evidence of recent academic study, OR at Government and the Key Skills considered and social service staff should make initial least two years’ experience as a first level
64 65 History Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements Scholarships and Bursaries The Postgraduate community How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: Normally a good Honours degree A range of postgraduate scholarships and Master’s students are encouraged to become Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline (first-class or 2.1) or equivalent in History bursaries is available. For details, please active members of Swansea University’s www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities – see pages 176 – 177 for further or a related subject. visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ vibrant research community. The Research information Postgraduate Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) runs Contact the Arts and Humanities regular research seminars and lectures. The Postgraduate Admissions Office: For details of the research degrees English Language requirement: Full-time or part-time Postgraduate History and Classics Postgraduate Forum Email: [email protected] available in History, please see page 120. IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate additionally runs an annual programme of Tel: + 44 (0)1792 606752 each component) or Swansea University Diploma (120 credits) is available. recognised equivalent. research seminars, conferences and skills workshops, as well as social events. There Visit the University: – History Postgraduate Diplomas are also opportunities for MA students to Assessment see page 174 for details and Certificates become involved in local historical research The Master’s degree is examined by Full-time or part-time Postgraduate and conservation projects. assessed coursework and a dissertation. Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate Diploma (120 credits) is available.
History challenges us to understand the with a choice of optional modules. Where Portuguese Overseas World, 1415-1808 • Historical Methods and Approaches past so that we might make sense of the appropriate, students may choose one of • Empire, Slavery and Liberty in the British • Research Folder The facilities are excellent. As a postgraduate, I appreciate the use present. It encourages us to think about their optional modules from among schemes Atlantic World, 1584-1808 “of separate rooms in both the library and the James Callaghan how the past is studied, written about, other than those offered in History. • From Princely Possessions to Public Optional modules available to students on and represented, how it has been kept Museums the scheme include: building. The IT resources are very effective, and enable me to work alive for generations, and how it can be The full-time course structure is split across • Venice and the Sea • Collective Memories of War in both at home and on campus with equal ease. The teaching has been preserved for generations to come. the year with three modules offered in Twentieth-Century Europe each academic semester (a total of six MA Medieval Studies • Mountains: A Social and excellent, and the willingness of staff to discuss matters at length is History at Swansea offers four Master’s modules in Part One) and then a The MA in Medieval Studies allows Cultural History much appreciated. Having been away from education for 20 years, degrees which between them cover the dissertation over the summer (Part Two). students to combine the study of Medieval • Popular Politics and Protest in Wales, their help has been invaluable in overcoming my initial nerves about major periods and civilisations from the Depending on the scheme, students study History with the period’s literature and 1780-1850 Middle Ages to the modern day. two/three compulsory modules and three/ languages. Students take the following • Fascism and Culture returning to study. four optional modules. The dissertation compulsory modules. • Communicating History Graham Powell, These degrees will: component is written on a specialist • Introduction to Advanced Medieval ” MA Modern History • equip you with skills relevant for a research topic of your choosing. Part-time Studies MA History rewarding career in a range of diverse students normally take the six modules over • Research Folder The MA in History is available to students fields, including museum and heritage two years and write their dissertation in the who do not wish to specialise in any work, teaching and research, the third year. Optional modules available to students on particular period or field. Students take media, accountancy, banking, the scheme include: the following compulsory modules: insurance, and marketing MA Early Modern History • The Medieval Lyric • New Departures in the Writing Students seeking to specialise in Early • consolidate your skills in historical • England’s Elite: Power, Culture and of History Modern History take the following research, enabling you subsequently to Gender in Late Medieval Britain • Historical Methods and Approaches compulsory modules: take a research degree • Medieval Manuscripts • Research Folder • New Departures in the Writing of • Medieval Languages • provide you with a range of intellectual, History • The Urban Colonisation of Medieval They may choose their optional practical and personal transferable skills • Historical Methods and Approaches Wales, 1066-1350 modules from those available in other to enhance your employability • Research Folder MA History schemes. MA Modern History How the degrees are structured Optional modules available to students on Students wishing to specialise in the study All History schemes combine compulsory the scheme include: of Modern History take the following modules, which familiarise you with • The Making of Modern Sexualities, compulsory modules: theories, trends and directions in the study 1650-1800 • New Departures in the Writing of History of history and enhance your research skills, • People on the Move: The Forging of the 66 67 Law Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the degrees are structured Assessment How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: LLM: A 2.2 Honours degree in law LLM degrees are taught degree courses The degrees are assessed through Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline or a cognate discipline is required. involving twelve months of full-time study coursework, examination and LLM www.swansea.ac.uk/law – see pages 176 – 177 for further Candidates with relevant work experience during which students study four option Research Projects. information are also welcome to apply. subjects and submit supervised research Contact the Admissions Tutor: For details of the research degrees projects. Scholarships and Bursaries Email: [email protected] available in Law, please see page English Language requirement: Tel: + 44 (0)1792 295125 The modules are studied between A range of postgraduate scholarships and 122. IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 in October and June, and the students bursaries is available.For details, please each component) or Swansea University complete their research projects between visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Visit the University: see page 174 for details For details of the Graduate Diploma in – Law recognised equivalent. June and September. For a full list of the scholarships Law (GDL) and the Legal Practice compulsory and optional modules Course (LPC), see page 70. available, please contact the Admissions Tutor.
From small law firms to the United LLM International Maritime Law LLM International Trade Law LLM International Business Law Nations’ International Court of Justice, the Students study a total of four 30 credit Students study a total of four 30 credit Students study a total of four 30 credit legal profession shapes every aspect of modules which run from September to modules which run from September to modules which run from September to our society, politics, and economies. Law June. At least two modules must be chosen June. At least two modules must be chosen June. At least two modules must be chosen regulates how we buy and sell goods and from those asterisked (*): from those asterisked (*): from those asterisked (*): services, and how we govern ourselves. It • Admiralty Law* • International Trade Law* • International Intellectual Property Law* defines how we prosecute and defend, • Marine Insurance* • Law and Practice in relation to • Law of Intellectual Assets Management and how we secure the rights of people • Charterparties: Law and Practice* International Banking and Commercial and Transactions* who may not be able to defend • Carriage of Goods by Sea, Land and Air* Payments* • Company Law in a Comparative themselves. • Law of the Sea* • World Trade Law* Context* • International Trade Law • Marine Insurance • Transnational Credit and Security* These degrees will: • E-Commerce • Charterparties and Carriage of Goods • E-Commerce • equip you with skills relevant for a • International Litigation and Arbitration by Sea • European Competition Law rewarding career in the legal profession, • E-Commerce • International Litigation and Arbitration insurance and banking sectors and in LLM International Commercial Law • International Litigation and Arbitration international business Students study a total of four 30 credit • train you to apply legal concepts in a modules which run from September to LLM International Commercial and practical environment June. At least two modules must be chosen Maritime Law from those asterisked (*): Students may choose four modules from • help you to gain transferable skills, the three specialist module lists highlighted including team working, communication, • E-Commerce* above (including at least one Maritime presentation, and analytical skills • International Intellectual Property Law* • Law of Intellectual Asset Management and one Commercial module). • prepare you for a research degree and Transactions* • Company Law in a Comparative Context* • European Competition Law* • Law, Globalisation and Commerce* • Transnational Credit and Security • World Trade Law • International Litigation and Arbitration • Law and Practice in relation to International Banking and Commercial Payments 68 69 Law: Professional Legal Training Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the courses are structured How can I find out more? Applications should be made through I chose Swansea for my GDL Please see individual course details Teaching is delivered through a combination Visit our website: the Central Applications Board (CAB) of large group introductory and interactive “study as it is one of the a few www.swansea.ac.uk/law and can be made online at: www.lawcabs.ac.uk – see pages sessions, and small group sessions with the providers in the UK accredited by English Language requirement: 176 – 177 for further information emphasis on transactional work. Students Contact the Admissions Tutor (GDL): IELTS 6.5 or Swansea University the Law Society, and enjoys a very are supported by a dedicated team of Email: [email protected] recognised equivalent. experienced professional practitioner good reputation both in terms of its For details of taught Master’s degrees in Law, please see page 68, or for tutors. teaching excellence and graduates’ Contact the Admissions Tutor (GDL): Scholarships and Bursaries information about research degrees in For a full list of the compulsory and Email: [email protected] A range of postgraduate scholarships and future careers prospects. I also Law, please see page 122. – Law: Professional Legal Training optional modules available, please Tel: + 44 (0)1792 602374 bursaries is available. For details, please completed my LPC at Swansea and contact the Admissions Tutor. visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ have secured a training contract Visit the University: scholarships/ see page 174 for details with a national law firm. ”Jing Xu, Graduate Diploma in Law
The School of Law provides vocational law Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) Entry requirements Legal Practice Course (LPC) Stage Two training at the highest level in order to The GDL (also known as the Common GDL: A degree in any non-law discipline Postgraduate Diploma in Law Students choose three optional modules, I enjoyed my LPC at provide the optimum learning experience for Professional Examination or CPE) is a (normally at 2.2 or above). However, The LPC at Swansea is a high quality usually determined by the type of legal “Swansea and the tutors were students and practitioners. This includes the 36-week, full-time intensive course candidates with alternative qualifications professional course designed to prepare environment in which they wish to professional and approachable. delivery of the Graduate Diploma in Law primarily intended for non-law graduates or experience are also encouraged to students for practise as a trainee solicitor practise. A range of modules is available, They supported me during my (GDL) for non-law graduates seeking a wishing to embark on a career in law, apply. in England and Wales. The course, which including: course and with helping me change of career, and the Legal Practice although the programme is also of benefit consists of two stages, runs full-time for 36 • Advanced Commercial Law Course (LPC) for law graduates seeking to to those intending to undertake other Please note: that prospective students who weeks and is the new style of LPC as • Business Leases find a training contract. enter the profession. The School also runs a careers where a sound knowledge of law hold a degree from a non-UK or Republic validated by the Solicitors Regulation • Employment Law and Practice Rebecca Dunn, number of training and professional is desirable. of Ireland institution will normally be Authority in 2009. • Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence ” development courses for practitioners and is required to obtain a Certificate of • Advanced Criminal Practice (Advanced PGDip Legal Practice an accredited provider for the Higher Rights The course, which is designed to provide Academic Standing from either the Stage One Criminal Advocacy available in Welsh) of Audience qualification, the Criminal students with a thorough knowledge of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (www.sra. Compulsory modules: • Family Childcare Law and Practice Litigation Accreditation Scheme and Police core areas of law, commences with an org.uk) or The General Council of the Bar • Business Law and Practice Station Representatives Accreditation Scheme. introductory block of interactive classes on (www.barcouncil.org.uk). Applications • Property Law and Practice Entry requirements the English Legal System, the acquisition of should be made through the Central • Criminal and Civil Litigation LPC: Normally a minimum of a qualifying The GDL and LPC will: legal skills and the law of the European Applications Board (CAB) and can be • Wills and Administration of Estates lower second-class Honours degree in • provide recognised legal qualifications Union, whilst the foundation subjects of made online at: www.lawcabs.ac.uk Law, a Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE) or that provide a foundation for a Contract, Tort, Public, Equity and Trusts, Pervasive Areas: a similar qualification such as FILEX. rewarding career in the legal profession Land Law and Criminal Law are taught Assessment • Professional Conduct and Regulation • help you to gain transferable skills, over two semesters through a combination The Graduate Diploma in Law is assessed • Solicitors Accounts To be eligible to study the LPC, students including team working, communication, of lectures and seminars. An additional through a variety of methods, ranging from must have student membership of The presentation, and analytical skills legal subject is studied by means of a multiple-choice and unseen examinations Skills: Law Society and have a Certificate of supervised research project. to coursework and mini-dissertations. Academic Standing from the Solicitors • Practical Legal Research Students also have the opportunity to gain Regulation Authority. practical experience of interviewing and The successful completion of the course, • Interviewing and Advising Clients • Writing advising clients by participating in the which is recognised by professional Assessment • Drafting School’s Pro Bono Law Clinic, a free legal bodies, enables students to progress to the The LPC is assessed by open and closed • Advocacy in Court advice service for students, run by students vocational stage of training for both book examinations. Skills and Pervasives under the supervision of qualified local solicitors and barristers. are assessed simply as competent/not yet solicitors. The LPC also offer a successful competent as they are completed. work experience programme which is supported by a number of local law firms.
70 71 Mathematics Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the degrees are structured Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Contact the Admissions Tutors: MSc: a 2.2 Honours degree, or These programmes combine academic A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: Professor J-L Wu (MSc Mathematics and equivalent, in Mathematics, Computer excellence with a practice-oriented bursaries is available. For details, please maths.swansea.ac.uk Computing for Finance) Science, Engineering, or equivalent is perspective, ensuring that content is both visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Email: [email protected] normally required. intellectually demanding and relevant. The Postgraduate. In addition the Department Contact the Postgraduate Tel: +44 (0)1792 602757 programmes comprise a range of compulsory has some bursaries available, some for Recruitment Officer: MRes: a 2.1 Honours degree, or and optional modules. Students are also fees only, and all eligible applicants are Tel: + 44 (0)1792 295142 Dr I M Davies (MSc Modelling, equivalent, in Mathematics, Computer required to undertake a project which invited to apply sometime after the Easter Uncertainty and Data) Science, Engineering, or equivalent is provides the opportunity to explore in depth Vacation prior to the beginning of the Visit the University: see page 174 for details Email: [email protected] normally required. an area of particular interest. programme. Tel: +44 (0)1792 602760 – Mathematics Applications can be made online at: www. English Language requirement: Assessment The offer of a place does not imply swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – see pages Professor E Lytvynov (MRes Stochastic any offer of funding. Processes: Theory and Applications) IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each The taught Master’s programmes are 176 – 177 for further information Email: [email protected] component) or Swansea University assessed through a combination of Tel: +44 (0)1792 602156 recognised equivalent. coursework, written examinations and the For details of the research degrees available in research project. Mathematics, please see page 124.
Mathematics is both ancient and modern. MSc Mathematics and MSc Modelling, Uncertainty and Data The platform of modelling tools to be The MRes project requires a very leading to the intensive research oriented Often challenging and always rewarding, Computing for Finance This programme draws together expertise delivered falls neatly into four topics: substantial research component that phase in the Summer Vacation. All MRes it is the most international of subjects, and This programme has been designed from three departments in the College of • probability, statistics and numerical contributes to the field in an explicit students are allocated a supervisor, and the basis on which the modern world is to meet the still growing demand for Science (Computer Science, Mathematics, analysis way rather than merely applying existing have access to all facilities available to built. Science, engineering and business specifically trained academics to work in Physics) through a unifying theme of data, • programming and visualization knowledge. The research project is begun PhD/MPhil students. depend on their mathematical the world’s financial markets. Despite the and in particular the role of uncertainty in • distributed computation and data sets early in the academic year with a foundations, and mathematicians convulsions in the banking industry, many modelling scientific data. It is intended that • modelling of physical systems. programme of directed reading and study therefore play an essential role in our banks still have a pressing need for the themes developed in the MSc will be society. employees with advanced mathematical highly relevant to the new High For a full list of compulsory and optional skills who can further their understanding Performance Computer (HPC) Facility modules available, please contact the Mathematics at Swansea is supported by of turbulence in financial markets. established in Swansea. relevant Admissions Tutor. Since completing the Masters in Mathematics and Computing for enviable research links. The Department “Finance at Swansea University in 2003, I have travelled quite a journey. interacts with other leading centres The mathematics component of the The key aim of the programme is to MRes Stochastic Processes: researching in the fields; mathematics for programme covers such topics as: provide a broad education in modelling, Theory and Applications First stop New York City, I was an assistant for a bond trader at US Trust, finance, probability and stochastic • Stochastic calculus based on uncertainty and the efficient analysis of The Department offers a one-year MRes part of Bank of America’s private wealth division. A year later I landed analysis, partial differential equations, Brownian motion (large) data sets. An important feature of programme in Stochastic Processes and an account manager role within the Structured Finance department of numerics for stochastics. The Department • Lévy processes and more general the programme is that the techniques are Applications. One third of the programme maintains excellent contacts with jump processes not to be concentrated on one small area is delivered through taught modules with Deutsche Bank, an international market leader. This role has progressed world-leading experts in these fields • The advanced Black-Scholes theory within a subset of the Science, Technology, the balance achieved through a large, over the last six and half years and my time has been split between Los through its research seminar programmes, • Theory and numerics of parabolic Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) research project. There are no compulsory regular schools and workshops. differential equations. subjects. The strategy is to provide a modules but students could expect to study Angeles and London. In today’s ever increasingly competitive job market portfolio of cross-cutting techniques with topics such as: where every candidate holds a bachelors degree having a masters gives These degrees will: The computing component provides emphasis on both theory and application • Stochastic calculus based on you an edge over other applicants along with the confidence to excel in • equip you with skills relevant for a expertise in such topics as so that problems in all STEM subject areas Brownian motion rewarding career in a range of • Java programming can be addressed. All three departments • Lévy processes and more general the interview, it is almost a prerequisite if you wish to compete in the diverse fields • Theory of algorithms (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) jump processes • Internet systems. have expertise in the key modelling global market. With this masters degree I have been able to break • help you to gain communication, • The advanced Black-Scholes theory techniques to be delivered and each can presentation, and analytical skills • Theory and numerics of parabolic through any glass ceilings comfortably in the knowledge that I am just as For a full list of compulsory and optional contribute a number of highly relevant differential equations. • provide the foundation for a modules available, please contact the modules from their existing portfolios. qualified as anyone else. research degree. relevant Admissions Tutor. ” Claire Geleta, MSc Mathematics and Computing for Finance
72 73 Media and Communication Studies Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements How the degrees are structured production and editing equipment and film How can I find out more? Normally a minimum of a lower class BA The full-time course structure is split across viewing facilities. Visit our website: Honours degree 2.2 (with an overall average of the year with three modules offered in each In addition you will gain practical www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities 55% or above) in a related subject. academic semester (a total of six modules experience and benefit from a programme in Part One) and then a dissertation or of visiting lecturers, many of them industry Contact the Arts and Humanities English Language requirement: practice-based project (applicable to professionals with first-hand experience of Postgraduate Office: Communication, Media Practice and Public Email: [email protected] IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 in each working in different areas of the media. Relations only) over the summer (Part Two). Tel: + 44 (0)1792 606980/606981 component) or Swansea University The dissertation component is written on a recognised equivalent. Scholarships and Bursaries specialist research topic of your choosing. Visit the University: – Media and Communication Studies A range of postgraduate scholarships and Part-time students normally study three see page 174 for details Postgraduate Diplomas modules in their first and second year and bursaries is available. For details, please and Certificates visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ write their dissertation in the third year. Applications can be made online at: Full-time or part-time Postgraduate Postgraduate The College has computer labs with www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate Apple computers to learn creative digital – see pages 176 – 177 for further Diploma (120 credits) is available. skills, radio and TV studios, video and film information
From traditional print and broadcast MA Comparative Journalism MA Digital Media MA Communication, Media Practice Assessment media to digital publishing, social The MA in Comparative Journalism This programme offers an innovative, and Public Relations/European MA The degrees are assessed by coursework networking, and public relations, the provides a cross-cultural approach to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in Communication, Media Practice with a final project incorporating the media increasingly defines the way we journalism in the twenty first century. It is approach to contemporary technology and Public Relations practical elements of the course and a interact with our society. It shapes the way aimed at those interested in developing and new media, drawing upon expertise These programmes offer syllabus-based short-term work placement. we see ourselves and others, and can be their knowledge and understanding of the in Media and Communication Studies to practice in professional, contemporary a powerful tool for social change, good role of contemporary global society, and examine some of the key issues media skills, taught by industry or bad. exploring how journalism is evolving in the confronting twenty first century global professionals with academic ever-changing communication environment societies through a dynamic programme backgrounds. The programme includes Media and Communication Studies at characterised by digital technologies. that combines theoretical and applied modules in Professional Writing/ Swansea has a broad vocational and perspectives. Journalism, Visual Communication and international outlook that reflects the The course provides students with essential Media Design, Video and Documentary challenges of our media-rich world. knowledge of how journalism is practiced Students will be encouraged to apply Making, and PR, Branding and The MA in Comparative Journalism provided me with a good in different cultures worldwide as well as media theory, political and social theory, Promotion. Other modules in “balance of theoretical knowledge and practical journalism skills, These degrees will: responding to their interest in comparative and research tools in analysing and communication, theory, film and history enabling me to approach news and feature writing in an effective way • equip you with skills relevant for a study in the field of journalism and understanding digital media, as well as are also available. rewarding career in a diverse range of communication studies. Students are teaching key historical, policy and and develop a strong portfolio of work. Alongside these modules the media-related industries encouraged to focus on a comparative practice dimensions of new media. The programmes allow graduates to add course’s global approach to journalism helped me to develop a wider approach in journalism studies and valuable and desirable professional • help you to gain transferable skills, develop cross-cultural themes by drawing media skills for careers in business, public view of world media and appreciate the importance of new including team working, communication, on multidisciplinary research from a variety and media relations, broadcasting, presentation, and analytical skills technologies in publishing - something that has come in very useful as I of fields as well as countries. advertising and marketing and they also • prepare you for a research degree allow industry professionals to acquire now work as a web editor for an international magazine based in new media skills and qualifications that Shanghai, China. will enhance their continuing professional development. ” Claire Slobodian, MA in Comparative Journalism The European Master’s degree is intended for graduates who wish to acquire professional skills, which will be recognised across the European Higher Education Area.
74 75 Medicine Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements MSc Trauma Surgery (Military): MSc/Diploma Liquid Chromatography Scholarships and Bursaries Applications can be made online at: Mass Spectrometry www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Email: [email protected] MSc Trauma Surgery: Candidates must Candidates will have obtained MRCS or Mass Spectrometry, Postgraduate A range of postgraduate scholarships and – see pages 176 – 177 for further Tel: +44 (0)1792 295915 have obtained, or will shortly obtain; the equivalent and have ATLS and BATLS Certificate in Applied Liquid bursaries is available. For details, please information MRCS (or equivalent for Maxillofacial (Battlefield Trauma Life Support). Applicants Chromatography Mass Spectrometry: visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Education for Health Professionals surgery candidates), ATLS, and must be will be pursuing a career in surgical For all schemes, candidates should normally Postgraduate discipline within the military. Trainees in have a minimum of a 2.2 degree in a For details of the research degrees Email: [email protected] able to demonstrate a career path in available in Medicine, please see Tel: +44 (0) 1792 518540 Trauma and Orthopaedics will be able to relevant science subject plus proof of How can I find out more? Trauma and Orthopaedic, Burns and page 128. For details of the Graduate pursue the unmodified MSc Trauma English language competence at: IELTS Plastic or Maxillofacial surgery. Visit our website: Entry Medicine Programme, please see Continued Professional Development Surgery. Military surgical trainees pursuing overall 6.5 (no component below 6.0) or www.swansea.ac.uk/medicine page 80. Email: [email protected] – Medicine careers in Trauma and Orthopaedic, Swansea University recognised equivalent. Applications will include a structured Tel: +44 (0)1792 602026 Burns and Plastic or Maxillofacial surgery CV and two references from consultants MSc Health Informatics Visit the University: Contact the Admissions will only be considered on recommendation see page 174 for details in the relevant field of interest. Following Applicants with two years of relevant Coordinator: MSc Health Informatics of the Defence Consultant Advisors from shortlisting each applicant will be employment are welcomed, as well as Trauma Surgery Tony Paget the Armed Forces. The application process expected to undertake a given short piece graduates of a relevant discipline with an Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] is then the same as the MSc Trauma Surgery. of written work and attend an interview. Honours classification of 2.2 or above, or Tel: +44 (0)1792 703904 Tel: +44 (0)1792 602874 an equivalent recognised qualification.
Established in 2001, the College of MSc Trauma Surgery MSc Trauma Surgery (Military) Centre (NMSSC) in 1985 and is the MSc Health Informatics • Information Systems and Technologies Medicine is fast becoming a centre of This highly competitive degree will: The MSc Trauma Surgery programme has foundation underpinning the LCMS (full-time or part-time) • Knowledge Management excellence in world-leading research and • equip you with skills relevant for a been expanded to include a Military Masters programme. Government policies, professional bodies • Health Technologies and Telecare medical education. It is able to offer rewarding career as a Trauma, Surgery pathway, in association with the and European strategies have all made • A dissertation based on a topic of the outstanding postgraduate opportunities in Orthopaedic, Burns, and Plastic or Academic Department of Military Surgery Training in this analytical science is explicit reference to the need for student’s choosing medical training, as well as in Maxillofacial surgeon and Trauma (ADMST), Royal Centre for essential as undergraduates are not taught healthcare staff with health informatics experimental science and healthcare. • help you to gain transferable skills, Defence Medicine, Birmingham and this subject to the required depth. The education and training to keep in line Those looking to work in a health informatics including team working, communication, associated military facilities. College of Medicine programmes offer with new developments and the changing role, healthcare professionals or those The College has key collaborations with presentation, and analytical skills an innovative approach to fulfilling this nature of new technology. Existing health working in a health related service or Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University • prepare you for a research degree. This degree aims to prepare Armed Forces training provision with a full-time and informaticians should seek to develop their industry will benefit from this programme. Health Board, other local health boards, Surgical Trainees for their future deployed part-time MSc and Diploma for those professional credentials. as well as numerous international and This degree is offered on a part-time basis roles. All students complete the first four looking for extensive training in LCMS, Access to data for research and limited national research links. only and will normally take eighteen modules (70 credits) of Trauma Surgery and a full-time/part-time Certificate in This programme is designed for work experience in a local NHS Board is months to complete. then those students on the military pathway Applied LCMS suited to professionals, professionals who want to increase their available. The College has two well established and will undertake two 20-credit Military with several years’ experience in knowledge of and skills in health innovative programmes: the MSc/Diploma Teaching is delivered in one-week blocks Surgery modules at ADMST and analytical sciences, requiring an up-date informatics, to equip them for roles in the Applicants should have access to the Internet in Trauma Surgery and MSc/Diploma in at the College of Medicine, Morriston associated military facilities. in their skills. developing world of e-health. at home or your place of work and a basic Trauma Surgery (Military). The College Hospital, Swansea. Much of the teaching understanding of IT (including Internet use also offer two new programmes: the will be based on practical moulage MSc/Postgraduate Diploma Liquid The Master’s scheme includes the This programme uses the latest and office software), although some training MSc/Diploma Liquid Chromatography scenarios and surgical skills simulations. Chromatography Mass Spectrometry fundamentals of modern mass spectrometry technologies and has a strong focus on will be given throughout the course. Mass Spectrometry (LCMS) programme The experience gained in these simulations Mass spectrometry (MS) has featured and chromatography, including crucial practical experience. The College’s and Postgraduate Certificate in Applied will cement the factual knowledge prominently amongst the research strengths topics in medical MS; proteomics, expertise in health informatics is Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Liquid Chromatography Mass acquired with its clinical application. of Swansea University and has contributed lipidomics and metabolomics, as well as complemented by guest lecturers from Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and contributes to the MA/ Completion of Part One only will result in to the development of new MS designs, pharmaceutical, environmental, forensics software developers, the NHS, the Welsh Spectrometry (LCMS) Diploma/Certificate in Education for the award of Higher Education MS applications and combining MS to and medical life science applications. It Government and more. The course has The Certificate in Applied LCMS is 60 Health Professions in conjunction with the Postgraduate Diploma in Trauma Surgery. chromatography worth hundreds of also includes subjects essential to the been accredited by the United Kingdom credits and comprises four optional taught College of Human and Health Sciences. millions of pounds to the UK economy. analytical industry such as data handling, Council for Health Informatics Professions modules with students selecting four out of The presence of this knowledge, professional management and laboratory (UKCHIP). five modules. The certificate focuses on instrumentation resource and research practice (GLP) providing students with the applications essential to the analytical strength in instrument development and invaluable training and experience being Modules studied include: industry such as proteomics, lipidomics bioanalytical (medical) mass spectrometry sought within the analytical sectors, both in • The Health Informatics Professional and metabolomics, as well as was crucial in attracting the EPSRC the UK and worldwide. • Communication Systems pharmaceutical, environmental, forensics National Mass Spectrometry Service • Data Quality and Secondary Uses and medical life science.
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MA/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Assessment Certificate in Education for Health Trauma Surgery and Trauma Surgery Professions (Military): In partnership with the College of Human Assessment in the clinical modules will and Health Sciences, the College of be built around the development and Medicine will be providing modules demonstration of strategic thinking, with for this new programme, which will written assessment of core knowledge commence in September 2012 (subject and its application in unseen written to validation). This new course has been papers together with moulage skills designed to provide all health care practical examinations. Essays and professionals involved in medical portfolio preparation will supplement education and clinical training an these core assessments. opportunity to develop a better understanding of their own clinical MSc/Diploma Liquid Chromatography practice and values as well as an Mass Spectrometry, Postgraduate advanced understanding of education Certificate in Applied Liquid and their practice as teachers. Chromatography Mass Spectrometry: Assessment for the taught modules will Continued Professional include examinations, case studies, Development (CPD) Opportunities essays, presentations, and problem sheets. The College of Medicine is committed to The MSc project will be assessed through the provision of a structured and supportive a written dissertation supplemented by skills enhancement framework for student-led presentations. continued personal and professional development, which allows clinicians, educationalists and scientists the opportunity to undertake M level education to support their professional roles. With this in mind, the majority of modules offered as part of the programmes detail above are available as standalone CPD courses.
Students who wish to enrol on the Postgraduate Certificate will be required to pass an interview with an entry examination testing their background knowledge of separation sciences and mass spectrometry, prior to acceptance.
Applicants wishing to pursue the MSc as a continuation of studies, as a transfer or upgrade from the Postgraduate Diploma or Certificate will only be accepted for enrolment the following academic year.
Applications will include an academic reference in the field of interest to confirm practical and academic ability.
78 79 Medicine – Graduate Entry Medicine Programme Mb Bch (Wales) Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements £192 and this fee must be paid in full at of the College’s policy not to accept How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: As this is a graduate entry programme, an time of registration. All applicants will sit transfers from other medical courses. Visit our website: www.ucas.ac.uk. The course code is upper second or first-class Honours degree the GAMSAT on a single date in www.swansea.ac.uk/medicine A101 Medicine. Further information is (or predicted) is required. This can be in September. For further information on Assessment available on page 176. GAMSAT registration and the exam, visit: any subject, but applicants will need to Assessment is through a variety of Contact the Admissions Coordinator: www.gamsatuk.org For details of the research degrees demonstrate a clear commitment to methods, including examinations, Email: [email protected] available in Medicine, please see medicine, and an understanding of its Applicants must also be able to demonstrate assignments and practical work. Tel: +44 (0)1792 602618 page 128. demands and rewards. a proficiency in mathematics and English GCSE Mathematics and English at Grade language, and be medically fit to practise Scholarships and Bursaries Visit the University: see page 174 for Medicine. The Graduate Entry Medicine details – C or above is required and, ideally, Graduate entry medical students from experience of Biology or Chemistry, Programme is only open to UK and EU England or Wales are eligible to receive Medicine Programme Mb Bch (WalesMedicine – Graduate Entry citizens. post-GCSE are also required. a student loan in year one and, from year Applicants will also need to take and It is part of the policy of the College of two onwards, may apply to the NHS perform satisfactorily the Graduate Medicine not to consider applicants who Student Grants Unit for a means-tested Medical Schools Admissions Test have failed to complete a previous bursary to support their studies. (GAMSAT). The test costs in the region of medical degree programme. It is also part
Without question, doctors have one of How is the degree structured? familiarity with the language and its On completion of the degree, students are the most rewarding jobs imaginable. In Students work with real and simulated origins. All students are encouraged to offered a rotational year on the Foundation I heard something on the news about the government allowing applying their knowledge of the human patients at every stage of their training to look at the Welsh Government’s Year Programme in Wales, after which “four-year medicine courses for mature students, which started a candle body, they can have a transformative help them develop the skills necessary to introduction to language awareness in they will be fully equipped with the skills effect on our health and well-being. They become a knowledgeable and health care, “Iechyd Da!’’. required to be amongst the top in the field, burning in my mind that just wouldn’t go away, so I applied. It’s tough embrace science to understand how to professional doctor. As a result, studies are and able to specialise in the area of to get on the course, and it’s a full-time commitment, but every lecture treat us when we fall ill and, no matter split between learning weeks at the In addition to the learning weeks, students medicine that most excites them. which branch of medicine they choose to University and clinical placements with complete a range of other activities, has been fascinating. You’re immersed clinically from the start; you go follow, their primary concern is for our local NHS sites, in particular the including: and see A&E, you sit in on GP consultations, you do drug rounds in well-being. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University • placements in a primary care centre to prison, and go out with paramedics on a Friday night. Health Board. see patients and gain experience of Since its launch in 2004, Swansea’s different medical problems The doctors help you: there’s a realisation that people who are doing Graduate Entry Medicine Programme has This is an independent, four-year • five-week clinical placements embedded their second degree are serious and conscientious. I feel very established itself as an outstanding degree programme based entirely in Swansea in a healthcare team to work alongside programme that enables graduates of any and west Wales. Each campus-based other staff and gain experience of the privileged. discipline to learn the scientific and clinical study week encourages students to explore professional practice of doctors Andrew Phillips, principles of medicine. a clinical problem using group tutorials, • five-week clinical placements within ” MB BCh Medicine This degree will: lectures and seminars, and will practise specific specialty areas to gain • train you to become a doctor clinical skills in a laboratory environment. experience of the health needs of • prepare you for professional practice This knowledge is then consolidated by people with particular health needs using state-of-the-art equipment and clinical exposure during Learning • an elective period in Year Three, which cutting-edge teaching methods Opportunities in the Clinical Setting allows students to choose to visit almost • help you to specialise in your chosen (LOCS) and Community Based Learning. any part of the world field Clinical placements allow students to • a final “shadowing” period that enables • provide you with transferable skills, practise their skills and develop their students to hone their skills before including team working, communication, understanding of the wider social and starting as a qualified doctor presentation, problem-solving, and organisational aspects of medicine. analytical skills project work each year gives students the Welsh speakers have opportunities to chance to work with other professions and improve their technical vocabulary in the explore the issues of interprofessional
context of clinical consultation, and the learning. ) College also provides opportunities for non-Welsh speakers to gain some
80 81 Politics, International Relations and Development Studies Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements summer (Part Two). Students study three Assessment Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: Normally a minimum of a lower class BA compulsory modules and three optional The taught Master’s degree is available by A range of postgraduate scholarships Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline – Honours degree 2.2 (with an overall modules. The dissertation component is assessed coursework and a dissertation. and bursaries is available. For details, www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities see pages 176 – 177 for further average of 55% or above) in a related written on a specialist research topic of your There are six required seminar modules, please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ information choosing. Part-time students normally take subject. and a dissertation of 15-20,000 words is scholarships/Postgraduate Contact the Arts and Humanities one compulsory and two optional modules written after successful completion of the Postgraduate Admissions Office: For details of the research degrees in their first and second year and write their modules. Email: [email protected] available in Politics and International English Language requirement: dissertation in the third year. Postgraduate Diplomas Tel: +44 (0)1792 606980/606981 Relations, please see page 136. IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in and Certificates each component) or Swansea University Regular research seminars and lectures are Full-time or part-time Postgraduate – Politics, International Relations and Development Studies run by the Research Institute for Arts and Visit the University: recognised equivalent. Certificate (60 credits) or Postgraduate Humanities (RIAH), which students are see page 174 for details Diploma (120 credits) is available. encouraged to attend. How the degrees are structured The full-time course structure is split across the For a full list of modules available, please year with three modules offered in each visit the website. academic semester (a total of six modules in Part One) and then a dissertation over the
Politics is not just about studying MA Development and Human Rights • global media MA Politics government institutions and international The MA in Development and Human • development communication The MA in Politics provides a broad My job in education consultancy carries a high level of relationships. It is a discipline that has Rights is a multidisciplinary scheme • governance: from state formation to introduction to the study of politics, “responsibility and without studying for a Masters in International explored different visions for a more just combining insights from the fields of global governance covering the structures and processes society for thousands of years, and yet development studies, politics/political of contemporary politics. Issues Communication and Development, my career would simply not be still addresses some of today’s most theory and international law. The MA International Relations explored include: possible. One of the requirements of the role was to have a Masters pressing challenges. programme examines the comparatively This programme examines the key issues • democracy and citizenship degree, and thus postgraduate education and helped to enhance new interface between human rights and and actors in international relations and • government and politics in the UK Politics, International Relations and international development. Issues explored alternative ways of analysing and • the politics of human rights my career opportunities. Development Studies at Swansea include: interpreting the subject. Issues explored Lucy Hammond, investigates political issues, governance • human rights and human intervention include: MA Public Policy ” and policy, international communication, • rights-based approaches to development • security in the Asia-Pacific region The MA in Public Policy is designed to MA in International Communication and Development international relations, international • international human rights law • civil society and international provide high level training in the study security, human rights and development. It development of public policy and policy making at examines the key issues confronting twenty MA International Communication • drug policy and human rights international, national and sub-state first century global societies. and Development levels. Issues explored include: The MA programme focuses on the MA International Security and • the policy making process These degrees will: political economy of global Development • managing change and • equip you with skills relevant for a communication, global information and Issues of security, violence and conflict performance in public services rewarding career in a range of diverse communication structures, examining the have become central to international • Governance: from state formation fields, including government and economic, technological and cultural politics and to development policy and to global governance politics, the diplomatic corps, the armed pressures that shape the gathering and discourse. In order to comprehend the forces, intelligence and risk analysis, processing of global news and modern world, a full appreciation of the relief and humanitarian organisations, information. Students will obtain a detailed realities of conflict and violence, both journalism, and broadcasting understanding of the issues and problems theoretical and practice-based, has • help you to gain transferable skills, involved in using the mass media to become essential. Issues explored include: including team working, communication, promote development, including issues • critical security presentation, and analytical skills related to nation-building, social inequality, • violence, conflict and development • prepare you for a research degree health and population, and economic • security in the Asia-Pacific region growth. Issues explored include:
82 83 Psychology Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements English Language requirement: Assessment assignments including essays; conference How can I find out more? Visit the University: For MSc Abnormal and Clinical Psychology IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Assessment for the MSc Abnormal poster presentations; PowerPoint Visit our website: see page 174 for details a minimum of a 2.1 degree in Psychology is component and 6.5 in writing) or Swansea and Clinical Psychology is by written presentations and empirical projects. www.swansea.ac.uk/ required for entry to the course. University recognised equivalent. coursework, examination, and a research humanandhealthsciences Applications can be made online at: thesis on a topic related to clinical Scholarships and Bursaries www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline For MSc Research Methods in Psychology a psychology. Contact the Admissions Coordinator: – see pages 176 – 177 for further minimum of a 2.2 degree in Psychology or How the degrees are structured A range of postgraduate scholarships and Email: [email protected] information a related discipline is required. The MSc programmes are delivered The MSc Research Methods in Psychology bursaries is available. For details, please Tel: +44 (0)1792 513023 through a combination of seminars, small is assessed primarily by written visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ For MSc Cognitive Neuroscience an For details of the research degrees group lectures and practical classes. For full coursework, and reports of empirical Postgraduate appropriate degree or its equivalent from available in Psychology, please see – Psychology details of the range of compulsory and projects carried out individually and in an approved institution (preferably 2.2 or page 138. optional modules available, please contact groups. above) and evidence of recent academic the Admissions Tutor. study OR to be able to satisfy Swansea The MSc Cognitive Neuroscience is University entry requirements for non- assessed by formal taught sessions; small standard entry students. group work using action-based learning approaches; student presentations; Written
Unlocking the secrets of the human mind The course does not provide a invaluable given clinical training courses MSc Cognitive Neuroscience is one of modern science’s greatest professional qualification, but will help often seek candidates with evidence of Cognitive Neuroscience is at the I’m working in America as a Social Skills Coach and Mentor challenges. Psychology, the study of prepare students who intend applying for working with relevant client groups. intersection of cognitive science, brain “for children and teens with complex disabilities (autism, Aspergers, human behaviour, helps us to make sense professional training courses in clinical imaging, and clinical neuroscience. It is of how we understand the world, what psychology. Applicants should be aware MSc Research Methods in Psychology one of the most significant areas of ADHD, bipolar etc). I absolutely love the work as every day is makes us laugh or cry, why we are that in addition to further academic study, The aim of this programme is to provide contemporary science and it is beginning different and always a challenge. The Abnormal and Clinical conscious, and why we make the experience of working with relevant client students with the advanced training in to transform our understanding of both choices we do. groups will be beneficial when applying research methods that will prepare them normal and damaged brain function. Psychology course got me where I am today – employed in a job I for professional training. for a career involving psychological am passionate about. It gave me a strong theoretical knowledge Psychology at Swansea benefits from an research, which can include any of the The course will equip students with the which could easily be applied to real life situations. extensive laboratory space, excellent Course modules include: professional areas of psychology. skills necessary for careers in cognitive facilities, and good links with hospitals • Applied Behaviour Analysis neuroscience, enable them to acquire Nicolas Searle, and education. The Department is a • Psychosis Training is provided in all relevant skills, experience and expertise in experimental ” MSc Abnormal and Clinical Psychology member of the Welsh Institute of Cognitive • Eating Disorders including reviewing literature, developing design, advanced statistical analysis and Neuroscience and is accredited by the • Affective/Somataform Disorders hypotheses, writing research proposals, evaluation of research in different ESRC as a postgraduate training outlet. • Personality and Sexual Disorders designing and carrying out empirical studies, disciplines within cognitive neuroscience. • Psychotherapy conducting advanced statistical and It will also enhance their knowledge and I loved the course! It was a useful top-up in regards to the These degrees will: • Neuropsychology qualitative analyses, and presenting results. understanding of the core areas of “knowledge I acquired doing my degree, and it was a significant • prepare you for a research degree • Psychopharmacology for common concern in cognitive Clinical Psychologists Students learn to use a range of research neuroscience, including attention, vision, factor responsible for me obtaining an assistant psychologist post • help you to gain transferable skills, • Causes and Coping with tools, such as databases, statistical memory and language, and the strategy for which I had been searching for over two years. The lecturers including team working, communication, Chronic Disease software and computer-assisted qualitative of cross-disciplinary research in theory presentation, and analytical skills were very knowledgeable in regards to psychology and were • Statistical Methods analysis packages. and application development. • equip you with skills relevant for a always available to assist if I had any queries. I highly recommend On completion of the programme, students rewarding career in a range of diverse The programme is theory-based and It will also equip students with critical have acquired a wide range of practical the course to anyone who is looking for a future career within roles, including teaching, nursing, designed to address core topics in evaluative and analytical skills for psychology research skills and an personnel management, and abnormal and clinical psychology. As such addressing their own and others research psychology. The course gave me a thorough grounding regarding understanding of the nature and limitations consultancy. it offers a valuable academic foundation within cognitive neuroscience, including of the scientific method and the main the application of psychological theory, and how it can be applied for future doctoral training in clinical assessing theory and methodology MSc Abnormal and Clinical Psychology alternatives. In addition, they will have psychology. We can also provide some through a range of communication and to a variety of cliental. This MSc programme is designed to equip knowledge of a range of general historical, work experience for a limited number of audio-visual strategies. students with an advanced understanding Robert Searle, high quality candidates via local NHS theoretical, and philosophical issues ” of issues relating to the theory and practice MSc Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Psychological services, which can be underlying the discipline of psychology, of psychology in healthcare settings. including the philosophy of science. 84 85 Translation and Interpreting Studies Master’s Degrees Master’s Entry requirements translations or a dissertation over the For full information on programme How can I find out more? Visit the University: Normally a minimum of a lower class BA summer (Part Two). Each Extended structures and modules, please visit Visit our website: see page 174 for details Honours degree 2.2 (with an overall average Translation (5,000-6,000) words involves the website. www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities of 55% or above) in a related subject. using a CAT tool and is accompanied by Applications can be made online at: a reflective report. Assessment Contact the Arts and Humanities www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline English Language requirement: – see pages 176 – 177 for further The Language Research Centre (LRC) at These degrees are available by assessed Postgraduate Admissions Office: information IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Swansea provides a distinct international coursework, extended translations or a Email: [email protected] component) or Swansea University and multidisciplinary forum for the dissertation. Tel: +44 (0)1792 606980/606981 recognised equivalent. 6.0 is acceptable advancement of the study of Translation,
for the MA in Chinese-English Translation – Translation and Interpreting Studies Language Technology, Public Service Scholarships and Bursaries and Language Teaching. Interpreting and Multilingualism. Regular A range of postgraduate scholarships and research seminars and lectures are run How the degrees are structured bursaries are available. For details, please through this group and also through the visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ The full-time course structure is split across Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Postgraduate the year with three modules offered in each (RIAH), which students are encouraged to academic semester (a total of six modules attend. in Part One) and then either two extended
The global demand for translation Our degrees will: qualification which validates a wide range MA Translation with Key features of this Master’s European Master’s in Translation with services is growing rapidly as companies, • equip you with the skills relevant for a of professional skills and allow them to Language Technology programme include: Language Technology institutions, and people around the world career in the language services industry respond flexibly to the changing By combining advanced translation work • Emphasis on journalistic, administrative The two-year MAs are a variant of the increasingly expect to buy goods and use world-wide challenges of the language services in administrative and technical domains and technical translation existing EMT-recognised MA programmes services localised into their own • help you to gain transferable market. Students take practical modules with in-depth language technology • Solid grounding in the historical aspects in Translation and Interpreting. language. Liaison (dialogue) interpreting skills, including team working, on interpreting in Local Authority and training, this practical Master’s and theoretical principles of translation This programme is designed to be of is a key requirement of international communication, technological, Healthcare settings. These are designed programme provides graduates with • Advanced Language Technology particular interest to students based in business, and is widely used wherever presentation, and analytical skills to prepare them to pass the examinations the skills and experience to become training continental Europe or planning to work individuals from another country have to of the widely recognised Diploma in Public immediately productive in a modern • The option to study another language (or take a further qualification) there after • prepare you for a research degree interact with official bodies of all kinds Service Interpreting of the professional professional environment, and puts them at beginner or intermediate level their degree. It is compliant with the EU’s (MPhil or PhD) if you wish to pursue (social services, hospitals, the police, etc). body the Chartered Institute of Linguists. in a strong position to compete for work • Optional ‘Skills lab’ module (simulated ‘Bologna’ pattern of higher education that option in the expanding worldwide language translation company with real world and so will be fully recognised around Translation and Interpreting Studies at MA Literary Translation services industry. It’s vocational excellence assignments) Europe. It allows students to take The Department benefits from extensive Swansea gives you the opportunity to work This well-established programme is has been recognised by inclusion in the • Optional modules in Interpreting additional modules and includes the library holdings and maintains a large intensively with languages. You will expand designed to offer an independent scheme European Commission’s prestigious (Local Government or Healthcare option of a semester of residence collection of audio-visual materials. All your knowledge in foreign languages and of study for advanced linguists, and a European Master’s in Translation Network. settings), including an introduction to abroad (either at an EMT partner postgraduate students have access to two refine the command of your native practical and theoretical training for those See: www.ec.europa.eu/dgs/ conference interpreting translation school or in a 13-week computer-based language laboratories, an language. Our postgraduate programmes wishing to pursue a career in literary translation/programmes/emt accredited internship). advanced Translation and Media are delivered by experienced staff in the translation. It is also suitable for practising A wide range of other options in computing lab and a more specialised Department of Languages, Translation and translators who do not yet have, but wish Language pairs offered: Arabic, Chinese, linguistics, web design and digital The MAs have been selected by the Translation Research facility housing the Media, many of whom are practising to gain, formal qualifications. Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, publishing, subtitling and video editing, European Commission as one of the latest digitisation, corpus analysis and translators and interpreters. We place great Spanish and Welsh into English: English translation studies and terminology founder members of its European Master’s computer-assisted translation tools. emphasis on hands-on project work and Language pairs offered: English with into German, French, Italian, Spanish and management is also available. Students in Translation network. The network has vocational outcomes. The disciplines of French, German, Italian, Spanish or Welsh. will also complete either a dissertation or 34 members throughout Europe, all of MA in Translation and Interpreting Translation and Interpreting offer excellent Welsh. Students will work in either one or two extended translations using language whom are judged to offer a standard of This programme is a variant of the MA job prospects. The increase in international two languages, plus English, and will take a technology tools. training suitable for entry into the EU’s Translation with Language Technology in contacts means that more and more complementary range of theory and translation service, the DGT. which an emphasis on Public Service well-qualified translators are necessary. practical translation modules, including Interpreting (with an introduction to With a good qualification in translation you Translation Theory and History of Translation. conference interpreting) replaces that on can expect to share in a world-wide, Students will also complete either a Language Technology (which however multi-billion market. dissertation or two extended translations remains available as an option). It is using language technology tools. designed to provide students with a
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Chinese-English Translation and Language Teaching Entry requirements Scholarships and Bursaries Visit the University: Degrees Master’s The MA in Chinese-English Translation see page 174 for details Normally a minimum of a lower A range of postgraduate scholarships and and Language Teaching is specifically Studying an MA in Translation provided me with the skills to class BA Honours degree 2.2 (with bursaries is available. For details, please designed for Chinese students and aims “use translation software and it was in fact thanks to it that I got my an overall average of 55% or above) visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Applications can be made online at: to equip them with languages-specific www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline first job. I worked for five years as a freelance translator and I also in a related subject. Postgraduate knowledge and skills in both translation – see pages 176 – 177 for further information studies and applied linguistics. In worked with various translation agencies. I was then accepted for English Language requirement: How can I find out more? particular, it attempts to situate the my current position as a financial translator for Dow Jones Japan. I IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Visit our website: broad area of translation studies in the For details of the research degrees component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities specifically targeted context, translating translate live economic and financial articles as they come online. available in War and Society, please – War and Society recognised equivalent. between English and Chinese. The MA see page 141. The confidence and professional skills I had acquired through my Contact the Arts and Humanities also addresses the issue of non-native Postgraduate Admissions Office: studies helped me to expand my translation career. Assessment speakers as English teachers. The Email: [email protected] Assessment is based on written programme covers applied language Yuko Tamaki, Tel: +44 (0)1792 606980/606981 studies, translating and teaching English ” coursework, a research portfolio, and MA Literary Translation a dissertation of 15,000-20,000 words. or Chinese as a second language and is attractive not only to prospective students but to Mandarin teachers to develop appropriate knowledge and skills in applied linguistics theory and practice. War has been the violent catalyst for MA War and Society How the degrees are structured change throughout human history, from The MA in War and Society is a unique The MA War and Society is a collaborative, The programme has two unique pathways, the conflicts of the ancient world to those degree that explores the most spectacular interdisciplinary degree programme, which Translation and TEFL (Teaching English as of the twenty first century. It inflicts terrible of historic events. It explores war across a utilises the range of expertise in the Arts and a Foreign Language) and Translation and suffering and degradation, yet also broad time span – from the Greeks to the Humanities and the Callaghan Centre for TCAL (Teaching Chinese as an Additional evokes and inspires great bravery and Second Gulf War – and draws upon the the Study of Conflict. Language). Students study two compulsory heroism. University’s strengths in American Studies, modules and four optional modules and a Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology, The Centre facilitates, coordinates and professional practice portfolio. If we are to understand war, however, we Politics and International Relations, as well financially supports the study of war and must analyse it in all its contexts, from the as Literature and Media and its effects, and seeks to foster detailed political, social, and cultural, through to Communication. research and informed debate on the technological, historical, and military. international conflict as it has been Students can choose from a range experienced throughout human history. This degree will: of modules, including: • equip you with skills relevant for a • War and Society up to the The full-time course structure is split across rewarding career in a range of diverse eighteenth century the year with three modules offered in fields, including management, • War and Society in the nineteenth each academic semester (a total of six administration, foreign affairs and and twentieth century modules in Part One) and then a diplomatic corps, humanitarian • War and Crusade 1066-1192 dissertation over the summer (Part Two). organisations, journalism, and the • The American Way of War Students study three compulsory modules armed forces • War in Space and three optional modules. The dissertation component is written on a • help you to gain transferable skills, • The Army in the Roman Empire specialist research topic of your choosing. including team working, communication, • Human Rights, Humanitarian Part-time students normally take one presentation, and analytical skills Intervention and Global Justice • European Security compulsory and two optional modules in • prepare you for a research degree. • Security and Strategy in South East Asia. their first and second year and write their dissertation in the third year. For a full list of compulsory and optional modules please contact the Admissions Tutor. Regular research seminars and lectures are run by the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH), which students are encouraged to attend.
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Research degrees, typically one Choosing a research topic • that you move smoothly into an The first year of registration for a PhD DProf: (Doctorate in Professional Practice): Assessment through the medium – three years in duration, are Research degrees, especially at MPhil appropriate research group (where is a period of official probation, requiring The DProf is a six-year, part-time Doctorate, of Welsh and PhD level, are very different from applicable) departmental assessment before the aimed at professionals working in the You may present research work in the academically rigorous programmes undergraduate and taught Master’s • that you complete and write up your candidate is allowed to proceed. health and social care professions as well Welsh language if your supervisors are that demand in-depth study of a programmes as there is no defined list of research within the required timeframe. as higher education. The programme is able to oversee work through the topic for a sustained period of time. courses to choose from. MPhil and PhD MPhil: may be completed in two to three underpinned by a philosophy which values medium of Welsh. The award of a doctorate or other degrees can be pursued on any academic Information about the research strengths of years’ full-time study (four-five years the professional context of the candidate’s part-time). Candidates are required to research degree recognises the topic, as long as the College you are each academic area can be found in the own practice and is therefore focused on For details of the University’s range of applying to has the expertise to guide submit a thesis of up to 60,000 words research conducted by practitioners in their taught Master’s programmes, please patience and commitment of following subject entries and on the and supervise your study. University website (www.swansea.ac.uk). and assessment is in the form of an oral own workplace. Although the structure of see pages 29 – 89. successful candidates, the high-level These strengths will provide an insight into examination (viva). the programme is similar to the traditional skills they have gained, and their You should normally identify a topic area the broad subject areas that research PhD programme it is structured around ability to present original research within which you would wish to work and degrees can be supervised in and, ideally, In some cases, there may be opportunities three themes, which include: discuss this with the Admissions Tutor for for students to upgrade from the degree that furthers understanding of the you should be able to relate your the subject area before making a formal proposed research area to these topics. to PhD during the course of their studies. • Planning research for practice subject matter. application. Even if you have a more • Initiating and managing change developed research proposal in mind, we Which research degree? MA/MSc/LLM by Research: Typically one • Evaluation and synthesis of theory Research students will normally undertake recommend that you approach the relevant The University offers a number of research year full-time, two to three years part-time. and practice. some training in research methods before Admissions Tutor for advice. degrees, including: This is an individual research project embarking on their programme of written up into a thesis of 30,000 words. The degree ensures that the candidate’s research. They will have an academic Potential applicants are partnered with PhD: PhD students undertake supervised profession and workplace interconnect supervisor who will advise and support the potential supervisors at an early stage. research over a three-year, full-time period MRes: The aim of the MRes (Master of throughout the whole programme, so that direction of their research for the duration This chemistry is vital to ensuring: of study. Research is then presented in the Research) is to provide relevant training research conducted is relevant to their own of the degree, and a co-supervisor will • that you receive the advice and form of a thesis of not more than 100,000 to acquire the knowledge, techniques and practice and workplace. provide additional support as required. guidance you need to decide whether words. The thesis must demonstrate the understanding needed for a professional or not a research degree at Swansea student’s capacity to pursue original career, or for progression to higher Is a research degree right for me? After submitting a PhD thesis, students are University is right for you research and should represent a distinct academic studies, normally a PhD. Yes, if you want to: normally expected to defend their thesis • Pursue a career in academia or research • that the supervisor is enthused and and significant contribution to the subject. orally in a viva voce examination, and to The MRes is achieved through a • Explore an individual topic in depth motivated by the topic demonstrate how their research is original combination of taught modules (worth • Acquire extensive and specialised and contributes to the field of study. 60 credits) and a research thesis which research skills presents the outcome of a significant • Enhance your career prospects. research project (worth 120 credits). Can I study part-time? RESEARCH DEGREES – INDEX EngD: The Engineering Doctorate prepares Part-time study is possible for UK and EU Engineering students for research and students, but you are encouraged to 92 Ageing Studies 118 Health and Social Sciences technology leadership careers in industry contact the Academic Department in 94 American Studies 120 History and is fully supported by the Engineering question before applying. Part-time study 96 Biosciences 122 Law and Physical Sciences Research Council. is not possible for international students. 98 Business Management 124 Mathematics The EngD is a four-year scheme consisting 100 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology 126 Media Studies of one year of taught modules followed by 102 Computer Science 128 Medicine an industry-linked research project. For 104 Criminal Justice and Criminology 132 Modern Languages and Translation further information, see page 110. 106 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi 134 Physics MD: In addition to the PhD, the School of 108 Economics 136 Politics, International Relations and Development Studies Medicine offers the postgraduate degree 110 Engineering 138 Psychology of Doctor of Medicine (MD) through 114 English 140 Sport and Excercise Science supervised research within individual 116 Geography 141 War and Society research groups.
90 91 Research Degrees – Ageing Studies 93 Matt Roberts, PhD Aging Studies PhD Aging ” Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Funded by the Economic and Social Research Visit the University: for details and Open see page 174 Day information online at: Applications can be made www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further– see pages 176 – 177 information courses available For details of Master’s see page in Ageing Studies, please 30. I am focusing on the influence of modifiable lifestyle factors upon I am focusing on the influence of modifiable the risk of cognitive impairment in later life. My PhD is part of a Function and known as The Cognitive larger multi-centre study, is longitudinal Wales CFAS Wales). (CFAS Ageing Study in Wales in nature and uses a unique sample of individuals over 65 years I am of age split between 65-74 years and 75 years and older. currently in my third year of full-time study and I am currently focusing on my analytic framework, where I will be using Wales. mediation analysis to explore the data collected from CFAS I have also had the opportunity to participate in data collection for which I found rewarding and which helped to Wales CFAS develop my fieldwork research skills. The CIA aims to ensure that its research activity is translated into economic growth as well as in commerce and industry, ageing an for solutions practical providing population in both the private and public It provides an exceptional sector. training ground for researchers and postgraduates, attracting some of the finest students from around the world. “ in six European countries and Wales How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/ humanandhealthsciences/research Contact: Administrator Maria Davis, Postgraduate Email: [email protected] +44 (0)1792 295309 Tel: The Centre also has rich, qualitative and quantitative data archives including datasets containing information on: • 12,000 people aged 60-90 living • 20 years of longitudinal data • 600 older South Asians • 1000 rural elders in England The Centre for Innovative Ageing The CIA is at the forefront of interdisciplinary work on ageing and provides the infrastructure focus and leadership for ageing research and scholarship across the University’s Colleges. It houses a unique cluster of researchers and lecturers who contribute to postgraduate training. The team’s connections to policy-makers are unparalleled in other parts of the UK. The Centre hosts the Older People and Ageing Research and Development Stroke Research Network, and the Wales Interest Group. Its strong national and international links, and its links with the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Wales Diseases Research Network, set the Centre apart from others in the UK, and places it at the cutting edge of research into ageing. participation of older people including: intergenerational relationships; social and support networks; civic participation; and the disruption of these types of engagement by personal (e.g. migration, psychological resources) and structural (e.g. multiple disadvantage, discrimination, national or local policies, transport) factors natural and built physical space; functional design; community; housing; climate change and extreme emergencies caused by natural and human-made events including: social care; health care; intermediate care; residential care; and palliative care in old age including: falls; stroke; cancer; dementia; depression and health promotion Research Strengths Research undertaken by members of the CIA falls into four broad themes: • civic and social engagement and • environments of ageing including: • care provision for older people • chronic conditions, falls and prevention Scholarships and Bursaries scholarships A range of postgraduate and bursaries is available. www.swansea. For details, please visit: ac.uk/scholarships/Postgraduate research fundingThe CIA attracts substantial Union, the from the ESRC, the European Government, the Big Lottery Fund, Welsh National Joseph Rowntree Foundation, in Health Institute for Clinical Excellence Departmentand Social Care, and the for International Development. PhD research advertisedstudentships are frequently for posts associated with particular projects (in particular ESRC funded projects). that effectively meet the needs and expectations of older people career working with older people, and managing and delivering services for an older population research and teaching demands of an ageing population is essential employment practice and provide the potential for economic growth and new companies relating to this customer and client demographic will be in high demand Research degrees in Ageing Studies will: • train you to provide creative solutions • equip you with the skills necessary for a • prepare you for a career in academic Postgraduates in Ageing Studies will meet employer needs: • workforce awareness of the changing • demographic change will impact on • graduates with skills and knowledge Students working full-time towards a research degree have the opportunity to attend taught courses on research methods and statistics, and are encouraged to disseminate their own research findings at national and international conferences. English Language requirement: 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 in each IELTS University component) or Swansea recognised equivalent. Entry requirements: MPhil: normally an Honours degree related to (2.1 or above) in a discipline or a relevant, the chosen specialty, qualification. approved postgraduate PhD: Applicants would normally have, degree. a Master’s or be studying for, to a career Evidence of a commitment desirable. in a research setting is also 11
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Research opportunitiesResearch MPhil/PhD RAE2008 60% of research or internationallyrated world-leading (4*) excellent (3*) Ageing Studies Ageing The Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) welcomes proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. The trend toward an ageing population requires a concerted application of a multidisciplinary scientific endeavour through collaboration between scientists in a variety of disciplines, (e.g. physical social, human science; engineering; IT; and health sciences). Population ageing is an issue that will is It dominate the twenty-first century. unprecedented, pervasive, profound and enduring. Changes in the population structure will touch all aspects of life, from family composition and living arrangements, to social support, as security, and social economic activity, well as the consumption of goods and leisure activity. 92 Research Degrees – American Studies 95 ” Linda Phillips, Linda Phillips, PhD American Studies The faculty are brilliant, my supervision has been exemplary – just enough push to make me get down to work, and always – just enough push to make me get down enthusiastic about my topic. The library resources are good for to help. my area of study and staff are always willing “ Visit the University: for details see page 174 online Applications can be made at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further– see pages 176 – 177 information ts How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities Tutor: Contact the PCS Admissions Professor Roland Axtmann Email: COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ [email protected] +44 (0)1792 295926 Tel: All American Studies research students belong to the Graduate Centre in the College of Ar and Humanities. The Centre provides pastoral as well as administrative support and is also responsible for research skills training and support, and facilitating a lively intellectual postgraduate environment for the College’s research community of 200 students. For further information about RIAH, visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/riah , the Centre for the Study of C-SCAP Culture and Politics GENCAS, the Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society Comparative Study of the Americas Funding for research work is available from research work is available Funding for including the Leverhulme several sources, and the Fulbright Commission. Foundation funded by the Graduates are currently bursaries and Tempus, University of Wales, assistantships. Opportunities graduate for may be funded research in the United States by the Department. • Research Institute for Arts and Humanities The Research Institute for Arts and Humanities (RIAH) supports two major Research Centres, including the Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, Empire. The Callaghan Centre produces conflict of areas the in research world-class postcolonialism, empire and and security, and conflict and culture. It ‘digital’ war, also manages major Research Council funded projects, and promotes collaboration between scholars, policymakers and cultural providers. RIAH also supports a wide range of research groups, which provide a focus for specialist projects, postgraduate research, grant applications, seminar series, and contact with external partners. Research groups include: • CECSAM, the Centre for the • Research Strengths Staff interests cover the core research disciplines of American Studies: literature, politics and film. Particular history, research strengths include: • American Politics and Government • US Foreign Policy on Drugs” • US “War • The American Civil War • The American South on American society • The Impact of War • Hollywood film and American society • Ethnicity and multiculturalism • African-American Literature and Culture • The Harlem Renaissance • The American West • Contemporary Literature • Silent Cinema War • Representations of the Vietnam American Studies is involved in collaborative research projects with several universities across the United States and there is a programme of visiting speakers from Britain and the USA. Staff have written and edited book-length studies of literature, popular culture, labour leaders, political modern poetry, processes and philosophy. English Language requirement: 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 in each IELTS University component) or Swansea recognised equivalent. Scholarships and Bursaries scholarships A range of postgraduate For details, and bursaries is available. please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ scholarships/Postgraduate Entry requirements: Normally degree, or higher a 2.1 Honours qualification. degree, or an equivalent
research skills research and teaching rewarding career in a range of diverse fields Research degrees in American Studies will: • provide you with new and specialised • prepare you for a career in academic • equip you with skills relevant for a We welcome proposals for postgraduate We research projects that complement staff research interests. Understanding the forces that have moulded and continue to shape America helps us to make sense of our contemporary world. The comparative study of the history and culture of the United States addresses themes such as immigration, imperialism, slavery, democracy, multiculturalism, religion, the economy These issues terrorism. and, more recently, do not just concern the past; they are directly relevant to the world we live in. Academic and research staff and research staff Academic are located in American Studies students numerous Departmentsthe College within of Arts please and Humanities. For details, see: www.swansea.ac.uk/ artsandhumanities Professors J Roper Research opportunitiesResearch MA by Research/MPhil/PhD RAE2008 30% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) American Studies American 94 Research Degrees – Biosciences 97 ” Sylvie Vandenabeele, Sylvie Vandenabeele, It is really enjoyable for me PhD Biological Sciences to work on my own subject and feel part of a group of experts. interact with other also We research groups as all the domains are complementary either in terms of knowledge or equipment and facilities. This collaborative spirit is a great strength of research groups working at Swansea University. “ Visit the University: for details see page 174 online Applications can be made at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline for further– see pages 176 – 177 information courses available For details of Master’s page 32. in Biosciences please see Recent examples include developing the Fisheries aquaculture section of the Wales Strategy (2008) and its associated Implementation Plan, and formation of the Aquaculture Producers’ Association Welsh (WAPA). Education and training activities at CSAR include hosting a vibrant research studentship (PhD) programme, supervising MSc and MRes research projects, vocational training for undergraduate and postgraduate students and tailored training courses for industry and public institution personnel. One-year MSc by Research programmes are also available in the following specialist areas: • Aquatics • Biomathematics • Environmental Conservation • Environmental Sustainability • Mathematical Ecology • Migration Science • Sustainable Resources How can I find out more? can I find How Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/biosci Contact the Postgraduate Recruitment Officer: +44 (0)1792 295142 Tel: aquaculture service providers, funding agencies and governmental institutions, in Equipped with the UK and internationally. modern, programmable recirculating fully aquaculture systems, CSAR is designed for applied research on a diverse range of aquatic organisms, from temperate to tropical and marine to freshwater environments. In addition to its own top quality experimental facilities, CSAR has direct access to comprehensive expertise and laboratories across the Swansea University campus, encompassing molecular biology, biochemistry, water histo-pathology, physiology, systems engineering, bio- chemistry, processing technologies and complex fluids processing. Areas of specialty include: nutritional requirements and feed formulation/ evaluation for farmed fish and shellfish; crustacean applied immunology and health management; microalgal biotechnology; water quality control and biosecurity management in recirculating aquaculture systems; and bioremediation and valorisation of aquaculture effluents. As well as offering applied research services its Swansea University base, from the CSAR team provides information and advice to industry and governments.
Sciences Research Council Biotechnology and Biological Biotechnology and Biological Council Natural Environment Research • Carbon Trust • Countryside Council for Wales • DEFRA • DFID • Environment Agency • European Union • Leverhulme Trust • Recent research has also been supportedRecent research by organisations: the following • Equipment and facilities include a stable isotope (13C and 15N) and scintillation CN elemental analyser, counters, GC and LC, particle and nutrient analysers, oxygen and specific ion electrodes, atomic adsorption and atomic emission spectrometers, digital image analysis systems, facilities for and recombinant DNA technology, biological mass spectrometry with access to state-of-the-art proteomics facilities. Culture and holding facilities include a freshwater research unit, marine aquaria, environmentally controlled and constant temperature growth rooms, and glasshouses. Laboratories are available for raising fungal biocontrol agents and monoclonal antibodies. A 12.5m research vessel, smaller inshore boats and a wide range of oceanographic and biological measuring and sampling equipment are available for inshore work. The Department houses the £2 million Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Research (CSAR). Operating from state-of-the-art controlled environment facilities, the CSAR team carries out research and technological development, training and advice on behalf of commercial farmers/ Ecology Fish, Aquaculture and Fisheries Renewable Energy and Nature Reserve Wetland Design and Construction Research Strengths Staff interests encompass research and aquaculture. marine biology ecology, Ecological Research Research work includes: • Algal Biotechnology • Animal Ecology and Conservation Research • Animal Smart Tag • Aquatic Predator-Prey Interactions • Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology of • Biocontrol • Environmental Impact of Marine • Habitat Restoration, Artificial Zooplankton, Jellyfish • Marine Turtles, • Molecular Ecology and Evolution • Natural Products • Pathobiology and Aquaculture • Plankton • Modelling English Language requirement: 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 IELTS University in each component) or Swansea recognised equivalent. Scholarships and Bursaries scholarships and A range of postgraduate details, please bursaries is available. For visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Postgraduate Entry requirements: in a or higher degree An upper second-class biological subject is normally required.
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research skills research and teaching rewarding career in field-oriented and/ or laboratory-oriented employment, including education, conservation, environmental monitoring, and agriculture Research degrees in Biosciences will: • provide you with new and specialised • prepare you for a career in academic • equip you with skills relevant for a The Department welcomes proposals for postgraduate research projects that complement staff research interests. Research in biosciences at Swansea, hosted by the Department of Biosciences, is of relevance to a wide range of fields of study from molecular and cellular through to whole organisms across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The diverse habitats available around Swansea set it apart as a site for study These habitats and research in biology. are located on the nearby Gower Peninsula (a site of Special Scientific first Area of Interest, and the UK’s Outstanding Natural Beauty), in the and further afield in Swansea Valley the Brecon Beacons National Park and Pembrokeshire. Postgraduates K Flynn and research staff Academic Professors T Butt G Hays Research opportunitiesResearch MPhil, PhD, MSc by Research, MRes research RAE2008 75% of Swansea’s judged to be of in Biological Science was 20% of which was international quality, regarded as internationally (3*) excellent Biosciences 96 Business Management Research Degrees Research opportunities Entry requirements: How can I find out more? Applications can be made online I am in the third year of my PhD having completed both my MPhil/PhD Normally a first or upper second-class Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Honours degree in a relevant subject. www.swansea.ac.uk/business – see pages 176 – 177 for further “Bachelors and Master’s degrees at Swansea, and I’m still enjoying RAE2008 40% of research rated information world-leading (4*) or internationally Contact the Admissions Officer: every minute of studying here! I’ve really benefited from the research excellent (3*) English Language requirement: Dr Yogesh Dwivedi For details of the Master’s degrees IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each skills training that has been available to me, as well as the excellent Email: [email protected] available in Business Management, Professors component) or Swansea University Tel: +44 (0)1792 295601 please see page 34. support of staff in the Business School. Y Debrah A Simintiras recognised equivalent. A Henley M Williams Kate Stacey, Visit the University: ” – Business Management D Knights PhD Business Studies Scholarships and Bursaries see page 174 for details A Palmer The School and the University awards a limited number of research studentships Academic and research staff 50 (MPhil/PhD). For details, please visit www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Postgraduates 493 scholarships/
Management is about making decisions • Organisations and Work Finance and Risk Management personal selling and sales management particular areas of interest being Ethics diffusion, electronic commerce/electronic and getting the most from people at all • Risk Management Research in the finance area has a strong (e.g. adaptive selling behaviour; sales and Politics in Organisations, Gender and business (including knowledge levels in all types of organisations. It is • Technology and Innovation empirical basis. Areas of current interest force empowerment and cross-cultural Diversity at Work, Human Resources and management and online marketing), interdisciplinary: social, environmental, Management include the modelling of futures and negotiations), research methodology (eg. International Management, Individuals and supply chain management and psychological, economic, and technical options data, asset pricing models, retrospective measures and cross-cultural and the Collective, Leadership and The resource planning/allocation. factors play important roles. The Business Postgraduate students have access to insurance industry structure, the credit equivalence), and tourism research (eg. Management and Organisation of School welcomes proposals for dedicated IT facilities within both the rating of insurers, and financial markets in tourism demand, seasonality and Health. Some current research projects As well as providing focus and direction postgraduate research projects that University’s Library and Information Centre developing economies. This research has performance of SMEs in the serviced focus on care and health, ethico-political for research, the research groups hold complement the staff research interests and the Business School: The School has been supported by national organisations accommodation sector). organisation, ethics and embodiment, regular colloquia and workshops listed below. extensive PC and multi-user computer such as the Association of British Insurers, futures of feminism, international business designed to promote interdisciplinary facilities which give students access to a and international organisations such as the In addition to the above, the research and human resource management in research projects, and to provide Research degrees in Business wide range of software including the latest Handelsbanken-Wallander Foundation interests of the group extend to areas of Africa, media discourse, mediation and impetus for research grant applications Management will: Microsoft packages, statistical packages and the Swedish Central Bank. branding, strategy, retailing and pricing. organisations, rethinking leadership, and consultancy activity. • provide you with new and such as SPSS and SAS, and a range of re-thinking the relationship of power and specialised research skills specialist Business and Economics Marketing People, Organisations and Work resistance within organisations, self- The School has current externally-funded • equip you with skills relevant for software including Nvivo, EViews, STATA Home to the Centre for Consumer The People, Organisations and Work identity, team working, trade unions, and research projects on the information a rewarding management career in and Datastream. Confidence Research, the Marketing research group is an internationally working conditions and employment society (National Assembly for Wales), sectors such as retail, manufacturing, research group undertakes theoretical acclaimed team of researchers interested relations in food retailing in Europe. on business succession planning finance, accounting, and the Additional software and support is and applied research in buyer-seller in the human dynamics and relationships (European Social Fund), on environmental public sector available through the University’s central relationships (eg. customer experience, at play in organised work contexts. Technology and Innovation Management management and on the labour market • prepare you for a career in Information Services and Systems (ISS). service quality, service culture and Multidisciplinary in nature, the group The work of the Technology and in Wales (European Social Fund). academic research and teaching This includes a comprehensive digital customer orientation), consumer behaviour draws inspiration from across the social Innovation Management Group is focused library of resources which includes iFind (eg. perceived risk and trust, confidence, sciences and humanities (sociology, upon the key role played in modern Research Strengths Research, official publications and complaint behaviour, materialism, politics, psychology, gender studies, society by ICT as a tool for economic, Staff research interests cover the core journals, library catalogues, Athens and a consumer movement, bargaining history and philosophy) in order to business, and societal development. It disciplines of Business Management: comprehensive online reference collection. behaviour), internet marketing (eg. contribute to the disciplinary management also incorporates the Centre for e-Business • E-business technology adoption, addiction, music areas of organisation studies, critical Research (CeBR) which acts as a focal • Entrepreneurship The School has a number of established consumption, social media), marketing management studies, human resource point for inter-group collaboration on • Finance research groupings, which provide focus communications (eg. Word-of-Mouth, management, international business, technology-related business research such • Human Resources and support its ongoing research attitudes toward advertising and emotions organisational psychology and industrial as e-marketing and e-banking. Research • Information Systems programmes and culture. Further details on /emotional confidence), Marketing in relations. The group engages in of national and international significance • Marketing research groups can be found at: www. Higher Education (eg. student involvement qualitative, quantitative and post- is conducted in the areas of electronic swansea.ac.uk/business and satisfaction, export marketing in HE), structuralist research traditions, with government, technology adoption and
98 99 Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology Research Degrees Research opportunities Entry requirements: Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MA by Research/MPhil/PhD Normally a minimum of a 2.1 degree (or A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: see page 174 for details equivalent) in Classics, Ancient History, bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/classics RAE2008 25% of research rated Egyptology, or related subject areas, or an visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Applications can be made online world-leading (4*) or internationally appropriate Master’s degree. Postgraduate Contact the Admissions Tutor: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) Email: COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ – see pages 176 – 177 for further Graduates of the University of Wales swansea.ac.uk information Professors English Language requirement: in Classics may apply for the Ellen Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 M Humphries IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Thomas-Stanford Scholarship’s single For details of the Master’s courses J R Morgan component) or Swansea University annual award, normally of £250. available in Classics, Ancient – Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology – Classics, Ancient History recognised equivalent. History and Egyptology, please Academic and research staff 11 see page 38.
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From the empire building of Alexander, Research Strengths The Centre for Egyptology and Other facilities the Caesars, and Rameses II, to the wit Staff research interests cover the core Mediterranean Archaeology The purpose-built Egypt Centre on campus and wisdom of Aristotle, Plato, and disciplines of language, literature, history, The Centre undertakes research on is an invaluable asset, housing around Cicero, the ancient world has captivated and archaeology. Particular research ancient Egypt and the archaeology 3,000 objects from Ancient Egypt. The us for thousands of years. strengths include: of the Mediterranean in classical antiquity, collection illustrates more than 4,000 • Ancient Egyptian Religion exploring the interplay between Egypt years of human development, from the Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology • Ancient Narrative Literature and the classical world. prehistoric to the early Christian era, at Swansea University encompasses • The Ancient Novel and plays an integral role to teaching history and literature, archaeology and • Ancient Philosophy KYKNOS: Centre for Research and research. art, and philosophy and legend to shed • Ancient Technology in Ancient Narrative Literature light on the ancient civilisations that have • Archaeology of Roman Egypt KYKNOS (Greek for Swan) is a The University library is particularly well shaped our modern world. • Egyptology collaborative venture between the stocked with original texts, literary and • Gender in Ancient Egypt Universities of Swansea and Trinity Saint documentary, and subscribes to a The Department of History and Classics • Graeco-Roman Urbanisation David’s (Lampeter). The Centre stimulates, wide range of general and specialist welcomes proposals for postgraduate • Greek Social History (Archaic to coordinates, and promotes research on periodicals. Online access to external research projects that complement staff Hellenistic) the narrative literatures of antiquity. bibliographies and citation indexes is research interests. • Historiography available. Resources include: JSTOR, • History and Archaeology of Asia Minor Dyabola, TLG, Patrologia Latina and Research degrees in Classics, Ancient • History of Late Antiquity Teubner Latin texts online, and the History and Egyptology will: • Imperialism in Egypt and the Near East Gnomon database. • provide you with new and specialised • Roman Republican and Imperial History research skills All research students in Classics, Ancient History and Egyptology belong to the • prepare you for a career in academic Graduate Centre in the College of Arts research and teaching and Humanities. The Centre provides • equip you with skills relevant for pastoral as well as administrative support a rewarding career in a range of and is also responsible for research skills diverse fields training and support, and facilitating a lively intellectual environment for the College’s postgraduate research community of 200 students.
100 101 Computer Science Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 30 Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MPhil/PhD, MRes A range of postgraduate scholarships Visit our website: see page 174 for details One year MSc by Research Postgraduates 70 and bursaries is normally available. For www.swansea.ac.uk/compsci programmes are also available details, please visit www.swansea.ac.uk/ Applications can be made online in the following specialist areas: Entry requirements: scholarships/Postgraduate Contact the Postgraduate at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline • Graphics PhD, MPhil, normally a 2.1 Honours degree Recruitment Officer: – see pages 176 – 177 for further Each year, the Department is able to • Human-computer interface in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 information offer a number of EPSRC studentships to • Theoretical computer science closely related discipline. research students. Research work is currently Contact the Admissions Tutor: For details of the Master’s courses RAE2008 70% of research English Language requirement: supported by a range of grants from funding available in Computer Science, please Email: [email protected] – Computer Science rated world-leading (4*) or internationally councils, the EU, and industry. In some see page 40. IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each cases, these provide research studentships. Tel: +44 (0)1792 513369 excellent (3*) component) or Swansea University Professors recognised equivalent. F G Moller H W Thimbleby M Jones J V Tucker P D Mosses
Computer Science affects every aspect of Research Strengths • the satisfiability problem (SAT) • algorithms for deformation that are relevant to the whole of society. our lives, placing increasing demands on The Department’s research interests are considered in a broad perspective, and animation Interests include research focused on the education, business, and industry to based on algorithms, programs and ranging from theoretical foundations to • efficient direct volume digital divide, mobile information seeking, ensure that the workforce of the future is systems, rather than on the construction of practical implementations rendering techniques education and patient care. equipped with the skills necessary to hardware, so a sound background in • general algebraic methods for modelling • non-photorealistic rendering techniques thrive in the Digital Age. Computer programming and/or mathematics is a microprocessors Facilities Science at Swansea is at the heart of the prerequisite for most projects. There are • software tools for rapid implementation • algebraic theory of synchronous • Computing facilities are based on technological innovation that is redefining currently three broad areas of research: of software systems involving remote concurrent algorithms (SCAs), and a fibre optic backbone and the way we live, learn, and work. collaboration and multimedia application of SCAs to the specification 1G switched fast Ethernet LANs Algebraic and Logical Methods for the communication of scientific simulation in areas such • Postgraduate laboratories are equipped The Department welcomes proposals for Design of Software and Hardware • scalable virtual environments and as physiology with modern workstations running Linux, postgraduate research projects that Research focuses on the mathematical knowledge-based user interfaces • infinite-state automata theory, particularly Windows XP/Vista, Solaris and complement its research interests – analysis of fundamental problems • industrial applications in the structural technologies for analysing Mac OS X please see: www.swansea.ac.uk/ concerned with algorithms, programs and management of commercial software large general computing systems • Workstations are served by a compsci/research/index.html for programming languages, and machines. development and maintenance using high-performance computing further information. The group is at the forefront of research for Internet/intranet-based multimedia Computer Graphics and Visualisation infrastructure comprising a 68-processor example in the following areas: communications The group has a leading position in the cluster architecture, an eight-processor A research degree in Computer • computations on topological data new field of volume graphics and • 3D volumetric display technology computation engine, and several Science will: types such as the real numbers and contributes to the development and terabyte servers • provide you with new and on infinite data streams Future Interaction Technologies application of multimedia communications. • PhD and MPhil students are allocated specialised research skills • higher-order and component-based Future Interaction Technologies (FIT) refers, The group has made significant a desk and their own computing • prepare you for a career in methods for programming language broadly, to complex devices that have contributions in the following areas: facilities in the research laboratory academic research and teaching semantics immediate impact on our lives, for better • constructive volume geometry as an or worse – whether in our homes, cars, • The Department is an institutional • equip you with skills relevant for a • type theory and its applications in algebraic framework for volume mobile phones or medical devices, etc. member of the Association for rewarding career in a range of diverse programming technologies graphics, and software tools for The research of the FIT Lab focuses on Computing Machinery and the fields, including software development • operational semantics that give meaning modelling and rendering complex evaluating and changing design through British Computer Society and Internet systems to concurrent systems, and the use of multivolume scenes better human-orientated tools, technology, game theory, particularly the study of • distance field and its use in voxelisation models and methods. winning strategies, in understanding of complex objects, and efficient verification problems algorithms for computing distance Its aim is to improve quality of life by fields, and hypertextures addressing key technological challenges
102 103 Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Degrees Research opportunities Entry requirements: Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MPhil/PhD Normally an appropriate Honours degree A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: see page 174 for details (2.1 or above), or an equivalent bursaries is available. For details, visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/criminology RAE2008 60% of research rated qualification. www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ Applications can be made online world-leading (4*) or internationally scholarships Contact the Admissions Tutor: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) Dr Stephen Case – see pages 176 – 177 for further English Language requirement: The CCJC has attracted substantial research Email: [email protected] information Professors IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each funding from the ESRC, the Home Office, Tel: +44 (0)1792 295308 K Haines component) or Swansea University the Welsh Assembly Government, the For details of Master’s courses available P Raynor recognised equivalent. Youth Justice Board and the Department for in Criminology, please see page 44. International Development. PhD research – Criminal Justice and Criminology Academic and research staff 9 studentships are frequently advertised for posts associated with particular projects. Postgraduates 21
Criminology is the study of why people Research Strengths Centre for Criminal Justice • to promote the dissemination of: The DTC was established to promote commit unlawful acts; how – and why – The Department is an approved research and Criminology i) criminal justice and criminological excellence in postgraduate training in we characterise crime in the way we do, training pathway in the Welsh Doctoral The Centre for Criminal Justice and research, and ii) policy and practice Wales. It forms part of a national network and how the criminal justice system Training Centre which means that it has Criminology (CCJC) was established in knowledge across Europe through of 21 accredited Doctoral Training works. It encompasses a range of been recognised by the ESRC as 1994 as a focus for criminological an effective publishing strategy and Centres across the UK judged by academic fields, including history, social delivering excellent postgraduate training. research and teaching at the University, membership of European professional the ESRC to deliver truly excellent policy, politics, and sociology, to provide and works in collaboration with other associations postgraduate training provision. A a view of crime from a social and Research undertaken by members of the Colleges, universities and partner • to develop an interdisciplinary and central feature of the Wales DTC is the individual perspective, and it looks Department encompasses a broad range agencies. It provides an undergraduate intercollegiate approach to the research training provision offered to critically at how the sentencing system of interests, including: degree in Criminology and an MA in conduct of research students. In Criminology at Swansea you works. Applied Criminal Justice and Criminology will be offered a mix of generic research • youth justice • to provide teaching of the highest as well as supervising research degrees training (in, for example, qualitative and • probation quality in the application of criminal The Department welcomes proposals at MPhil and PhD level. quantitative methods) and subject specific • community sentencing justice and criminological knowledge for postgraduate research projects that research training where we focus on • crime prevention to the operation of the criminal complement the staff research strengths The Centre has taken a central role in applying research methods to • substance use justice system detailed below. • restorative justice the development of the cross-institutional Criminological enquiry. Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, • female offending ESRC Wales Doctoral Training Centre Research degrees in Criminal Justice funded by the Higher Education Funding • white collar crime Criminology at Swansea University has and Criminology will: Council for Wales, and contributes to • sexual offending won a coveted place in the national research partnerships and funding • equip you with advanced skills relevant • street prostitution network of training centres accredited by proposals as part of the Centre. The for a rewarding career in the criminal • domestic abuse the ESRC as part of the Wales Doctoral Centre’s aims and objectives include: justice system • children’s rights in the criminal Training Centre. The Wales Doctoral • provide you with new and specialised justice system • to generate new applied criminological Training Centre (Wales-DTC) is awarding research skills research-based knowledge a number of ESRC-funded postgraduate • prepare you for a career in academic • to promote and conduct criminal research studentships to support doctoral research and teaching justice and criminological research of research and training. The Wales DTC is international significance in Wales and a consortium of leading universities which other member States of the European was launched in February 2011 with a Community multi-million pound award from the Economic and Social Research Council. The partner institutions are Cardiff, Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea.
104 105 Cymraeg – Academi Hywel Teifi Research Degrees Cyfleodd ymchwil Professors Gofynion Am ragor o wybodaeth Gellir cael mwy o wybodaeth a MPhil, PhD, MA drwy Ymchwil G Ffrancon Fel rheol, gradd is-raddedig dda (dosbarth Gwefan: gwneud cais drwy edrych ar T Hallam cyntaf neu 2:1), a gradd feistr yn y Gymraeg www.abertawe.ac.uk/academihywelteifi www.swansea.ac.uk/cy/ Canlyniad yr asesiad ymchwil yn 2008 C James y Cyfryngau neu bwnc perthnasol. astudioynabertawe – gweler Dangosodd canlyniadau’r RAE (asesiad tudalennau 176 – 177 am ragor o A C Lake Cysylltwch â’r Swyddog ymchwil) a gyhoeddwyd ar 18 Rhagfyr Ysgoloriaethau a Bwrsariaethau wybodaeth S Morris Derbyn Ôl-raddedig: 2008 fod 95% o’r ymchwil a wnaed gan R Rhys Mae ystod o ysgoloriaethau ar gael. E-bost: [email protected] aelodau’r Adran yn ystod cyfnod yr Am fanylion, gweler: www.swan.ac.uk/cy/ Ffôn: +44 (0)1792 602070 Am wybodaeth ynghylch cyrsiau asesiad o safon ryngwladol neu o safon Staff academaidd ac ymchwil 9 astudioynabertawe/ MA yn y Gymraeg, Cyfeithu ac uwch na hynny. Barnwyd bod 65% o’r ysgoloriaethauabwrsariaethau Astudiaethau’r Cyfryngau trwy gyfrwng Os ydych am ymweld â’r Brifysgol: Teifi – Cymraeg Academi Hywel ymchwil o safon 3* (rhagoriaeth ar y Gymraeg, gweler tudalennau 46. Ôl-raddedigion 21 gweler tudalen 174 am fanylion. wastad rhyngwladol) neu o safon 4* (safon sy’n arwain y ffordd yn rhyngwladol). Yr oedd y canlyniad hwn yn un o’r goreuon yn y Brifysgol ac yn y maes yn genedlaethol.
Sefydlwyd Academi Hywel Teifi yn 2010 Cymru. Mae ysgolheigion y Gymraeg ac Cryfderau Ymchwil • Cymraeg i oedolion a maes caffael Sefydliad Ymchwil y yn bwerdy ac yn sefydliad o ragoriaeth Astudiaethau’r Cyfryngau trwy gyfrwng y Mae gan y staff academaidd arbenigedd iaith. Mae’r Academi yn gartref i Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau ar gyfer y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol Gymraeg yn Academi Hywel Teifi yn mewn nifer o feysydd. Maen nhw’n Ganolfan Cymraeg i Oedolion Mae Sefydliad Ymchwil y Celfyddydau Abertawe. Cyfunwyd Adran y Gymraeg croesawu ceisiadau wrth fyfyrwyr ymchwil cynnwys: De-Orllewin Cymru sydd yn arwain yn a’r Dyniaethau yn cynnwys ynddo dair a Chanolfan Cymraeg i Oedolion a garai gydweithio â nhw yn y meysydd • Llenyddiaeth o bob cyfnod, gan genedlaethol ym maes ymchwil canolfan ymchwil fawr, gan gynnwys (i) De-Orllewin Cymru, gan greu un hyn. gynnwys golygu testunau neu Cymraeg i Oedolion Canolfan Ymchwil Iaith, canolfan sy’n Academi newydd a chanddi’r statws a’r ymdriniaethau beirniadol ar waith elwa ar arbenigedd staff ym maes y adnoddau angenrheidiol ar gyfer creu a Bydd astudio ar gyfer gradd ymchwil yn y awduron unigol, cyfnodau neu themâu Croesewir ceisiadau ar gyfer graddau Gymraeg, ieithyddiaeth gymhwysol, chynnal cymuned ddysgu fywiog, sy’n Gymraeg neu’r Cyfryngau trwy’r Gymraeg: arbennig. Gellir arbenigo ym maes PhD yn y meysydd hyn, ac mae astudio’n Saesneg a Ieithoedd Modern, a (ii) cynnwys ynddi fyfyrwyr MA drwy • ddatblygu sgiliau ymchwil newydd ac llenyddiaeth yr Oesoedd Canol, y rhan amser yn bosibl. Gellir hefyd elwa Canolfan Astudiaethau Cymreig Richard Ymchwil, MPhil a PhD. Mae’r Academi arbenigol Cyfnod Modern neu lenyddiaeth ar arbenigedd staff mewn adrannau eraill Burton, canolfan sy’n tynnu ynghyd staff a hefyd yn hyrwyddo pynciau eraill a yn y Brifysgol a gweithio gyda mwy nag myfyrwyr ymchwil o nifer o • paratoi ar gyfer gyrfa academaidd neu ddiweddar ddysgir trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, gan un cyfarwyddwr ymchwil ar draws ddisgyblaethau, gan ymchwilio i addysgol • Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda, gan gynnwys ddwyn ynghyd y nifer cynyddol o disgyblaethau, e.e. cyfuno’r Gymraeg ag amrywiol agweddau ar ddiwylliant golygu testunol ysgolheigion ar draws gwahanol • ennill sgiliau a chymhwyster sy’n astudiaeth sy’n berthnasol i’r Gyfraith, Cymru. O’r tu fewn i Goleg y ddisgyblaethau sy’n gweithio trwy berthnasol ar gyfer ystod eang o • Sefydliadau ac amrywiol agweddau ar Hanes, Saesneg, Cyfieithu, Ieithoedd Celfyddydau a’r Dyniaethau ceir nifer o gyfrwng y Gymraeg ym Mhrifysgol lwybrau gyrfaol ym meysydd addysg, y ddiwylliant Cymru, gan gynnwys yr Modern, Ieithyddiaeth Gymhwysol, grwpiau ymchwil gweithgar a chynhelir Abertawe. cyfryngau, adloniant, cyfieithu, rheoli, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, pleidiau Astudiaethau’r Cyfryngau, Seicoleg, seminarau ymchwil yn rheolaidd y gall busnes a pholisi iaith gwleidyddol ac S4C Busnes, Iechyd neu faes arall. myfyrwyr eu mynychu, gan gynnwys Mae i’r Gymraeg draddodiad • Drama, gan gynnwys anterliwtiau’r seminar y Gymraeg dan ofal Academi anrhydeddus o gynhyrchu ymchwil o’r Mae gan lyfrgell y Brifysgol gasgliad ddeunawfed ganrif a dramâu diweddar Hywel Teifi. gwych o lyfrau a deunyddiau radd flaenaf ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe, a • Teledu ffilm a radio, gan gynnwys amlgyfryngol ym maes y Gymraeg a rhan bwysig o’r diwylliant ymchwil hwnnw astudiaethau hanesyddol, testunol neu phynciau cysylltiedig. Sicrheir bod gan yw’r berthynas rhwng y staff academaidd theoretig a’r myfyrwyr ymchwil. bob myfyriwr ymchwil ofod addas ar gyfer ei waith, gan gynnwys adnoddau • Y cyfryngau digidol ac aml-lwyfan Mae graddau ymchwil yn y Gymraeg, cyfrifiadurol a ddarperir yn benodol ar • Hanes a theori animeiddio rhyngwladol graddau MPhil a PhD, yn rhoi cyfle i gyfer myfyrwyr ymchwil. Bydd modd i • Ysgrifennu creadigol ac agweddau fyfyrwyr ddatblygu arbenigedd ym fyfyrwyr ddefnyddio’r labordy Iaith a cymdeithasol ar hyrwyddo llên chyfieithu amlgyfryngol, ynghyd â’r meysydd iaith, cymdeithaseg iaith, • Cyfieithu, cyfieithu llenyddol a feddalwedd iaith gyfrifiadurol cyfieithu, llenyddiaeth o bob cyfnod, dwyieithrwydd drama, ffilm a theledu, theori ddiwylliannol ddiweddaraf. • Iaith a chymdeithaseg iaith, gan ac agweddau ar hanes a sefydliadau gynnwys cynllunio ieithyddol 106 107 Economics Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 20 English Language requirement: How can I find out more? Visit the University: MPhil/PhD IELTS 6.5 (minimum of 6.0 in each Visit our website: see page 174 for details Postgraduates 67 component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/economics RAE2008 60% of research recognised equivalent. Applications can be made online rated world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: Contact the Admissions Tutor: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) MPhil: normally hold a first- or upper Scholarships and Bursaries Email: [email protected] – see pages 176 – 177 for further second-class degree in Economics, Tel: +44 (0)1792 602112 information Professors A range of postgraduate scholarships and or a related subject. D Blackaby bursaries is available. For details, please For details of the Master’s courses S Cook PhD: a Master’s degree in Economics visit www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/ available in Economics, please see – Economics I Jeffries or a related subject is required. scholarships page 48. P Lawler D Leslie P Murphy A E H Speight J G Treble
The study of economics provides the skills the University’s Library and Information • Macroeconomic theory and policy Spatial Economics Research Centre Macroeconomic Theory and Time Series numerical simulation procedures to and knowledge required for a range of Centre and the College of Business, • Public economics (SERC) Econometrics establish both the properties of existing financially rewarding careers. It also Economics and Law: The College has • Regional economics This is a collaboration with the London Macroeconomic theory research focuses testing procedures and derive new helps in understanding more fully the extensive PC and multi-user computer • Transition economics School of Economics (lead institution), principally on issues relating to central hypothesis tests of interest to the world in which we live and work. facilities which give students access to a Glasgow, Newcastle and Oxford. The bank behaviour and optimal monetary practitioner. The relevance of the research wide range of software including the latest Economics has a number of established Centre seeks to explain why there are policy design. One aspect of the work of undertaken has been emphasised via The Department welcomes proposals for Microsoft packages, statistical packages research groups which provide focus and disparities in economic growth and this group examines the optimal design of application to numerous national and postgraduate research projects that such as SPSS and SAS, and a range of support to ongoing research programmes. prosperity at different spatial levels central bank objectives in the context of international economic and financial complement the staff research interests specialist Business and Economics including regional, city-region, local economies characterised by highly- time series. detailed below. software including Nvivo, EViews, STATA Labour and Regional Economics and individual neighbourhoods. unionised labour markets. Ongoing and Datastream. Labour and Regional Economics are major research is also examining the extent to Further details of all of the Economics Research degrees in Economics will: research groups within the Department. Wales Institute of Social and Research which and in what ways, the design of research groups can be found at: • provide you with new and specialised Additional software and support is The research undertaken is both applied Data and Methods (WISERD) monetary policy institutions influences the www.swansea.ac.uk/economics research skills available through the University’s central and theoretical in nature but also has a A collaboration with Cardiff (lead incentives for transparency, together with • equip you with skills relevant for a Information Services and Systems (ISS). strong public policy focus. The group has institution), Aberystwyth, Bangor and the question of whether information rewarding career as a professional This includes a comprehensive digital attracted financial support from the ESRC, Glamorgan universities, this provided to the public by the central bank economist, analyst, researcher or library of resources which includes iFind a number of government dependants and multidisciplinary research centre aims to acts as a substitute or a complement to adviser Research, official publications and the private sector including the EU, the increase collaborative interdisciplinary privately acquired information. • equip you for roles in management journals, library catalogues, Athens and a Department of Trade and Industry, the research in Wales. consultancy, or in the finance or comprehensive online reference collection. Department of Work and Pensions, the Time series econometrics is a major area accountancy sectors Low Pay Commission, the Sector Skills Welsh Economy Labour Market of work within the Department. In the area • prepare you for a career in academic Research Strengths Development Agency, the Equality of Evaluation and Research Centre of unit root testing and co-integration research and teaching The current research work of Human Rights Commission, the (WELMERC) analysis research has been undertaken on the Department covers a broad Department of Justice, the Welsh Established in 2002 with funding invariant and Lagrange Multiplier based The Economics Department provides range of theoretical and applied Government and BP. Areas of current from the European Social Fund, this unit root testing; TAR- and MTAR- based supervised research for postgraduate economics, including: research expertises include; economics of research centre aims to provide testing procedures; the development, study, leading to the degree of MPhil or • Applied econometrics discrimination, economics of disability, the evidence-based labour market policy examination and application of smooth PhD, which has ESRC recognition. The • Development economics returns to education, employment tribunals, advice. The Centre has strong links transition unit root tests; the behaviour of MPhil degree is typically two-years • Financial economics regional economics, the economics of with policy makers and has established modified unit root and co-integration tests full-time, whilst the PhD is three-years • Industrial organisation and migration, entrepreneurship, innovation collaborative networks with colleagues in the presence of outliers and structural full-time. Postgraduate students have technological change and productivity, housing and evolutionary in both the UK and overseas. change; and the use of alternative access to dedicated IT facilities within both • Labour economics economics. The group contains three estimation procedures. This research has established research centres. necessitated the extensive use of
108 109 Engineering Research Degrees Research opportunities Professors J Sienz English Language requirement: How can I find out more? Applications can be made online MPhil, PhD, EngD, MRes and J Bonet (Head of College) G Stratton IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline MSc by Research S G R Brown (Deputy Head of College) H D Summers component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering – see pages 176 – 177 for S Adhikari D T Gethin J Watkins recognised equivalent. further information RAE2008 73% of staff in Swansea’s M Webster M R Bache O Hassan Engineering Recruitment College of Engineering are classed as P R Williams K Board N Hilal and Admissions Team: For details of the Master’s and MRes producing research of world-leading D A Worsley Scholarships and Bursaries T Chen A W Lees Email: [email protected] courses available in Engineering, or internationally excellent quality A range of postgraduate scholarships and J Choi M Mahric Tel: +44 (0)1792 295514 please see page 50. (4* and 3*): T C Claypole H N McMurray Academic and research staff 2 14 bursaries is available for PhD and MPhil. M Cross K Morgan • Civil Engineering – 2nd in the UK* The Materials Research Centre offers Visit the University: – Engineering E A De Souza Neto D R J Owen Postgraduates 443 • General Engineering – joint 5th competitive studentships, of £15,000 see page 174 for details N Doran P Nithiarasu in the UK* upwards, to UK and EU students for M G Edwards D Peric Entry requirements: • Materials Engineering – joint 8th Engineering Doctorate (EngD) Y Feng V Randle Normally a good Honours degree in the UK* programme. For further details, G Fourlaris D Reeve (first-class or 2.1) in a subject relevant please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ M Friswell P Rees to the area of research. scholarships/Postgraduate
Engineering is the practical application PhD, MPhil degrees and MSc by Research The EngD Structural Materials for Gas Research activity is undertaken by several Current research encompasses a range Materials Research Centre of scientific and technical theories to are offered in a wide range of research Turbines programme focuses specifically internationally recognised research centres of themes in the area of computational The quality of the research and everyday challenges. It touches every areas. You are advised to contact our on the materials requirements of aerospace and groups within the College. and applied mechanics, including: postgraduate training programmes in the part of our lives, from the largest admissions and recruitment office companies such as Rolls-Royce • Applied Mechanics Materials Research Centre (MRC) have construction projects to developing regarding your chosen area of interest (Aeroengines). The research activities Civil and Computational Engineering • Biomedical Engineering been recognised through the Queen’s medical devices at the nanoscale, before making an application by email to: encompass titanium alloys, nickel alloys, Centre • Casting Anniversary Prize, with the award citation Engineering’s newest frontier. [email protected] aluminium alloys, high strength steels and Over the last 30 years, Swansea • Computational Electromagnetics defining Materials Engineering at Swansea advanced composite materials and University has been at the forefront of • Computational Fluid Dynamics as a ‘recognised centre of excellence, Engineering at Swansea University is In addition to the PhD, MPhil and MSc by explore every aspect of their development, international research in the area of • Environmental Modelling with an international reputation’. a cutting-edge multidisciplinary learning Research options, the College also offers processing and in-service application. computational engineering. Engineers at • Geotechnics environment with state-of-the-art teaching a four-year doctorate EngD degree. The The four-year programme includes Swansea have pioneered the • High-Performance Computing The Centre’s Engineering Doctorate and research facilities. The College offers industry-linked EngD Steel Technology technical, professional and business development of numerical techniques, • Error Estimation (EngD) degrees provide specialist a broad portfolio of postgraduate courses (Steels Training Research and Innovation modules combined with industry-based such as the finite element method and • Computer-Based Simulation of programmes that integrate training that reflect our research strengths and Partnership – STRIP) benefits from close research projects. associated computational procedures that Polymer Processing and research in collaboration with the the changing needs of industry, and collaborations with TATA along with other have enabled the solution of many • Human/Computer Interfaces power/aerospace industries and the welcomes proposals for postgraduate companies from within the metals supply Research Strengths complex engineering problems. • Intelligent and Adaptive Computing steel technology sector. PhD programmes research projects that complement chain. The course includes various Staff research interests cover a broad • Inverse Problems and Imaging focus on fundamental aspects of staff research interests. technical and non-technical taught range of engineering disciplines, The Civil and Computational Engineering • Mesh Generation materials development, processing modules. Projects are typically in the field including: Centre represents an unrivalled • Multi-Physics Modelling and applications. Research degrees in Engineering will: of process metallurgy, product and • Advanced Telecommunications concentration of knowledge and expertise • Partical-Based Meshless Methods • provide you with new and specialised applications, automotive, coatings and • Aerospace Engineering supported by state-of-the-art research • Powder Compaction Materials research at Swansea is housed research skills corrosion and computer modelling. The • Chemical and Biological Process facilities. When the RAE results are turned • Structural and Multidisciplinary in spacious purpose-built accommodation, scheme enables talented students from an into a weighted average, Civil with well-equipped modern laboratories, • prepare you for a career in academic Engineering Optimal Design engineering or science background to Engineering at Swansea ranked second multimedia suites and excellent research and teaching • Civil and Computational Engineering • Tidal Stream and River Turbines study for a doctorate and gain valuable • Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the UK for research quality. The Centre • Virtual Reality and Visualisation postgraduate study rooms. Specialist • equip you with skills relevant for a industrial experience at the same time. • Environmental Engineering is recognised as a Centre of Excellence of Computational Data research facilities include: rewarding career in a wide range of Often, the graduates from this scheme go • Materials Engineering by the Welsh Government and has been • Simulation of Multi-Fracturing • comprehensive computer systems for diverse engineering sectors, including on to work with their sponsoring company • Mechanical Engineering designated as a preferred academic Solids and Particulate Media specialist and general purposes automotive, aerospace, power and achieve substantive positions within partner by BAE Systems in the areas of • Medical Engineering and Radiation • world-leading equipment for generation, communications, and the business. For further information, both computational electromagnetics Physics characterisation of the mechanical medical instrumentation and devices please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/engd and computational engineering. • Nanotechnology properties of metallic, ceramic, • Sports Science and Engineering polymeric and composite materials
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• extensive range of laboratories housing Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre • microcalorimetry Electronics Systems Design Research
scanning electron microscopes with full therefore has an active strategy to develop • a comprehensive range of rheometers Almost every piece of modern electronic I am currently undertaking a Nanotechnology PhD in the area of Research Degrees microanalysis and electron backscatter projects that bridge traditional disciplines • gas liquid chromatography and HPLC equipment relies heavily on power “renewable energy through solar cells. The focus of this study is very diffraction capabilities to provide a step change in technology. electronics. It provides electrical energy much aimed at research and development, and has very close links with • X-ray diffraction machines, Other equipment includes a fully-equipped in a clean form for applications as diverse optical microscopes and image The Centre spearheads the clean room for device fabrication, a new as mobile phones to large power units on manufacturing. Here at Swansea there is plenty of access to resources analysis facilities nanotechnology activity across the biotechnology pilot plant, pilot-scale electrically driven ships. The use of power University and the whole of Wales. Within membrane filtration equipment (micro- to electronics is all about efficient use of such as specialised labs and brand new cutting edge equipment to help The Materials Research Centre Swansea, the Centre involves more than nano-filtration) and reverse osmosis. energy in all these applications and you develop your ideas. 40 academics from a range of disciplines at all power levels. incorporates the following internationally Gareth Blarney, recognised research groups: (engineering, physics, chemistry, biology Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating ” – Engineering and medicine) and a central suite of The Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating This group has particular interests in PhD Nanotechnology • Power and Aerospace Materials laboratories housing unrivalled is a world-leading research centre focusing power electronics and microelectronics. (a lead partner in the Rolls-Royce state-of-the-art facilities. on investigating printing and coating as a Its groundbreaking research includes University Technology Partnership, a manufacturing process. It has purpose-built power IC technology and the application primary partner in the BAE Systems Recent investment in the field of fully-equipped air-conditioned laboratories of power electronics in embedded Virtual University, and a preferred nanomedicine has led to the creation of a for measurement of printed and coated energy generation. Researchers are University Partner for Airbus UK) £22 million Centre for NanoHealth, a products. The Centre enjoys access to also developing state-of-the-art SiC • Grain Boundary Engineering unique facility that links collaborative industrial printing facilities and also works semiconductor technology; silicon • Environment and Sustainable Materials research between the MNC and the closely with all components in the supply carbide-based power semiconductor • Steel Products Centre College of Medicine in Swansea. chain, including ink, substrate and devices are promising candidates machinery suppliers. for ultra high power systems such as Key research themes include: Key research activity within the those regulating the national grid. Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre Centre for Complex Fluids Processing • Design against failure by creep, (MNC) includes: The processing of complex fluids, from Advanced Communications Systems fatigue and environmental damage • Nano-medicine and Bio- biotechnological materials and food Communications systems, whether • Grain boundary engineering Nanotechnology products to mineral slurries and inks, is a optical or wireless, now surround us • Recycling of polymers and composites major feature of modern industry. and are a vital part of our daily lives. • Nano-materials and Nano-sensors • Corrosion mechanisms in new Underlying this diversity are certain The Advanced Communications group • Rheometry generation magnesium alloys properties that must be understood if the has a range of research programmes in • Theoretical Modelling processing is to be effective and efficient. optical communications, wireless systems • Development of novel strip steel These include the flow behaviour in and networks and communications grades (IF, HSLA, Dual Phase, TRIP) The MNC’s state-of the-art nanotechnology process equipment, how components of technologies such as microwave antenna • Structural metals and ceramics for gas laboratory suite houses cutting-edge the fluid determine its overall properties and next generation lasers. The group turbine applications fabrication and characterisation facilities. and how individual components may be has a strong track record in cultivating Equipment includes: selectively separated. industry partnerships to provide innovative Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre • 2 UHV Omicron Nanotechnology SPMs solutions to complex business and Engineering at the nanometre scale is one (1 STM/AFM, 1 STM/ESCA and 1 The Centre has been the recipient of a technological problems. of the greatest challenges known to STM/SEM) prestigious EPSRC platform grant awarded modern man and has the potential to • 5 Vecco AFMs (2 explorers, 1 to world-leading groups with continuity revolutionise the way we live our lives, Nanoman and 1 Picoforce) of funding for longer term research from Star Trek-like gadgets through to • 2 Vecco SNOMs (Aurora II and III) and international networking, and is site-specific medical diagnosis and drug • 5 desktop SPM systems recognised as a centre of expertise with delivery within the human body. • a variety of spectroscopic techniques a proven track record of collaboration are available, (XPS, AES, confocal with large and small companies. Founded in 2002, The Multidisciplinary RAMAN, mass spectrometry, ICP Nanotechnology Centre (MNC) at spectroscopy and photo correlation Swansea has developed an international spectroscopy for particle sizing reputation in many new fields that stretch down to 1nm) traditional engineering concepts to the • laser diffraction particle sizing extreme. This has been made possible by • free solution electrophoresis BET radical thinking that combines engineering and gas porosimetry with physics, biology and medicine. The
112 113 English Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 30 English Language requirement: How can I find out more? Visit the University: MA by Research/MPhil/PhD IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Visit our website: see page 174 for details Postgraduates 19 0 component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ RAE2008 60% of research rated recognised equivalent. AboutUs/EnglishLanguageandLiterature/ Applications can be made online at: world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) Normally a good Honours degree Scholarships and Bursaries Contact the Admissions Tutor: – see pages 176 – 177 for further (first-class or 2.1) in English. For PhD Email: information Professors A range of postgraduate scholarships programmes in Linguistics, an MA in COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ and bursaries is available. C Belsey Linguistics or a related discipline, and swansea.ac.uk For details of the Master’s courses S Davies experience of empirical research, is available in English, please see page 54. For details, please visit: www.swansea. Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 – English C Franklin normally required. ac.uk/scholarships/Postgraduate Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Jim Milton Funding may also be available from the N Reeve Arts and Humanities Research Council. D Smith M W Thomas
English at Swansea University has been Research Strengths • Gender in literature, critical theory Research Institute for Arts and Humanities • GENCAS, the Centre for Research into a respected centre for research into Particular research interests include: and culture from the medieval period The Research Institute for Arts and Gender in Culture and Society medieval, renaissance and eighteenth- • Medieval literature, especially to the twenty-first century Humanities (RIAH) supports the Richard • MEMO, the Centre for Medieval and century language and literature for over anchoritism, Arthurian narratives • Creative writing, especially Fiction Burton Centre for the Study of Wales, an Early Modern Research 90 years. and Poetry interdisciplinary forum that focuses on the and the medieval town • WAWR, the Wales and the West • Linguistics and sociolinguistics cultural and historical traditions in the • Poetry and drama of the sixteenth Romanticism Seminar Today it is equally renowned for expertise and seventeenth centuries • Second Language Acquisition Welsh and English languages. It also runs • VARG, the Vocabulary Acquisition in Linguistics, Gender Studies, Welsh • Women’s writing and culture processes, particularly Vocabulary an annual postgraduate conference, Research Group Writing in English, twentieth and 1750-1870 Acquisition postgraduate workshops and provides twenty-first century literature and Creative • Romantic and Gothic literature; • Language testing support for postgraduate research For further information about RIAH, Writing. Many of the staff are sought as Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Byron, • Language in education, particularly expenses and practical help with grant visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ experts appearing on radio and TV, and William Blake, Mary Shelley. with respect to English Language applications. artsandhumanities/riah write regularly for broadsheet newspapers • Romantic Orientalism; Teaching and major reviews. Sir William Jones, British India • TEFL All research students in English belong to The Department also holds the Archive of • Twentieth-century fiction, especially • Translation the Graduate Centre in the College of Welsh English (based on the Survey of Research degrees in English will: D H Lawrence, Border writing and • Stylistics Arts and Humanities which provides Anglo-Welsh Dialects). The extensive • equip you with skills relevant for a the literature of the Cold War, • Discourse Analysis pastoral guidance as well as Anglo-Welsh material is supplemented by rewarding career in a range of diverse Angela Carter administrative and academic facilities three other important local collections: the fields, including academia, teaching, • Welsh Writing in English, including Part-time distance PhD Applied Linguistics Gwyn Thomas and the John Ormond Civil Service, journalism, speech Dylan Thomas, Raymond Williams In addition to the full-time PhD programme Graduate students are provided with collections at the Miners’ Library and the therapy, publishing, arts management and Welsh women’s writing in Linguistics, the Department offers a fully-equipped workstations and a Dylan Thomas collection in the City and and communications, writing as well • Irish writing, including Yeats, Joyce part-time, distance-learning PhD in Applied common room, regular research training Council of Swansea’s Central Library. as becoming published authors and Irish poetry since 1900 Linguistics. This scheme is centred on the and the opportunity of teaching The Richard Burton Archives hold the • Modern and contemporary poetry, Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group experience. Many are attached to • provide you with new and archives of Raymond Williams, including J H Prynne and is aimed at English language teachers interdisciplinary research centres, based specialised research skills Ron Berry and Alun Richards. • Critical theory, especially cultural, working abroad who want to maintain an in the Department, which run conferences • prepare you for a career in academic feminist, psychoanalytic and academic base in the UK. The programme and a regular seminar programme research and teaching canon theory is highly structured, the work for each year throughout the year, such as: • American literature, including being tightly organised round a series of the Harlem Renaissance and Whitman training tasks and experimental projects, • CREW, the Centre for Research into the • Film and visual narrative and usually takes six years to complete. English Language and Literature of Wales
114 115 Geography Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 36 Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Applications can be made online MSc by Research, MPhil, PhD, MRes A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Postgraduates 50 bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/geography – see pages 176 – 177 for further RAE2008 60% of research rated visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ information world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: Postgraduate Contact the Postgraduate excellent (3*) Normally a Master’s degree or a minimum Recruitment Officer: For details of the Master’s courses Postgraduate studentships awarded by the of a 2.1 Honours degree. Research- Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 available in Geography, please see Professors training recognition for Human Geography Natural Environmental Research Council page 56. D Clarke T Murray (NERC), Economic and Social Research applicants is desired. Visit the University: H Crawley A Street-Perrott Council (ESRC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and see page 174 for details – Geography S Davies R Walsh English Language requirement: M Doel P North Arts and Humanities Research Council S Doerr IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each (AHRC) and most other funding bodies component) or Swansea University can be held in the Department. recognised equivalent.
Geography, the study of the world in multiprocessor Beowulf cluster, and the Environmental dynamics group Global environmental modelling and Social theory and urban space group which we live, helps us to understand how Department’s IBM ‘Blue Ice’ This group reconstructs past climates and Earth observation group This group develops theoretically As part of researching for a landscapes are shaped, how populations supercomputer, used mainly for climate environments using a range of physical This group uses satellite data to study the sophisticated, empirically bold, and “PhD in glaciology at Swansea, I move and interact, and how climate and glaciological modelling. and chemical archives, especially proxy land, atmosphere, and oceans, and to socially engaged understandings of space change will affect us all. Key research records derived from ice cores, lake improve modelling of climatic change. and spatiality, with particular reference to was fortunate enough to spend themes at Swansea include environmental Research Strengths sediments, and tree rings. It investigates Research encompasses a wide range of modern and postmodern cities. It seeks to two months in the Svalbard. This and climatic change, migration and In Physical Geography, research groups land-surface processes such as wildfire, applications ranging from the local level transform the conceptual terrain of Human national identity, glaciology and icesheet have a strong quantitative-science soil-water repellency, and tropical to the global scale. The group is involved Geography through a spatialisation of has been the highlight of my dynamics, global environment modelling emphasis, encompassing computationally hydrology, and routinely leads field in the NERC National Centre for Earth post-structuralist theory and leads the postgraduate study as the and Earth observation, and social theory intensive numerical modelling, advanced expeditions in Africa, America, Asia, Observation (NCEO), and works closely University’s interdisciplinary research experience of learning field and global cities. analytical laboratory techniques, Australia, and Europe, and coordinates with scientists at NASA, ESA, CEH, and Centre for Urban Theory. worldwide field campaigns, and satellite the Royal Society’s field stations in Borneo. the Hadley Centre. techniques in the Arctic, observation. They collaborate with key The Department welcomes proposals for The group benefits from stable isotope One year MSc by Research programmes witnessing the Northern Lights postgraduate research projects that agencies such as the British Antarctic laboratories and specialist facilities for Migration, boundaries, and identities are also available in the following complement staff research interests. Survey, NASA, and the Hadley Centre. biogeochemistry, tephrochronology, and group specialist areas: and racing across the sea-ice pollen analysis. This group advances the study of national • Earth observation on a snow-scooter is something Research degrees in Geography will: In Human Geography, research groups and international migration, especially in • Environmental dynamics I will always appreciate. • provide you with new and specialised are characterised by socio-spatial Glaciology group relation to ideas of nation, place, and the • Glaciology research skills theorisation of the contemporary urban This group studies the dynamics of social construction of identity (particularly • Global environmental modelling Damien Mansell, • prepare you for a career in academic experience and evidence-based migration fastflowing glaciers and ice streams, gender and childhood). It develops new • Global migration ” PhD Glaciology research and teaching policy research. They work closely with especially the causes of flow instability. It theoretical frameworks for understanding • Media geographies • equip you with skills relevant for a key institutions such as UNESCO, the uses a wide variety of methods including the implications of different types of • Social theory and space rewarding career in a range of fields, International Organisation for Migration, fieldwork, remote sensing, and modelling, boundaries – imagined, social, and • Urban studies including environmental management, and the UK and Welsh Governments. and facilities include a 3D digital political – on the construction and conservation, planning, local authorities, photogrammetry workstation and experiences of particular groups in society education, computing, management, Postgraduate research students will belong state-of-the-art field equipment. Current and the ways in which these boundaries finance, and insurance to one or more of these groups, each of field projects are based in Svalbard, are contested. The group leads the which is supported by a collegiate Antarctica, and the Alps. The group also University’s interdisciplinary research Geographers at Swansea benefit from research culture and a high-quality houses the GLIMPSE project, which aims Centre for Migration Policy Research. exceptional computing facilities that research environment: to advance our understanding of the future include fifteen dual-processor workstations of the Greenland ice sheet. for Earth Observation, a 20-node
116 117 Health and Social Sciences Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 14 5 English Language requirement: Fairburn Charitable Trust, Stroke How can I find out more? Applications can be made online MPhil, PhD, DProf (part-time) IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 in each Association, National Institute for Health Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Postgraduates 58 component) or Swansea University Research, and Tenovus. www.swansea.ac.uk/ – see pages 176 – 177 for further RAE2008 35% of our health sciences information recognised equivalent. Evidence of a commitment to a career in a humanandhealthsciences/research research was rated as being of world- Entry requirements: research setting is also desirable. leading or internationally excellent quality. MPhil: normally an Honours degree (2.1 Contact: Maria Davis, For details of Master’s courses available 60% of social science research was rated Scholarships and Bursaries or above) in a discipline related to the Postgraduate Administrator in Health Science, please see page 60. world-class or internationally excellent. A range of postgraduate scholarships and chosen specialty, or a relevant, approved Email: [email protected] bursaries is available. For details, please postgraduate qualification. Tel: +44 (0)1792 295309 Professors visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ A Borsay M McNamee PhD and DProf: Applicants would normally Postgraduate. Funding may also be – Health and Social Sciences Visit the University: S Edwards J Merrell have, or be studying for, a Master’s available through funded research projects. see page 174 for details and Open D Hughes C Phillips degree. We attract substantial research funding from Day information P Huxley G Rolfe the ESRC, AHRC, the European Union, the M Jasper Welsh Government, NISCHR, UK Sport, Wales Council for Voluntary Action, Ministry of Defence, Care Council for Wales, Esmee
The UK’s health and social care systems • provide you with new and specialised Internationals. The College also works Research students in this area are Mental Health Social Sciences continue to provide high quality care, research and transferable skills such as collaboratively with other research centres investigating areas such as the cost Taking forward research into mental Generating new knowledge about the where it is needed, in a responsive and presenting to a range of audiences, and networks across the UK, such as the effectiveness of clinical pharmacist health services through their evaluation, changes affecting the social care timely manner. As demand for their publication, and networking Social Care Workforce Research Unit at interventions within patients suffering from and the development and application of workforce and service provision, including services continues to grow, these systems • prepare you for a career in academia Kings College London. cardiac disease, and the costs associated social outcome measures. Some of our social outcomes, such as quality of life and need to adapt and change to take and research with the collection and utilisation of students are looking at evidence based social inclusion measures. advantage of the new technologies and Research Strengths allergenic blood. practices in mental health, and the • equip you with skills relevant to ways of working open to them, ensuring Our research falls into eight broad National Action Plan to reduce suicide Current research activity being led by progressing your career in a range of that quality of care is continually themes: Health Services Research and self-harm in Wales. students is investigating the services for diverse fields, including nursing, enhanced. Ensuring the systems underpinning a young carers and the social inclusion midwifery, health economics, Children and Young People’s Health range of health service areas such as Nursing and Healthcare Practices experienced by older people in care biosciences, health and social policy, Research into the health and social sciences and Well-Being healthcare organisation, policy, Committed to translating research from homes. social care practice, the voluntary and across the full range of disciplines and Focusing on improving health and economics and patient involvement are ‘the bench to bedside’, this theme charity sectors, academia and areas, such as biomedical studies, service well-being across a variety of areas such evaluated and enhanced. Research addresses the issues of professional The College is also developing a new healthcare management. organisation, workforce practices, chronic as obesity, inactivity, health promotion, students are looking at the effects of working and contributions to patient care range of innovative research courses and conditions, public health, policy, and mental health, looked after children, child clinical reasoning models on the outcome which cut across traditional boundaries. qualifications which will be of interest to Students working towards a research degree ethics, is crucial in identifying how best to abuse and neglect, and disabled children. and cost-effectiveness of musculoskeletal anyone wishing to pursue a clinical have the opportunity to attend taught courses make those changes and adaptations. The rights of children and young people, physiotherapy, and quality of life for older Topics being explored by postgraduate academic career. For further details on research methods and statistics, and are along with issues relating to their migration, people living with cancer. students include the emotional work please contact us. encouraged to disseminate their own As a forerunner in researching both health are also priorities. Recent postgraduate experiences of children’s nurses in hospice research findings at national and and social care provision, the College is research is examining cardiovascular History, Health and Culture and community settings, and managing Students working full-time towards a international conferences. A Research Interest able to respond rapidly to changes in the disease risk factors in school children; and Leading the way in medical humanities by weight gain in pregnancy. research degree have the opportunity to Group also provides a forum through which delivery of care, whilst its established links exploring young people’s attitudes to, and bringing together researchers who apply attend taught courses on research students can participate in a peer support with service providers, such as the NHS, experiences of, discrimination and racism. the concepts and methods of history, Philosophy, Ethics and Law in Healthcare methods and statistics, and are network to share their ideas. enhance the learning experience and literature and the visual arts to the analysis Concentrating on the scrutiny of the encouraged to disseminate their own influence clinical and social care practices. Health Economics of health and healthcare. philosophical, ethical and legal aspects research findings at national and Students benefit from the College’s strong Delivering robust and ground breaking underpinning healthcare theory and international conferences. and active partnerships with universities We welcome proposals for postgraduate health economics research on the Postgraduate students are exploring a practice across the breadth of medicine, across the world, the NHS, health and research projects that complement staff development and delivery of health care variety of areas ranging from the nursing and sport. social care agencies, industry, and research interests. interventions and services, by combining educational experiences of deaf children government, as well as international significant qualitative skills, expertise in between 1850 and 1914 to the political Some of the fields under investigation are networks including the World Health Research degrees in the Health and Social real world data mining and analysis and influence of nurses in post-war Wales, international medical ethics and law, as Organisation, and Sigma Theta Tau Sciences will: health policy. and epilepsy in literature. well as the ethico-legal aspects of doping and anti-doping in athletes. 118 119 History Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 32 Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MA by Research/MPhil/PhD A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: see page 174 for details Postgraduates 14 1 bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities RAE2008 50% of research rated visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Applications can be made online at world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: Postgraduate Contact the Admissions Tutor: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) Normally a good Honours degree Email: – see pages 176 – 177 for further Other sources of funding include the Arts (first-class or 2.1) in History or a COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ information Professors and Humanities Research Council, the related subject. swansea.ac.uk Wellcome Trust and Local Education H V Bowen Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 For details of the Master’s courses D J Power Authorities. available in History, please see page 66. English Language requirement: – History J Spurr N W Thompson IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each M Whitehead component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent. C Williams
History challenges us to understand the important printed and audio-visual aids for practice, and education and literacy Modern History • Demographic history • The Richard Burton Centre for the past so that we might make sense of the research into south Wales’ industrial and • Gender and the life cycle in late • Most aspects of Welsh history, • Anti-capitalist and socialist political Study of Wales present. It encourages us to think about political history. medieval Europe especially industrial society economy • CECSAM, the Centre for the how the past is studied, written about, • Medieval frontier societies and • The cultural, intellectual and urban • Policing and Police Forces in Comparative Study of the Americas and represented, how it has been kept The University is also a centre for borderlands, and concepts of frontiers history of nineteenth century and twentieth century Europe • MEMO: Centre for Medieval and alive for generations, and how it can be American Studies and Medieval Studies, from the late Roman Empire to the twentieth century Britain • Italian fascism Early Modern Research preserved for generations to come. possessing staff expertise and library present day • Modern International History • Allied Occupation of Italy resources in these areas. • The United States since 1750, • Contemporary French and Italian social For further information about The Department welcomes proposals for Early Modern History in particular slavery, the South and cultural history RIAH, visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ postgraduate research projects that Research Strengths • Most aspects of British history between and the Civil War • Memory studies and oral history of artsandhumanities/riah complement staff research interests. Current research interests within the 1500 and 1800, especially religious, • The economic and imperial history twentieth century Europe Department include: scientific, cultural and gender history of Britain in the eighteenth and • History of protest and activism in the All History research students belong to the Research degrees in History will: • The history of health, medicine in early nineteenth centuries 1960s and 1970s Graduate Centre in the College of Arts • provide you with new and specialised Medieval History modern Britain • Emigration and urbanisation in and Humanities. The Centre provides research skills • The Anglo-Norman ‘Realm’ and • History of Disabilities the British Isles between the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities pastoral as well as administrative support The Research Institute for Arts and and is also responsible for research skills • prepare you for a career in academic the Angevin Empire • The Portuguese Empire eighteenth and twentieth centuries Humanities (RIAH) supports two major training and support, and facilitating a research and teaching • Capetian France, especially • The Reformation and Counter- • The cultural history of Victorian the monarchy, aristocracy, and Reformation Britain, including theatre and popular Research Centres, including the lively intellectual environment for the • equip you with skills relevant for a religious orders • Science, intellectual life, collecting and entertainment Callaghan Centre for the Study of College’s postgraduate research rewarding career in a range of diverse • The Cathars and the Albigensian museums in early modern Europe • The political history of the UK Conflict, Power, Empire. The Callaghan community of 200 students. fields, including teaching, accountancy, Crusade • The social history of early modern since 1800 Centre produces world-class research in banking, insurance, the media, marketing, • Charters and the documentary records sex and marriage • Military and society in Europe the areas of conflict and security, empire and museum and heritage work of medieval France and England • Crime and witchcraft between 1750 and 1815 and post-colonialism, ‘digital’ war, and • The Mediterranean world, especially the • The Enlightenment, republicanism and • Austrian and German history in the conflict and culture. It also manages major The Richard Burton Archives hold Crusades, later medieval Italian society international relations in the eighteenth late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Research Council funded projects, and collections of local, industrial and political and politics, and the Italian century • Austrian, German and Central promotes collaboration between scholars, records, as do the West Glamorgan Renaissance, including art history European history, especially in the fields policymakers and cultural providers. RIAH Archive Service, the Royal Institution of • England and Wales in the central and of urban, labour and post-1945 history also supports a wide range of research South Wales, and the record offices at late Middle Ages, including the • Modern Economic History groups, which provide a focus for Cardiff and Carmarthen. aristocracy and gentry, the Welsh • Quantitative aspects of British specialist projects, postgraduate research, Marches, urban history, law and crime, economic growth from the sixteenth grant applications, seminar series, and The South Wales Miners’ Library, which is women and the law, religious belief and to the twenty-first centuries contact with external partners. Research managed by the University, houses groups include:
120 121 Law Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 29 English Language requirement: How can I find out more? Applications can be made online at: MPhil/PhD IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.0 in each Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Postgraduates 15 0 component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/law – see pages 176 – 177 for further RAE2008 45% of research rated recognised equivalent. information world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: Contact the Admissions Tutor: excellent (3*) For details of Master’s courses available As a minimum candidates are normally Scholarships and Bursaries Dr Bebhinn Donelly-Lazarov required to have an excellent Master’s Email: in Law, please see page 68. Professors A range of postgraduate scholarships and degree, preferably in Law. Exceptional [email protected] bursaries is available. I Davies B Soyer performance at undergraduate level will Tel: +44 (0)1792 513584 T Jones J Snell be considered. For details, please visit: www.swansea. – Law E MacDonald A Tettenborn ac.uk/scholarships/Postgraduate Visit the University: see page 174 for K Morrow M Stallworthy details G Parry R Thomas Depending on their suitability, students V Röben D Patterson may be appointed to a tutorship and R Williams receive payment for undertaking undergraduate teaching.
From small law firms to the United Research Strengths The Institute of International Shipping and Sefydliad Hywel Dda – The Hywel Dda The focus of the Richard Price Centre is Nations’ International Court of Justice, the Staff research interests cover a wide range Trade Law was established in 2000 and Institute provides leadership, direction, the recognition that global questions need legal profession shapes every aspect of of themes, including: exists as a specialist research and coordination and visibility for research to be approached as a matter of our society, politics, and economies. Law • Shipping Law professional training centre. Promoting within the School which falls under the multilevel governance comprising the regulates how we buy and sell goods and • International Trade Law research and teaching of the highest broad heading of ‘Legal Wales’. With a international, the European and regional, services, and how we govern ourselves. It • Commercial Law standard in the fields of international commitment to interdisciplinary and the national and the subnational levels. defines how we prosecute and defend, • International Commercial Law shipping and trade law, the Institute also cross-institutional research, its intellectual and how we secure the rights of people • World Trade Law fosters cooperation with other academic remit includes constitutional law and The Centre will address this governance who may not be able to defend • Legal Theory institutions and professional, commercial, devolution, the statutory output of the problem primarily from a legal perspective themselves. • Global Legal Order shipping, insurance and business National Assembly of Wales within its but in full realisation of the inherently • Criminal Law and Evidence organisations. fields of competence, bilingualism and interdisciplinary nature of the concept The School of Law welcomes proposals for • Criminal Justice and Criminology language rights, law and policy, legal of multi-level governance. postgraduate research projects that • Human Rights Law The Centre for Environmental and Energy history, the application of international, complement staff research interests. • European Law Law and Policy (CEELP) promotes European and UK domestic law in Wales. The Centre for Criminal Justice and • Public and Administrative Law excellence in research and teaching in Its mission is to contribute to the Criminology – See page 104 for further Research degrees in Law will: • Ethics and Philosophy environmental and energy law and seeks maintenance and development of Legal information. • provide you with new and specialised • Environmental Law to foster links in its areas of expertise Wales by promoting and facilitating research skills • Private International Law between academia and local and research and scholarship which reaches national governments, the community, levels of excellence measured against the • prepare you for a career in academic • Public International Law industry and the professions. CEELP is highest international standards. research and teaching • Socio-Legal Studies affiliated to the IUCN Academy of • equip you with the skills necessary to We are an approved research training Environmental Law which aims to promote Prif swyddogaeth Sefydliad Hywel Dda apply legal concepts in a practical pathway in the Welsh Doctoral Centre. sustainable development in law and policy yw hyrwyddo ymchwil ac iddo ragoriaeth environment within Wales and beyond. It provides ryngwladol sydd yn ymwneud â Research Centres and Institutes advice to stakeholders in the sector and to dimensiwn Cymreig y gyfraith, a thrwy Students are fully supported by the The School is home to five research decision makers on environment and hynny gyfrannu tuag at gynnal a datblygu School’s dedicated Law Librarian, with the centres, which provide effective vehicles energy related policy areas of the Welsh ‘Cymru’r Gyfraith’. Bydd gan y Sefydliad Law Library holding an extensive selection for the promotion of research within their Government. rôl arbennig wrth ddatblygu ysgolheictod of legal materials and online services such respective areas of specialism. cyfrwng-Cymraeg o fewn Prifysgol as Lexis and Westlaw. Abertawe ac yn genedlaethol.
122 123 Mathematics Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 18 Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: PhD, MPhil, MRes, MSc by Research A range of postgraduate scholarships Visit our website: see page 174 for details Postgraduates 30 and bursaries is available. For details, www.maths.swansea.ac.uk RAE2008 40% of research rated please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ Applications can be made online world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: scholarships/Postgraduate Contact the Postgraduate at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*), International Review For PhD programmes candidates should Recruitment Officer: – see pages 176 – 177 for further Mathematics in the U.K. 2004 and 2010 In addition the Department has some normally have a first-class (minimum 2.1) Email: [email protected] information : Swansea’s probability group contributes bursaries available, some for fees only, Honours degree in Mathematics. For Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 to the world leadership status of the U.K. and all eligible applicants are invited to MPhil and MRes programmes candidates For details of Master’s courses available in stochastic analysis. should normally have an upper second apply sometime after the Easter Vacation in Mathematics, please see page 72. Contact the Admissions Tutor: – Mathematics prior to the beginning of the programme. class Honours degree or higher in Professor N Jacob Professors Note that the offer of a place does not Mathematics (or equivalent). Email: [email protected] imply any offer of funding. T Brzezinski F-Y Wang Tel: +44 (0)1792 295461 N Jacob J-L Wu English Language requirement: V Liskevich K Zhang E Lytvynov IELTS 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or Swansea University recognised equivalent.
Mathematics is both ancient and modern. programme with their supervisor and, if mathematics of finance; stochastic Algebraic Topology: Algebraic topology; Often challenging and always rewarding, appropriate, will take prescribed courses delay-differential equations; functional K-theory and other cohomology theories; After finishing my PhD I started training as an Actuary with AXA in Bristol. it is the most international of subjects, and during the first year of the programme. inequalities; transport problems. Lie groups; relations with number theory “My maths degree was very helpful as it provided me with a solid basis upon the basis on which the modern world is and algebra, operads, configuration built. Science, engineering and business Research students have access to online Diffusions, Markov Processes and spaces and moduli spaces, diffeomorphism which to begin studying for the actuarial examinations. In particular the self-study depend on their mathematical resources, typesetting, computational and Martingales: Stochastic processes and groups, braid groups and mapping class skills developed during my PhD were invaluable when faced with the prospect of foundations, and mathematicians general office software from the comfort of applications, including applications to groups, characteristic classes therefore play an essential role in our their own desk in the company of other Wiener-Hopf theory; quantum probability self-studying for 15 examinations. society. postgraduate students. The University has and quantum computing. Partial Differential Equations and the one of the finest mathematics libraries in Calculus of Variations: Linear and Since becoming a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2006 I have worked for Research degrees in Mathematics will: the UK, housing an extensive collection of Lévy-type Processes and non-linear elliptic and parabolic Pseudo-differential Operators: • provide you with new and specialised books and periodicals and the equations; non-linear problems and the both AXA and HBOS. In summer 2010 I decided to move into the field of Department’s Reading Room contains an Pseudo-differential operators with calculus of variations; reaction-diffusion research skills reinsurance and took a job with Partner Re in Zurich, Switzerland. My impressive collection of research books. continuous negative definite functions as equations; Burgers-type equations; • prepare you for a career in academic Schools and workshops for postgraduate symbols; Lp-theory of sub-Markovian semi-groups of linear operators; responsibilities include the mortality and morbidity research underpinning the research and teaching semigroups; function spaces related to students, given by world-class pseudo-differential operators; related pricing bases used by Partner Re. Once again the PhD skills have been essential • equip you with skills relevant for a mathematicians, are offered on a regular Markov processes; fractional derivatives as harmonic analysis; mathematics of image rewarding career in a range of diverse basis and, throughout the year, there are generators of jump processes; non-linear processing; analysis of composite and in understanding how to organise research project. With effect from October fields analysis for pseudo-differential operators regular seminars and colloquia given by smart materials. 2011 I am now a member of the management team of Life Solutions – a team staff and visitors to the Department. generating Markov processes; balayage PhD/MPhil/MSc by Research theory; mathematics of finance; numerics of responsible for providing actuarial solutions to markets throughout the world. The Department welcomes research Research Strengths stochastic differential equations with jumps, proposals for postgraduate research Staff research interests and strengths intrinsic geometry of jump processes. ” Chris Reynolds, projects that complement staff research encompass: interests (as listed below). Our PhD Hopf Algebras and Integrable Systems: MMath 1999; PhD Mathematics 2002 programme is based on a three-year Stochastic analysis: quantum physics; Differential structures on quantum groups; period of supervised study whilst the MPhil functional integrals; stochastic differential the functional Bethe Ansatz; algebraic programme comprises a two-year period equations and applications; Brownian aspects of deformed gauge theories; of supervised study and the MSc by motion; statistical mechanics; stochastic classical and quantum solitons; braided Research is a one-year scheme. To ensure processes; large deviations and categories. successful research projects students will renormalisation group theory; partial normally follow an intensive, initial tutorial differential equations and applications;
124 125 Media Studies Research Degrees Research opportunities Media Studies research students are English Language requirement: How can I find out more? Applications can be made online MA by Research/MPhil/PhD located in numerous constituent IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Departments in the College of Arts and in each component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/mediastudies – see pages 176 – 177 for further RAE2008 35% of research Humanities. Collaboration with Politics recognised equivalent. information rated world-leading (4*) or internationally and Modern Languages is particularly Contact the Admissions Tutor: excellent (3*) strong. For details please see: www. Email: For details of the Master’s courses swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities Scholarships and Bursaries COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ available in Media and Communication Professors A range of postgraduate scholarships swansea.ac.uk Studies, please see page 74. Entry requirements: and bursaries is available. K Williams Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 For PhD: normally a good Honours degree
For details, please visit: www.swansea. – Media Studies Academic and research staff 7 (first-class or 2:1) and an MA in a relevant ac.uk/scholarships/Postgraduate Visit the University: field. For MRes or MPhil: a good Honours see page 174 for details Postgraduates 25 degree.
From traditional print and broadcast World Cinema Media History, Theory and Technology Key themes include: Media Studies also benefits from research media to film and television, digital This group brings together substantial This group combines research at the nexus • Visual media and visual culture groups exploring gender, technology, publishing, social networking, and public expertise in the history, theory and between media history, theory and • Print and broadcast media war, and global journalism, and relations, the media increasingly defines reception of World Cinema and is technological change, addressing key • Science fiction and technology incorporates work on moral panics and the way we interact with our society. It engaged in a variety of provocative issues in the emerging global digital • Music and popular culture media and identity in small nations, with shapes the way we see ourselves and analyses of films, filmmakers, movements world. The group seeks to develop a • Journalism particular reference to Wales. others, and can be a powerful tool for and film-watching communities and nations critical understanding of networked digital • The deep history of media social change, good or bad. in relation to history, literature, philosophy, media and online social practices and • Media archaeology All research students in Media Studies new media and politics. their social, economic and political • Postmodern theory belong to the Graduate Centre in the Media Studies at Swansea has a dynamics in order to inform academic • Theories of the information society College of Arts and Humanities. The broad vocational and international Key themes include: research, wider policy issues and public • Network society Centre provides pastoral as well as outlook that reflects the challenges of • European cinema history, theory and debates. The relationships between media • Post-Fordism administrative support and is also our media-rich world. criticism technology, cultural form and the shift from • Global communication responsible for research skills training • Eastern European Cinema ‘atoms to bits’ are addressed through a • Media and the public sphere and support, and facilitating a lively Research degrees in Media Studies will: • Film Theory and Aesthetics range of innovative methodological • Political theory and the media intellectual environment for the College’s • provide you with new and specialised • German and Eastern European cinema approaches together with a focus on • Jean Baudrillard postgraduate research community research skills • French cinema, particularly the placing these developments within a • Moral panics and the media of 200 students. historical and social context. • prepare you for a career in academic French New Wave • Social and political aspects of media research and teaching • Documentary • Methodologies for researching media • Media, nation and identity • New media • equip you with skills relevant for a • Independent American cinema • Philosophy of technology rewarding career in a range of • Hollywood • Intellectual property rights media-related industries • Transnational cinema • Theories and history of technology • New Screen Technologies • Software studies Research Strengths • The media in Wales • Auditory technology and sound MA by Research, MPhil and PhD • Welsh, Celtic and British cinema • Digital democracy supervision is available across a wide • Welsh-language film, radio, television • Social networking range of research topics in media studies, and new media • Computer code organised into two research groupings: • Remediation
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Research opportunities Professors English Language requirement: Entry requirements: How can I find out more? Research Degrees MPhil, PhD, MD S J Allen D Mack IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each MPhil: Normally a minimum of a 2.1 Visit our website: www.swansea.ac.uk/ S C Bain J McKimm component) or Swansea University Honours degree. medicine RAE2008 55% of research rated J Baxter G Morgan recognised equivalent. world-leading (4*) or internationally PhD: All candidates will initially be admitted A G Brenton F L Rapport Contact the Admissions Tutor: excellent (3*) to the MPhil degree and are required to R C Charlton M I Rees Email: [email protected] Scholarships and Bursaries demonstrate evidence of satisfactory P J Dyson I T Russell Tel: +44 (0)1792 543569 Head of the College of Medicine P A Evans I M Sheldon A range of postgraduate scholarships progress at the end of the first year to prove Professor G Morgan and bursaries is available. For details, an ability to proceed to PhD. Applicants M B Gravenor D O F Skibinski Visit the University: see page 174 for details H Griffiths H A Snooks please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ for a doctoral level degree would normally – Medicine Academic and research staff 2 15 W J Griffiths R E Taylor scholarships/Postgraduate have, or expect to receive, an Honours Applications can be made online at: G J S Jenkins J Wagstaff degree in a relevant subject (2:1 or above). www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Postgraduates 130 V Kanamarlapudi D R R Williams MD: Applicants for a doctoral level degree – see pages 176 – 177 for further information S L Kelly J G Williams would normally have, or be studying for, a D C Lamb Bachelor of Medicine or Surgery, awarded For details of the Master’s courses available in K R Lloyd at least three years prior to the submission of Medicine, please see page 76. R A Lyons the thesis.
The College of Medicine is fast becoming Research Strengths Articular Joint Biology: Cell Signalling: Evolutionary Genetics and Proteomics: Haemorheology: a centre of excellence in world-leading The research activity at the College of The work of this group aims to improve This research group uses a This group’s research focuses on a wide Research interests within this newly formed research and medical education. It is Medicine is centred around its the understanding of normal, injured and multidisciplinary approach to understand range of interests within evolutionary group involve the development and able to offer outstanding postgraduate interdisciplinary research enterprise, the diseased articular joints. PI 3-kinase and ADPribosylation factor genetics and proteomics. application of advanced rheometry to opportunities in medical training, on a Institute of Life Science (ILS), where research (ARF) small GTPase signalling in health biopolymer gel systems; and the fast-track graduate-entry programme, activity covers the spectrum of medicine Asthma and Allergy: and disease. Its long-term aim is to define Extracellular Matrix Proteins in viscoelastic modelling of gel networks, and in scientific training encompassing from laboratory-based biomedical research This group’s key achievements recently the roles played by cytohesins and Musculoskeletal Tissue: in terms of their microstructure and experimental science and health services. to public health, population sciences and have been the demonstration of how centaurins in PI 3-kinase mediated This group focuses on the metabolism functionality. The research builds upon health services research. genetic variants of Th-2 immune signalling regulation of ARF signalling. of extracellular matrix proteins in strong collaborative links established The College has key collaborations with (particularly through the ligand IL-13 and musculoskeletal tissues in health and with the Centre for NanoHealth. Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Excellent laboratory facilities are equipped the transduction molecule STAT 6) impact Developmental Medicine arthritic disease. Health Board and other local health to support genomics, proteomics, on the production of reagenic antibody (Paediatrics and Immunology): Laser Technology and Micro Devices: boards, as well as numerous international bio-imaging and microbiology, with IgE, the promotion of asthma, and The main research interest of this group is Gastrointestinal Tract: This group focuses on research and and national research links. access to equipment such as automated protection from parasitic worm infection. childhood immunity, particularly immune Research falls into four broad groupings: development of laser and optical devices sequencing, confocal microscopy, function in the newborn. This is mainly molecular biological research, as well as micro devices for cardiac The College of Medicine offers a range of high-throughput genomic analysis and Biostatistics and Mathematical studied by analysis of umbilical cord oesophageal and gastric cancer application. This research builds an postgraduate degrees through supervised mass spectrometry. Modelling in Epidemiology: blood and placental tissue but the use of research, colorectal cancer research, and intellectual property platform with research within individual research groups, This group is focused on the use of probiotics as modulators of immunity is DNA damage (genotoxicity) research. regulatory approval both in Europe from Masters of Philosophy (MPhil) to The College has its own supercomputer, statistical models in medicine and the life also a prominent focus. and the US and, to date, it includes Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of the IBM-built ‘Blue C’, one of the world’s sciences, the mathematical modelling of Genome and Structural Bioinformatics: 25 established patent families and Philosophy (PhD), and welcomes proposals fastest computers dedicated to life epidemics of infectious diseases, Diabetes: This group focuses on the development 15 FDA approvals. for postgraduate research projects that science research. multi-model inference in bioinformatics and The Diabetes research group was of bioinformatics approaches, tools complement staff research interests. the use of high performance computing in established in late 2005 and interests and resources for generic application Mass Spectrometry: Biomedical research biology. exist in the genetics of type 1 and type 2 to membrane protein sequences, The Institute for Mass Spectrometry was Research degrees in Medicine will: Biomedical research includes a variety of diabetes and associated complications, in predicting their structure and function established within the ILS in 2007. It • provide you with new and specialised experimental disciplines undertaking Cancer Informatics: particular cardiovascular disease and on a genome scale, and ultimately undertakes high throughput proteomic research skills research into diverse areas of interest but Research in this group crosses the renal failure. exploiting this knowledge in the studies, high resolution mass with many shared technology platforms for boundaries between bioinformatics and development of new medicines. determination, structural elucidation, • prepare you for a career in academic modern molecular and systems biology. medical informatics and is primarily DNA Damage: analysis of nucleic acid and other research and teaching Current biomedical research at the concerned with the management, analysis This research group focuses on the nonprotein macromolecules, metabolomic • equip you with skills relevant for a College of Medicine comprises: and use of medical and biological mechanistic basis for DNA damage and small molecule analysis, and rewarding career in medicine information. induction and persistence, as well as its identification/quantitation of post- consequences to human health. translational modifications.
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Medical and Clinical Oncology: Nano(geno)toxicology and Nanoimaging: epidemiology, health service research, This group focuses research effort on This group has specific research interests health informatics, public health and immune modulation as potential therapy in in genotoxic responses to engineered qualitative research. cancer. Further interdisciplinary research nanomaterials and is developing the use work is being undertaken looking into of high resolution imaging and force Current research comprises: complex modelling of cancer anatomy measurement tools to study the biophysical and radiotherapy, applying diverse properties of cancer cells at the Health Informatics and Disease scanning, physics and deep computing nanoscale. There are shared interests with Modelling: approaches. the DNA Damage research group and the Research in this area has come into being Centre for NanoHealth. as the large amount of data relevant to Medical Microbiology and health and collected within the UK Infectious Diseases: P450 Biodiversity: National Health Service and in other This group aims to improve diagnosis, Research is primarily investigating public sectors has not, over the years, treatment and prevention of hospital- cytochrome P450 systems of bacteria, been put to better use. This research area acquired infection and is working to apply fungi and animals. The P450 gene/ is now leading the way in terms of the its knowledge to improve antibiotic enzyme system is extremely diverse, innovative and timely use of routinely therapy and development of new reflecting the central role it plays in natural collected information. diagnostic tools. product production for deterrence/ attraction as well as for detoxification of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering: diverse organic chemicals in the The prevention of ill health is a major This group carries out a range of research biosphere. P450s are also targets in drug societal priority and must be informed by and development activities broadly therapy. effective risk reduction and behaviour subdivided into radiotherapy physics, change interventions. Accordingly, radiation protection, nuclear medicine Reproductive Biology: research in this area is focused on physics and clinical engineering. This research group is currently understanding and preventing important investigating gene expression and function health problems such as self-harm and Molecular Neuroscience: in the uterus and its relationship to fertility. suicide, exploring barriers to lifestyle This group’s research focus is the genetic The aim is to identify genes and proteins interventions in those with long term mental and functional biology of inherited human that are essential to the establishment and illness, the prevention of injury and the neurological disorders. The work targets maintenance of pregnancy using tissue better understanding and prevention disorders such as epilepsy, movement obtained from the lining of the uterus of a number of important long-term disorders, neuronal migration disorders, (endometrium) of infertile patients and conditions such as rheumatic disorders, Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease with women of proven fertility. diabetes and obesity. an emerging attention to neuropathology and stem cell biology. Streptomyces Genetics: Diagnosis, Treatment and Care: This research group is investigating the Research and evaluation of treatment Molecular Psychiatry and molecular microbiology of antibiotic and care at all levels is a focus in this area, Psychopharmacology: producing Streptomyces, in particular the from practice to programme and policy. This group aims to throw light on the model species S. coelicolor, which Research and evaluation are undertaken interdependence of genes and behaviour produce a wide diversity of secondary across all clinical and service disciplines, using the methods and techniques of metabolites. focusing on the assessment of health modern molecular neuroscience. technologies and service delivery and Public Health, Population organisation within health and social care. Medical Devices: Sciences and Health Services Research in this group stems from a broad research interest in innovation and the development Public health, population sciences and of new medical devices. Since 1998 one health services research at the College of focus has been on novel fully closed circuit Medicine is located in the Centre for gas delivery systems for safe clinical Health Information Research and application of the rare noble gas xenon. evALuation (CHIRAL), which conducts interdisciplinary research that spans the traditional areas of clinical trials,
130 131 Modern Languages and Translation Research Degrees Research opportunities Linguistics: 60% of research Entry requirements: How can I find out more? Applications can be made online All research students in Languages, MA by Research/MPhil, PhD Distance rated world-leading (4*) or internationally For PhD: normally a good Honours degree Visit our website: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Translation and Communication belong PhD programme in Applied Linguistics excellent (3*) (first-class or 2:1) and an www.swansea.ac.uk/languages – see pages 176 – 177 for further to the Graduate Centre in the College MA in a relevant field. For MRes information Welsh: of Arts and Humanities. The Centre RAE2008 65% of research rated world-leading or MPhil: a good Honours degree. Contact the Admissions Tutor: provides pastoral as well as French: 35% of research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Email: [email protected] administrative support and is also (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) Professors English Language requirement: Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 responsible for research skills training German: 50% of research rated D F Connon IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each and support, and facilitating a lively world-leading (4*) or internationally D A G Large component) or Swansea University Visit the University: see page 174 for intellectual environment for the College’s
excellent (3*) J E Preece recognised equivalent. details postgraduate research community of – Modern Languages and Translation www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities Hispanic Studies: 45% of research A Rothwell 200 students. /riah rated world-leading (4*) or internationally D G Walters Scholarships and Bursaries excellent (3*) Academic and research staff 15 A range of postgraduate scholarships and Italian: 40% of research rated bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ internationally excellent (3*) Postgraduates 50 visit Postgraduate
Modern Languages at Swansea Translation PhD students have access to a German • The German-language Modernist novel, • Twentieth century Chilean literature Research Institute for Arts encompasses the academic areas of French, computer-based language laboratory, a Much of our activity in German is particularly Broch, Kafka, Thomas and culture and Humanities (RIAH) German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, and satellite TV and video-editing lab, an concentrated in the Centre for Mann, Musil, and the Canettis The Research Institute for Arts and Translation (including Welsh), specialising in advanced Translation and Media Contemporary German Culture which has Translation Humanities (RIAH) supports two major literature, cinema, cultural history, and the computing lab and a more specialised produced more than a dozen PhDs since Recent PhD topic (2011): ‘The Literary Staff research interests in Translation cover Research Centres: the Richard Burton practice and theory of translation. The Translation Research facility housing the its foundation in 1993. Current topics are: Dream in German Central Europe, a range of themes, including: Centre for the Study of Wales, an Department of Languages, Translation and latest digitisation, corpus analysis and ‘Intercultural Encounters in the Writings of 1900-1925: A Selective Study of the • Literary Translation interdisciplinary forum that focuses on the Communication welcomes proposals for computer-assisted translation tools. Michael Roes’ (AHRC funded); and ‘The Writings of Kafka, Kubin, Meyrink, Musil, • Translation Theory (including non- cultural and historical traditions in the postgraduate research projects that Trope of the Good German in American and Schnitzler’. Western) Welsh and English languages; and the complement staff research interests. Research Strengths and German Film since 1990’. • History of Translation Callaghan Centre for the Study of Italian • Comparative Translation Studies Conflict. RIAH supports a wide range of French Research degrees in Modern Languages The Centre’s focal points include: Strengths in Italian are mainly in the • Corpus-based Translation Analysis other research groups, which provide a Areas of expertise include the following: and Translation will: • Women’s writing twentieth and twenty-first centuries • Translation and the Lexicon focus for specialist projects, postgraduate • Medieval Literature, especially • Turkish-German writing and include: • Computer-based Lexicography and research, grant applications, seminar • provide you with new and women writers • German-Jewish writing • Narrative theory and the writings of Terminography series, and contact with external partners. specialised research skills • Eighteenth century drama, fiction and • German writing from Eastern and Umberto Eco • Translation Processes: Psycholinguistics Those supported by researchers in • prepare you for a career in academic literary ideas (including Théâtre de la Central Europe • Crime fiction in the 1930s of translation, translation workflows Modern European Literatures and research and teaching foire, the plays of Marivaux, Diderot) • Baader Meinhof and the Novel • Contemporary theatre, esp. Luigi • Comparative translation Cultures, include: • equip you with skills relevant for a • Nineteenth and twentieth century • Crime Fiction Pirandello and Dario Fo software analysis rewarding career in a range of other novelists (Balzac, Zola, Proust) Applications are encouraged for full-time diverse fields, including journalism, • Women’s writing and Gender Theory • GENCAS, the Centre for Research We have also specialists on Germany’s Spanish America or part-time research towards a PhD in cultural management and diplomacy, (de Beauvoir, Duras, Sagan) into Gender in Culture and Society two recent Nobel Laureates, Günter Grass Research in this area is conducted through any of these areas and relating to any translation, interpreting, teaching, • Drama of the twentieth century • MEICAM, Modern European (1999) and Herta Müller (2009). the Centre for Comparative Research into of the languages taught (including management, and international business • Politics and literature (eighteenth, Ideologies, Conflict and Memory the Americas in collaboration with staff Chinese, English, French, German, • enable you to deepen your knowledge nineteenth and twentieth centuries) • TRAM, Translation Research and Other specialisms include: and research students in American Studies. Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, of your area of specialist interest • Politics and religion Multilingualism. As a PhD or MPhil and Welsh). Current PhDs include two • Area Studies (history of social and • Ballads and popular culture from the student you will be expected to attend Areas of special interest are: AHRC-funded projects on comparative The Department benefits from extensive political ideas, propaganda and literary seventeenth century to the present day research events (such as colloquia or • Twentieth century prose and poetry morphology (English/French), ‘German library holdings and maintains a large discourse) • Romanticism, particularly Hoffmann weekly seminars) with visiting speakers • Women’s writing and feminist theory Translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, collection of audio-visual materials. All • Colonialism and postcolonialism, • Nineteenth century realism, particularly from the UK and abroad. • Contemporary Spanish American film and ‘Translation Memory Systems’, also research students are provided with a relating in particular to Algeria, Stifter and Fontane • Spanish American nation building funded by the AHRC. networked PC and workspace in Indochina, and Francophone Africa • Nietzsche • Twentieth century Argentine literature dedicated research student rooms. • War and Culture studies and culture
132 133 Physics Research Degrees Research opportunities Academic and research staff 27 Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: The funding opportunities that the MPhil, PhD, MSc by Research A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: see page 174 for details Postgraduates 29 bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/physics “Physics Department offered, through RAE2008 50% of research rated visit www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ Applications can be made online the Science and Technology Facilities world-leading (4*) or internationally Entry requirements: Postgraduate Contact the Postgraduate at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline excellent (3*) Council (STFC), was a major factor in Usually at least a first-class BSc or 2.1 Recruitment Officer: – see pages 176 – 177 for further Support for research students is available MPhys degree (experiment), or a first-class Email: [email protected] information applying to study here. The research Professors through other sources, including the EPSRC MPhys degree (theory) in Physics or a Tel: +44 (0)1792 295142 and teaching in the Department G Aarts T J Hollywood related subject is required and STFC, the European Union, and C R Alton B Lucini industry. provides a good arena for Experimental Group: – Physics A Armoni C Nunez English Language requirement: The Theoretical Particle Physics Group has Email: [email protected] postgraduate work, with seminars M Charlton G M Shore IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each three STFC-funded PhD studentships Tel: +44 (0)1792 513052 from visiting physicists in different D C Dunbar H H Telle component) or Swansea University available each year. The Experimental S J Hands fields almost every week. recognised equivalent. Groups have EPSRC and Leverhulme Theoretical Group: studentships available. Email: [email protected] Sam Alston, Tel: +44 (0)1792 602315 ” PhD Theoretical Physics
By recreating conditions that existed Research Strengths to make an absolute mass determination Condensed Matter and Nanoscale purpose computers. Core research • The study of the Physics proposed to be billionths of a second after time began, or The Department supports a broad range of by making a precise measurement of the Physics interests include: found ‘Beyond the Standard Model’, understanding how fundamental closely connected research groups in three betadecay spectrum of tritium near its This group is interested in the fundamental • Gauge theories (supersymmetric and mostly in the area of the Supersymmetric constituents of matter such as quarks and main research areas: atomic, molecular endpoint. Postgraduate students involved understanding of the electronic, structural, non-supersymmetric), especially in the Standard Model and different dynamical leptons interact, physicists seek to answer and laser physics; condensed matter and with this project will spend part of their chemical and optical properties of areas of non-perturbative methods and scenarios of electroweak symmetry the big questions. How did the Universe nanoscale physics; and theoretical particle time in Karlsruhe materials on the nanoscale. There is a electromagnetic duality breaking, such as technicolour theories begin? How can we create, trap, and physics. • Ultra-fast atomic and molecular physics. strong focus on techniques which • String Theory methods to gain Staff also have research interests in harness antimatter? And can we In collaboration with groups from UCL overcome the diffraction limit and using understanding on topics such as Black theories of quantum gravity, particle understand what space and time are Atomic, Molecular and Laser Physics and QUB, ultra-fast effects in atoms and light on the nanoscale. The group has Holes dynamics cosmology, and condensed matter made of? Spanning small scale lab research to large molecules are studied using femtosecond experience of incorporating nanoparticles • The Ads/CFT correspondence and systems. The newly discovered relations scale experiments: lasers. Most of this work is done at the into soft matter systems. Recently, a new large-N gauge theories among these different topics makes Physics at Swansea University enjoys close • Antihydrogen Physics. Swansea Physics Astra Laser Facility at the Rutherford collaboration has begun with the School of Swansea one of the leading Theoretical collaborative research partnerships with lecturers are founding members of the Appleton Laboratory in Didcot. Medicine to research the possibility of • The use of string inspired methods to Physics groups in Europe. The group has a range of organisations, including the successful ALPHA collaboration. Last year Postgraduate students will share their early pathogen detection using Raman compute processes of fundamental close connections with other leading European Centre for Nuclear Research ALPHA’s trapping of antihydrogen was time between Didcot and Swansea Spectroscopy. The group is part of the importance in collider physics, and to (CERN) in Geneva, the Rutherford Appleton Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre gain new valuable information on the groups in Europe, USA and Asia. voted “Physics World 2010 Breakthrough • Ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum Laboratory in Didcot, the Karlsruhe Institute and the University’s new Centre for high energy structure of quantum field of the Year”. The research is mainly done gases. In collaboration with Imperial of Technology, as well as many universities Nanohealth thus postgraduate students will theories of gravity Specialist equipment includes: at CERN, although theoretical studies are College, Swansea has worked on and institutes in Europe and the United have the opportunity to perform research of • a low-energy positron beam with a carried out locally and in collaboration confining and manipulating cold atoms • Lattice gauge theories to study Quantum States. an interdisciplinary nature and apply highfield superconducting magnet for with Stockholm University and Bose Einstein Condensates in Chromo Dynamics (the theory of quarks techniques across different disciplines. the study of positronium • Low-energy positron physics. At microtraps on atom chips. The group is and gluons), particularly under extreme The Department welcomes proposals for • a number of CW and pulsed laser Swansea, a unique low energy positron developing a sensitive atom chip conditions of temperature and baryon postgraduate research projects that Theoretical Particle Physics systems beamline capable of producing bursts of interferometer which can be used to density complement staff research interests. Swansea University is home to one of the • scanning tunnelling and near-field about 100,000 positrons at a rate of 10 measure weak forces. A new research • New developments regarding the study largest theoretical particle physics groups optical microscopes Hz has been constructed. This will be programme which aims to detect of the Quark Gluon-Plasma thought to Research degrees in Physics will: in the UK and Europe. Its work is aimed • Raman microscopes including used to investigate positronium energy quantum degenerate gases using exist at high temperature • provide you with new and specialised at understanding the fundamental particles tip-enhanced capabilities for levels and electron-position mixing nanoscale optics has started in Swansea • Considerations on well-known research skills of nature and their interactions. nano-Raman • Neutrino mass. It has been discovered • Research is also underway on the symmetries and their possible breaking, • prepare you for a career in academic The work focuses on quantum field • a 72 CPU parallel cluster that neutrinos have nonzero mass. design and implementation of multi-color obtaining new insights into the structure research and teaching theories and their manifestation in particle • access to the IBM BlueGene/Q Swansea is part of a large multinational laser fields for cooling, sensitive of physics laws at high energies • equip you with skills relevant for a physics and cosmology. This entails not Supercomputer which is part of UK’s collaboration called KATRIN (Karlsruhe detection, and coherent manipulation rewarding career in a range of diverse only some of the most sophisticated areas DiRAC Supercomputer facility and is TRItium Neutrino experiment) which aims of neutral atoms fields of modern mathematics but also numerical one of the fastest computer systems simulations using powerful, special- in the world 134 135 Politics, International Relations and Development Studies Research Degrees Research opportunities Entry requirements: Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MA by Research,MPhil/PhD Normally a Master’s degree or a minimum A range of postgraduate scholarships and Visit our website: see page 174 for details and Open Day 2.1 Honours degree which has included bursaries is available. For details, please www.swansea.ac.uk/politics information RAE2008 20% of research rated research training appropriate for the visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ world-leading (4*) or internationally proposed thesis project. Applicants are Postgraduate Contact: Applications can be made online excellent (3*) encouraged to contact the Department The Admissions Tutor, at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline informally to discuss their proposals. Professor Roland Axtmann – see pages 176 – 177 for further Professors Email: information R Axtmann English Language requirement: COAHGradCentreAdmissions J Bradbury For details of the Master’s courses IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each @swansea.ac.uk – N Cooper available in Politics and International component) or Swansea University Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 M Sheehan Relations, please see page 82. recognised equivalent. Politics, International Relations and Development Studies For further details about the Department, Academic and research staff 22 please see: www.swansea.ac.uk/ artsandhumanities/AboutUs/ Postgraduates 17 2 PoliticalandCulturalStudies
Politics is a discipline that has explored • prepare you for a career in academic Just War theory, security studies and For further information about RIAH, visit: I feel I have been part of a vibrant research environment – different visions for a more just society for research and teaching terrorism, space policy, politics under www.swansea.ac.uk/ attending seminars, reading groups, workshops and conferences – and thousands of years, and as a result is able • provide you with new and specialised Empire and in post-colonial states, artsandhumanities/riah “ to address some of today’s most pressing research skills post-conflict reconstruction, international also presenting my own PhD research to colleagues and staff. I was challenges. Whether students have a drugs policy, conflict education, and All research students in Politics, able to access most of the research material for my PhD in the Library; strong interest in theory, the study of civil wars and genocides. Area International Relations and Development Research Strengths however, when this was not possible staff in the Library helped me to government and politics or international Staff research interests cover three broad specialisms include; South-East Asia; the Studies belong to the Graduate Centre in relationships it is a discipline that can areas: Middle East and Africa. the College of Arts and Humanities. The track down resources elsewhere. sustain the highest standards of social Centre provides pastoral as well as • Political and cultural theory: This focuses Dr Nathan Roger, science Research Institute for Arts and Humanities administrative support and is also ” on political theory and philosophy PhD International Relations The Research Institute for Arts and responsible for research skills training related to developments in globalisation, Politics, International Relations and Humanities (RIAH) supports two major and support, and facilitating a lively democracy, liberal culture, sovereignty, Development Studies at Swansea asks the Research Centres, including the The intellectual environment for the College’s civil society, religion and new media key research questions that we need to Callaghan Centre for the Study of Conflict, postgraduate research community of technologies. Specialisms include; address to lead in the development of Power, Empire, which produces world- 200 students. liberalism and its critics, human rights, international scholarship. Current research class research in the areas of conflict and continental political thought, post- includes cutting edge projects on issues security, empire and postcolonialism, All research students in Politics, structuralism; and theories of gender and such as ethnic groups and the new China, ‘digital’ war, and conflict and culture. International Relations and Development masculinity the politics of public health threats and the Studies also have access to the training rise of cybercrime and cyber security. We • Political Analysis and Governance: RIAH also supports a wide range of resources of the Wales Economic and welcome new proposals for postgraduate This focuses on empirical studies of research groups, which provide a focus Social Research Council Doctoral research projects that complement staff government, politics and public policy for specialist projects, postgraduate Training Centre. Politics at Swansea is research interests. with a strong interest in theory and research, grant applications, seminar part of both the Politics and International methods. Specialisms include; series, and contact with external partners. Relations Pathway and the Language Research degrees in Politics and comparative politics, development Research groups include: Based Area Studies pathway of the politics, civic participation in Europe, International Relations will: • C-SCAP, the Centre for the Study of Doctoral Training Centre. Each year the EU, Eastern Europe and political • equip you with skills relevant for a Culture and Politics there is a programme of conferences and economy, American politics, UK politics, seminars organised in conjunction with rewarding career in a range of diverse • MEICAM, Modern European devolution and local government Cardiff and Aberystwyth universities. fields, including civil and intelligence Ideologies, Conflict and Memory. services, local and national government, • International politics and inter-cultural • CECSAM, the Centre for the management, finance, teaching, and communication: This focuses on the Comparative Study of the Americas journalism study of various dimensions of conflict, power and empire. Specialisms include;
136 137 Psychology Research Degrees Research opportunities Entry requirements: Scholarships and Bursaries How can I find out more? Visit the University: MPhil/PhD MPhil: normally an Honours degree A range of postgraduate scholarships Visit our website: see page 174 for details and Open Day (2.1 or above) in a discipline related and bursaries is available. For details, www.swansea.ac.uk/ information RAE2008 35% of research in Psychology to the chosen specialty, or a relevant, please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ humanandhealthsciences/research rated world-leading (4*) or internationally approved postgraduate qualification. scholarships/Postgraduate Applications can be made online excellent (3*) Contact: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline PhD: Applicants would normally have, We attract substantial research funding Maria Davis, Postgraduate Administrator – see pages 176 – 177 for further Professors or be studying for, a Master’s degree. from a range of organisations, including Email: [email protected] information the ESRC, the European Union, the Health P Bennett A Parrott Tel: +44 (0)1792 295309 D Benton P Reed English Language requirement: and Safety Executive, the Leverhulme Trust, For details of Master’s courses available the Nuffield Foundation, the British – Psychology M Blagrove I M Thornton IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 6.5 in in Psychology, please see page 84. Academy, the Wellcome Trust, the Welsh T Lloyd-Jones R L Wood each component) or Swansea University Government, and the EPSRC. recognised equivalent. Academic and research staff 26
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Unlocking the secrets of the human mind the cognition-health interface and studies and processing of static and dynamic Evolutionary Behavioural Science Our specialised research facilities is one of modern science’s greatest into clinical or behavioural change visual objects and events, or the inhibitory This group explores how evolution and available include a sleep laboratory; challenges. Psychology, the study of interventions, are crucial in protecting the processes involved in memory and the credo ‘survival of the fittest’ prevails computer controlled visual and auditory human behaviour, helps us to make sense long-term health and well-being of the forgetting in both the theoretical and within our current society, and goes on to displays for work on perception, of how we understand the world, what population. Examples of research include: applied setting. Work is also underway influence our continued development and attention, memory and language; an eye makes us laugh or cry, why we are • Coping with health threats on the cognitive and neural basis for word growth through the exploration of movement laboratory and a nutrition conscious, and why we make the choices • Adverse effects of recreational drugs recognition and production, including the modern day relationships and laboratory. In addition, our researchers we do. • Nutrition, obesity and body image study of language development in mono- interactions. For example, why are some and students have access to state-of-the- • Occupational health and bi-lingual speakers. Examples of people jealous and possessive in their art fMRI brain scanner and EEG facilities. Research degrees in Psychology will: research include: relationship while others take a more • Provide you with new and specialised Learning and Behaviour • Causes and mechanisms of dyslexia relaxed approach? Examples of research research and transferable skills such as This group examines the mechanisms that • Object and face recognition include: presenting to a range of audiences, allow behaviour and thoughts to adapt to • Biological motion publication, and networking the environment, and investigates the role • Mating behaviour and relationships • Altruism and aggression • Prepare you for a career in academic of learning and memory processes in Brain and Behaviour • Philosophical implications of evolution research and teaching generating such flexible and adaptive This research group is exploring the behaviours. These behaviours allow integration of neuroscience and behaviour. • Equip you with skills relevant for a efficient learning and processing of One such area is brain chemistry and the Students working towards a research rewarding career in a range of diverse information in a wide variety of contexts, effect of eating, nutrition, and recreational degree have the opportunity to attend fields across the age range, and even across drug use on cognition, mood and taught modules from any of the taught species. Although adaptiveness and behaviour. The interface of masters available within the College of Research Strengths flexibility promote psychological well- neuropsychology and brain injury is also Human and Health Science. In addition, Our research is structured around five being, there can also be unfortunate proving to be of interest highlighting the students in the first year of their MPhil/ strong research groups: negative effects of these behaviours. consequences of dyslexia, other reading PhD research degree are encouraged to Examples of research include: disorders, and closed head injuries. Work attend the statistics and computing Psychology Applied to Health and is also underway to apply EEG and components from the MSc in Research Medicine • Autism and early interventions neuro-feedback research to clinical Methods along with a number of Research across this group looks to apply • Schizophrenia disorders and sleep. Examples of research transferable skills courses available to the principles of psychology to both the • Reward sensitivity theory include: all postgraduate students at Swansea physical and mental health of the University. Research students are also Cognition and Perception • Psychopharmacology population. Understanding how encouraged to disseminate their own Our work in this field spans research into • Brain injury rehabilitation behaviours develop and influence research findings at national and areas such as the perception, identification • Addiction and substance misuse individual’s decision making, alongside international conferences.
138 139 Sport and Exercise Science War and Society
Research opportunities Entry requirements: How can I find out more? Research opportunities English Language requirement: Scholarships and Bursaries Research Degrees MSc by Research/MPhil/PhD Normally a good Honours degree Visit our website: MA by Research/MPhil/PhD IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each A range of postgraduate scholarships (first-class or 2.1) in Sports Science www.swansea.ac.uk/engineering component) or Swansea University and bursaries is available. For details, Professors or a related subject. Professors recognised equivalent. please visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/ G Stratton Contact the Engineering Recruitment N Cooper scholarships/Postgraduate J Watkins English Language requirement: and Admissions Team: How can I find out more? Email: [email protected] Staff and postgraduate numbers Visit the University: IELTS 6.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each Visit our website: Academic and research staff 15 Tel: +44 (0)1792 295514 War and Society students can be located see page 174 for details component) or Swansea University www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities in numerous Departments within the Postgraduates 22 recognised equivalent. College of Arts and Humanities. Please and Exercise Science / War – Sport and Society Visit the University: Contact the Admissions Tutor: Applications can be made online see: www.swansea.ac.uk/ see page 174 for details PCS Admissions Tutor: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline Scholarships and Bursaries artsandhumanities for details Professor Roland Axtmann – see pages 176 – 177 for further A range of postgraduate scholarships and Applications can be made online Email: information bursaries is available. For details, please Entry requirements: at: www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline COAHGradCentrePGRAdmissions@ visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ – see pages 176 – 177 for Normally a 2.1 Honours degree, or swansea.ac.uk For details of Master’s courses available Postgraduate further information higher degree, or an equivalent Tel: +44 (0)1792 295926 in War and Society, please see page qualification. 89.
Sport and Exercise Science requires the Research degrees in Sports Science will: Research Strengths War has been the violent catalyst for Research Strengths Research groups include: application of scientific principles and • provide you with new and The main areas of sport, physical activity change throughout human history, from The War and Society programme is • C-SCAP, the Centre for the Study of techniques with the aim of improving specialised research skills and health-related research are exercise- the conflicts of the ancient world to those closely connected to the research Culture and Politics human function or performance. The related enhancement of health, and the of the twenty-first century. It inflicts strengths of the academic staff who are • prepare you for a career in academic • MEICAM, Modern European study of sports science is organised within enhancement of sport performance. terrible suffering and degradation, yet actively involved in the The Callaghan research and teaching Ideologies, Conflict and Memory the disciplines of Physiology, • equip you with skills relevant for Expertise is largely within the three also evokes and inspires great bravery Centre for the Study of Conflict, Power, • MEMO, the Centre for Medieval and Biomechanics, Psychology/Motor Control a rewarding career in a range of disciplines of physiology, psychology, and heroism. Empire, which produces world-class Early Modern Research. but also includes other topics such as diverse fields, including strength and biomechanics, with an increasing research in the areas of conflict and Sports Technology, Strength and and conditioning, sports coaching, emphasis on interdisciplinary research. If we are to understand war, however, we security, empire and postcolonialism, For further information about RIAH, visit Conditioning and Performance Analysis. teaching, health promotion and sport Research focused on the influence of must analyse it in all its contexts, from the ‘digital’ war, and conflict and culture. www.swansea.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/ and exercise rehabilitation physical activity and exercise on health political, social, and cultural, through to The focus of sport, physical activity and and wellbeing is currently funded by the technological, historical, and military. The Centre also manages major Research riah health-related research at Swansea is based All courses are research-led and taught by Welsh Office of Research and We welcome proposals for postgraduate Council funded projects, and promotes All War and Society research students in the College of Engineering. Staff are all British Association of Sport and Exercise Development, Diabetes UK, and Abertawe research projects that complement its collaboration between scholars, belong to the Graduate Centre in the research-active and have excellent industry Sciences (BASES) and British Psychological Bro Morgannwg University NHS Trust. Our research interests. policymakers and cultural providers. College of Arts and Humanities. The links within the field of sports and exercise Society (BPS) accredited staff, and collaborators in research that focuses on Centre provides pastoral as well as science. The College welcomes proposals facilities include well-equipped sporting performance include British A research degree in War and Research Institute for Arts and Humanities administrative support and is also for postgraduate research projects that laboratories for: Swimming, British Cycling, UK Sport, Society will: The Research Institute for Arts and complement staff research interests. Sports Wales, Welsh Rugby Union, Celtic Humanities (RIAH) supports two major responsible for research skills training • biomechanics • provide you with new and specialised Crusaders, Swansea City FC, The Scarlets Research Centres, including the and support, and facilitating a lively • exercise physiology research skills and The Ospreys. These industrial links Callaghan Centre. RIAH also supports a intellectual environment for the College’s • sports materials and engineering • prepare you for a career in academic provide our students with the opportunity to wide range of research groups, which postgraduate research community of 200 • sport psychology research and teaching develop knowledge and transferable skills provide a focus for specialist projects, students. • motor learning that enhance employment opportunities. • equip you with skills relevant for a postgraduate research, grant applications, • notational analysis rewarding career in a range of diverse seminar series, and contact with external • performance physiology fields. partners.
140 141 Your life – the way you want to live it
When you choose to continue your studies with a postgraduate qualification, selecting a course is just one part of choosing the place where you will live, study, and call home.
This section will tell you about: • living and learning in Swansea • how we support students with disabilities, mental health difficulties, and other conditions • the role of the Students’ Union in making sure your time at Swansea is memorable – for all the right reasons
1st in the UK for accommodation office support { i-graduate Student Barometer™, Autumn 2011
142 We want you to have peace Postgraduate accommodation is provided on a fixed, 51-week basis at three We place significant importance Village is sociable, supportive and you Applying for accommodation of mind when it comes to your residences: Caswell (Singleton Campus), Beck House, and Hendrefoelan Student on student welfare. In addition to will benefit from: You can apply for accommodation online accommodation, which is why we Village. We are also able to offer some designated postgraduate flats on a 40-week 24-hour security staff on campus, our at: www.swansea.ac.uk/accommodation tenancy at the Student Village and there is a range of University managed properties • The Wonky Sheep, the on-site bar as soon as you have an offer of a place think it’s important you choose a Welfare Wardens are on hand to to choose from. • convenience store to study at the University. residence that best suits you and help you settle in and provide pastoral • diner your budget, and for you to see Key points to note: support. There’s also a dedicated, • launderette Please note that priority is given to your university residence as a real • our rooms have wireless internet access* campus-based police officer. international students with a limited number Beck House of rooms available for students from the home from home. • rooms are single occupancy only (exception being Beck House family flats) Living on campus We have a number of single and family UK. Accommodation in University • rooms can be adapted for students with special requirements, including wheelchair Living in Caswell residence on campus puts flats at our designated quiet residence, residences is not normally available for users – contact the Disability Office for further information you right at the centre of university life. Two Beck House, approximately a mile from students who have studied for their first • a regular bus service during term-time floors have been set aside for postgraduate campus in the popular student area of degree in Swansea. Uplands. The residence offers standard • Welfare Wardens in residence* students. Caswell provides en suite, self-catered accommodation in self- and en suite accommodation in self- For full details about our residences, and • launderette facilities* contained flats of eight single study rooms. contained flats, and single study rooms the support we can provide to help you with shared bathroom and kitchen facilities. settle in quickly, please visit our website at: *excludes University-managed properties Campus facilities also include: www.swansea.ac.uk/accommodation For couples and families, there are • shops • nightclub self-contained flats that comprise one, • health centre • Post Office or contact Residential Services: two, or three bedrooms, a sitting room, Tel: +44 (0)1792 295101 • dental surgery • restaurants kitchen and a bathroom. Some Email: [email protected] • bars • book shop accommodation has been adapted for • theatre • bank students with disabilities – please contact House Hunting • cinema • laundrette Residential Services to discuss any New postgraduate students looking for Living in the Student Village specific requirements you may have. private-sector accommodation can attend Approximately two miles from campus is our summer House Hunting event. This Make yourself at home Student Accommodation the Hendrefoelan Student Village, which event offers assistance with finding fellow Services provides self-catering accommodation in postgraduates with whom to share, as Residential Services runs a letting agency flats and houses. The Student Village is well as the opportunity to find and with the Students’ Union; SAS Lettings mainly home to undergraduate students, view potential accommodation. For manages over 100 properties owned by but a designated area for postgraduates details see: local landlords. There are a number of offers rooms in flats sharing kitchen and five and six-bed houses designated to www.swansea.ac.uk/ bathroom facilities. postgraduates, providing affordable postgraduate/househunting If you choose to live in the Village, you private sector housing close to campus You may also like to check out our online will have your own room at a rate that with the reassurance that the University is database of private accommodation: compares favourably with private sector your landlord. Each student has their own www.studentpad.co.uk accommodation. Student life at the study bedroom with shared kitchen and bathroom facilities.
What will I be charged? The rent you pay will depend on the residence and room you choose.
Residence Type of room Weekly rent*
Student Village Standard £73
Singleton Campus En suite £110
Beck House Standard £79 - £84 En suite £96 - £105 Family flat Various (excludes utility costs) University-managed properties Standard £65 - £70 (excludes utility costs)
* 2012/13 fees 144 145 We operate a range of catering • The Venue (Fulton House) – serving • Café Glas (Institute of Life Science) Whether you have a general Supporting our disabled students outlets around campus. Each has a pasta, meat, and fish dishes, freshly – Starbucks® coffee shop that also enquiry, a specific problem, or you If you have a disability, medical condition, or specific learning difficulty there is no does excellent speciality cakes distinctive image and style of food, prepared salads and vegetables, hot just need to talk things through, the reason why your university experience should be any different from anyone else’s, and cold desserts and our budget and we welcome your application to study at Swansea. from light lunches and baguettes • Callaghan’s (James Callaghan Student Support Services reception busting daily meal deals building) – Starbucks® coffee shop to traditional British fayre, Indian, is a good place to start. We offer Before you apply, you should: • Fusion Café (Fulton House) – with a mouth-watering selection of Mexican, Spanish and Chinese a ‘one-stop-shop’ to provide all serving traditional and healthy speciality breads served with • Contact the staff at the Disability Office well before you submit your application to meals, and tempting pasta dishes. students with the information, breakfasts, hot and cold food and contemporary fillings let us know what you are thinking of studying and what your support requirements drinks all day long. Look out for advice, and support they need. might be. There are a number of open days throughout the year where you can All our outlets have a choice of • Costa@Emily Phipps (Hendrefoelan) Fusion’s popular theme nights come to Swansea and see the campus and facilities available to disabled students. vegetarian options. Look out for our – offering a wide selection of hot and However, we are aware that there may be times where additional one-to-one theme nights, Welsh food festival and • Taliesin (Taliesin Arts Centre) – try a cold foods with a selection of meetings may be needed and we would encourage you to contact the Disability our version of Ready Steady Cook! So, taste of the Mediterranean from the speciality coffees and cold drinks. Office to discuss this further. when you’re fed up of cooking and superb tapas menu, or choose from a • There are plenty of vending machines • You can disclose a disability at any time during your studies, however, we strongly washing up, head for: range of hot meals, sandwiches, and located around campus offering hot urge you to disclose your disability, medical condition or specific learning difficulty Costa Coffee® and cold beverages, confectionary at the earliest opportunity. This will enable University staff to provide help and • Costa@Café Hoffi Coffi (Library) – a and snacks support appropriate to your individual needs. great place to unwind with your friends • During the application cycle, you may be invited for an interview with the Disability over a coffee and a delicious muffin Office staff. This will give us an opportunity to assess your support requirements and plan for your admission, and you will be able to judge for yourself whether Swansea is the right place for you.
Where to eat? Taking care of your welfare
Catering with a conscience Swansea was the first Fairtrade university in Wales. You’ll find Fairtrade products in all aspects of our catering, which is helping to secure better prices, decent working conditions, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world.
We’re committed to using locally sourced produce wherever possible, ensuring local sustainability for the region’s businesses. We also grow our own herbs which are picked and used daily.
We’re approved by the Vegetarian Society, and Did you know? have been awarded the highest level in food safety The University’s Flexible Diners Card which is fully endorsed by the Food Standards is a simple, no fuss way of paying Agency. For more information, including our for your meals in any of our catering Sustainability and Fairtrade policies please outlets. You can top up the card at visit our website at: any time, and your credit is valid for the whole academic year. www.swansea.ac.uk/catering 146 { 147 Professional support, Most buildings on our fairly flat and Get in touch Wellbeing Services Your faith To ensure that these objectives are met we: when you need it compact campus are modern and For more information about the support Supports students experiencing distress The campus-based Chaplaincy Centre is • have an Equal Opportunities We can put in place a wide range of well-equipped with ramped access, lifts, on offer, please visit our website at: arising from psychological, emotional or provided by a team of six chaplains from Committee and a Race Equality, measures to ensure that you receive the and accessible toilets. Tactile paving has mental health issues. Our guiding the Anglican (Church in Wales), Baptist, Gender Equality and Disability Equality www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ support you need throughout your studies. been laid on all major paths, and a principle is to hold all information Greek Orthodox, Methodist, Roman Working Group that meet each term significant number of study bedrooms student-services/disability-office about you in confidence. Catholic, and United Reformed Church. • have Disability Link Co-ordinators in In particular, we: in the campus residences have been They work together to support the spiritual or contact the Disability Office: each Academic College and adapted for mobility impaired students. We offer: life of the University community, • work with you to tailor a flexible Tel: +44 (0)1792 602000 Department Fire alarms for the hearing impaired regardless of race, status or faith. programme of support appropriate to Fax: +44 (0)1792 295090 • Initial one to one Drop-in Sessions have also been installed. • review our Race Equality Policy and your support requirements Email: [email protected] • Workshops (eg. presentation anxiety, We’re one of the few universities in the Action Plan, Disability Equality Scheme • liaise with the Examinations Office if managing stress) Other services UK to have a mosque on campus, and and Gender Equality Scheme annually. you need additional time or support to Medical facilities • Support with mental health issues • Facilities for the visually impaired are we were proud to win the UK’s Best These can be found on the University’s complete assessments There is an NHS medical practice and • Counselling exceptional. Swansea University Mosque Provision award from the website a dental surgery open to students on • Services are provided free of charge • have a team of Specialist Tutors, who Transcription Centre can provide Federation of Islamic Students. The • publish an online Race Relations & campus. If you live in University for enrolled students provide information and advice, as materials in a range of formats, University also has a Jewish community, You booklet, which outlines the policies well as tips on study skills and accommodation, you will need to including Braille, audio, large print, Many students who have previously and other faiths are supported by student and the behaviour expected of all staff relaxation for students who have register with a Swansea General electronic text and tactile diagrams for experienced mental health difficulties societies and groups. and students to ensure that Swansea been recommended this support Practitioner within two weeks of arrival. disabled students. Mobility training have found it helpful to contact the University continues to provide an • have a purpose-built Assessment can be arranged via an external If you are not living in University Service upon receipt of an offer, or as Ensuring equality of opportunity academic environment free from Centre that offers a comprehensive agency if required. accommodation, we advise you to soon as possible after their arrival on Swansea University is a cosmopolitan, discrimination and harassment. service to identify and assess your • Library staff are on hand to help you to register with a GP in Swansea when campus. campus-based community that We also publish the Annual Equal needs get the most out of your studies, and you arrive. encourages applications from students Opportunities Report that contains • can advise you on how to arrange offers a “fetch from shelf” service The support offered is flexible and from all backgrounds. As a student, you an overview of all equality work can be confident that you live and study each year. personal care and academic support. • Every PC on the University network designed to suit your particular needs in an educational environment that gives you access to specialist software, which you can discuss with a practitioner. supports equality of opportunity for all, such as SuperNova for visually You may want to work on a personal and that you will not be subjected to any impaired and blind students, and issue, or for someone to liaise with your form of discrimination or harassment. Inspiration Mind Mapping software, GP or Community Mental Health Team, and Text Help Read and Write Gold or with your academic Department to We require our staff, students, and for students with specific learning help ensure you have any reasonable suppliers to cooperate in order to help difficulties. and appropriate adjustments. In certain situations you may be offered a promote equality. We adhere to the professional mentor to help you achieve Equality Act 2010 which requires us to your full potential. eliminate unlawful discrimination and to promote the equality of opportunity and Tel: +44 (0)1792 295592 good relations between people of Email: [email protected] different groups. Professional support
148 149 People view student life in different ways Make yourself heard Get involved Social Swansea Supporting you Into sport? but everybody agrees on one thing: it’s The Students’ Union has seven full-time The Students’ Union has over one hundred Do you like the sound of regular great Your safety and wellbeing is paramount. Sport forms a massive part of the student what you make it. You can be confident election officers and a number of volunteer societies and sports clubs. From Amnesty nights out in the heart of Swansea The Students’ Union runs an advice centre experience at Swansea and has lots to that the Students’ Union will work hard to part-time elected officers to represent you and Akido to Real Ale and Rowing. You’re City’s clubbing district? How about offering guidance on matters such as offer for anyone wanting to get involved represent your voice, give you the at every level, from University committee bound to find something that matches your an Annual Summer Ball and a finance and housing, consumer protection for fun or for competition. opportunities you need, and ensure your meetings to national demonstrations. interests, and you’ll certainly get the Christmas Snowball, as well as and course-related difficulties. safety and welfare as a student. They also support you need to be involved in organised theme nights and sports There is a Sports Officer and a highly bring students together through the excellent You will also have plenty of opportunities practically anything you can think of. nights? SUSU is big on giving you a Day nursery dedicated administration team working social calendar you’d expect of such a to get your voice heard through our good time whether it’s a night on the Based in a convenient location on to fulfil the needs of all sporting students. vibrant community. fortnightly newspaper Waterfront, the Getting involved in societies can also town or in our on-campus nightclub, Campus, the Students’ Union Nursery This is coupled with the fantastic facilities Ents magazine, our website and our boost your employability: the skills you or relaxing in our student bars and provides professional childcare at that the University has to offer. When you become a student at Swansea very own radio station: gain from running events, organising coffee shops, you’ll find a venue subsidised prices for students. The University, you automatically become a people, holding positions of responsibility, to suit your mood. Nursery can offer places to children Currently we have over 40 teams www.xtreme.org member of the Students’ Union, which is or managing budgets will add real value aged three months to seven years of age. competing in the BUCS (British University www.swansea-union.co.uk affiliated to the National Union of Students. to your CV. You could also represent and Colleges Sports) league on a Tel: +44 (0) 1792 513151 The Union is student-led and has a strong your fellow students as a Course Wednesday, travelling all over England E-mail: [email protected] track record in bringing students together Representative. Again, you will and Wales, and a further 30-40 clubs on the issues that matter. gain valuable skills that employers competing in regular BUCS tournaments www.swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/ will recognise.. and events. student-services/childcare/
The current sports clubs that the Students’ Union offers are: Your Union: Working for you Aikido • American Football • Archery • Badminton • Basketball • Body Boarding • Boxing • Canoe • Cheerleading • Cricket • Equestrian • Football • Fencing • Golf • Hiking • Hockey • Jitsu • Judo • Karate • Karting• Kickboxing • Kitesurfing • Lacrosse • Lifesaving • Mountain Biking • Mountaineering • Netball • Pool • Rowing • Rugby League • Rugby Union • Running • Sailing • Snowriders • Squash • Sub Aqua • Surf • Swimming • Tae Kwon Do • Tennis • Triathlon • Ultimate Frisbee • Windsurfing
Joining Sport Swansea gives you“ the opportunities to be part of a successful team in a competitive and social environment. Sport at university allows you to try something new and get fit in the process. I hope to see As President of Swansea University Students’ Union, it is my pleasure many of you taking part in sport over “to tell you a little bit about what we do! We are everything co-curricular the next year. on campus and I have the privilege to work with six other officers with remits that ensure whatever you need as a student, you get it! We have Imogen Stanley,” on offer over 100 Societies and 50 Sports Clubs, alongside nine weekly Sports Officer 2012/13 nights out. We are a strong Union with a long and proud history of fighting for and winning on issues that really matter to our membership. We even offer discounted trips to Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin, exclusive to our students! I truly hope you consider continuing your studies at Swansea University and look forward to meeting you!
Tom Upton, President 2012/13 ” 150 { 151 Our international community
Since its foundation in 1920, Swansea University has embraced opportunities to think globally. The vibrant mix of nationalities and cultures on campus greatly enriches our learning and teaching environment.
Whether it’s the colours and sounds of the annual International Student Festival, learning Japanese or Arabic with the student societies, or swapping notes and ideas with students from far-flung places, the rich diversity of cultures that finds a home in Swansea is an integral part of your student experience.
We understand the type of support our international students need to help them settle into student life in a new country.
This section will tell you about:
• the support we provide, from your first enquiry until you graduate
• how we help our international students to improve their English language skills
• the International Foundation Programme that provides an alternative entry to our degrees
92% of our international students are satisfied with the support they receive {i-graduate Student Barometer™, Autumn 2011 152 Affordable, comfortable housing the UK to have a mosque on campus, Applications made using the online International students at Swansea Swansea enjoys a lower cost of living and we were proud to win the UK’s Best On-Track system will be processed faster, than many parts of the UK, and this Mosque Provision award from the but we also accept application forms includes the cost of our accommodation. Federation of Islamic Students. downloaded from our website. For further Swansea’s International Student Advisory Service Developing your language skills Our residences offer a range of single, details, as well as information about our Welcoming you to the UK entry and English language requirements, As an international student at Swansea University, you (and your If you think you need to improve your English language skills en suite rooms and shared houses, We run a Meet and Greet service from please see: family) will benefit from the information, advice and support before starting your studies, or if you need support with the English providing independent living in a London’s Heathrow Airport, and provide offered by our International Student Advisory Service (ISAS). language while studying with us, our English Language Training relaxed, community environment. All our all new international students with a full www.swansea.ac.uk/ Services (ELTS) offers a range of British Council accredited accommodation gives you access to the orientation programme to help them get international/students/apply You can use ISAS as a resource centre to find out about issues programmes to help you achieve your academic goals. wireless network, and a telephone and to know the University, Swansea, and the such as working in the UK, driving, healthcare, and obtaining internet connection point. Residence tutors We offer: region. There’s more information about The International Development Office will visas to travel to other countries, or just to keep in touch with are on hand to offer practical advice our support for new students at: be with you every step of the way and other international students in Swansea. ISAS also provides a • a full-time, year-round English language programme for and assistance out of hours. works closely with the Admissions Office free service to help you extend your UK student visa for further students who need to improve their language skills before www.swansea.ac.uk/international to ensure that your application is study at Swansea University. starting their studies Our accommodation commitment: if you processed as quickly as possible. If you • an English for University Studies programme that focuses accept your offer of a place to study with International student need a visa, we’ll make sure that all the For further information, please contact the on general English language skills, exam preparation, and us by 30th June, you’ll be guaranteed tuition fees and finance necessary support documents are issued International Student Advisory Service: English for academic purposes. It also introduces you to British a place in University residences. If you are an international student, the fee in good time, and we can also provide Tel: +44 (0)1792 602000 Email: [email protected] culture and studying in the British Higher Education system For more information about the range of you will pay depends on your choice of advice about the Points Based System for or visit the website at: • free academic English support classes for all enrolled full-time accommodation available, see pages course. Please see pages 171 to 172 for visa application. www.swansea.ac.uk/isas international students 144 to 145. full information on fees. For further information, please contact the Meet our student bloggers English Language Training Services (ELTS): Supporting your faith How to apply Experience living Tel: +44 (0)1792 295391 Email: [email protected] The campus-based Chaplaincy Centre is For all enquiries about living and studying and studying or visit the website at: provided by a team of six chaplains from at Swansea University, and how to in Swansea. apply, please contact the International www.swansea.ac.uk/elts the Anglican (Church in Wales), Baptist, Greek Orthodox, Methodist, Roman Development Office: Catholic, and United Reformed Church. http://studentblogs.swansea.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1792 602600 They work together to support the spiritual Email: [email protected] life of the University community, Follow us on Twitter/swanseaIDO regardless of race, status or faith. www.facebook.com/GOFurther We’re one of the few universities in SwanseaUniversity
92% of our international students are satisfied with the support they receive
94% are satisfied with their expert lecturers
88% are satisfied with their arrival experience
88% are satisfied with their overall experience of Swansea
90% are satisfied with the content of their courses
90% agree that Swansea is a good place to be
(i-graduate International Student Barometer™, Autumn 2011)
154 155 The language of instruction at ICWS is English. To attain entry into the postgraduate pathway you must be able to demonstrate you International College Wales Swansea have a suitable level of English proficiency. You can do this by obtaining one of the results shown in the table below.
International College Wales Swansea (ICWS) is part of the global Navitas Group, an internationally recognised education provider Postgraduate Pathway Course Duration IELTS (minimum requirement) with the knowledge and resources of staff in more than 50 different colleges and campuses worldwide. Stage 1 2 or 3 semesters 5.5 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each skill) ICWS offers academic pathways in partnership with Swansea University that lead to undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Our with Pre-sessional semester (depending on programme) unique approach to education transforms international students into Swansea University graduates and lifelong learners. Innovative Pre-Master’s courses are delivered by highly qualified teachers in a modern, dynamic environment, supported by our friendly support team. Stage 1 1 or 2 semesters 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each skill) University Pre-Master’s (depending on programme)
We also accept TOEFL, Pearson’s Test of English — Academic, For further information, and for details of the academic entry or equivalent qualifications. Please contact our Admissions requirements and tuition fees, please contact ICWS: Postgraduate Pathways Office at: [email protected] for further details. Tel: +44 (0)1792 602888 Fax: +44 (0)1792 602889 Email: [email protected] or visit the website at: If you do not meet the English language requirement for direct www.swansea.ac.uk/icws A postgraduate pathway is a single Master’s The Pre-Master’s programme will: entry to your chosen pathway, you can receive the required course comprising two stages of study. The Master’s degree is stage two • help you develop fundamental amount of English language tuition (up to a maximum of two Successful completion of both stages of the postgraduate pathway, and knowledge and an understanding of semesters) to prepare you for successful entry at a later date. You can start an English Language course in September, leads to a Master’s degree from is taught by Swansea University. the basic principles relevant to your January, April or June. The English language training is Swansea University. particular degree The ICWS postgraduate pathway is provided by Swansea University’s English Language • help you develop numerical designed for students who: Training Services (ELTS). See: Pre-Master’s techniques, research methodologies • require additional English language This is stage one of the postgraduate and ICT, presentation and www.swansea.ac.uk/elts training pathway. It is one or two semesters long, communication skills • come from an academic background depending on your chosen pathway. This • help you develop your intellectual different to that of the UK and do not programme is available in the areas of; and practical skills building to a set of meet university direct-entry Engineering, Health and Child transferable skills that will support you requirements Development, Business Management, in your onward academic studies/ • have been away from studies for a Economics, Banking and Finance, and careers and decision-making period of time Computer Science. Designed to prepare • are looking to fine-tune skills already • ensure you have attained the international students who have not gained during their undergraduate prescribed level of interdisciplinary qualified for direct entry to Swansea studies or employment language competence University Master’s degrees, the Pre-Master’s programme allows you to adjust to the rigorous research and independent study requirements of a postgraduate degree.
156 157 Thinking about your future
The sooner you start planning ahead, the better prepared you’ll be to grab the job opportunities you want.
This section will tell you more about how we equip you for career success. You’ll read how: • we’re committed to ensuring that our degrees are relevant to the world of work • our Careers and Employability Service can help you plan for life after Swansea • personal development planning can help you to maximise your potential • our entrepreneurship training can inspire you to set up your own business • Diploma Supplements can enhance your employability across Europe • the campus-based volunteering charity, Discovery, gives you opportunities to gain valuable experience
96% of students satisfied with lecturer’s expertise {i-graduate Student Barometer™, Autumn 2011 158 Our long history of working with business, industry, We can help you to: We’ll help you to identify and develop Making your degree Building your international commerce and the public sector enables us to add real • develop a portfolio of relevant skills, knowledge, a variety of skills that will enable you to relevant around the world networks value to your education. We listen closely to employers and practical experience make the most of your time at university, Employers in the UK understand the value When you graduate, you will become a and to get what you want from your of a degree from a British university, but if member of our Alumni Association, an when they tell us what skills and experiences they • gain maximum benefit from job placements and vacation work career. You’ll then create and maintain you decide to work in Europe or further invaluable network of 55,000 active demand of their graduate employees, and we tailor our • find term time jobs and other opportunities to an e-portfolio that documents the skills afield, how can you be sure that your members who share common experiences courses to make sure that you gain the professional and develop your skills you acquire, the personal qualities you degree will be recognised no matter and a love of Swansea. Our alumni are high-level skills that will enable you to thrive in today’s • complete job applications and prepare for interview develop, and the experiences that bring where in the world you end up? working at every level in industry, increasingly competitive world. • secure suitable employment or further study opportunities your CV to life, from your involvement commerce, sport and the public sector, in after graduation with sport and societies, to the more When you complete your studies, you’ll the UK and overseas, which means that Many of our courses are accredited by professional bodies, formal roles you might undertake in job receive a Diploma Supplement, which you will find like-minded friends and offer project placements with industry, and give you the Our Helpdesk is based in the Library, and we have extensive placements and volunteering. provides a detailed description of the colleagues wherever you are in the world. opportunity to apply your knowledge in a practical setting. After information resources to help you plan your future. Careers nature, level, context, content, and status all, developing your academic skills and love of scholarship is Advisers are available Monday to Friday for guidance on any Stimulating entrepreneurship of your course. It highlights the intellectual Our alumni regularly tell us that they just one part of what we do. We’ll also encourage you to gain careers related issue, and you’ll also find our website helpful: Whilst you’re at Swansea you can take and practical skills you have acquired, benefit professionally and socially from as much practical experience as possible. www.swansea.ac.uk/careers is updated daily and contains lots advantage of many opportunities to learn enabling employers to see at a glance relationships they have forged through the of useful information and links. You can also book appointments and practise key business and what you have achieved. Association. Many are actively That’s why each course description in this prospectus tells you with Careers Advisers and attend Careers events. entrepreneurship skills. You can: supporting the next generation of students upfront what the degree will train you to do and what skills it Swansea was the first university in Wales in the UK and overseas, helping them to • take part in seminars and workshops to will help you to gain. Did you know? to introduce the Diploma Supplements, decide what to study and how the learn from inspirational guest speakers The Careers and Employability Service is which have been developed by the Swansea experience can have a from the private sector We also pioneered the GO Wales work placement externally credited by the Matrix quality standard European Commission. They are not a life-changing impact on their careers. scheme, which helps students to find employment with local for information, advice and guidance services. As • attend a masterclass to see how the substitute for your CV, but they certainly small- and medium-sized companies, as well as public sector part of Information Systems Services, it has also most successful entrepreneurs run and add value to it. Many of our alumni choose to become organisations, giving you the chance to improve your skills received the Customer Service Excellence Award, grow their businesses ambassadors for the University. Wherever and career prospects. the Government’s customer service standard. • study entrepreneurship and Discovery – Student you are in the world, you can still help employability modules in subject areas Volunteering Swansea Swansea by setting up a local branch of Do you want to gain valuable the Association to enable old friends to Careers and Employability Service Keeping track of your development such as Childhood Studies, interpersonal, leadership, social, and keep in touch with each other. Equally, If you are undecided about what you want to do after university, {The Careers team works alongside our academic staff to Engineering, Management Studies, enterprise skills at the same time as you could help to promote the University don’t worry. Whether you are interested in jobs, postgraduate provide personal development planning for all students, ensuring and Modern Languages helping other people to fulfil their to prospective students in the UK, Europe study, voluntary work, or taking a year out, our trained advisers that your employability is continuously improved throughout your • enjoy a week-long Summer School potential? or internationally. For information about are on hand to give you the support and information you need. time at Swansea. programme that will help you develop our Alumni Association, please visit: enterprise skills such as business Discovery is a registered charity that has planning, finance, and business law been established for over 40 years. It has www.swansea.ac.uk/alumni hundreds of student volunteers who get As a student, you’ll also have access to involved with a wide range of projects Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), a across the City of Swansea. not-for-profit organisation active in over 1,500 universities in 47 countries. SIFE Discovery’s student-led initiatives bring Serious about your skills focuses on market economics, success new experiences and opportunities to skills, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, some of the region’s most disadvantaged environmental sustainability, and business groups, and help our students to ethics. Getting involved could give your appreciate and enhance their own career a real boost. And if you’ve got a personal development. For more great idea for a new venture, you can information, please visit: talk to us about our early stage funding and business planning support to help www.swansea.ac.uk/discovery graduates to establish their own business.
160 161 As more and more businesses Erasmus Mundus Master’s We have also developed a work We have sent hundreds of students Study Chinese – in China Building skills in India recruit from a global pool of talent, degrees placement scheme in India that builds abroad over recent years. They have had We offer students the opportunity to learn We’re also developing new projects to we’re finding new ways to help you Erasmus Mundus is the EU programme links with anumber of multinational life changing experiences which they are Mandarin Chinese alongside their help our students gain valuable study and that offers scholarships to allow students companies that have their offices in happy to share with you through their degree. If you choose to take the work experience in India. Our Study in stand out from the crowd, no matter to follow Master’s or Doctoral cities such as Bangalore, Mumbai, pictures, videos, and blogs. extracurricular language classes in India programme enables students to where in the world you’re from, programmes at two or more European and Hyderabad. Swansea, you may also have the chance experience life in India, combining and we encourage all our students universities, leading to the award of an Meet our student bloggers to spend up to four weeks in China lectures at a partner college with to take advantage of opportunities internationally recognised joint, double or Summer programmes Experience living during the summer, studying Chinese voluntary work at a rural development to gain experience of new countries multiple degree. Swansea University is a Swansea University has developed a and studying language and culture at one of our centre and with city-based charities. portfolio of summer programmes in in Swansea. and cultures. partner in two Erasmus Mundus Master’s partner universities. degree schemes, in Computational conjunction with overseas partners to suit For further information about any of Mechanics, and Journalism and Media every taste. Our summer programmes Even if you can’t commit to the China these opportunities, please contact the Studying and working abroad: http://studentblogs.swansea.ac.uk within Globalisation. offer students the opportunity to gain trip, we recommend that you sign up for International Development Office: • rewards you with an international valuable experience abroad during the Programmes and destinations vary year the language classes. China has a strong Tel: +44 (0)1792 602600 outlook that employers value www.swansea.ac.uk/international/ summer holidays on structured, on year. Some examples of recent influence on the global economy, so Email: [email protected] • helps you to gain confidence and opportunities/study-abroad/Erasmus educational and fun trips. These programmes are shown here. Please being able to speak the language will become more self-reliant programmes are suited to those students see the website for current details: boost your job prospects. • gives you the independence and Working abroad who are not able to go abroad as part of initiative that will give you the best You may be able to arrange your own their degree, or for those who prefer to www.swansea.ac.uk/ possible start to your career paid or voluntary work placement spend shorter periods away. summerprogrammes overseas. In principal, we are happy to We have teaching and research links support all opportunities to gain Current programmes include study, work with more than 100 partner universities international experience, but the and volunteer programmes in Africa, Where can I go? Australia France Netherlands Spain around the world, from Europe, Asia and placement will need to be approved by America, Asia and Europe. Swansea University has links with Austria Germany New Zealand Sweden Australasia, to North and South America. the year abroad coordinator for your more than one hundred partner Canada Hong Kong Norway Switzerland Many links have been established by course. Placements in most parts of universities and organisations individual Academic Colleges and Denmark Hungary Patagonia USA Europe may also be eligible for support around the world, including: Departments, so you should speak from the Erasmus programme. Finland Italy Portugal with your Department to discuss the opportunities that are available to you. { A full list of our partner universities is available at:
www.swansea.ac.uk/gofurther
Study and work abroad
Study or work abroad and add value to your CV. If you enjoy travelling and want to experience living in another culture, why not consider living and working abroad as part of your degree?
162 163 Be inspired
We believe that learning should be as enjoyable as it is stimulating and challenging.
This section will tell you about: • our commitment to excellence in learning and teaching • our approach to e-learning and using new technologies in the lecture theatre • our library and learning resources • the training programmes available through the Postgraduate Research Faculty
Benefiting from our world-class research Our academic staff are research-active, which helps to keep our teaching alive, relevant and up-to-date. Being taught by the people who have written key texts for your course can be particularly memorable and inspirational. It also means that you learn about new theories and technologies as they are being developed and put into practice.
164 Innovative learning and teaching Learning resources
We’re always looking for innovative We already use a wide range of handouts, and lecture notes, as well as You can be confident that you’ll get great service – There are over 1,800 PCs for student use at Swansea University. ways to add value to your learning methods and technologies, such as shared areas for group work, online we’re one of a small number of university libraries That’s a ratio of roughly one PC for every six students. experience by using best practice to scenario simulations, blogs, podcasts, discussions, and exchanging ideas with and ICT services in the UK to have achieved the vodcasts, and social networking, as your fellow students. Our student network gives you: enhance the quality of our teaching Customer Service Excellence award. well as delivering interactive lectures • free Internet access and giving you more opportunities using audience response systems Our Swansea Academy of Learning and The library is managed by Information Services and Systems • a personal email account and filestore to let us know what you think of known as “clickers”. Teaching was established in 2009 to who also manage the IT network that you will use throughout how you’re taught. provide the strategic advice and • access to the online library catalogue your time at Swansea, including the wireless network that covers You’ll also make regular use of our direction necessary to ensure that we • the opportunity to renew and reserve books on loan most buildings on the Singleton campus, and all our student Blackboard virtual learning environment, continue to offer an excellent learning • access to thousands of electronic journal articles accommodation (including Hendrefoelan and Beck House). which facilitates online learning and experience, and that we make the most • a facility to search networked information databases teaching. Through Blackboard, you’ll of emerging teaching technologies. The campus computer system is linked to the outside world via have access to course materials, • an easy way to keep in touch with tutors and other students the high-speed JANET network. In many respects, we’re at the • access to Virtual Learning Environment (BlackBoard) forefront of exploring the capability of such networks to deliver • easy access to administrative functionality including enrolment multimedia, video, and other technologies that are increasingly integral to modern teaching and learning practices. If you have your own laptop you can connect it to the University’s Library and Information Centre wireless network. We also have around 100 laptops available to loan. Located in the heart of the campus, our library We currently provide: For further information, please visit our website at: building contains a wide range of resources to • 450 PCs for you to use whenever the Library is open www.swansea.ac.uk/iss help you get the most out of your studies. • one-to-one support to connect your laptop or PC to our wireless network In addition to the longest opening hours of any university library • self-issue and self-return facilities to save you time in Wales – we’re open for over 110 hours a week during term • a range of silent and group study areas Welsh medium opportunities time, including Sundays, with 24-hour opening during exams • dedicated facilities for students with special needs and the Summer term – we have over 800,000 books, • in-depth advice and guidance from friendly and helpful staff journals, newspapers and other printed materials, as well • photocopiers, scanners, and printers as videos, DVDs and a wide range of software applications. • courses on how to make best use of our services Swansea University is proud to offer opportunities for Academi Hywel Teifi is the Centre which offers support to those and resources Welsh-speaking students and those who speak Welsh who study or research through the medium of Welsh at Swansea as a second language, to study all, or part of their University and provides information about the opportunities which are available. Academi Hywel Teifi is also home to the course through the medium of Welsh. At Swansea, Swansea Branch of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Postgraduate Research Skills Development Welsh-medium provision is available in the following subject areas: The Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol works in partnership with universities across Wales to enhance and extend opportunities • Bio-Sciences • Linguistics available for students to study through the medium of Welsh. Swansea University provides a wide range of Courses cover areas such as: • Business Studies • Mathematics interdisciplinary training courses focusing on • basic research training • French • Media Studies The Academi is also working to enhance student employability generic skills required by all research students. • career progression • German • Nursing by offering valuable work experience placements with We organise Postgraduate Research Inductions at • academic writing • Geography • Social Work companies who conduct their day-to-day business through • IT and computing skills • Engineering • Spanish least twice a year and short courses held over the the medium of Welsh. With more and more jobs requiring • Personal and interpersonal skills • History • Translation Studies Welsh-language skills, could you add value to your CV? whole of the academic year. • intellectual property rights • Law • Welsh • basic teaching skills If you are interested in studying some of your course through All students devise a personal training plan at the beginning of The level of provision varies with some subject areas offering a the medium of Welsh and would like more information, please their programme, to ensure that they receive specialised skills whole degree through the medium of Welsh, others a selection email: [email protected] development required to complete their programme of studies. of modules through the medium of Welsh and some offering tutorial groups in Welsh as part of an English-medium module.
166 167 Fees and Finance
The decision to continue into postgraduate study comes with a significant financial investment.
This section will tell you about: • what you’ll have to pay • our scholarships and bursaries • alternative funding sources • opportunities to earn while you study • the money advice, support, and contingency funds we provide
168 Tuition fees International students
Course fees are dictated by your year of study, the type of course you are undertaking and your country of domicile. We apply a ‘banding’ structure, based on the subject or research area, when calculating international fee costs. You will be charged the following fee if your core subject or research area falls within one of the following categories: The following tables sets out the current standard fee* schedule for all students undertaking postgraduate study at Swansea University. Band 1 Arts, Humanities, Business, Economics, Law, Mathematics (plus MA Childhood Studies) £10,300 Full-time study Part-time study Band 2 Computer Science, Geography, Human and Health Sciences, Sports Sciences £11,900 Research degrees £3,830 £1,920 Band 3 Science, Engineering, Medicine (non-clinical) £13,200 Master’s degrees £3,830 £1,280
10 credit module £210 n/a Certain specialist courses may be charged at a different level to those shown above, as below:
There are also several common exceptions to the standard fee, depending on your programme of study: College Course Name Tuition Fee
College Course Name Tuition Fee €8,000 MA European Journalism (Erasmus Mundus) Arts and (or €4,000 per semester) €4,000 MA European Journalism (Erasmus Mundus) Humanities (or €2,000 per semester) Certificate in English Language Taught for Adults (CELTA) £1,280 Arts and Humanities MA European Masters in Translation with £2,550 Language Technology (2-year programme) MBA £14,500
PG Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) £9,100 Certificate in English Language Taught for Adults (CELTA) £1,280 Business, MBA £14,500 Economics LPC – Graduates from Welsh universities (excluding Swansea/Swansea Met University) £8,500 and Law LPC - Swansea/Swansea Met University graduates MBA Executive (part-time, 2-year programme) £5,500 £8,400 Business, Economics and (and employed within the Legal Sector in Wales) PG Diploma in Legal Practice (LPC) £9,100 Law LPC – Swansea University GDL graduates £7,400 LPC – Graduates from Welsh universities £8,500 (excluding Swansea/Swansea Met University) €8,000 Engineering MSc Computational Mechanics (Erasmus Mundus) LPC - Swansea/Swansea Met University graduates € £8,400 (or 4,000 per semester) (and employed within the Legal Sector in Wales) MSc Trauma Surgery (part-time, 2-year programme) £6,510 €4,000 Engineering MSc Computational Mechanics (Erasmus Mundus) (or €2,000 per semester) Medicine MSc Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry £13,000
MSc Trauma Surgery (part-time, 2-year programme) £3,120 PG Diploma Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry £8,670
PG Diploma Trauma Surgery (part-time, 2-year programme) £2,080 If you would like more information on the fees payable for your particular programme, please contact the Student Records Unit on: MSc Trauma Surgery (Military pathway); £1,550 Tel: +44 (0)1792 602010 (part-time, 2-year programme) (with MOD) Medicine Email: [email protected] MSc Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry £5,120 Please note that you will be asked to pay your fees, or show evidence of sponsorship, at or before enrolment. PG Diploma Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry £3,420 If you are self-financing your studies, you may arrange to pay your fee in instalments. For details about how to pay PG Cert Applied Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry £2,020 your fees, please contact the Finance Department on: Tel: +44 (0)1792 295436 PG Cert Professional Education and Clinical Settings £1,280 Email: [email protected]
Human PG Cert Approved Mental Health Professional £3,980 and Health Science An introduction to Practice learning and Practice * All figures shown in the tables are the 2012 rates and are intended as a guide only. Tuition fees are subject to annual increases in line £430 Assessment module with inflation and the new rates will be published on our website at www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/money/TuitionFees as soon as they become available.
170 171 Alternative Funding Sources If you are an international student, you will need to obtain Scholarships and bursaries Many postgraduate students fund their studies through ‘portfolio a National Insurance number and may have to fulfil other funding’ in which they gather funds from a variety of sources. requirements. There is a range of funding sources which prospective students The University offers around 250 Swansea University Alumni College and Department are advised to explore. If you are a student from the new European Economic Area postgraduate scholarships and bursaries Postgraduate Bursary Scheme scholarships and bursaries member states, you will need to comply with the Worker with a total value of over £2.6 million**. The Postgraduate Bursary Scheme entitles Many of our Academic Colleges offer Professional and Career Development Loans Registration Scheme before you can work in the UK. Typically these include: Swansea University Alumni, including our additional scholarships and bursaries for Professional and Career Development Loans enable students to For further information, please email: most recent graduates, who wish to Master’s and research programmes – finance themselves on a course of study which is vocational in [email protected] Fully-funded PhD studentships further their studies at Postgraduate level around 200 were available last year. nature. They are available through a number of high street or visit our website at: These are available to students from the in Swansea, to a fixed fee reduction per banks, and further information is available at: www.swansea.ac.uk/careers/jobs/workwhileyoustudy UK and EU wishing to pursue full-time annum on tuition fees for the full duration The full range of awards available can www.direct.gov.uk/cdl research studies in selected subject areas. of studies. be found at: Charities, Foundations and Trusts Money advice and support Each studentship covers the UK home www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ There is a large number of charities, foundations and trusts, The Money Advice and Support Office provides guidance tuition fee and an annual maintenance Commonwealth Scholarship Postgraduate which award partial funding for postgraduate study. Full details on all areas of student funding, including: grant of around £13,590** per annum. Citizens from developing Commonwealth or follow us on Twitter for regular can be found in The Grants Register (published by Palgrave countries may apply for Master’s or PhD updates: twitter.com/SwanseaPostgrad • grants, loans, bursaries and benefits Macmillan) and The Directory of Grant Making Trusts published Master’s Scholarships programmes supported by a tuition fee • helping you to manage your money by the Charities Aid Foundation), both of which should be Available to students from the UK and EU contribution under the Commonwealth **2012 figures • supporting care leavers available in your University Careers Service and local library. wishing to pursue full- or part-time Scholarships scheme. For further details, • contingency funds Master’s or MRes programmes. Each please visit: • helping you to draw up a realistic budget Research Councils award is worth approximately £2,700** www.cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply • one-to-one appointments (and a daily “drop in” service) so Research Councils are public bodies that fund academic towards fees (pro-rata for part-time). you can discuss any money worries in confidence research within the UK. There are seven Research Councils, For full details, please contact the • debt counselling service that help you to sort out your finances and each offers studentships to support postgraduate study. International students International Development Office: Applications for funding should normally be made through the Support for care leavers The University offers a range of Tel: +44 (0)1792 602600 university department where you intend to study, and the We administer and deliver the Care Leavers Support Package, scholarships and bursaries for Email: [email protected] Admissions Tutor for your programme should be able to a comprehensive range of measures to help care leavers settle international students. or visit: provide further information on the funding available. in and focus on their studies. Our commitment to student support www.swansea.ac.uk/scholarships/ is recognised by the Frank Buttle Trust Quality Mark for Care International Development International The Research Councils: Office Scholarships Leavers in Higher Education. • Arts and Humanities Research Council (www.ahrc.ac.uk) Available to international students with • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Financial Contingency Fund strong academic ability who have (www.bbsrc.ac.uk) Where you can evidence that you have made adequate accepted an offer of a place at Swansea • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council provision to cover your tuition fees and living costs but have University, and who are in financial need. (www.epsrc.ac.uk) encountered unforeseen difficulties, you can apply for a grant • Economic and Social Research Council (www.esrc.ac.uk) from our Financial Contingency Fund. You can apply to the Fund • Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.uk) at any point during the academic year, including the summer • Natural Environment Research Council (www.nerc.ac.uk) vacation. An application must be received no later than two • Science and Technology Facilities Council (www.stfc.ac.uk) months before you complete your course. Eligibility to apply to the Fund does not guarantee assistance and you should not Note: Students resident in the European Union member states may therefore rely on these funds as a source of income. Did you know? be eligible to apply for financial support from the UK Research Councils and the University on the same basis as UK students. EU/International Crisis Fund A comprehensive guide to However, the awards will generally only cover the tuition fees. We have also established a small fund to provide emergency postgraduate funding can be assistance for EU/international students who face financial found on the Graduate British Council difficulties not anticipated at the start of the course, and not Prospects website at: Offers a range of scholarship schemes to support international within their control. www.prospects.ac.uk students studying in the UK. For further information, please visit: www.educationuk.org For further information and enquiries contact: Tel: +44 (0)1792 606699 Earn while you learn Email: [email protected] There are plenty of part-time jobs to be found in and around www.swansea.ac.uk/study/current/StudentSupportServices/ Swansea, and our Careers team publishes a wide range of MoneyAdviceandSupport opportunities for temporary and part-time work, as well as summer placements and internships. 172 173 Next steps
Seeing is believing – so why not come and take a closer look? Our Postgraduate Open Days will give you a feel for campus life and what you can expect from the Swansea experience.
You’ll have the opportunity to: • meet Admissions Tutors • tour academic departments and learn more about their courses • explore our friendly campus and meet some of our students • see how our Careers Centre will prepare you for life after study • take a look at our IT and library facilities • discuss any special requirements with the Disability Office • sample campus catering in our restaurants and cafés • see how our students live by visiting some of our residences
Our Open Days for 2013 entry are: Wednesday 14th November 2012 Wednesday 6th March 2013 {Tuesday 4th June 2013 Visit: www.swansea.ac.uk/opendays for more details or telephone: +44 (0)1792 295784. You will also have the opportunity to visit the University after you have applied – contact your academic department for further information about post-application visits
174 How to Apply
The quickest and most efficient way to Alternatively, please write to: You will receive either a conditional or Please note that formal offers are only If English is not your first language you Please note that all students are required apply for one of our postgraduate unconditional offer from us, or we will made by the University’s Admissions will need an acceptable pass in an to comply with the University’s enrolment programmes is to apply online. This way, The Central Applications Board inform you that we are unable to offer Officer, following recommendations from approved English Language qualification procedures and observe the University’s you can also track your application at PO Box 84 you a place. We will notify you of our the relevant academic department. Your to make sure that you get the full benefit General and Academic Regulations – see each stage of the process and print off a Guildford decision by letter (international applicants offer letter will contain full details of the from studying at Swansea. We consider www.swansea.ac.uk/registry for further copy of your decision letter. Visit: Surrey are sent a copy of their letter by email). terms and conditions of the offer. If you a wide range of other qualifications, information. www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline GU3 1YX Offer letters to candidates in the UK are are a candidate for full-time study, you including the Swansea University English sent by first class post. Airmail postage will also receive details of how to apply Test, the British Council IELTS test (with a Remember: Tel: +44 (0)1483 301282 However, if you prefer, you can times from the UK vary depending on for University accommodation. score of at least 6.5, although some • Apply online at: download a paper application form at: the country of destination. departments will accept an IELTS score of www.swansea.ac.uk/applyonline When we receive your application, our www.swansea.ac.uk/apply If you do not meet the precise conditions 6.0). A full list of acceptable English • We recommend applying before 31 July Admissions Tutors will: or request an application pack by post: Taught Master’s applications: Once we of our offer, your application may be Language tests can be found at • make sure that you meet our entry have received all the necessary reconsidered in light of available www.swansea.ac.uk/admissions/ Contact us at: Postgraduate Admissions Office requirements, as well as any other supporting documentation, we aim to vacancies, and it may still be possible acceptableenglishlanguagetests Email: postgraduateadmissions@ Swansea University medical and non-academic notify you of our decision (or issue an to confirm your place. swansea.ac.uk Singleton Park requirements invitation for interview) within 10 working You may also like to know that the Tel: +44 (0)1792 295358 Swansea If your application is unsuccessful, and you • check that you have the experience days from the date we acknowledge University has its own English Language There’s more information at SA2 8PP think we’ve got it wrong, you can ask us and skills necessary to study the subject receipt of your application. Training Service – visit: www.swansea. www.swansea.ac.uk to reconsider your application. Contact the ac.uk/elts for further information. • look for evidence of your commitment Tel: +44 (0)1792 295358 Research degree applications: we aim to Admissions Office for further details. Our Admissions Policy Fax: +44 (0)1792 295110 and motivation, and pay attention to make a decision within 4 to 6 weeks, Dates and deadlines The University welcomes applications and Email: postgraduate.admissions@ your achievements What do you need? depending on the additional information Some of our departments have fixed enquiries from all people regardless of swansea.ac.uk • take into account your reference and To study a postgraduate programme at we require (for example, further details of closing dates for their taught programmes age, race, ethnic or national origin, any assessments from educational Swansea you will normally need an your research proposal). and/or research degrees. Please see the religious or political beliefs, gender, A Welsh language application form is psychologists or medical practitioners appropriate Honours degree or higher individual course entries for further sexual preference, marital status, family available on request. Interviews: degree from a British university, or an • make sure that any resources and information. We recommend that you responsibility, and physical or sensory The majority of programmes do not equivalent qualification. Please see the learning opportunities you may require submit your application as early as disability, unless these activities are Some Colleges have fixed closing dates require an interview as part of the course listings for full entry requirements. are available possible, and preferably before 31 July unlawful or contrary to University policy. for their Masters’ courses and/or selection process. If an interview is in the year you wish to start your studies. research degrees – see individual course Notes for international students We will acknowledge receipt of your required, the purpose and format will be The University treats all applicants on listings for details. Applicants for other We welcome applications by prospective application via email (online applications) communicated to you by the College so Enrolment their individual merits and welcomes courses are encouraged to apply by students from around the world, and we or by letter (paper applications) within you know what to expect and what role Information about the enrolment process applications from candidates with a 31 July to ensure that vacancies are still are happy to advise you on whether your two working days. this plays in the overall selection process. will be sent to you in advance of the start range of qualifications. available. Enrolment for taught Masters’ qualifications are suitable for entry to the of your studies. Enrolment for taught courses usually takes place in late If you have a disability, medical A few Masters’ courses (specifically in the course you would like to study. Please programmes usually takes place in late September. Enrolment for research condition, or a specific learning difficulty, Department of English Language and email us at: [email protected] September; and in late September, April degrees takes place in late September, we may ask the University’s Disability Literature) require candidates to provide for further details. and July for research degrees. January, April and July. Officer or Director for Occupational additional written work to supplement an Health to interview you so we can be application. Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice sure that we are able to give you the (LPC): applications should be made via THINGS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW support you need throughout your studies. Remember: we’re interested in people the Central Admissions Board (CAB). who will seize the opportunity to gain new This prospectus is printed on paper made from pulp produced from sustainable sources using vegetable-based inks. Further details and application forms are Following consideration by Admissions skills and knowledge, and who will benefit The information we’ve published in this prospectus is intended as a guide for prospective students thinking about studying at Swansea University in available at: www.lawcabs.ac.uk Tutors in the Academic Colleges, you will most from the Swansea experience. We’re 2013. It does not form part of any contract, and we have made every effort to ensure that everything we have included is accurate and up-to-date at the be informed whether: also interested in people who will add time of going to print. 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178 179 Useful phone numbers and contact details: Travelling distance to Swansea (in miles) By rail to Swansea
University – general Bus and Coach enquiries Swansea Tourist Information Centre Aberystwyth 73 Leeds 227 Birmingham 3hrs 15mins Tel: +44 (0)1792 205678 Tel: +44 (0)8705 808080 Tel: +44 (0)1792 468321 Bangor 160 Liverpool 168 Bristol 2hrs Fax: +44 (0)1792 295048 www.nationalexpress.com Email: [email protected] Birmingham 126 London 203 Cardiff 55mins Email: [email protected] www.firstcymru.co.uk www.swansea.gov.uk/tourism Bristol 85 Manchester 187 Liverpool 4hrs 40mins www.swansea.ac.uk Traveline University Disability Office Cardiff 40 Newcastle 319 London 3hrs Rail services Tel: +44 (0)8706 082608 Tel: +44 (0)1792 513000 Edinburgh 383 Sheffield 200 Manchester 4hrs 30mins www.traveline.org.uk Tel: +44 (0)8457 484950 Minicom/text: +44 (0)1792 513100 Glasgow 426 Southampton 160 www.nationalrail.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)1792 513200 Email: [email protected] www.swansea.ac.uk/study/current/ StudentSupportServices/DisabilityOffice
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180 181 History Your Alumni
twitter.com/Swansea_Alumni and heritage Association SwanseaUniversiyAlumniAssociation A brief history
The University’s foundation stone was By 1960 a large-scale development institution of international calibre. Swansea University’s Alumni doors may be opened in the UK • Renee Godfrey, champion surfer, laid by King George V on 19 July programme was underway that would Technium Digital opened in 2005 and, Association ensures that you can stay or overseas as a result of the television presenter 1920 and 89 students (including see the construction of new halls of barely two years later, the University closely connected to the University long relationships forged through being • Sylvia Heal MP, Deputy Speaker of 8 female students) enrolled that same residence, the Maths and Science opened its Institute of Life Science, after the applause of your graduation alumni of Swansea University. the House of Commons (2000-10) year. In 1921, Dr Mary Williams Tower, and College House (later which commercialises the ceremony has faded. All our graduates • Andy Hopper CBE FRS, co-founder became the first woman to be renamed Fulton House). Work began results of research undertaken in the automatically become life members Through the Alumni Association, of Acorn Computers Ltd appointed to a Chair at a UK on the student village at Hendrefoelan School of Medicine. Work commenced of the Association, a warm, welcoming you can keep up-to-date with the university when she became Professor in 1971, the South Wales Miners’ on a second Institute of Life Science community of graduates united by their latest University news, services, • Rob Howley, Wales and British Lions of French language and literature. Library was established in 1973 in 2009. December 2011 saw experiences of studying in Swansea. and merchandise, attend reunions, rugby union international By September 1939, there were and the Taliesin Arts Centre opened the opening of ILS Phase Two, a and keep in touch with your friends • Liz Johnson, Paralympic gold 65 staff and 485 students. on campus in 1984. state-of-the-art centre for conducting The Association is a vibrant network using the online Buddy Board. medal-winning swimmer pioneering medical research. of 55,000 active members who are • Alun-Wyn Jones, Wales and British In 1947 there were just two permanent The Regional Schools of Nursing working at every level in industry, It’s all free of charge – visit: Lions rugby union international buildings on campus: Singleton Abbey transferred to Swansea in 1992, and Swansea University is now enjoying commerce, sport and the public sector. www.swansea.ac.uk/alumni for further • Simon Jones, Worcestershire and the library. The Principal, the School of Medicine opened in a period of sustained research-led They are heading divisions of details. You’ll be in good company. and England cricketer J S Fulton, recognised the need to 2001, marking a significant increase growth, and continues to work for multinational companies, but they expand the estate and had a vision in Wales’ capacity to train doctors the benefit of the city, its people and are just as likely to be managing the Our alumni include: • Sir Terry Matthews OBE, Wales’ first billionaire of a self-contained community, with and undertake innovative research. industries. Further information about our smaller, entrepreneurial businesses • Annabelle Apsion, actress residential, social and academic history and heritage can be found on that drive the economy, or delivering • Jason Mohammad, television presenter • Liam Dutton, Channel 4 facilities on a single site. His vision In 2003, the University set out our website at www.swansea.ac.uk/ healthcare in hospitals, or teaching weather presenter • Colin Pillinger CBE, planetary scientist was to become the first university objectives designed to secure its university/AboutUs in schools.There is also a growing • Penny Roberts, former BBC campus in the UK. long-term future as a research-led community of international alumni, • Richey Edwards and Nicky Wire, Chief Reporter meaning that you will find like-minded musicians, Manic Street Preachers friends and colleagues wherever you are • Dr Lyn Evans CBE, Project Leader, • Urien Wiliam, Welsh language in the world. Make the most of this Large Hadron Collider, CERN novelist and playwright network. You never know what • Hywel Francis MP
Mathematics and The University receives Physics building its Royal Charter; King Coat of arms The library, designed (Vivian Tower) and University College of George V lays the granted by by Vernon Owen Kinglsey Amis writes First campus halls College House Swansea becomes Richard Burton £50 million foundation stone the College Rees, is opened by Lucky Jim whilst of residence (Fulton House) Taliesin Theatre University of Wales collection comes Institute of Life Swansea celebrates at Singleton Abbey of Heralds the Duke of Kent lecturing at Swansea opened opened opens on campus Swansea to Swansea Science opens its 90th anniversary 1920 1921 1937 1954 1961 1965 1984 1996 2005 2007 2010
1921 1925 1948 1962 1967 1971 1985 2001 2006 2007 2011 Professor Mary Beck Hall opened J S Fulton outlines his vision of a The University Professor Olek Zienkiewicz Work starts on a Former Prime Minister, Establishment of University’s own Swansea University £28.8 million Williams becomes as the first hall of “complete university community”, receives its first revolutionises engineering new student village Lord Callaghan, the School of degree-awarding gains independence from Institute of Life the first woman in the residence paving the way for Swansea to become digital computer, with the publication of ‘The at Hendrefoelan appointed President Medicine (initially powers granted the University of Wales Science Phase UK to be appointed the first campus university in the UK an IBM1620 Finite Element Method for a clinical school) Two opens to a university chair Solid and Structural Mechanics’
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