Doctoral College for Students
Welcome to Doctoral Study at UWTSD
The Doctoral College at UWTSD works to celebrate and promote our diverse and dynamic PGR students. We are home to a range of programmes and different doctoral routes but all with the same goal of developing excellent researchers able to make a significant contribution to knowledge in their chosen discipline or professional practice. Our students come to us at all stages of their professional lives from their first work roles to being senior leaders from a variety of sectors based around the globe. Some of our students will have only a short time at our campuses before returning to their home to work whilst others will have the opportunity for more residential programmes. Whatever route you take we want to ensure that you have access to the research environment that will really foster your development.
Support and Training
Support we Offer
The UWTSD Doctoral College is here to support you at every stage of the process. We work with a number of services across the university to offer PGR specific support for all our students, including the Careers Service, Student Support, Library and Learning Resources, and the International Office. Below are just some of the ways we support prospective and current students:
- Support for all applicants for PGR study
- Induction event for all new students
- Training events throughout the year
- Social and networking events
- Annual student conference and summer school
- Online community platform full of guidance, information and opportunities specially for our PGR students
- PGR specific grant for participating in conferences
Training and Events
As part of our work within UWTSD, the Doctoral College offer training and events throughout the year. Working with academic and professional staff from across the University, we have developed a suite of training sessions in line with the Vitae Researcher Development Framework. These sessions ensure all our PGR students have access to quality training designed to support research skills, professional abilities and develop independent and confident researchers.
Examples of recent training sessions include:
- Research planning and data management
- Completing the Ethics application
- Guide to thesis submission
- Preparing for your viva
- Research methods
- Specialist software training, including SPSS, NVivo and Qualtrics.
How to Apply
Ready to start your doctoral journey with us? Take a look at our Follow these links how to apply, institute research pages, course fees, open days and for the online application form (PhD and MPhil applications only) for all the information you need.
Research Opportunities
Established in 1822, Lampeter has a distinguished research tradition, which not only has a global perspective but also attends to contemporary concerns through research in theology and religious studies, history, classics, archaeology, anthropology, and philosophy.
Research and Innovation are well established within UWTSD’s Wales Institute of Science and Art. Academics in the Institute are research active with many artists, designers and critical thinkers recognised as being at the cutting edge of their fields.
Our research is cross-disciplinary, and covers a broad scope of work in Automotive Engineering, Logistics and Manufacturing Engineering, and Applied Computing.
The Psychology department at UWTSD has a strong and exciting research profile in areas of applied and experimental psychology.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies was established by the University of Wales in 1985 as a dedicated research centre conducting team-based projects on the languages, literatures, culture and history of Wales and the other Celtic countries.
