Swansea University () is a

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located in

Swansea Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of ...

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, United Kingdom. It was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the

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. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes within the University of Wales. The title of Swansea University was formally adopted on 1 September 2007 when the University of Wales became a non-membership confederal institution and the former members became universities in their own right. Swansea University has three faculties across its two campuses which are located on the coastline of

Swansea Bay Swansea Bay () is a bay on the southern coast of Wales. The River Neath, River Tawe, River Afan, River Kenfig and Clyne River flow into the bay. Swansea Bay and the upper reaches of the Bristol Channel experience a large tidal range. The sh ...

. The Singleton Park Campus is set in the grounds of

Singleton Park Singleton Park () is the largest urban park in the city of Swansea. It is located in Sketty and is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. The park encompasses 250 acres. An ornamental ga ...

to the west of Swansea city centre. The £450 million Bay Campus, which opened in September 2015, is located next to Jersey Marine Beach to the east of Swansea in the

Neath Port Talbot Neath Port Talbot () is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. Its principal towns are Neath, Port Talbot, Briton Ferry and Pontardawe. The county borough borders Bridgend County Borough and Rhon ...

area. The annual income of the institution for 2022–23 was £412.3 million of which £67.1 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £348 million. It is the third largest university in Wales in terms of number of students. It offers about 450 undergraduate courses, 280 postgraduate taught and 150 postgraduate research courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

History

Foundations

The University College, Swansea, (as it was known then), was established in 1920, opening its doors on 5 October. At the time, it was the youngest of the four colleges of the University of Wales. It was established on the recommendations of a Royal Commission set up in 1916. The college was founded on what were perceived as the needs and the wants of the local area, and Swansea's main industries in particular.

The Park Campus houses the oldest parts of the university's estate, including

Singleton Abbey Singleton Abbey () is a large, mainly 19th-century mansion in Swansea, Wales. Today, the buildings are used to house administration offices for Swansea University. They can be found at the eastern end of the Swansea University Singleton Park ca ...

, a large eighteenth-century mansion which was the ancestral home of the

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, having been bought by the prominent industrialist,

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. Swansea University's foundation stone was laid by

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in July 1920, welcoming 89 students, of whom eight were female. Subjects taught from the beginning of the college were the sciences, mathematics, metallurgy and engineering. The professors were A.R. Richardson (mathematics), E.J. Evans (physics), J.E. Coates (chemistry), A.E. Trueman (geology), C.A. Edwards (metallurgy) and F. Bacon (engineering). The university was granted a coat of arms by the

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in 1921 with the motto ''Gweddw Crefft Heb Ei Dawn'', translated as 'technical skill is bereft without culture.' Arts subjects were not taught immediately in 1920, but started in the following 'session', 1921–22. The first professors in those initial departments were

David Emrys Evans Sir David Emrys Evans (29 March 1891 – 20 February 1966) was a Welsh classicist and university principal. Life Evans, from Clydach, Glamorgan, was educated at Ystalyfera County School, before going on to University College, Bangor, a ...

(Classics), W.D. Thomas (English language and literature), Henry Lewis (Welsh), E. Ernest Hughes (History), F.A. Cavenagh (education) and Mary Williams (French). Williams was the first woman to be appointed to a chair in the United Kingdom. This met with some reaction from senior men at the college, one of whom she would later marry.

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, the well-known Welsh language writer and activist, became a member of staff in 1922 although he ran up against controversy in 1936/37 for trying to set fire to a

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bombing school on the

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. He was tried at the

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and sent to prison for nine months. When Singleton Abbey and its surrounding land was handed to the college in 1923, arts subjects were moved there from the college's temporary site in Mount Pleasant. Student numbers remained relatively small until the Second World War. Swansea acquired departments of philosophy in 1925, German in 1931, economics in 1937, social policy in 1947, political theory and government in 1954 – the same year that a civil engineering and a geography department were added. In 1961 Swansea became a centre for Russian and East European studies, while Italian and Spanish joined the Department of French. There were many notable staff members at the university in the period, including the long-serving female professor of botany, Florence Mockeridge. Another was Glanmor Williams (history) who retired in 1982. Other well-known staff members were the author of novels such as ''

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'' and '' That Uncertain Feeling'',

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, who lectured in English in the 1950s and early 1960s;

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, who was a member of staff from 1940 to 1966, an expert on philosophy of

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; and Kenneth O. Morgan (now Lord Morgan of Aberdyfi) who was a junior history lecturer from 1958 to 1966.

Post-war campus development

In 1947, John Fulton, the university principal, had designs on creating the UK's first self-contained university campus. Located in the vast expanse of Singleton Park, the university only had 2 permanent buildings; Singleton Abbey and the library. The 1960s saw the university embark on a large campus development programme, aiming to fulfill Fulton's plan of becoming a self-contained community within the city. Along with new halls of residence, a Maths and Science Tower was built, with College House – later renamed Fulton House.

Campus

For most of its history, Swansea University operated exclusively from the

Campus. However, owing to rapid expansion, the university developed a 65-acre, £450 million beachfront science and innovation Bay Campus which opened in September 2015. Since then, Swansea University has operated as a dual-campus university with the 'Park Campus' located in its traditional Singleton Park grounds, and the Bay Campus, at Crymlyn Burrows. The Bay campus has been developed on a 65-acre beachfront site between Fabian Way and Jersey Marine beach at Crymlyn Burrows. It houses much of the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the School of Management, a Great Hall seating 800, a library offering views over a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and student accommodation, as well as several research institutes. Aerial drone 360 views of Swansea university campus contracted by Swansea University in 202
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Sports

Swansea Bay Sports Park facilities include, five minutes' walk from the Singleton Park Campus, the 50-metre Wales National Pool Swansea, eight-lane outdoor athletics track, six-lane indoor track and training centre, floodlit playing fields including rugby, football, lacrosse and cricket pitches, artificial hockey pitches, a sports hall, tennis and squash courts, a climbing wall and spin room. Facilities at the Bay Campus include a sports hall, multi-use games area, and gym. The University also owns training pitches in the north of the city, in Fairwood, which it has developed alongside

Swansea City A.F.C. Swansea City Association Football Club ( ; ) is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales. It competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Swansea have played their home matches at ...

During the

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, the university hosted the training camps for the Mexican and New Zealand paralympic teams and the Ireland triathlon team. In 2014, it hosted the

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. Furthermore, in 2015 it hosted the training camps of the

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and the

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in preparation for the

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. Sports science at the university ranks 13th in the Complete University Guide Sports Science Rankings 2023. The department has links with

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and

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. Former scholars include Wales rugby union player

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, Olympic swimmer Georgia Davies, Paralympian swimmer Liz Johnson and Paralympian

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player David Smith. Swansea is in the top quarter of the British University's sporting leagues. It competes with Cardiff University in the Welsh Varsity tournament, the largest student sports event in Wales. This includes

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and the showcase rugby union varsity match which attracted 16,000 students to Swansea's

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in 2015.

Wales National Pool

The

Wales National Pool The Wales National Pool () is a 50-metre swimming pool in the Sketty area of Swansea, Wales. The main pool is 50 m long and 21 m wide, which does not meet the FINA definition of an Olympic size pool. History The £11m pool opened in 2003 follo ...

, next to the Singleton Park Campus, is a 50-metre pool built to

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standards. The facility, which also has a 25m × 9.5m training pool and 1,200 spectator seats, is HQ of Swim Wales. The pool, one of five of

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was built with funding from

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, Swansea Council and Swansea University. It is home to the Swim Wales National Performance Centre, a hub for elite and performance swimming in Wales. This has included disability swimming under renowned coach Billy Pye who has trained several Paralympians in Swansea, including

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and Liz Johnson. University sports science researchers provide back-up to the hub. The centre is also home to Swansea University Swimming and City of Swansea Aquatics.

Museum of Egyptian Antiquities (The Egypt Centre)

Located in the Taliesin building, the Egypt Centre is open to the public. More than 7,000 items are in its collection. Most were collected by the pharmacist and entrepreneur Sir

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. Others came from the British Museum, the Royal Edinburgh Museum, National Museums and Galleries of Wales Cardiff, the Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, and private donors. Staff lecture museum groups and other outside bodies on volunteering, social inclusion and how to widen community participation with university museums. School parties regularly visit for interactive events.

Organisation and administration

Governance

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Swansea received its

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in 1920 and like many universities is governed by its

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that is set out in its

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and a

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. The governing body of Swansea University is its Council, which is supported by the Senate and the Court. * The Council consists of 29 members including the Chancellor, Pro-chancellors, Vice-chancellor, Treasurer, Pro-vice-chancellors, staff and student members, city council representation and a majority of lay members. The council is responsible for all of the University's activities and has a well-developed committee structure to help discharge its powers and duties. * The Senate is the main academic body of the university and is responsible for teaching and research. Most of its 200 members are academics but it also includes representatives of the Students' Union and the

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. The Senate is chaired by the Vice-Chancellor, who is the head of the university both academically and administratively. * The Court consists of more than 300 members representing stakeholders from local to national institutions. It meets annually to discuss the university's annual report, its financial statements and issues in

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. List of vice-chancellors Principal * 1920 to 1926: Franklin Sibly; first principal * 1927 to 1947: C. A. Edwards * 1947 to 1959: John Fulton * 1960 to 1965: J. H. Parry * 1965 to 1974: Frank Llewellyn Jones * 1974 to 1982: Robert Walter Steel * 1982 to 1994 Brian Clarkson Vice-Chancellor * 1994 to 2003:

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* 2003 to 2019: Richard B. Davies * ''2019 onward'':

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Faculties and Schools

Swansea University's academic departments are organised into three faculties, which include a total of eleven schools:

Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Culture and Communication

The school offers courses in American studies; classics, ancient history, and Egyptology; English language, teaching English as a second or foreign language, and applied linguistics; English literature and creative writing; film and visual culture; history; media, communications, journalism, and public relations; modern languages, translation, and interpreting; and Welsh. In spring 2006, M Wynn Thomas and Dai Smith established the Library of Wales series as an offshoot of the school which has influenced Welsh Government policy to benefit the creative industries, cultural tourism and education.

School of Management

The School of Management is a leading UK provider of management, finance and accounting education, with 100% of its research rated internationally excellent or world-leading in the 2021

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. In 2015, the school relocated to the University's Bay Campus and is home to over 2,000 students, 150 members of staff and a range of industry partners, including The Bevan Commission, Fujitsu, Greenaway Scott, and AgorIP. The School of Management provides a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, including accounting and finance, business management, economics, tourism, and marketing. The school ranks in the UK top 30 for business and economics graduate prospects, and top 10 for accounting and finance. Alongside teaching, the school also houses various research centres including The Centre for Visitor Economy Research (CVER), Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC), The Hawkes Centre for Empirical Finance, Swansea iLab, Welsh Economy Labour Markets Evaluation Research Centre (WELMERC), The Bevan Commission, The Centre for Health and Environmental Management Research and Innovation (CHEMRI), Centre for People and Organisation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law

The

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School of Law is the largest

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in Wales and ranks third in the UK for criminology and 22nd in the UK for law (The Times Good University Guide 2019). Swansea University opened its School of Law in 1994, in order to complement its departments in engineering, the sciences, and arts and humanities. Known previously as the College of Law and Criminology, the school's name changed on 14 October 2017, as part of a ceremony including the conferment of an honorary doctorate on

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. The school is situated at the Singleton Campus. Plans to move to purpose-built premises on the university's Bay Campus were shelved in the wake of an internal and police investigation into alleged wrongdoing involving the senior staff. This new development was to house commercial law firms, technology companies, national and international agencies, along with the academics and students of the School. Teaching at the School of Law comprises undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses. Undergraduate programmes include qualifying law degrees and joint honours programmes. Criminology courses moved to be part of the School of Social Sciences when the move to a Faculty structure took place. Postgraduate law programmes include LLMs in shipping and trade, human rights, legaltech and MA in cyber crime and terrorism and research degrees. Professional courses on offer include LLM law and legal practice (replacing the Graduate Diploma in Law), the Legal Practice Course and related LLM legal practice and advanced drafting, and LLM professional legal practice. Students are taught in lectures, discussion groups and interactive seminars by academics with extensive industry experience. In the

2021, 87.5% of its research environment was rated internationally excellent and 78% of its research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. This research encompasses the school's numerous research centres including the Centre for Criminal Justice and Criminology, Cyber Threats Research Centre, The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, the Observatory on Human Rights of Children, and the Governance and Human Rights Research Group.

School of Social Sciences

The school offers courses in Criminology; Sociology and Social Policy, Economics, Education and Childhood Studies, and Politics, Philosophy and International Relations. The School of Social Sciences through its politics course plays a leading role in the Welsh Economy Labour Markets Evaluation Research Centre (WELMERC), established in 2002 to research economic data related to Wales

Medicine, Health and Life Science

Swansea University Medical School

Swansea University Medical School Swansea University Medical School is a Medical school in the United Kingdom, medical school on Swansea University's Singleton campus. It is linked to additional teaching centres located throughout South and West Wales, including Cefn Coed Hospi ...

is ranked fourth in the UK according to the Guardian University Guide 2022. In the 2014 and 2021

its research impact was considered outstanding in terms of reach and significance. Established in 2004, the Medical School works closely with government, industry and the NHS, in particular Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, over teaching, research and innovation. It also has two Institute of Life Science research centres, equipped with clinical trials, medical imaging, research and business development facilities and a Centre for NanoHealth. Its research highlights include DNA damage and the safety of nanomaterials, the control of fungal diseases, children and young people's mental health, avoiding unnecessary medical interventions, and cholesterol in human health and disease.

School of Psychology

School of Health and Social Care

Swansea University's School of Health and Social Care offers courses in health and social care, healthcare science, nursing and midwifery, occupational therapy, osteopathy, operating department practice, paramedic science, and social work. It ranks fourth in the UK for Health Studies in the Complete University Guide 2023 and in the top ten for Nursing in The Guardian University Guide 2022. Research centres include: the Centre for Global Burns Injury Policy and Research; Centre for Innovative Ageing; Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translational Research; Swansea Centre for Health Economics; Swansea Centre for Improvement and Innovation; Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP).

Science and Engineering

School of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering

School of Mathematics and Computer Science

The School of Mathematics and Computer Science at Swansea University is located at the Computational Foundry on the Bay Campus, which is situated along the beachfront. This £32.5 million facility offers teaching and research amenities. Technocamps is a pan-Wales school and community outreach unit, founded in 2003 by the employees of the Computer Science Department at Swansea University. It aims to address gaps in digital education throughout Wales. Over the years, Technocamps hubs were established in every university throughout Wales.

School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Engineering Swansea University College of Engineering

Engineering has been studied at Swansea University since its beginning in 1920, and the engineering departments are now based in two schools on the Bay Campus - the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering. In the 2021

Engineering at Swansea University rated a 100% world-leading and internationally excellent research environment. Research centres in the schools include: Zienkiewicz Institute for Modelling, Data and AI; Materials Research Centre (MRC); Systems and Process Engineering Centre (SPEC); Future Manufacturing Research Institute (FMRI); Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre (A-STEM).

Research

Swansea is a research-led university, ranking 48th in the UK in the 2021

(REF). The university submitted the work of a record number of researchers (578) for assessment to REF2021, a 56% increase on the 370 submitted in 2014. It meant a growth in the university's overall proportion of world-leading and internationally excellent research from 80% in 2014 to 86% in 2021. Almost a third (32%) of its outputs were rated 4* world-leading (up from 21% in 2014), and 91% of its research environment is rated 4* world-leading or 3* internationally excellent, with 86% of its research judged outstanding and very considerable in terms of impact - reach and significance. Medicine and Life Science continue to be ranked in the UK top five overall at 4th in Allied Health Professions (UOA3), and Mathematics is ranked joint 16th in the UK and is joint top for impact, with 100% rated as outstanding. Geography is ranked 20th in the UK, climbing 11 places with 90% 4* world-leading or 3* internationally excellent research. A third of the university's units of assessment rated 100% for their outstanding and very considerable impact.

Selected research centres and institutes

* Centre for Nanohealth * Research Institute for Arts and Humanities – which includes the Global Drug Policy Observatory * Institute of Life Sciences * Research Institute for Applied Social Sciences * Welsh Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience * SPECIFIC * CSAR * Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI)

Academic profile

Rankings and reputation

The university is listed as one of the top 500 universities in the

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. Swansea is ranked 26th in the Guardian 2024 University guide. Swansea University's best ranked departments include

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and Mathematics, ranked 4th and 16th respectively in the 2021

. The Law Department also ranks highly, coming in at 22nd in the Times Good University Guide 2019 in the UK, as well as in the 151–200 category in QS World Rankings. Overall, Swansea University is ranked 48th in the 2021

. National Student Survey results (for 2021) rank Swansea 12th in the UK for "overall satisfaction", with 82% saying they are satisfied with their course overall. The survey ranked Swansea number one for Archaeology; Biology (non-specific); English Language; and Others in Business and Management. Swansea University is top in Wales in the 2023 Guardian University Guide and in the 2022 Student Crowd university rankings, which places it 15th in the UK.

International partnerships

In recent years, Swansea University has established many partnerships with leading universities in Europe, North America, Africa and Asia. Swansea University has a strategic partnership with Wuhan Union Hospital in

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. The hospital was founded by Swansea missionary Reverend Doctor

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. As a result of this partnership, in 2015, the College of Medicine hosted the 2nd UK-China Medical Forum at

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. Swansea University has also established a joint medical centre at the Wuhan Union Hospital to engage in clinical collaboration. In 2020, the partnership enabled health experts from across Wales to learn from some of the first medics to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. in 2013, Swansea University established a partnership with

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and

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. The universities collaborate on research as well as exchange visits by academics and students. Since then, the partnership has expanded to include six more partner institutions in Texas:

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, Houston Methodist Research Institute, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and

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at Galveston. In 2012, Swansea University established a partnership with the

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with the aim of beginning joint degree programmes, collaborative bids for European funding and student and staff exchanges particularly in the subject areas of Medicine, Computer Science and Engineering. This partnership has now grown to involve a community of universities and research organisations in the Rhone‐Alpes region of France with a combined student population of over 65,000. The partnership involves research collaboration, staff and student exchanges, and sharing facilities and best practice. In 2007, the university set up a programme along with the local

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, to establish a partnership with the School of Medicine at the

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. The purpose of this partnership is to improve health care outcomes as well as collaborate on clinical care, health service delivery, teaching and research. This programme also provides opportunity for local doctors and medical students to pursue a placement in either the Gambia or Swansea Bay. In December 2014, this programme was awarded a

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Gold Star for its contribution to the improvement of Gambian health outcomes. Swansea University collaborates with Navitas with International College Wales Swansea to provide foundation, 1st year degree and Pre-Masters programmes on campus. In 2021, Swansea University launched a Sports and Exercise Science partnership with the

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and Swansea also offers a dual degree programme with

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. Since its inception in 2016, Swansea University has been a member of the Jiangsu–UK 20+20 World-Class University Consortium, involving more than 30 universities from the UK and

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Province in China.

Student life

Swansea University Students' Union (Welsh: ''Undeb Myfyrwyr Prifysgol Abertawe'') is the students' union for Swansea University. Known as the SU, it supports more than 170 student clubs including

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, Chinese, Hellenic and Indian societies, among others. The Union runs student bars and nightclubs, a travel shop offering trips around the UK and Europe, a radio station, nursery, launderette and shops. Profits are reinvested into improving the student experience, including supporting students through its advice and support centre. Services include money advice and support office, student counselling, a health centre, dentist, chaplains, an academic success programme, specialist tuition and residential services.

Sports

Sport Swansea offers more than 50 sports clubs and has over 5000 active members, covering sports ranging from rugby and aikido, dodgeball, and hockey to tae kwon do. Swansea and

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compete in an annual varsity competition, known as the Welsh version of the

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event, which includes the

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rugby match and

. Most of Swansea University's individual and team training takes place at the Swansea Bay Sports Park off campus on Sketty Lane. In the same complex as the

, the Sports Village is home to outdoor football and rugby pitches, a running track, an indoor athletics centre, hockey pitches, racquet courts and a gym, which is open to both students and the general public. Several sports clubs also use facilities on the Bay Campus.

Student media

Xtreme Radio is the radio station of the University, run by students. It was founded in November 1968 as Action Radio, making it the third oldest student radio station in the UK and oldest in Wales. It broadcasts to various areas around campus and is available worldwide on the internet. The station plays a wide variety of music, as well as having a number of specialist programmes including talk and sports shows. The Students' Union also runs the Waterfront news service and SUTV television.

Student accommodation

Swansea University provides approximately 3200 places in University halls across its two campuses, as well as some 1300 in the purpose-built Hendrefoilan Student Village, with 686 places, and more in off-campus residences at Beck House. Hendrefoilan Student Village will be closing in June 2023. There are also a number of university managed properties in the Uplands and Brynmill areas of the city.

Hendrefoilan Student Village

The Hendrefoilan estate was 2.5 miles from the Singleton Park campus, just off the main Swansea to Gower road, set amongst mature woodland with open grassy areas. The student village has since closed and been redeveloped into a housing estate.

Bay Campus halls

Bay Campus has 2000 rooms in a mix of twin, en-suite, premium en-suite and wheelchair accessible rooms, as well as 1 & 2-bed flats for singles or couples. They also have Welsh Language flats on site.

Singleton Campus halls

There are nine halls that make up the campus residences providing accommodation to around 1182 students. The halls offer a combination of part and self-catered rooms and a choice of standard or ensuite study rooms. Three of these halls (Caswell, Langland and Oxwich) were completed in 2004 and the original halls (Kilvey, Preseli, Rhossili and Cefn Bryn, formerly known as Sibly, Lewis Jones, Mary Williams Annexe and Mary Williams respectively) have undergone some refurbishment in recent years. Penmaen and Horton are the newest addition to the campus residences providing 351 self-catered, ensuite study rooms. Many rooms have views over the bay or across the park.

Tŷ Beck / Beck House

Tŷ Beck consists of six large Victorian town houses situated in the Uplands area of Swansea, approximately a mile from the Singleton campus. It predominantly provides rooms for postgraduates and students with families, as well as overseas exchange students.

Notable alumni and academics

Academics

* Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE English lecturer * Andrew R Barron, Ser Cymru Chair of Low Carbon Energy and Environment; Director & Founder of ESRI * Amy Brown, Professor of Child Health * Dame June Clark, Professor of Nursing *

Tom Crick Tom Crick (born January 1981) is a British interdisciplinary computer scientist. He is Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and Professor of Digital Policy at Swansea University. Alongside hi ...

, Professor of Digital Policy and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government's

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* Siwan Davies, Professor of Climate Science * Ralph A. Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History *

C. E. M. Hansel Charles Edward Mark Hansel (12 October 1917 – 28 March 2011) was a British psychologist most notable for his criticism of parapsychological studies. Early life and education Hansel was born in 1917 in Bedford, England, and attended Bedford ...

, Emeritus Professor of

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* A. E. Heath, Professor of Philosophy *

Julian Hopkin Julian Meurglyn Hopkin (born 1948) is a physician, researcher and medical teacher. In 2004, he became the founding head of the new Medical School at Swansea University. He is now Professor of Experimental Medicine at Swansea University Medical S ...

CBE, founder of Medical School; awarded CBE in 2011 for service to medicine *

Christine James Christine James FLSW (born 2 February 1954) is a Welsh poet and academic. She served as the first female Archdruid of Wales from June 2013 until June 2016. She first presided over the ceremonies at the National Eisteddfod in the 2013 Eisteddfod ...

, Professor of Welsh *

Gareth Jenkins Gareth John James Jenkins (born 11 September 1951) is a Welsh former rugby union player and coach. Born in Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, he played for Llanelli RFC for 17 years from his debut in September 1969. He was appointed coach of the club ...

, Director of Research of the Medical School; a "Research Leader" for

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* Matt Jones, Human Computer Interaction. * Hilary Lappin-Scott, Chair in Microbiology and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Strategic Development and External Relations *

Jon Latimer Jonathan David Latimer (1964 – 4 January 2009) was a historian and writer based in Wales. His books include ''Operation Compass 1940'' (Osprey, 2000), ''Tobruk 1941'' (Osprey, 2001), ''Deception in War'' (John Murray, 2001), ''Alamein'' (Jo ...

, historian * Keith Lloyd, Dean and Head of Medical School; Chair of Welsh Psychiatric Society * Ronan Lyons, Clinical Professor of Public Health; Director of the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research; Director of the Farr Institute Centre for the Improvement of Population Health *

Robin Milner Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner (13 January 1934 – 20 March 2010) was a British computer scientist, and a Turing Award winner. Florence Annie Mockeridge, botanist, Dean of Science 1933–35 *

Tavi Murray Tavi Murray, FLSW (born 1965) is a British glaciologist, the eighth woman to be awarded the Polar Medal. Education After school in Twickenham, Murray gained a BSc degree with first class honours in Physics and Computer Science from the Univer ...

, glacioloigist * Yamni Nigam, Entomologist & Professor for Anatomy & Physiology * James G. Oldroyd, mathematician and noted rheologist *

David Olive David Ian Olive ( ; 16 April 1937 – 7 November 2012) was a British theoretical physicist. Olive made fundamental contributions to string theory and duality theory, he is particularly known for his work on the GSO projection and Montonen–O ...

, physicist * Gyan Pande, Emeritus Professor *

Clive Ponting Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020)Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Ponting Affair", Cecil Woolf, London, 1985, p. 14. was a senior British civil servant and historian. In 1984, he leaked classified documents about the sinkin ...

, Reader in international relations * Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, prominent Wittgenstinian philosopher of religion *

Valerie Randle Valerie Randle is a materials engineer who specialised in electron backscatter diffraction, grain boundary engineering, and has written a number of text books on the subject She was Welsh Woman of the Year in 1998 and in the same year was awar ...

, Professor in Metallurgy *

, philosopher * Penny Sartori, British Medical/Nursing Researcher on Near-death studies * Martin Sheldon, Professor of Reproductive Immunobiology; Editor of ''American Journal of Reproductive Immunology''; Fellow of the

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* Andrew Tettenborn, professor of law * John Williams CBE, led establishment of Postgraduate Medical School; founding president of Welsh Association for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy * Mary Williams, Chair of Modern Languages *

, philosopher; spent six months in 1941 writing and teaching at Swansea University *

Olgierd Zienkiewicz Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009) was a British academic of Polish descent, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method. Since h ...

, pioneer of computational methods for engineering

Alumni

Academia

* Peter Cottrell, novelist and historian * Paul Dolan, behavioural scientist *

Paul Moorcraft Paul Leslie Moorcraft (born 1948 in Cardiff, Wales) is the director of the Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis in London and a visiting professor at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. Biography Personal life M ...

, Professor in Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at

* D.Z. Phillips, philosopher *

Maggie Telfer Maggie Telfer (1959 – 12 January 2023) was a British health activist who provided pioneering support services to drug users in Bristol, England. She was a co-founder of the Bristol Drugs Project in 1986, and acted as its chief executive until h ...

, health activist * Kenneth Tew, pharmacologist, academic and author * Geoffrey Thomas, President of

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* Dame Jean Thomas, first female Master at

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* Colin H. Williams, sociolinguist * Sir

Glanmor Williams Sir Glanmor Williams (5 May 1920 – 24 February 2005) was a Welsh historian. Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School in Merthyr Tydfil. He studied at Aberystwyth alongsi ...

, religious historian

Arts

Annabelle Apsion Jane Annabelle Apsion (born 17 September 1960 in Hammersmith, London) is an English actress best known for playing Monica Gallagher in the television comedy-drama '' Shameless'' (2004-2013), Joy Wilton in ''Soldier Soldier'' (1991-1995), and Vi ...

, television and film actress *

Richey Edwards Richard James Edwards (22 December 1967 – disappeared 1 February 1995, declared dead 24 November 2008), also known as Richey James or Richey Manic, was a Welsh musician who was the lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band ...

, member of rock group

Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Wales, Welsh Rock music, rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. The band consists of Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, le ...

* Stuart Forster, travel journalist and photographer *

John Greening John Greening (born 25 December 1950 in Burnie) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL. Greening attended Montello Primary School and Parklands High as he grew up in the industrial town of Burnie in n ...

, poet, editor and critic * Jonathan Hill, presenter of ''

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'' on

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Jason Mohammad Jason Mohammad (born 17 September 1973) is a Welsh radio and television presenter currently working for the BBC. He is the host of '' Final Score'' on BBC One on Saturday afternoons. Personal life Mohammad was born and brought up in Cardiff to ...

, television/radio presenter for BBC Wales *

Mavis Nicholson Mavis Nicholson (née Mainwaring; 19 October 1930 – 8 September 2022) was a Welsh writer and radio and television broadcaster. She was born in Wales, and worked throughout the United Kingdom. Early life Nicholson was born on 19 October 1930 i ...

, writer and television broadcaster *

Jonny Owen Jonathan Tudor Owen (born 4 July 1971 in Merthyr Tydfil, Mid Glamorgan) is a Welsh producer, actor and writer who has appeared in TV shows including ''Shameless'', ''Murphy's Law'' and ''My Family''. Owen won a Welsh BAFTA in 2007 for the docum ...

, Welsh actor, ''Shameless'' and ''Svengali'' Internet series * Charlie Williams, author of ''The Mangel Trilogy'' * Urien Wiliam, Welsh language novelist and playwright *

Nicky Wire Nicholas Allen Jones (born 20 January 1969), known as Nicky Wire, is a Welsh musician, best known as lyricist, bassist and secondary vocalist of the Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. Prior to the group, Wire studied politics ...

, member of rock group Manic Street Preachers * Jack Clothier, founder of

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Ralph Leonard Ralph Micheal Leonard also known as Ralph Leonard (born May 9, 1996) is an international British Nigerians, British Nigerian journalist, film critic, author, and commentator. He won the Jom Charity Award and in 2024 he won the Yessiey Awards for ...

Internationalist British Nigerian journalist, Film Critic, Author and commentator

Business

* Ron Jones, Director of

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Paul Pindar Sir Paul Pindar (1565–1650) was a merchant and, from 1611 to 1620, was Ambassador of King James I of England to the Ottoman Empire. Biography Born in Wellingborough and educated at Wellingborough School Pindar entered trade as the apprentice ...

, Chief Executive of

Capita Capita plc is an international business process outsourcing and professional services company headquartered in London. It is the largest business process outsourcing and professional services company in the United Kingdom, with an overall ma ...

Ratan Tata Ratan Naval Tata (28 December 1937 9 October 2024) was an Indian industrialist and philanthropist. He served as the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons from 1991 to 2012 and he held the position of interim chairman from October 2016 to Feb ...

, Indian industrialist, investor, philanthropist, and a former chairman of Tata Sons who serves as its chairman emeritus.

Law

Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu is a Ghanaian judge. He is an active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He has been on the bench in Ghana since 1996 and became a Supreme Court judge in 2022. Early life and education Asiedu was born on 9 April ...

, Justice of the

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, former Justice of the Mexican

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and former

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*Interior ministry ...

of Mexico

Politics

Welsh Parliament (Senedd)

* Peter Black, MS for South Wales West * Andrew Davies, former MS for Swansea West; former Minister for Finance and Public Service Delivery,

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Mike Hedges Mike Hedges (born 1954) is a British audio producer/engineer best known for his work with the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Manic Street Preachers. During his career, Hedges has worked with an eclectic roster of artists ranging from rock ...

, MS for Swansea East *

Val Lloyd Valerie "Val" Lloyd (born 16 November 1943) is a Welsh Labour politician. She represented the constituency of Swansea East at the National Assembly for Wales from 2001 to 2011. Education Born in the Townhill area of Swansea, Glamorgan, Lloyd ...

, former MS for Swansea East

Houses of Parliament

* Lord Anderson of Swansea, former MP *

Mims Davies Miriam Jane Alice Davies (born 2 June 1975), known as Mims Davies, is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Grinstead and Uckfield since 2024. She previously served as MP for Eastle ...

, MP for Eastleigh and Wales Office Minister *

Caroline Dinenage Caroline Julia Dinenage, Baroness Lancaster of Kimbolton, (born 28 October 1971), also styled as Dame Caroline Dinenage, is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gosport since 2010. Dinenage ...

, MP for Gosport and Minister for Care *

Nigel Evans Nigel Martin Evans (born 10 November 1957) is a former British Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ribble Valley in Lancashire from 1992 until 2024. He was Joint Executive Secretary of the 1922 Commit ...

, MP for Ribble Valley * Hywel Francis, former MP for Aberavon *

Sylvia Heal Dame Sylvia Lloyd Heal (''née'' Fox; born 20 July 1942) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Halesowen and Rowley Regis from 1997 to 2010, having previously been the MP for Mid Staffordshire from 1 ...

, former MP and former

Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, was ...

* Sian James, former MP for Swansea East *

Anne Main Anne Margaret Main (born 17 May 1957) is a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician who formerly served as the Member of Parliament for St Albans (UK Parliament constituency), St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was elected at the ge ...

, former MP for St Albans *

Rod Richards Roderick Richards (12 March 1947 – 13 July 2019) was a British politician who was leader of the Welsh Conservatives from 1996 to 1999, and a Welsh Assembly member (AM) for the North Wales region from 1999 until 2003. Prior to this, Ri ...

, former MP for North West Clwyd; former AM for North Wales *

John Sewel, Baron Sewel John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel, (; born 15 January 1946), is a British politician, life peer, and former academic. He served as Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal o ...

, former Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords *

Mark Tami Sir Mark Richard Tami (born 3 October 1962) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Alyn and Deeside since 2001. He has served as Deputy Government Chief Whip in the House of Commons since 2024. Earl ...

, MP for Alyn and Deeside

International

Shekhar Dutt Shekhar Dutt is a retired Indian civil servant who served as governor of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Earlier he had served on various bureaucratic posts including, as an IAS officer, as Secretary in the Ministry of Defence of the Governmen ...

, Former governor of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh * Stanislaus A. James, Governor-General of Saint Lucia, 1988–1996 *

Isatou Njie-Saidy Isatou Njie-Saidy (also spelt Aisatu N'Jie-Saidy; born 5 March 1952) is a The Gambia, Gambian politician. She was Vice President of the Gambia, as well as Minister of Women's Affairs (The Gambia), Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, from 20 Ma ...

, Vice President of

* Wictor Sajeni, Deputy Minister of Primary Education in the

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an government

Science, engineering and technology

* Sir

Jonathan Asbridge Sir Jonathan Elliott Asbridge is an English nurse who was the first president of the UK's Nursing and Midwifery Council and a registrant member for England (Nursing). His first introduction to the caring profession was as a St John Ambulance Cade ...

, former President of the

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* Anne Borsay Chair in Medical Humanities *

Edward George Bowen Edward George "Taffy" Bowen, CBE, FRS (14 January 1911 – 12 August 1991), was a Welsh physicist who made a major contribution to the development of radar. He was also an early radio astronomer, playing a key role in the establishment of ra ...

CBE FRS, radiophysicist * Alan Cox (shared with

University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth University () is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across three academic facul ...

Linux Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...

pioneer *

Beris Cox Beris Mary Cox (2 August 1948–19 February 2023) was a British biostratigrapher and palaeontologist. She specialised in Jurassic era invertebrate macrofaunas, particularly ammonites, in the context of biozonization and chronostratigraphy. ...

, biostratigrapher and

palaeontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

. * Jonathan Elphick, ornithologist and zoologist * Lyn Evans, CBE, Project Leader,

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, CERN *

Andy Hopper Sir Andrew Hopper (born 9 May 1953) is a British-Polish computer technologist and entrepreneur. He is Chairman of lowRISC CIC, a Commissioner of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, former Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal S ...

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

FRS, co-founder of

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* Lionel Kelleway, natural history broadcaster * Sir

Terry Matthews Sir Terence Hedley Matthews (born 6 June 1943) is a Welsh-Canadian business magnate, serial high-tech entrepreneur, and Wales' first billionaire. He was the richest man in Wales until 2012, when he was surpassed by Sir Michael Moritz. He ha ...

KBE KBE may refer to: * Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, post-nominal letters * Knowledge-based engineering Knowledge-based engineering (KBE) is the application of knowledge-based systems technology to the domain o ...

, technological entrepreneur *

Colin Pillinger Colin Trevor Pillinger, (; 9 May 1943 – 7 May 2014) was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at Open University in Milton Keynes, he was also the principal invest ...

CBE, planetary scientist *

Graham Ryder Graham Ryder (28 January 1949 – 5 January 2002) was an English geologist and lunar scientist. He was educated at the University of Wales, Swansea, receiving his BSc in 1970. He then earned a PhD in geology from Michigan State University in 1 ...

, geologist, lunar scientist, posthumous winner of the Barringer Medal in 2003 * Sir

John Meurig Thomas Sir John Meurig Thomas (15 December 193213 November 2020), also known as JMT, was a Welsh scientist, educator, university administrator, and historian of science primarily known for his work on heterogeneous catalysis, solid-state chemistry, ...

, chemist *

Evan James Williams Evan James Williams FRS (8 June 1903 – 29 September 1945) was a Welsh experimental physicist who worked in a number of fields with some of the most notable physicists of his day, including Patrick Blackett, Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Rutherford ...

, physicist

Sports

Guillem Bauzà Guillem Bauzà Mayol (born 25 October 1984) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a striker, second striker or attacking midfielder. He spent most of his career in Wales and England, in representation of several clubs including Swansea ...

, football player for

Swansea City Swansea City Association Football Club ( ; ) is a Welsh professional football club based in Swansea, Wales. It competes in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Swansea have played their home matches at ...

Daniel Caines Daniel Stephen Caines (born 15 May 1979) is an English former athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. Early life Caines was born in Solihull. He was educated at Solihull School, a British independent school in the affluent West Midlan ...

, athlete *

Jazmin Carlin Jazmin Roxy "Jazz" Carlin (born 17 September 1990) is a former British competitive swimmer, who previously represented Wales and the Great Britain swimming team. She competed primarily in endurance freestyle events, and was based at the Univers ...

, British Olympic swimmer * Mike Hooper, former Liverpool goalkeeper *

Rob Howley Robert Howley (born 13 October 1970) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. As a player, he won 59 caps for Wales, 22 of them as captain. He was part of the Wales coaching staff from 2008 to 2019. He is Currently Attack Coach for Welsh ...

and British Lions rugby union international * Liz Johnson, gold medal winner at Beijing Paralympics in swimming *

, Welsh rugby union international * Simon Jones, Glamorgan and England cricketer * John McFall, Paralympic sprinter *

Dwayne Peel Dwayne John Peel (born 31 August 1981) is a Welsh rugby union coach and former player. He was the most capped scrum-half for the Wales national rugby union team with 76 caps, until his record was surpassed by Mike Phillips on 16 March 2013. Yo ...

, Welsh rugby union international *

Rhys Priestland Rhys Priestland (born 9 January 1987) is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Cardiff Rugby and the Wales national team. Although he primarily plays as a fly-half, he is also capable of playing at full-back. Bo ...

, Welsh rugby union international * James Roberts, Paralympic rower and sitting volleyball * David Smith, boccia * Chris White, English international rugby referee * Marcus Wyatt,

World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ...

skeleton racer

References

External links

Swansea University

Swansea University Student Union (SUSU) website
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