PGR Awards: Celebrating our PGR Community
The PGR Awards are an opportunity to recognise the hard work and accomplishments of people across our PGR community. From academic excellence, to public engagement superstars, from staff who go the extra mile, to PGRs who focus on building their community and bringing people together.
Some of our awards are decided by judging panels as part of university-wide competitions such as 3MT, while those below are based on nominations from our PGR and staff community.
James Callaghan Research Award:
This prize recognises the outstanding achievement and progress of current postgraduate students. The winner of the James Callaghan Research Award is awarded a £2,000 grant to support their research and development and a runner up is awarded £1,000. Students who currently hold a scholarship are not eligible for this award.
James Callaghan Thesis Prize:
This Prize recognises outstanding theses that have been submitted. There are two prizes available, one for a Doctoral Thesis with a value of £1,000 and one for a Master’s Thesis of £500.
Students must be nominated by their supervisors for the James Callaghan Award/Prize, by means of the nomination form for the respective prize. Supervisors can access the nomination forms via the staff webpages here.
PGR Culture and Community Awards:
These awards recognise the people who make a meaningful and positive difference to PGRs at Swansea by improving research culture, community, and the overall experience of PGRs at the university. There are two categories of award: one for PGR students, and one for professional services staff (who are not academic/research staff).
Nominate a PGR Student for the PGR Culture and Community Award
Nominate a member of professional services staff for the PGR Culture and Community Award
PGR Public Engagement Award:
This award recognises PGRs who have excelled in public engagement activities of any sort during their PGR studies, showing commitment and enthusiasm in sharing the benefits and insights of their research beyond the academic community.
Nominate a PGR student for the Public Engagement Award
PGR Supervision Award:
This award recognises best practice in PGR supervision, celebrating supervisors who demonstrate exceptional commitment to supporting researcher development, fostering an inclusive and collaborative environment, and promoting academic excellence and wellbeing.
Nominate a supervisor for the PGR Supervision Award
PGR Enterprise Award:
The PGR Enterprise Award celebrates postgraduate researchers who turn ideas into realworld impact, using their research to spark, shape, or support enterprise activity—driving innovation, creating value, and inspiring engagement beyond academia. Nominations will be made by the enterprise team.
