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Swansea University has reached a major sustainability milestone, with catering partner Chartwells achieving a Three-Star Food Made Good Standard — the highest accreditation awarded by the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA).
Dr Joe Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Threats at Swansea University, is part of a new international research project funded by Horizon Europe that will investigate how hidden hate speech spreads through social media and AI technologies, while developing innovative tools and strategies to counter it.
Swansea University’s Department of Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting has launched a nationwide programme of free A-level workshops and masterclasses designed to enhance language learning and support KS5 curriculum delivery in schools and colleges across the UK.
A Swansea University academic has been appointed OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours list in recognition of her services to suicide prevention and digital innovation.
Three Swansea University spin-out companies were selected to showcase their pioneering work at this year’s UK Global R&D and Science Investment Summit in London.
A Swansea University academic’s new book aims to highlight disabled people and their long-overlooked role in society.
A major new review led by Swansea University has highlighted growing evidence that diet in the early years of life may shape how well the brain develops, with effects that can still be seen in adolescence.

An interactive robotic plushie called Purrble could improve anxiety and depressive symptoms in LGBTQ+ young people.
Researchers from Swansea University are celebrating their role in a major aviation milestone, following the successful completion of a four‑year, international programme led by Rolls‑Royce and easyJet to demonstrate hydrogen as a viable aviation fuel.
An interest sparked more than a decade ago by the favourite pastime of a student’s pet cockatiel has led to a groundbreaking study of masturbation in birds which will improve understanding of crucial and under-examined aspects of bird behaviour and welfare.

Swansea University has been recognised by Unifresher as the UK’s top-performing university for subject excellence – achieving more first-placed subject rankings than any other institution in the UK.
Swansea University physicists, as leading members of the ALPHA antihydrogen collaboration at CERN, have determined the ground state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen 100 times more accurately than ever before.

A Swansea University mental health data science expert has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognition of her outstanding contribution to medical science.
American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney has been announced as the winner of the world’s largest and most prestigious literary prize for young writers – the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize – for her debut collection Joy Is My Middle Name.
The centre, a UKRI investment funded through the government's Gambling Levy, will direct world-leading research on how to tackle and prevent gambling harms.
Saltmarshes in south Wales support fish at nearly three times the density of unvegetated estuarine shores, according to new Swansea University research.

A new study has revealed the staggering extent of historical degradation in Welsh estuaries and coasts, challenging modern conservationists to rethink how they restore the nation’s marine environments.
Bionema Group Ltd , a Swansea University spin-out specialising in biological crop protection and sustainable agriculture, has been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise : Sustainable Development 2026.
A new study of the British Isles’ coastal ecosystems has revealed that nitrogen enrichment is significantly reducing the abundance and variety of marine life.
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