Durham Global Week 2025 will take place from Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 March 2025. All staff and students are encouraged to get involved, by submitting proposals for events to be part of the programme.

Caption: Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, and Paul Ramsbottom OBE, Wolfson ...

Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the world today. In her monthly column, our Vice-Chancellor Karen O'Brien explores how Durham University is both pioneering research to understand ...

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable ...

The ethical and governance review co-authored by Professor Cave concludes that a phased approach is needed – ‘soft’ governance implementing the UK SCBEM Code of Practice, as a stepping stone to ‘hard’ ...

A groundbreaking study led by Dr Marco Bocchio in our Department of Psychology reveals how specific brain cells called interneurons can act as our in-built traffic controllers. The team studied ...

We’re sharing in an investment of almost £30m to train the next generation of researchers to tackle the world’s environmental ...

The Physics Department is a thriving centre for research and education. We are proud that our Department closely aligns the teaching and learning experience for its students with the ...

General Relativity is one of the most elegant and profound theories in Physics. That the Universe seems to conform to its ...

The Durham Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East (CAMNE) draws its membership from the Departments of Classics and Ancient History, Archaeology and Theology and Religion.