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’ ...

STEP offers a dedicated space for young Black-heritage students, to explore not only their own potential but all that Durham has to offer as a potential university destination. We welcome applications ...

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

Durham University's Sutton Trust Summer School is designed to give bright students from under-represented backgrounds the chance to experience what it is like to be a student at a leading university.

The Academic Quality Service Team (formerly CLAS) administers University-level appeals, and institutional disciplinary processes resulting from academic misconduct (e.g. plagiarism, examination ...

Interneurons work a bit like the brain's traffic controllers where they regulate the firing of other brain cells, acting like a sophisticated brake system. This control is critical because when ...

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

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 ...