Professor Matthew Bullimore from our Department of Mathematical Sciences has been awarded a €2 million Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The funding will support a research ...

Our alumna Heidi Alexander MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport in the UK Government. Ms Alexander holds an ...

Iona took the BA in Japanese Studies (with Year Abroad), graduating in July 2022. What do you do now? Upon graduating, I joined the JET (Japan Teaching and Exchange) Program and moved to work in a ...

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.

Discounted bus travel is available for staff and students on Arriva bus services within our two University zones. Discounted bus travel is available for staff and students on Arriva bus services ...

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 ...

During China’s fast urbanization, millions of female migrants are moving from small towns to big cities like Shanghai. These women, full of hope and determination, leave behind not only their homes ...

Caption: Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, and Paul Ramsbottom OBE, Wolfson Foundation, pictured while on a recent tour of the new facilities. This year marks ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...