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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It has long been assumed in much policy and practice that delivering United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 (access to sustainable energy for all) will also help deliver UN SDG 5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We have been ranked third in the UK for interdisciplinary science research. In a world that is constantly changing, it’s more important than ever that researchers work across traditional academic ...

The Botanic Garden is open almost every day of the year, including Sundays and Bank Holidays, but does close shortly before Christmas and re-open after New Year when Durham University itself is closed ...

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 ...