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

Finding a house can be a busy and stressful time, but the process shouldn’t leave you feeling unduly pressured. There’s enough student housing in Durham to meet demand so you don’t need to rush in ...

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 ...

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 ...

When thinking of artificial intelligence, it’s easy to picture a future where intelligent robots existentially threaten humanity’s role on Earth. Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, anyone ...

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 ...

Northern Accelerator has been awarded the prestigious Place-Based Knowledge Exchange (KE) Initiative of the Year at the PraxisAuril Knowledge Exchange Awards 2024. Having transformed research ...