Student Enrichment and Personal Development

At Trevelyan College, we encourage students to step out of their comfort zone, gain new experiences to become future-ready graduates, and develop new skills for lifelong learning. 

Explore Programme

Trevelyan College’s Explore Programme provides enrichment and wellbeing activities for current undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trevs.  Launched in 2023, the Explore Programme aims to provide our students with opportunities to explore new interests, gain new experiences, and reflect on key graduate attributes.  All Explore Programme activities are free and open to all students of Trevelyan College.  Our activities are designed to encourage our students to explore without limits in an environment of support, inclusion, and curiosity.   

Recent Explore Programme activities include:

• Explore Lectures for Black History Month and LGBTQ+ History Month
• Tell Your Story events with Trevelyan College alumni, who share their career journey and experiences after graduation
• Creative competitions including poetry, photography, and the Julian Trevelyan Art Prize
• Wellbeing activities including Cake in the Quad, volunteering opportunities, and Stress-Less drop-ins

For more information about Explore Programme activities, please visit our social media, the student SharePoint (available to current students only), or email us at trevelyan.explore@durham.ac.uk.

Global Dynamics

In 2023, the Senior Common Room launched the Global Dynamics lecture series, which explores topics of international significance across the four faculties and provides an opportunity for our students, staff, and SCR members to engage in interdisciplinary discussions with leading authorities on changing global dynamics.  The themes for the lecture series are:

• 2023/2024 – The role of China
• 2024/2025 – Democracy and the tale of five elections

Further information about the lectures is available on our SCR webpages.

Explore Fund

The Explore Fund provides support to current undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trevelyan College, to participate in personal development and student enrichment activities beyond their academic studies.  We welcome applications to support participation in a wide range of student-led activities, for example, music recitals, sports competitions, or theatre performances.

For further information about financial support available at Trevelyan College, please visit our College Funding webpages.