Durham University will take a key role in delivering a new AI Growth Zone in North East England – an initiative that promises to create thousands of jobs.

Professor Alessio Del Bue, Senior Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University.

Twenty of our researchers will take important roles in assessing UK universities’ research quality.

Scientists from our Computer Science department have created a new system that allows groups of drones to fly together more quickly and safely than ever before.

We are playing a key role in a new £1.6 million initiative to strengthen the UK’s digital research infrastructure.

As part of UKRI’s support of the UK’s Compute Roadmap published yesterday, we are launching a major new initiative called SHAREing (Skills Hub for Accelerated Research Environments Inspiring the Next Generation).

Durham students excel at the annual UK Student Cluster Competition in 2024, hosted as part of the Computing Insight UK conference.

Our top-rated Computer Science department is leading the charge in bringing high-performance computing (HPC) to the humanities through a new UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded project.

Researchers from our top-rated Computer Science department have made an exciting discovery that could improve how doctors treat dangerous heart rhythms, like those seen in cardiac arrest.

We have been ranked third in the UK for interdisciplinary science research.

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable exploration of the cosmos.

Our MammalWeb project has won a national biodiversity award for its work to gather information on the distribution, abundance, habits and behaviours of UK and European wild mammals.