This year, we sent six delegates to the Conference of Parties in Baku, Azerbaijan. Learn how their work helps to address the challenges of an ever-changing and complex world – and inspires the next generation of problem-solvers.

Durham University is a key partner in a new £2.5 million initiative to accelerate space innovation in North East England.

Albert Einstein’s transformational prediction about how gravity behaves has been backed by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

This annual festival of new student writing for theatre will launch celebrations to mark its 50th year in 2025.

Scientists from NASA and our Department of Physics have used supercomputer simulations to reveal that Mars’ moons may have been formed from destroyed asteroid fragments.

Students and staff are being invited to support three local charities this festive season, by donating to our annual Christmas Wish Tree campaign.

Our researchers are helping to put people with lived experience of mental health distress at the forefront of health and social care research.

We were delighted to attend the UK & Ireland Green Gown Awards Ceremony at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on 13 November 2024 as we reached the finals in two categories including Creating Impact and Sustainability Institution of the Year.

A research project involving Professor James Baldini, from our Department of Earth Sciences, features on the front cover of a globally-renowned magazine as it celebrates the best photographs of the last 12 months.

Our researchers have studied wild monkeys problem-solving for food to better understand how social dynamics can influence behaviour and learning. 

We’ve joined UNICEF’s Children’s Environmental Health Collaborative (CEHC) to help protect children from the harmful consequences of air pollution on a global scale.

We are celebrating our student and graduate entrepreneurs this week as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (Monday 18 – Sunday 24 November).