Want to know more about how we interact with our local community? Our monthly Community Newsletter explores the news, events, and research both at Durham University and in the city itself.
We start this month’s newsletter with a welcome to the new undergraduates ahead of Welcome and Orientation Week in late September.
We also profile the recent visit of Baroness Jacqui Smith, the UK’s Higher Education Minister, to the University, while we were hosting a summer camp for Ukrainian children.
We include news about the first phase of work to preserve and restore our Norman Chapel reaching its conclusion, as well as our three shortlists at the Green Gown Awards.
Looking ahead we announce the line-up at Durham Book Festival, an event which we support.
Elsewhere, you can read about how our alumna Gemma Collis is getting on in the wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics and we include details about how an exhibition donated to our Oriental Museum has gone on display in Japan.
We continue to promote events taking place across the region.
This includes details of the ongoing Bentley Beetham expedition at our Oriental Museum and a free exhibition at our Museum of Archaeology at Place Green Library, which explores Durham’s past.
We look ahead at this month’s Heritage Open Day celebrations at Durham Castle and we have a reminder about the STRIKE public exhibition outside our Bill Bryson Library.
Meanwhile, we continue to share about how our academics are continuing to produce impactful research.
This includes a project that has seen our archaeologists help to unearth a “lost” house at Bishop Auckland.
A new regional role for Professor Graham Towl from our Department of Psychology is highlighted, as is the release of a documentary by researchers in our Classics and Ancient History Department.
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