Case Studies
Building Atom Bank's Digital Twin
Durham-based Atom Bank is a digital challenger bank offering an app-based innovative and efficient banking experience.
In partnership with P&G: the chemistry of cleaning
Our award-winning strategic partnership with P&G has enabled unique and globally scalable innovations that have improved billions of consumers' lives around the world.
Consumer behavioural profiling results in significant financial gains
Collaborative research into consumer behavioural profiling and impulse buying led by Professor Sarah Xiao and Professor Mike Nicholson at the Business School, has enabled marketing agencies and companies to build new marketing toolkits which have resulted in significant financial gains.
Opening up the Classics to the digital world
Durham’s research helps people all over the world to access ancient Greek and Latin literature.
Protecting global communities from harmful volcanic emissions
Our Earth Sciences research is helping communities living near active volcanoes, and the agencies protecting them, to reduce exposure to volcanic emissions.
Helping species adapt to climate change
Our bioscientists are playing a key role in identifying the impact of climate change on plant and animal life.
Influencing elections and governance in Africa
Our impact-making research in History is bringing a change in the political landscape in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stopping the spread of malaria
We’ve shaped the World Health Organization’s policy on global mosquito control to tackle the spread of lethal diseases like malaria and dengue fever.
Impactful research in ethically recording testimonies of sexual violence
Research in Anthropology has led to the development of survivor-led guidelines and a graphic novel that are being used by governments and organisations globally to follow ethical practices when recording testimonies of sexual violence.
Tackling unacceptable work through global policy
Pioneering research by our world-renowned Law School has directly influenced global and domestic legal policy on unacceptable forms of work.
How physics is transforming our household cleaning products
Our strategic partnership with Procter and Gamble (P&G) has enabled interdisciplinary research projects across experimental, computational and theoretical physics.
Innovative guidelines for children with harmful sexual behaviour
Ground-breaking research, led by Professor Simon Hackett from our Department of Sociology into children and young people with harmful sexual behaviour has transformed policy and practice in the UK.