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What goes where?

Do you know what goes where when it comes to recycling?
What goes where 2024

Welcome to Victoria (Pip) Hardy

Welcoming Victoria (Pip) Hardy to the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
A smiling woman with grey hair and glasses

Botanic Garden Team strike Gold

Our beautiful Botanic Garden has once again achieved a Gold Award in the Northumbria in Bloom Competition 2024. This annual competition recognises, encourages and rewards community groups who work together to transform their village, town or city, through gardening, environmental awareness and community support.
Botanic Garden Gold winner Northumbria in Bloom 2024, Peter Thomson and David Profit accepting NiB Gold Award

Music brings back positive lifetime memories: New research published

A new study by Dr Kelly Jakubowski and Professor Tuomas Eerola has shown that music evokes fewer, but more emotionally positive, autobiographical memories than other cues.
Music listening

Archaeologists set out to uncover ‘lost house’ at landmark castle

Our archaeologists are part of a 100-strong team aiming to uncover the mysteries of a ‘lost’ house at Auckland Castle, County Durham, UK.
Archaeologists working at Auckland Castle

Dr Samprada Pradhan is winner of ICE West Midlands Emerging Engineers Award

[07/24] Dr Samprada Pradhan has been awarded the 2024 Emerging Engineers Award by the Institution of Civil Engineers West Midlands
Poster for Dr Samprada Pradhan Emerging Engineer Award 2024

Theatre meets the cosmos in an immersive collaboration between the Physics Department and the Assembly Rooms Theatre

From Monday 16th until Friday 20th May, the Assembly Rooms theatre is hosting an exciting new project from their in-house Technical Theatre Team in collaboration with the Durham University Physics Department. 'The Final Frontier' is an immersive, experiential and theatrical journey into space that is designed to calm the mind and may help to relieve exam stress.
The Final Frontier: Exploring Space poster

My Greenspace Varsity Cup is back!

The My Greenspace Varsity trophy has returned! 
Greenspace Varsity Cup Sept 2024

Reflections on the Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism

The inaugural Sir Harry Evans Global Summit in Investigative Journalism brought together acclaimed journalists, publishers and political commentators from around the world. Professor Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College, was among those attending the event at London's Royal Institute of British Architects on Wednesday 10 May. Here he shares his reflections on the inspiring summit.
Panel of journalists onstage at the Sir Harry Evans Summit

Tunstall and the Tudors: The Calculating Bishop

Meet Cuthbert Tunstall: bishop and author of England’s first maths book, celebrating its 500th anniversary this year.
Cuthbert Tunstall exhibition poster

Remembering Christina Goessman, BSc and MSc student in Archaeology 2014-2018.

It is with enormous sadness that we share the news that one of our alumni has recently died in exceptionally unexpected and tragic circumstances.

Colour, laughter and a sense of community: joyous cultural celebrations at World Fest

In the afternoon of Sunday 5 March, the International Students' Association (ISA) and Durham University Student Volunteering and Outreach (DUSVO) hosted World Fest, part of Durham Global Week.