A retirement party was held for Alan Lotts on Friday 19th November to celebrate 5 decades of outstanding technical support to the astronomy group.

Durham City Run Festival returns to our historic city this year, providing summer competition, fun, and celebration.

We have agreed a new partnership with ultrasonic instrumentation manufacturer Coltraco Ultrasonics to develop collaborative research activity and to create research impact.

Dr Markian Prokopovych (Associate Professor in Modern European Cultural History) gave a talk on 'Understanding Ukraine: Entanglements and Conflict in the History of East European "Bloodlands"'

Professor A.S.M. Maksud Kamal, Pro-Vice Chancellor Education, Dhaka University, visited the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) at Durham University on 8-9 March 2023.

Professor Cassie Phoenix features on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health with James Gallagher.

The IAS has a busy term ahead and details of seminars, public lectures, workshops from both our Fellows and projects (major projects and research development projects) are listed in our Term Card.

We’re celebrating the announcement that County Durham has been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2025.

This week sees the return of Lumiere, the dazzling light art event hosted in Durham bi-annually. This year’s event includes three installations drawing on some of our ground-breaking research.

[09/24] Dr Ellen Robson and Professor David Toll have been awarded the British Council’s £30,000 Industry Academia Collaborative Grant for a project to improve the resilience of roads in the Himalayan region of India by integrating disaster preparedness into transportation engineering education.

Professor Alec Ryrie from our Department of Theology and Religion explores a new book written by Swedish historian Peter Andersson on the life of court fool Will Somers during the reign of Henry VIII.

Two articles by Durham historians have just been published in Past and Present.