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Professor A.S.M. Maksud Kamal, Pro-Vice Chancellor Education, Dhaka University, visits the IHRR

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.
Disaster science institute Dhaka

Inside Health: What’s stopping us from exercising in older age?

Professor Cassie Phoenix features on BBC Radio 4’s Inside Health with James Gallagher.
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IAS Epiphany Term Card of Events

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.
people listening to a lecture

Welcome to our new Chief Operating Officer

We are pleased to announce Stewart Ross as our new Chief Operating Officer.
Stewart Ross on a pink background

County Durham shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2025

We’re celebrating the announcement that County Durham has been shortlisted for UK City of Culture 2025.
Image of student musicians performing in Durham Cathedral

Lumiere lights up our ground-breaking research

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.
Night time image from Lumiere 2021 showing the Ogden building with colourful abstract images projected onto one side

Grant success - 'Integrating Disaster Preparedness into the Transportation Engineering Curriculum for Indian Himalayas'

[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.
A rocky, muddy road in Nepal, with a bus driving up

Henry VIII’s favourite fool – a new book draws a portrait of the man the Tudor court loved to laugh at

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.
Henry VIII

Durham Historians in Past and Present

Two articles by Durham historians have just been published in Past and Present.
Black and white exterior of the Department of History

Journalism in a Post-truth World

Social media, AI and 'fake news' are among the many challenges facing journalism today. Ahead of an IAS and South College expert panel event on 5th March (2.30pm) to discuss the future for journalism with Bridget Kendall, Jo Adetunji, Monica Grady and Ian O'Flynn, our own expert, Prof Tim Luckhurst shares his thoughts ahead of our joint event.
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His Majesty the King's New Year Honours 2023

On the announcement of the King’s New Year Honours List 2023, we would like to congratulate and celebrate the achievements of the following alumni, current staff and students, and friends who have been honoured.

Durham University statement - Suzanne Duncan

Durham University is extremely saddened to hear of the death of Suzanne Duncan, who recently retired as Principal and Chief Executive of East Durham College.
A portrait of Suzanne Duncan looking at the camera and smiling.