We are delighted to have been nominated for University of the Year in The Queer Student Awards 2023.

Acting Vice Chancellor, Antony Long, highlights Durham University's work on environmental sustainability, the upcoming Lumiere Festival and pays tribute to our Chancellor, Sir Thomas Allen.

Keep tagging us in your lunchtime walk photos and videos!

Our sports and wellbeing work with our local communities has been highlighted as an example of best practice among UK universities.

Get to know Dr Andy Allan from our Department of Mathematical Sciences.

The Institute for Medical Humanities welcomes Becca Doggwiler, who joins us as Digital and Communications Officer in the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Martin Clayton, Professor of Ethnomusicology, has been awarded the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for his research project ‘People in time with music: how sound and movement structure human interactions’.

In its Budget of Wednesday 15 March, the UK Government announced its intention to create 12 low-tax investment zones to boost economic growth.

On Monday 3rd June at Fountains Hall, Grey College, the Greenspace Team, with support from student volunteers, organised a celebration of all things sustainability at their annual Greenspace Festival.

IMH are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Adam Powell as the Institute’s first ever Lecturer in Medical Humanities. Adam will play a central role in the delivery of a new suite of taught postgraduate programmes in Medical Humanities.

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Prof Jane Macnaughton, former Director of Institute for Medical Humanities, has been recognised for her ‘significant contribution to medicine, healthcare and medical education’ by The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI).