Kylie Kendrick from our Computing and Information Services team has been named as October’s Intel Monthly Most Valued Player by National Student Esports.

The BBC Countryfile host, who has a podcast and book called 39 Ways to Save the Planet, joined representatives from the County Durham Partnership (CDP), including Durham Energy Institute, for its first in-person meeting since October 2019.

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Get to know Dr Anne Reinarz from our Department of Computer Science.

Planning permission has been granted to improve and develop Rushford Court in Durham, providing a temporary home for Durham University’s College of St Hild and St Bede during renovations at their site, and with the intention to ultimately establish it as the University’s 18th college.

County Durham Pound, a regional partnership of which we’re part, has been announced as winner of the Best Public Sector Project award at the 2023 Social Value Conference.

As part of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities, our researchers are partnering with the Edinburgh International Book Festival to develop ReaderBank: the world’s most ambitious study of reading, imagination and well-being.

On Monday a team of six PhDs and PDRAs from Durham Physics visited Rydal Academy in Darlington to talk about science to 90 students across three sessions in Years 1.

Durham University Chancellor and acclaimed foreign affairs specialist, Dr Fiona Hill, has been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2024 New Year Honours List by King Charles III.

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter should be arriving in your inbox this morning.

The Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences is delighted to welcome Dr Toni Louise Williams as Associate Professor.

After the UK's Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson accepted recommendations to give teachers in England a 5.5% pay rise, Professor Stephen Gorard from our School of Education and Beng Huat See from the University of Birmingham explore what else can be done to keep teachers in the profession.