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Find out how to have a sustainable Halloween

Find out how to have a sustainable Halloween... if you dare!
Halloween 2024

New incentive scheme rewards staff and students for turning green

Be sustainable and get rewarded, that’s the message for our new ‘My Greenspace’ App In partnership with sustainable software company Team Jump, we have launched a new online platform and mobile app ‘My Greenspace’, where students and staff can log their sustainable behaviours and redeem ‘Green Points’. The purpose of the app is to increase participation by students and staff in the university’s green agenda, with the slogan ‘small acts, big difference’. Each month, the biggest individual point
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Durham Academics recognised in two of Nation’s most coveted literary awards

Our Department of English Studies is celebrating the phenomenal success of two of its own - Sunjeev Sahota and Kayo Chingonyi - following the recognition their work has received from the Booker Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry respectively. Sunjeev Sahota’s China Room has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and Kayo Chingonyi’s collection of poetry A Blood Condition has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry for the Best Collection 2021.
Book covers A Blood Connection and China Room

2nd year Physics student wins Axiom Space award

Iyngkarran Kumaraguruparan has been awarded a STARS scholarship for his Microgravity Printed Circuit Board, one of only 3 winning entries (and the only one produced by a single individual) in this year's prestigious international competition.
Image of satellite hovering above planet's atmosphere

Forging Resilient Partnerships: Durham University IHRR and UP Resilience Institute

[09/24] IHRR Director Professor Bruce D Malamud visited the University of the Philippines to discuss a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes
Pierre Pecson, Bruce Malamud, Richard YbaƱez, Alfredo Mahar Francisco Lagmay, & Kristina Marie Sablayan

New exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Everest Expedition

Our new summer exhibition opens at the Oriental Museum on 24 May to mark the centenary of the first Western, and ultimately tragic, attempt to climb Mount Everest. The exhibition, called “Eternal Ascent: Bentley Beetham and the 1924 Everest Expedition” tells the story from the perspective of expedition member, Bentley Beetham, a biology teacher from Darlington.
Eternal Ascent Everest Exhibition 2024, Mallory at Everest base camp.

Honouring Professor Peter Rhodes' Legacy

Peter Rhodes (1940-2021) was internationally renowned as an eminent historian of ancient Greece. Here in Durham, he taught for 40 years and was a devoted friend of the Department even after his retirement. He is much missed in Durham and all around the world.
Photograph of Peter Rhodes with text

Prof Harriet Bulkeley and Dr Pippa Whitehouse interviewed for International Women's Day

Prof Harriet Bulkeley and Dr Pippa Whitehouse were interviewed for International Women's Day. The UN theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is: ‘Women in leadership: achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world’. This theme is aligned to the priority theme of the Commission on the Status of Women: 'Women's full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achievinggender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls'.
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What does good governance look like in international trade? Roundtable talks hosted by GPI

The Global Policy Institute (GPI) hosted and facilitated roundtable talks in July with 20 key leaders and experts from a variety of sectors and disciplines to agree some steps towards achieving a model of democratic governance that puts health at the heart of international trade policies.
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IHRR networking event

The Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) hosted an internal Durham University networking event on 20 September 2023.
IHRR networking event

DUWLAX Help England Seniors Prepare for World Cup Next Summer

This time last week our Women's Lacrosse team were preparing to travel down to Nottingham to play against the senior England team to help them prepare for the Lacrosse World Cup next summer.
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Her Majesty The Queen's Birthday Honours List

The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 was announced to coincide with the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. We would like to congratulate and celebrate the achievements of the following alumni, supporters and friends who are honourees in this year’s list.
Beacon lit for The Queen's Platinum Jubilee on Palace Green, Durham