Durham University and Newcastle University are entering into a new partnership to support the delivery of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in North East England, opening up exciting opportunities for the future training of teachers in the region.

[01/25] IHRR Director Bruce D Malamud spoke at our Active Listening and Co-Creating Knowledge in Hazards, Risk and Resilience Symposium

Durham Energy Institute is delighted that our Professor in Practice Andrew Crossland joined the panel for BBC Radio 4 Rethink… Energy on 31st October 2024. The podcast looked at the future energy landscape and what is needed to keep the lights on, charge our many devices and power our electric vehicles in the future.

Our annual Christmas Tree Wish Appeal is once again helping Christmas wishes come true for local families. Students and staff generously donated over 260 gifts, that will now be distributed across County Durham through our charity partners.

A video by Fred Craigie, PhD and clinical psychologist, on spirituality, healing relationships, resilience, and wellbeing.

The IAS welcomed its Michaelmas Fellows to Durham earlier this week to work with Durham colleagues on two major IAS projects.

Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O'Brien, explores how we are contributing to the health agenda, locally and globally.

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

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

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.

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.

[09/24] IHRR Director Professor Bruce D Malamud visited the University of the Philippines (UP) to discuss a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes