The Oriental Museum, will be hosting its spectacular Lantern Festival celebration on Wednesday 12 February from 6pm -8pm. Lunar New Year is celebrated across Asia and culminates in a Lantern Festival, when the streets are bedecked with lanterns and people invite good fortune and happiness into their homes for the year ahead.

Gratefully supported by the British Council, Durham University is delighted to announce five fully funded scholarships for female students from Mexico interested in pursuing master’s studies in the 2025/26 academic year.

The closing talk in our Ukrainian Talk Series for this academic year took place recently at the Gala Theatre in Durham, UK.

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

Prof. Emeritus Christopher Rowe has been awarded a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship.

[09/24] Dr Ruszczyk is Co-Investigator of the ‘Looking Back to Look Forward: History, Recovery, and Sustainability in Understanding the War in Ukraine on a Global Scale’ project.

We are ranked 72nd in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

New on the My Greenspace app this month:

Energi Coast have launched a new film to showcase the strengths of North East England in Offshore Wind.

Durham's Classics & Ancient History is pleased to announce its successes in 2023 rankings. Our department ranked overall 2nd best in the UK in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, 3rd best in the Complete University Guide, and 4th best in the Guardian University Guide. We are proud of the education and support we provide to our students.

Dr. Alexandros Spyrou has recently returned from New York City, where his composition ‘intra-’ was featured at the 2024 mise-en festival.

The artistic director of his own dance company and WRIHW Honorary Fellow, Balbir Singh had a vision of combining Indian classical dance and contemporary western styles – but he never imagined that he would be leading the scene himself.