With the announcement of the King’s New Year Honours List 2025, we extend our congratulations to our alumni and friends who have been recognised and celebrate their outstanding achievements.

More than 7,000 students from over 120 countries celebrate the completion of their degrees at our Congregation ceremonies. In doing so, they reflect on the time spent at the University and in Durham and look to the future. Collingwood College Assistant Principal, Grant Slater, has been sharing this rite of passage for the last 20 years.

Professor Richard Crisp from our top-rated Psychology department has been honoured with the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship to develop a groundbreaking theory in social psychology.

Congratulations to our alumni team, Carla, Liz, Tracey and Sophia, on winning the festive series of University Challenge that aired over the Christmas period.

We’re one of the world’s most sustainable universities, according to a new international league table.

Professor Karen O’Brien, our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, has become the honorary president of local charity Nepacs.

A new research project to better understand how gut microbiota can help infants with iron deficiencies has secured a major funding boost from UK Research and Innovation.

Global leaders in investigative journalism gathered for a summit in honour of the late, great Durham graduate Sir Harry Evans.