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Our staff and postgraduate students are innovative, creative scholars.

Much of our research takes final form in high-impact articles or books. But a considerable amount of our activity takes place in other mediums. There is no single formula for communicating research that operates at different speeds and rhythms, and we are committed to sharing our research in all its forms.
Recent Books
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Audio-Visual Media

Our research community utilise a range of audio-visual media to communicate their research in dynamic and engaging ways. Check out some of these films and podcasts.

Audio-Visual Media
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Creative Media

Our research community produce a range of creative media outputs as part of the dissemination of their research. 

Creative Media
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Research and Impact

We are a large department of human and physical geographers conducting world-leading research that addresses pressing socio-economic, political and environmental challenges.

Research and Impact
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Our Research Community

We are a world-leading research community of human and physical geographers conducting innovative and impactful research to transform lives and make a difference, globally and locally, addressing the pressing socio-economic, political and environmental challenges of our time.

Our Research Community
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Sustainable Development Goals

Much of the research that we do and the impacts that we make are relevant to the pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Sustainable Development Goals
The Durham University Observatory is a weather observatory owned and operated by the University of Durham. It is a Grade II listed building located at Potters Bank and was founded in 1839.

170 Years of Weather Data

Apart from the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford, Durham University Observatory has the longest unbroken series of meteorological observations for any university in the UK.

Explore Durham's Open-Access Weather Data

Contact Us

Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at Durham University is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.

Department of Geography

Postgraduate Study
Durham University
Lower Mountjoy
South Road, Durham
DH1 3LE, UK
Tel: +44 (0)191 33418000

 

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