Dr Katharine Cheston, from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology, is working with the charity Action for ME to better understand what it is like to live with ME and long Covid.

We’re celebrating a successful funding application which will enable our experts to establish a new training tool to help tackle weight discrimination in healthcare.

Twenty of our researchers will take important roles in assessing UK universities’ research quality.

The Department of Sociology is delighted to note that Ben Chisanga has been awarded an MBE.

Professor Brian Castellani, from our Department of Sociology, has made significant contributions to a new report identifying air pollution as a public health crisis.

Meet Jennifer Badham, Assistant Professor in social data science, and programme director for the MA in Social Research Methods, and Master of Data Science.

Researchers, policy makers and politicians from across the North of England have gathered at Durham University to discuss worsening health and work inequalities for women in the region.

Professor of Sociology Brian Castellani delivered an opening address at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Europe Symposium on Health Workforce Modelling for Action. The theme of the symposium was ‘Workforce Futures Reimagined’ and took place in Copenhagen on 28-30 April.

People in police custody with health issues are regularly put at risk because medication is delayed or unavailable.

Researchers at Durham and Northumbria Universities have helped develop an app to better equip frontline practitioners to identify hate incidents and ensure victims get the right support.

Professor Geetanjali Gangoli (Head of Department, Sociology) and Dr Hannah King (Associate Professor, Sociology) have just returned from a week’s trip to Mumbai, India building on existing academic partnerships.

A new book by Dr James Rowlands of our Department of Sociology focuses on the complex issue of domestic abuse-related deaths.