Hedging against political risks enhances international stock portfolio performance more effectively than diversification alone, according to a study involving Professor Stavros Zenios.

We recently welcomed Mr Ali Obaid Shalgham, the Head of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage and Deputy Minister of Culture, and a delegation from the University of Al-Qadisiyah, to Durham.

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

We’ve joined forces with seven partner universities in the North of England and Norway. The new 'North Sea University Partnership' strengthens ties and cultivates a conducive environment for education and research partnerships.

Professor Santiago Fouz Hernández (MLAC) introduced the recently restored version of Bigas Luna’s debut film TATUAJE/TATTOO (1976) at the 72nd San Sebastian Film Festival in the Basque Country last September. The SSIFF is the most prestigious film festival in Spain and among the most important in Europe, alongside Cannes, Venice, London or Berlin.

A Durham scientist is part of an international research team drilling into the seabed off the east coast of Japan to learn more about the 2011 Tohoku great earthquake.

IAS co-director Professor Patrick Zuk (MLAC) has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Romanian National University of Music, Bucharest (NUMB), in recognition of his pioneering contribution to scholarship on music and cultural life in Eastern Europe.

We have been ranked third in the UK for interdisciplinary science research.

This year at COP29, Durham Univeristy's application to host an official UNFCCC Side Event was approved by the UNFCCC Secretariat. The event was live streamed, from the Baku, Azerbaijan COP29 venue, at UNFCCC official channels and was viewed by our staff and students at Durham University.

Professor Petra Minnerop, Professor of International Law at Durham Law School, shares her insights from COP29 - including the COP's mandate under UNFCCC, the new Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance, and an update on the carbon markets.

Professor Laura Marsiliani, Department of Economics, shares her insights from COP29.

Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa Kamran, PhD Candidate at Durham Law School, offers a critical view of the COP Presidencies Troika.