Want to know more about how we interact with our local community? Our monthly Community Newsletter explores the news, events, and research both at Durham University and in the city itself.

Our researchers have been awarded a British Council grant for a project aiming to improve the resilience of roads in the Himalayan region of India by integrating disaster preparedness into transportation engineering education.

The five universities of North East England, which collectively contribute £2.7 billion and 33,500 jobs to the UK’s economy*, will later this year launch a new partnership to strengthen their collaboration to achieve even greater social and economic impact.

The Oriental Museum is making its collections more accessible to visitors with visual impairments, by launching a new accessible audio guide.

The Venture Lab team are a group of staff dedicated to helping students create new ideas and launch new ventures. With their mission to make the world a better place, 140 startups have emerged in the last five years, with £18 million collectively raised in external funding.

We were very saddened to hear of the death of our alumnus David Knowles, a talented young journalist and creator of an award-winning podcast.

We’re strengthening relationships with researchers in India thanks to the awarding of a prestigious Royal Society Visiting Fellowship to our Physics Professor Adekunle Adeyeye.

Philosophy and travel have been tangled together for centuries. On World Tourism Day, Professor Emily Thomas, who is the Head of our Department of Philosophy, assesses how the two interlink in unexpected and fascinating ways.

Durham University led engagement programme, Stargoal, has scooped the award in the Partnering with Schools category at the Odgen Trust Outreach Awards held in Newcastle on 18th September.  

From early October, we will all be cheering on our latest Durham team as they compete in this year's series of the BBC2 competition, University Challenge.

European Day of Languages is an annual celebration of the diverse range of languages spoken across the continent. But as Dr Fintan Mallory, from our Department of Philosophy, explains how we shouldn't expect AI technology to save lesser spoken languages.

Durham University is extremely saddened to hear of the death of Suzanne Duncan, who recently retired as Principal and Chief Executive of East Durham College.