We welcome the recent publication of the Quality Assurance Agency's (QAA) evaluation of International Pathway Programmes.

We have achieved recognition for our great work on promoting biodiversity by achieving the Platinum Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award 2024.

Our Chancellor and distinguished foreign affairs expert, Dr Fiona Hill, has been appointed by the Prime Minister Keir Starmer to co-lead a comprehensive review of the UK Armed Forces. The announcement follows several Durham University alumni and supporters having recently been elected to the House of Commons or taking seats in the House of Lords.

We're part of a new £1.4million project investigating geographic education inequalities across the UK.

Our students visited our partner university in Sweden for the first ever Durham-Uppsala Summer School, an exchange programme with a focus on sustainability.

Our geographers are setting off on a science expedition to Greenland to advance our understanding of the region's rapidly decaying ice sheet.

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine remains of immense concern to us all. As a University, we are proud to enter the third year of partnership with our Ukrainian twinned university, Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), with continued sharing of best practice, institutional capacity-building and research collaborations.

Around 150 pupils from a County Durham school weren’t afraid to get their hands dirty when they visited our Botanic Garden to learn about soil health.

A new online exhibition has been published telling stories from the Kurdistani Jewish diaspora.

Our students are very satisfied with their university experience at Durham, according to the National Student Survey 2024.  

We are pleased to announce Neil Scott as our new Chief Financial Officer.

Durham University alumni and supporters will help to shape the future of UK politics following the country’s recent General Election.