Our University Challenge team were victorious in the 2023 Grand Final, winning by 35 points (155 points to 120) against Bristol University. Opponents, Bristol, were in their first University Challenge final and kept the pressure on right up until the end.

Our researchers are involved in an innovative project across four different subject areas to help North East pupils improve their communication skills.

We've met with the City of Durham MP, Durham County Council, City of Durham Parish Council, Durham Students’ Union, letting agents, independent landlords and representatives of Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) providers to discuss student accommodation.

Durham is proud to support Durham County Council’s Places to Eat initiative, an innovative new scheme which will see carbon ratings added to menus at eateries across our campus accommodation.

In May we celebrated our long-standing partnership with the Maharaja Sayajirao University (MS University) of Baroda.

We’re proud to welcome Professor Jolyon Mitchell as the new Principal of St John’s College.

Fourteen of our 16 college bars have secured national safety accreditation.

Dr Patrick Jachyra from our Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences explains the importance of physical activity for supporting mental health, particularly in neurodivergent and disabled people. He also shares some tools below that can contribute to mental well-being.

Scientists have unearthed a harrowing story of forgotten children of the past, providing the first direct evidence of the lives of early nineteenth century ‘pauper apprentices’.

Orbit member and environmental gel innovator Intelligent Gels in partnership with Durham University, Northumbrian Water and technology innovation catalyst CPI is one of 16 initiatives being awarded a share of £40 million in Ofwat’s latest innovation competition – the Water Breakthrough Challenge.

We are delighted to announce that Durham University has partnered with Queen Mary University of London and UCL in a joint research project which aims to improve our mobile communications systems beyond 5G.

Our physicists are part of an international team that has successfully used a first-of-its-kind technique to measure the expansion of the Universe.