A team of our own distinguished alumni and academics will be taking on rival university teams on this year’s BBC University Challenge Christmas Special.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sue Black OBE, has recently been named as the incoming Deputy President of BCS – the Chartered Institute for IT.

Our staff and students are supporting local charities to make Christmas dreams come true, with their annual Christmas Wish Tree Appeal.

We’re celebrating the news that Professor Fuschia Sirois from our Department of Psychology has been appointed as joint Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Health Psychology, a journal of the British Psychological Society.

We've partnered with Nostos Homes, a UK based charity building modular homes for forcibly displaced families across the world, to develop a data-driven report that analyses patterns of forcible displacement following a natural disaster.

New book entitled ‘Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine’ by Professor Shaun Pattinson from our Law School presents an innovative legal theory and applies it to future developments in biomedicine.

To celebrate the start of the festive season, pupils from three North East Primary schools have recorded their own Christmas single in the state-of-the-art recording studio at Durham University’s Collingwood College.

A Durham University expert on climate change has been appointed to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC).

Durham’s South College bar has become the first university bar in the country to achieve the 5* Licensing SAVI (Security and Vulnerability Initiative) accreditation. Safety is a top priority at Durham and the Licensing SAVI accreditation, gives an extra layer of reassurance, helping students to feel safe in college bars.  

We are delighted to join the Nature Positive Universities Alliance as a founding member.

We are looking forward to an exciting two days of Winter Congregation ceremonies in Durham Cathedral for our graduates. A total of six ceremonies will take place on Thursday 5 and Friday 6 January 2023. Students from 120 countries will graduate in the magnificent setting of Durham Cathedral, in the company of their families and friends. 

Our highly-rated Department of Biosciences has helped to decipher the mechanical code of DNA.