How did the North East region transform from one with innovative firms to one with assembly line factories to eventually become a destination for call centres and Amazon distribution centres?

Dr Katharine Cheston, from our Institute for Medical Humanities and Department of Sociology, is working with the charity Action for ME to better understand what it is like to live with ME and long Covid.

The UK must significantly increase water availability to meet its decarbonisation goals, according to new research led by our Department of Engineering and involving our Department of Earth Sciences.

Dr William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor in Franciscan Studies, in our Department of Theology and Religion, discusses the challenges facing the new Archbishop of Canterbury.

Dr Ge Chen has won an international honour for his research into freedom of expression with a focus on China.

We are strengthening our research links with Japan with the appointment of Professor Claire O’Malley as the UK co-chair of the Japan-UK RENKEI consortium.

Durham University will take a key role in delivering a new AI Growth Zone in North East England – an initiative that promises to create thousands of jobs.

The Church of England must do more to create a culture in which spiritual authority is handled safely, according to a new report from Durham University.

Ancient plant samples have shown that farmers in the Middle East prioritised wine production over olive growing during times of climatic change.

Astronomers have solved a centuries-old puzzle surrounding one of the Universe’s oldest and densest star systems.

Five of the most-publicised polar geoengineering ideas are highly unlikely to help the polar regions, according to a new study involving our geographers.

Twenty of our researchers will take important roles in assessing UK universities’ research quality.