Downing Street announced today that the Revd Canon Smitha Prasadam, currently Chaplain of St Albans, Copenhagen, and member of College Council, will take up the role of Bishop of Huddersfield.

At the Northern Regional Sailing BUCS Qualifiers, the best of the best universities in the North look to claim one of the top four spots in the region, in order to qualify straight to BUCS Team Racing Finals. Read on to find out how Durham University Sailing Club performed over an intense weekend of racing.

New heads have been appointed at Grey College, Josephine Butler College and John Snow College.

New blog post written by Joe Mulhern (Honorary Fellow, Durham University History Department)

We are delighted to welcome Bentley Crudgington to our Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

We’re part of a group of leading UK universities supporting women entrepreneurs through the launch of the UK’s first WE Innovate National network.

Global Coalition Calls for Action Against Viral “Brain Injury Delivery Systems” The Repercussion Group, an international coalition of academics, clinicians, researchers, and advocates, has today released a new White Paper titled “Run It Straight: A Call to Action Against a Perfect Brain Injury Delivery System.”

We welcome Professor Grant Macaskill to our University as our new Lightfoot Professor of Divinity. He will join our leading Department of Theology and Religion in September.

Durham University Light Opera Group, otherwise known as DULOG, our largest musical theatre company, brings its annual blockbuster musical to the Gala Theatre this January. ‘Luck be a Lady’, ‘If I Were a Bell’ and ‘Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat’ are just a few of the popular tunes featured in the classic musical, ‘Guys and Dolls’, that Durham DULOG will be performing from Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 January.

New publication by Dr Kevin Waite

Dr. Eric Skytterholm Egan’s siúil go ciúin, a 50-minute cycle for prepared piano, was premiered in Norway in September and the recording is now available online.

We’re proud to be the UK’s number 1 team sport university and that over 75% of our students take part in sport or physical activity.