Two new, major exhibitions curated by MA Museum and Artefact Studies students exploring the art and history of storytelling, are now open and free to attend all summer. Visitors can discover ‘Beasts and Legends’ at Palace Green Library and ‘Telling Tales’ at the Oriental Museum.

My Greenspace Varsity Cup 2025 - 10 Feb to 28 Feb Your college needs YOU!

Congratulations to David! The British Geotechnical Association is the professional association for geotechnical engineering in the UK and a Specialist Knowledge Society of the Institution of Civil Engineers. It is the UK member society of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering which has 19,000 members worldwide.

Abundant Earth are hosting a series of workshops over the summer months. See below for full details.

The Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) of the UK Ministry of Defence is looking to recruit six early-career scholars for Associate Fellow roles and is seeking applications by the 16 April 2023.

[11/24] Dr Ellen Robson (Postdoctoral Research Associate at the IHRR) was awarded the Springer Young Researcher Award at the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics in Sydney.

Durham University's Mothers and Mothers-to-be Network (MAMS) has launched a research report: "The impact of Covid-19 on mothers working in UK Higher Education Institutions". The research was led by Anthropology's Fire Kovarovic and other members of the MAMS network from across the university including Michelle Dixon (RIS), Nicole Westmarland and Kirsten Hall (both from Sociology).

All DU graduates are invited to join us to learn more about careers that could have real impact on climate change.

Durham Climate Hub invites you to join them for two talks: 'Protecting and Conserving wildlife from Tees to Tyne' by Jim Cokill, Durham Wildlife Trust and 'The researcher, the shooter and the single malt maker: 3 in a bog' by Jess Fior-Berry, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK Peatland Programme.

The Botanic Garden Fun Day has now become an annual event and will take place on Bank Holiday Monday 26 May, from 10.30am-4pm.

Professor Brett Smith will be delivering several international keynotes and workshops to audiences around the world.

A new exhibition opening soon at our Oriental Museum depicts the horrors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing.