We’ve renamed our city centre venue, the Assembly Rooms Theatre, in honour of our former Chancellor and world-renowned opera singer, Sir Thomas Allen. The venue will now be known as the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre.

[07/24] Dr Hanna Ruszczyk spoke at the GLiTCH Project conference on migration confinement.

As part of Durham Global Week, we are delighted to announce the shortlists for the Local to Global and Respect, Fairness and Equity awards.

Approved researchers at Durham University will now be able to securely access Government Administration data to better understand our society and economy, as the University joins the national SafePod Network.

[12/24] Dr Ellen Robson, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience (IHRR) co-organised a workshop on 'Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Fiji's Road Network' at Fiji National University.

The latest Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Newsletter should have arrived in your inbox this morning!

Dr Mark Childs, our Digital Learning Designer in the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

Durham Law School is continuing its mission to raise awareness of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by welcoming Justice Brian Preston, the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales, as a visiting professor.

Welcome to Alona Snisarenko, who joins us as an administrator in the Discovery Research Platform’s Operations Team

Please register to attend this event on 28th November, Marriott Hotel, Durham.  There will then be brief presentations of the new key findings and implications from our British Academy study of early child education in India and Pakistan (grant code ECE190026), and from our evaluation of the impact of Pupil Premium funding in England (arising from ESRC grant number ES/N012046/).

On 8th December the WRIHW Early Career Researcher’s (ECR) Committee held a networking event for ECRs. 

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine remains of immense concern to us all. As a University, we are proud to enter the third year of partnership with our Ukrainian twinned university, Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU), with continued sharing of best practice, institutional capacity-building and research collaborations.