This time last week our Women's Lacrosse team were preparing to travel down to Nottingham to play against the senior England team to help them prepare for the Lacrosse World Cup next summer.

The Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022 was announced to coincide with the Platinum Jubilee celebrations. We would like to congratulate and celebrate the achievements of the following alumni, supporters and friends who are honourees in this year’s list.

Our Vice-Chancellor Professor Karen O'Brien reflects on her first term at Durham and shares some upcoming opportunities.

Two days of blissful celebration at Durham Cathedral has drawn to a close for our Winter Congregation.

Durham University are dedicated to maintaining our estate, which includes ancient woodland, grassland, wildflower meadows and wetland habitats, while also promoting biodiversity.

We’re celebrating the proud cultural heritage of County Durham by supporting an exciting programme of cultural projects and activities over the next few years. County Durham was recently shortlisted for the UK Government’s UK City of Culture title for 2025. In the end we narrowly missed out but working on the bid has helped forge even stronger relationships with culture partners, providing a catalyst for exciting future collaborations.

We marked a truly historic and joyous occasion with the visit of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla for the Royal Maundy Service at Durham Cathedral.

In May 2024, we celebrated a key milestone in the construction work currently taking place at Rushford Court in Durham City Centre, with the ceremonial tightening of a ‘golden bolt’.

Hester Hockin-Boyers (PhD student in Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences & Department of Sociology), Dr. Stacey Pope (Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences) and Dr. Kimberly Jamie from our Department of Sociology discuss the impact of social media on women’s mental health.

We are ranked 101-150 globally and joint 18th in the UK in the prestigious QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023.

Team Durham’s Minority Ethnic Showcase will take place at The Sport and Wellbeing Park on Wednesday 15th of June. The event will dedicate a series of matches/sessions from a variety of sports for participants from all ethnic minority communities, highlighting the talented athletes we have representing Team Durham. We encourage clubs to get behind their athletes who represent ethnic minority backgrounds, to come and show their support during the event.  

Antony Long introduces himself as Acting Vice-Chancellor and provides an update on Michaelmas term as teaching begins.