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DEI Professor in Practice Andrew Crossland takes part in BBC Radio 4 Rethink… Energy.
Durham Energy Institute is delighted that our Professor in Practice Andrew Crossland joined the panel for BBC Radio 4 Rethink… Energy on 31st October 2024.
The podcast looked at the future energy landscape and what is needed to keep the lights on, charge our many devices and power our electric vehicles in the future.
Generous donations to Christmas Tree Wish Appeal
Our annual Christmas Tree Wish Appeal is once again helping Christmas wishes come true for local families. Students and staff generously donated over 260 gifts, that will now be distributed across County Durham through our charity partners.
Spirituality during the challenging COVID-19 times
A video by Fred Craigie, PhD and clinical psychologist, on spirituality, healing relationships, resilience, and wellbeing.
A welcome return of IAS Fellows
The IAS welcomed its Michaelmas Fellows to Durham earlier this week to work with Durham colleagues on two major IAS projects.
How Durham University is contributing to the health agenda
Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Karen O'Brien, explores how we are contributing to the health agenda, locally and globally.
Find out how to have a sustainable Halloween
Find out how to have a sustainable Halloween... if you dare!
New incentive scheme rewards staff and students for turning green
Be sustainable and get rewarded, that’s the message for our new ‘My Greenspace’ App
In partnership with sustainable software company Team Jump, we have launched a new online platform and mobile app ‘My Greenspace’, where students and staff can log their sustainable behaviours and redeem ‘Green Points’. The purpose of the app is to increase participation by students and staff in the university’s green agenda, with the slogan ‘small acts, big difference’. Each month, the biggest individual point
Durham Academics recognised in two of Nation’s most coveted literary awards
Our Department of English Studies is celebrating the phenomenal success of two of its own - Sunjeev Sahota and Kayo Chingonyi - following the recognition their work has received from the Booker Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry respectively.
Sunjeev Sahota’s China Room has been longlisted for the Booker Prize and Kayo Chingonyi’s collection of poetry A Blood Condition has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry for the Best Collection 2021.
2nd year Physics student wins Axiom Space award
Iyngkarran Kumaraguruparan has been awarded a STARS scholarship for his Microgravity Printed Circuit Board, one of only 3 winning entries (and the only one produced by a single individual) in this year's prestigious international competition.
Forging Resilient Partnerships: Durham University IHRR and UP Resilience Institute
[09/24] IHRR Director Professor Bruce D Malamud visited the University of the Philippines (UP) to discuss a Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutes
New exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the 1924 Everest Expedition
Our new summer exhibition opens at the Oriental Museum on 24 May to mark the centenary of the first Western, and ultimately tragic, attempt to climb Mount Everest.
The exhibition, called “Eternal Ascent: Bentley Beetham and the 1924 Everest Expedition” tells the story from the perspective of expedition member, Bentley Beetham, a biology teacher from Darlington.
Honouring Professor Peter Rhodes' Legacy
Peter Rhodes (1940-2021) was internationally renowned as an eminent historian of ancient Greece. Here in Durham, he taught for 40 years and was a devoted friend of the Department even after his retirement. He is much missed in Durham and all around the world.