A Durham scientist is part of an international research team drilling into the seabed off the east coast of Japan to learn more about the 2011 Tohoku great earthquake. The 2011 Tohoku earthquake was ...

Professor Matthew Bullimore from our Department of Mathematical Sciences has been awarded a €2 million Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The funding will support a research ...

A new project led by our Law School aims to re-focus international law research by centring it on care rather than harm. Our Professor of Global Law, Catherine O’Rourke, has received funding from the ...

Our alumna Heidi Alexander MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Transport in the UK Government. Ms Alexander holds an undergraduate degree in Geography and a master’s degree in European Urban ...

Northern Accelerator has been awarded the prestigious Place-Based Knowledge Exchange (KE) Initiative of the Year at the ...

The book, entitled ‘Gendering Green Criminology’, has been named one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year. The ...

Ordered Universe was a global collaboration that brought new perspectives to medieval science, involving over 150 researchers ...

Caption: Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University, and Paul Ramsbottom OBE, Wolfson ...

A new exhibition ‘Knitted Together: The Korean Lives and Legacies of Richard and Joan Rutt’, focusing on the lives of two of ...

We’ve launched a new £5m research centre to support North East England’s growing space industry and lead on the sustainable ...

Interneurons work a bit like the brain's traffic controllers where they regulate the firing of other brain cells, acting like a sophisticated brake system. This control is critical because when ...

The ethical and governance review co-authored by Professor Cave concludes that a phased approach is needed – ‘soft’ governance implementing the UK SCBEM Code of Practice, as a stepping stone to ‘hard’ ...