Durham Global Week 2025 will take place from Saturday 1 – Sunday 9 March 2025. All staff and students are encouraged to get involved, by submitting proposals for events to be part of the programme.

To produce a hazard map for landslide susceptibility in Southeast Asia. To produce guidelines for landslides hazards and protective measures in Southeast Asia. To establish a think-tank focussing on ...

Climate change is one of the biggest threats facing the world today. In her monthly column, our Vice-Chancellor Karen O'Brien explores how Durham University is both pioneering research to understand ...

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

Northern Accelerator has been awarded the prestigious Place-Based Knowledge Exchange (KE) Initiative of the Year at the PraxisAuril Knowledge Exchange Awards 2024. Having transformed research ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger Penrose, when matter collapses under its own gravitational pull, the result ...

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’ ...

Modern humans, Neanderthals, and other recent relatives on our human family tree evolved bigger brains much more rapidly than earlier species, a new study of human brain evolution has found. The study ...