We’re celebrating a successful funding application which will enable our experts to establish a new training tool to help tackle weight discrimination in healthcare.

The UK’s landmark light art festival, Lumiere, will return to Durham in November turning the city into an illuminated art gallery.

Professor Simon Hogg, Emeritus Professor in our Department of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng).

The Church of England must do more to create a culture in which spiritual authority is handled safely, according to a new report from Durham University.

A student team from Durham competed in the 55th series of seminal BBC Two quiz show University Challenge.

A new study involving a researcher at Durham University Business School presents shocking new figures on child poverty.

We have been named the UK’s University of the Year 2026 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.

Vice Chancellor and Warden, Professor Karen O'Brien hosted the annual executive board meeting of the Matariki Network this week (16-18 September).

Durham research is supporting a new exhibition inspired by the works of Lafcadio Hearn.

We recently collaborated on a parliamentary roundtable to discuss the importance of soil health.

A New Zealand researcher is joining us on a four-year professorship to study the bioethics of the use, curation, and repatriation of anatomical skeletal collections.

Ancient plant samples have shown that farmers in the Middle East prioritised wine production over olive growing during times of climatic change.