Durham has joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, continuing its long history as a significant site of scholarship and learning for over 1,000 years.

Professor Karen O’Brien participated in her first Coimbra Group Rectors’ Advisory Group meeting in Brussels last month.

A culturally significant Māori cloak will go on display in Aotearoa New Zealand as part of a new partnership between Durham University and Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Joe Docherty, who served as Chair of our governing University Council until summer 2025, is to be made a life peer.

We’re spearheading a groundbreaking research initiative that will drive the UK’s transition to low-carbon energy and foster innovation in geoenergy technologies.

A new agreement between Durham University Business School and the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) will advance shared efforts to drive research-informed policy across the North.

A new study highlights that economic inactivity is driven by deep-rooted structural and social barriers, rather than a lack of willingness to work.

Researchers in our School of Education are launching a new project to strengthen digital inclusion and address longstanding digital inequalities across North East England. 

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re reflecting on some of the achievements, discoveries, and moments that shaped an exceptional 12 months for Durham.

Durham University has entered into a partnership with the MarcoPolo700 Foundation to develop a pioneering East-West Institute in Hong Kong and Durham.

Scientists from the British Geological Survey (BGS) working with Professor Bob Holdsworth from our Earth Sciences Department have been given access to cores drilled through the Great Glen Fault, the UK’s largest fault zone.

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as 73% and 84% by the end of this century.