Welcome to the second part of our end-of-year review reflecting on some of our major research projects and achievements of 2022.

Christmas and New Year are traditionally periods for reflection, so what better time to look back at some of our achievements of 2022?

We were very pleased to be a Platinum Sponsor of the Foundation of Light’s Carols of Light Event.

Our astronomers have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved.

Our new Chancellor Fiona Hill is among four leading thinkers chosen to deliver a prestigious BBC Reith Lecture this December.

A team of our own distinguished alumni and academics will be taking on rival university teams on this year’s BBC University Challenge Christmas Special.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Sue Black OBE, has recently been named as the incoming Deputy President of BCS – the Chartered Institute for IT.

Our staff and students are supporting local charities to make Christmas dreams come true, with their annual Christmas Wish Tree Appeal.

We’re celebrating the news that Professor Fuschia Sirois from our Department of Psychology has been appointed as joint Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Health Psychology, a journal of the British Psychological Society.

New book entitled ‘Law at the Frontiers of Biomedicine’ by Professor Shaun Pattinson from our Law School presents an innovative legal theory and applies it to future developments in biomedicine.

To celebrate the start of the festive season, pupils from three North East Primary schools have recorded their own Christmas single in the state-of-the-art recording studio at Durham University’s Collingwood College.

A Durham University expert on climate change has been appointed to the governing body of the European Research Council (ERC).