Our researchers are at the forefront of global innovation, and they are actively addressing real-world problems with their pioneering research.

Stuart Hunt has been appointed as Director of Library Services and Collections and University Librarian. He will begin his role on 1 December 2023.

Over the summer, we have welcomed over 40 friends from our twinned Ukrainian university, Zaporizhzhia National University (ZNU) to Durham.

Our Computer Science is one of the top-ranked departments in the UK and it is rapidly growing.

We’ve renamed our city centre venue, the Assembly Rooms Theatre, in honour of our former Chancellor and world-renowned opera singer, Sir Thomas Allen. The venue will now be known as the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre.

Our electrical apprentice Reece Spurdens is celebrating after winning an Apprentice of the Year award.

Senior Learning Designer Rachelle O’Brien in the Durham Centre for Academic Development (DCAD) is a well-deserved recipient of the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship this year.

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Former Durham student, Philippa (Pippa) Frizzelle, has been awarded a prestigious scholarship which will see her pursue further studies at Harvard Law School later this year.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Rebecca Senior from our Department of Biosciences has been awarded the Founders' Prize by the British Ecological Society.

Congratulations to Professor Carlos Frenk who has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society.

For International Day of Friendship, which is 30 July, Associate Professor Amanda Herbert from our Department of History explores the importance of friendship between women in the early modern era.