We welcome world-leading researchers to Durham through our Fellowship scheme, providing the time and space to work on IAS Major Projects and build future collaborations with Durham academics. We host several major projects each year, as well as supporting many nascent early ideas through our development projects. Scroll down this page to find out more about this years' major projects, and the projects in development for next year.

These include, among others and most recently, 'Opportunities in Pollution', which explored the biological, physical and social impacts of pollution on micro- organisms, plants, animals and human stakeholders and the interdependent mechanisms of evolution and adaptation to it, particularly in the North East.