Four major innovation projects in North East England – all involving or connected to Durham University – are to receive a ...

We have launched a new fellowship to give a talented early-career researcher the freedom to explore the most ambitious ideas ...

Pillay has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Born into a ...

Women leaders experiencing menopause may feel psychologically depleted, but they can also become more empathetic towards colleagues, according to research from Durham University Business School. The ...

AI / writing aids are now commonplace and cross a broad spectrum: from simple spell checkers in MS Word to generative AI. While the exact line between what may (such as spell checkers) and may not be ...

We frequently hit the headlines for our world-leading research and events. Our research spans the sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities in subjects from astronomy and cosmology to ...

Our postgraduate anthropology degree programmes offer a range of skills to equip you for the job market. Our students have gone on to have successful careers in development, health, government, policy ...

The MSc in Behavioural Economics gives you the tools to understand how people really make decisions. Instead of relying on assumptions about rational behaviour, you’ll explore the psychological ...

The new DiMeN-XL Doctoral Landscape Award will support the recruitment and training of around 60 PhD researchers across the five northern universities. Durham joins the universiti ...

This week Professor Thom Brooks, Professor of Law and Government, launched the most comprehensive report into the issue of asylum seekers using small boats to cross the Channel to Britain. A key ...

The research compared ancient rock carvings, or ‘petroglyphs’, of boats across 12 sites in Northwest Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal), with well documented petroglyphs in Southern Scandinavia ...