The successful candidate will undertake a full-time PhD (and Master’s if required) in the Sociology department at Durham ...

Our Chancellor and acclaimed foreign affairs specialist, Dr Fiona Hill, is launching a new scholarship scheme to support students from North East England who come from lower income households.

Launched in late 2024, the IMEMS Inventing Futures programme is designed to draw on the research community’s knowledge of the past to tackle the urgent challenges facing humankind today.

Traditionally, the space industry and astrophysicists assumed any particles that are left in the upper atmosphere after the materials burn up are negligible. One team of atmospheric researchers, ...

Unlike the physical and biological sciences, which have long benefited from digital research infrastructures (DRI), humanities research has seen less investment in advanced computational methods.

His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camila will attend a Royal Maundy Service at Durham Cathedral on Thursday 17 April. Royal Maundy takes place each year on the Thursday before Easter ...

The Office for Students has agreed our new Access and Participation Plan (APP) which details the action we're taking to make Durham more diverse and inclusive than ever before. In her monthly column, ...

Our Spotlight On series celebrates our academics’ global impact. Professor Claire Horwell is a world-renowned expert on the health hazards of volcanic air pollution. Claire is a Professor of Geohealth ...

Johny Daniel, an assistant professor in our School of Education, writes on what can be done to help these students catch up with their peers. English isn’t the first language of over 20% of pupils in ...