The Melsonby Hoard has been nominated for a national award by one of the UK’s leading archaeological publications. The hoard, ...

Not all peasants enjoyed the same level of benefits. Leave entitlements were negotiated between lords and their tenants.

The quality of teaching and learning that our students enjoy at Durham has been recognised at a global awards ceremony. Five Durham education projects were shortlisted in the QS Reimagine Education ...

Professor Minnerop said the adoption of a new Just Transition Mechanism, the conformation of the new consensus target of 1.5 Degree Celsius as the long-term temperature goal, and the renewed emphasis ...

Athena Swan is a UK-wide initiative that recognises real progress in advancing gender equality in higher education and research. Having held a Bronze Award for over a decade, this award shows that ...

Miranda Wang, a PhD student in our Law School, has won this year’s international Matariki Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. The competition challenges PhD students to explain their research to a ...

Work has begun to redevelop the Fellows’ Garden at University College to revitalise its purpose as an accessible outdoor space enabling student and community wellbeing and enrichment. After some five ...

Lifestyle factors such as sleep, diet and physical activity are now widely recognised as important influences on mental ...

Imagine a busy classroom with children hearing and interpreting lots of sounds around them. PhD student, Katherine Collier, from our School of Education has looked at the academic impact on children ...

Professor Pablo Munoz, Professor in Entrepreneurship, and PhD candidate Marieshka Barton explore the complex relationship between entrepreneurship and mental health. The relationship between ...

Researchers from our top-rated Psychology department have discovered that social bonding behaviours in chimpanzees, like grooming and play, can spread through groups much like contagious yawns or ...

Efforts to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may not go far enough to save the world’s ice sheets. That’s according to a new study led by Professor Chris ...