Durham University has entered into a partnership with the MarcoPolo700 Foundation to develop a pioneering East-West Institute in Hong Kong and Durham.

Rising greenhouse gas emissions could see the size of extreme floods in the Central Himalayas increase by between as much as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Not all peasants enjoyed the same level of benefits. Leave entitlements were negotiated between lords and their tenants. Practices, therefore, varied between manors across medieval England. Elsewhere, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a major Bronze Age settlement on the Kazakh Steppe region, shedding new light on a key phase of Central Asian prehistory. The discovery reveals a regional ...

Our copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio is on display for the first time in over a decade, as the centrepiece of a new exhibition - Shakespeare Recovered. The Durham edition of the Folio, one of the ...