County Durham will take a sporting lead again in 2025 with another summer of big events, including the return of the Durham City Run Festival. Organisers have revealed details of this year’s Festival, ...

Delve into the past with Ancient, Medieval and Modern History. Explore the societies and cultures of the past, and consider how history is recorded and how we engage with and understand history today.

The funding, granted through the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) new Doctoral Landscape Awards scheme, will fund three full-time PhD students at Durham over the next five years. The AHRC ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research team, ...

Applications from women whose identities include multiple intersecting factors, including race, class, religion and women who are single mothers are particularly welcome. To be eligible for the ...

Using sex to manage social tension dates back over six million years to humans’ common ape ancestor, according to a new study. Researchers from our Department of Psychology compared sexual behaviour ...

Image - Digital tools can help scientists to predict crystallisation outcomes under a range of experimental conditions, streamlining manufacturing workflows and helping to bring new medicines to ...

We consider Engineering as an integrated subject rather than sub-dividing the discipline into narrow areas. As a result, our courses produce modern engineers who are capable of solving problems across ...

Our critically acclaimed student Choral Society and conductor, John Forsyth MBE, will bring a programme of energetic Baroque music to audiences in Newcastle Cathedral for the first time.

Researchers from our Department of Biosciences have made the surprising discovery that a type of gut bacteria has evolved to perform an important function after death. And our Department of Geography ...