By studying the chemical makeup of a stalagmite from a cave in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, the researchers discovered a ...

An ancient Bermuda stalagmite has revealed more about past shifting of the Gulf Stream. Professor James Baldini, in our ...

Supporting scale-ups in South Yorkshire or boosting SME adoption in the North East doesn’t come at the expense of progress in ...

A new tool to understand how people imagine differently when reading could have potential implications for the treatment of mental ill health. The ReaderBank Imagination Quiz has been developed by an ...

The UK’s proteostasis capability has been bolstered by the award of a BBSRC Network Grant. The grant will support the future ...

DUCFS is best known for its four-night fashion show each February, which attracts over 4,000 attendees. Behind the glitz and ...

Professor Bentley and Durham Geographers are partner investigators of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic ...

The Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (CRiVA) is dedicated to improving knowledge about interpersonal violence and abuse, and professional and societal responses to it.

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Combined Honours in Social Sciences provides flexibility and choice across Durham’s breadth of world-renowned research-led education, allowing you to create a bespoke, academically ambitious degree ...

We are delighted to maintain our position as one of the TOP 100 psychology departments in the world, a distinction we have proudly held since 2022. The 2025 rankings assess over 55 subjects from over ...

Although now a fully mixed College, the history of St Mary’s College is entwined with that of women’s education at the University of Durham. In 1895 the University Senate agreed to the granting of ...