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.

In January, sales of Tesla cars slumped across five European countries – the UK, France, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands.

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, ...

Dr Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza is a Professor of Materials Chemistry in our department of Chemistry, in the field of molecular crystals and crystallisation.

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.

Storytelling is a powerful way to foster understanding and empathy. Research from Princeton University shows that storytelling can synchronise brain wave patterns between the storyteller and the ...

Main image: The ring of light surrounding the centre of the galaxy NGC 6505, captured by ESA’s Euclid telescope, is a stunning example of an Einstein ring. Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, ...

Researchers have made the surprising discovery that a type of gut bacteria has evolved to use one of their enzymes to perform an important function after death. Darwin’s theory of natural selection ...

We have joined the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA), reaffirming our institution’s commitment to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts. The alliance connects ...

Babies show positive responses to the smell of foods they were exposed to in the womb after they are born. The research led ...