Durham University
Durham University is a globally outstanding centre of teaching and research based in historic Durham City in the UK.
We are a collegiate university committed to inspiring our people to do outstanding things at Durham and in the world.
We conduct research that improves lives globally and we are ranked as a world top 100 university with an international reputation in research and education (QS World University Rankings 2024).
We are a member of the Russell Group of leading research-intensive UK universities and we are consistently ranked as a top 10 university in national league tables (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide, Guardian University Guide and The Complete University Guide).
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Autumn is the first novel to tackle the UK’s impending departure from the EU.
The distinction between food insecurity and famine is artificial and unhelpful. Hungry people are suffering however their situation falls below the radar.
If Swift’s new single is anything to go by, the poet and the former ‘pop princess’ have an awful lot in common.
Too many economists have refused to take seriously the idea that Brexit could economically benefit the UK.
Britain is likely to become an increasingly hostile environment for European newcomers.
For decades, power in Kenya has lain with the government and administrative organisations that serve it. The Supreme Court’s decision calling for a new election suggests that this may have changed.
Displaying Confederate statues in a carefully curated museum would help end a toxic debate about the difference between remembering and venerating.
Highly distressing and intrusive, but not illegal.
The police are cracking down on UK gun owners - but is out-sourcing intelligence gathering to the general public the right course of action?
Kenya’s history of electoral problems is interwoven with a political drama which pits one dynasty against another in a rivalry that goes back more than 50 years.
Excavating the history of migration along the frontier of the Danube.
The struggles of being a female sports fan.
Women also sexually abuse children, but their reasons are often different to men’s.
The land reform programme in Zimbabwe has come at the cost of wildlife and opens up the debate on people versus nature. But there is a way forward.
How stubbing out cigarettes helped to clear the air.
Harry Potter has taught us so much about life, love, and learning.
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A podcast on what music does to our brains, and why it moves us.
Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
An outline of the ways laws to restrict the activities of terrorist suspects have evolved.
The way we talk about attacks is actually helping the extremists’ monstrous cause.



















