Sport is a core part of Durham University life for many of our students: Palatinate purple stash, dress-up socials and events, award formals at college and inter-collegiate matches at Maiden Castle are all everyday occurrences at Durham. That is why we students especially appreciate the importance of sport and the massive…
College sport at Durham University is one of the largest intra-mural sports programmes in the UK, with over 550 teams competing regularly in over 60 leagues of 23 sports. The programme culminates each year in the Festival of Sport, being held today at Maiden Castle sports complex.
Annual sporting celebration
This…
As a member of the Durham Festival of the Arts (DFoA) committee, I have spent the last few weeks surrounded by the plans for the various concerts and shows which will be staged during this year’s festival. As we’ve been meeting once a week since October to discuss and plan the festival, it is crazy to think that it is now…
In my first year at Durham I became part of the first St Aidan’s College Quidditch Team – we would go and throw a ball around on St Mary’s field on Sunday’s mornings and then go back to college for brunch. Since then Durham Quidditch has grown in popularity and now boasts two University teams – Durhamstrang and the…
Kate is now back in Durham and reflecting on Durham Student Theatre’s recent trip to take part in the National Student Drama Festival (NSDF).
The Saturday morning dawned bright – (and surprisingly frosty!) as I headed to Maiden Castle to collect the van to travel to Hull. We packed it full to the brim with props…
Radio tracking collared leopards while pregnant
Recording data on eartagged samango monkeys for my job, while wearing my son
I enrolled at Durham University for the first time a few days after my 18th birthday. I had never lived in the UK or away from home before and I felt like I’d landed on another planet where I couldn’t…
As a Hindu student, I was keen to go along to the traditional Holi celebrations that took place at the University’s Oriental Museum. Holi is a Hindu festival, known as the Festival of Colours, it falls on the last full moon day of the Hindu month of Phalgun: around late February or March.
Holi away from home
It was my…
After spending 14 years in Catholic education, it seemed a bit of a culture shock walking into a secular environment, not starting the day off with our usual prayers and having no longer having the compulsory School masses and RE. My introduction to Durham’s student faith support started at my old School with the President of…
The Easter season is upon us; and unfortunately, to much of the student population (in particular the arts and humanities students), this means that “summative season” has started. For those of you lucky enough to be blissfully unaware of what summatives are, they are essentially coursework: work usually in the form of…
To this day, I still feel incredibly fortunate to have performed in the cast of Ordinary Days that Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) performed back in March of last year. Ordinary Days is a musical that tells the story of four young New Yorkers, as their lives intersect in their search for fulfillment, happiness, love…
