We are excited about Durham University’s new Student Community Warden service. In its first year, there are two Wardens meeting members of the local community, being a student presence at meetings like the Durham City Safety Group, and planning projects to make Durham a cleaner, greener place.
We will be helping…
When I arrived at university, like most people, I was afraid I would not find a place where I fit in. In a university of 20,000 people, it is strangely easy to worry that you will end up feeling lost or alone. However, I found my place of belonging in the Durham University Gymnastics and Trampolining Club. DUGTC is a merged club…
Footprint was supposed to be a one off. In 2018, we aimed to bring people together with a lineup of outstanding speakers in an open forum to discuss environmental action in Durham. Little did we know that out of that first event, a group of astonishing Durham students would decide to take the next step and organise Footprint…
I am a second-year Law student at Trevelyan College and this year, with another student from Van Mildert, I took part in the European Human Rights Moot Court Competition. This involved competing against 100+ teams from the best universities in Europe in written and oral advocacy rounds over the last year, focusing on a case…
Durham University PhD astrophysics research student Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro talks about how her studies have led her to learn a lot about machine learning statistics and Artificial Intelligence, skills that can be applied to other fields like healthcare and natural language processing.
Find out more about Astronomy and Cosmology…
The collegiate system
For those of you who don’t know, Durham is a collegiate university with seventeen different colleges, which means that once you’re allocated a college this is where you stay for first year (unless you live out) and this becomes a kind of community for the rest of your time at university. For the…
For the 2020-21 academic year, I was due to travel to Switzerland for a year abroad at HEC Lausanne. Unfortunately, COVID-19 meant I lost the first term entirely and have resorted to doing a few modules in the second term online. Whilst two replacement projects from Durham have given me something extra to do, I still found…
When I started my PhD, I imagined that in four years time I would become a highly specialised researcher in Cosmology, and would not learn much about anything else. However, since I started my studies at Durham I have worked in widely different fields such as epidemiological simulations, Astrophysics and Natural Language…
