This year, the students of Durham’s MA Museum & Artefact Studies course honoured the local men and women of County Durham involved in the First World War through the creation of an exhibition and associated education pack.
For their course, each team was asked to commemorate some local aspect of the war in order to connect…
Hello, we are the Van Mildert College Environment Reps and we have been asked to write a blog post about the Green Move Out scheme. As we have no idea how to write a blog, we have decided to start with a short limerick to warm up:
“Have you heard of the Green Move Out?
It’s all we can talk about!
Your tat is our…
This year, Hatfield College JCR, has tried to combat apathy regarding LGBTQ+ concerns by creating a PRIDE week specifically designed to get Allies informed and involved in the LGBTQ+ community. We’ve created a new page, ‘Hatfield Circle of Pride’, which references Hatfield’s mascot, the lion, inferring that Hatfield’s…
Natural Sciences student Sophie Johnson interviewed artist-in-residence Alan O’Cain.
Here is what he had to say:
How long have you worked at Durham University?
I have been artist/writer-in-residence here since October 2015. I share my time between Josephine Butler College and St Cuthbert’s Society and have been…
Originally hailing from the North East, I was always determined to spend some of my three years in Durham helping the local community. I plucked up the courage in my third year, volunteering for the ‘Beyond Food’ project which was organised by the student-led organisation Student Community Action (SCA). This scheme teamed up…
The Durham Regatta was first held in 1834 making it the second oldest regatta in the country (the oldest being Chester Regatta). Durham Regatta, developed from the annual procession of boats originally assembled in 1815 to celebrate the victory at Waterloo. Rowing as well as generous vast quantities of food and drink…
My Year Exploring Race, Crime & Justice with the Global Citizenship Programme
1st June 2016
When I arrived at Ustinov College to meet my fellow Global Citizenship Programme (GCP) compatriots I must admit I was a little apprehensive. I am a mature student, and I ‘live out’ so I was a bit worried that everyone else would be wonderfully connected and I would be forever trying to catch up.
After five minutes with the…
I am a postgraduate in physics and I study superconductors, mainly their capacity to carry large currents. My research is quite technical and I am trying to better understand uncertainties in a measurement technique. I look at errors which have been considered to be small, but systematic, and try to see if we can account for…
As ambitious postgraduate students, we were looking for opportunities to foster our entrepreneurial spirit alongside our studies. Blueprint was one of these opportunities for us which we heard about in one of our classes. After some brainstorming sessions, we developed a business idea and entered the competition.
We wanted to…
A Look at the Durham University Career, Employability and Enterprise Centre
17th May 2016
Anthropology and Archaeology student Meg Kneafsey has written a student guide to using the Durham University Career, Employability and Enterprise Centre. You can find out more by reading Meg’s blog below or follow CEEC on Facebook
and Twitter…
