The UK could store enough green hydrogen in depleted North Sea oil and gas fields to meet the country’s future electricity demands for seven years. The researchers behind this discovery, Professor Stuart Jones, Professor Chris Groves, and Associate Professor in Practice Dr Andrew Crossland, tell us how using the depleted fields for hydrogen storage could take conventional gas power stations off the grid altogether by 2040.

Dr Andrew Crossland, Associate Professor in Practice in our Department of Engineering, explores how AI data centres could evolve from major energy users into valuable assets that support a cleaner, more flexible electricity grid.

We’ve secured over £700,000 from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to help more young people access technical careers in environmental science.

We’re helping to shape a major new facility to support advanced microfabrication activities across North East England’s universities and high-tech industries.

Professor Ashraf Osman and Co-authors received the 2025 BGA Medal for advancing understanding of pile behaviour in unsaturated expansive clays through innovative experimental testing and advanced numerical modelling.

A pioneering clean tech company that was spun out of Durham academic research has secured £1.5m of funding to further its development.

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Cutting-edge Engineering research into custom 3D plates for reconstructive surgery has been awarded funding from the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Researchers from our top-rated Engineering Department have used travel to cricket matches at Edgbaston Stadium in Birmingham to test a new tool designed to help cut transport emissions in cities.

Experts from our Engineering and Philosophy departments have contributed to a new report highlighting the importance of soil in building the UK’s national resilience.

A new report has set out what foundations would be needed to install wind turbines off the coast of North East England.

Dr Ted O’Hare, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Engineering at Durham University, has been awarded the 2025 Roger Owen Prize by the UK Association for Computational Mechanics (UKACM) for the best PhD thesis in computational mechanics in the UK.