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Recent developments in Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) have unlocked our ability to quantify landscape and forest structure at unprecedented spatial scales, resolving individual branching structure and fine scale microtopographic variability in tandem. We have applied this technology to a collection of forest plots across Europe, capturing data across a climate gradient, and representing a broad range of species distributions and landscape forms.
12 December 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
W414 (Geography)
In 2019, the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a partnership between Durham University and Arts Council England, launched its first report investigating the teaching of young people to be creative and to think creatively, and made ten recommendations across not only schools, but also Early Years, apprenticeships, Universities and the arts.
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
CB008, Confluence Building, on the main Durham University Science Site off Stockton Road.
This lecture explores the current race in both the Global North and South to secure much needed critical minerals, and the attendant human rights abuses and impacts on local communities arising from the new resource rush.
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
PCL048, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
Christopher Marlowe’s seminal ‘Doctor Faustus’ sees ambition meet the supernatural in a gripping tale of power, temptation, and tragedy.
12 December 2024 - 14 December 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
How has resistance to destructive extractivist investment affected the outcomes of natural resource politics? This talk reflects on how social movements, NGOs, and other forms of active citizenship contesting the illegalities or socio-environmental injustices of over-extractive natural resource operations have influenced the economic outcomes in different contexts.
13 December 2024
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Online via Zoom
You are warmly invited to join fellow alumni in Durham for a December social event, organised by the North East Alumni Chapter.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Head of Steam, 3 Reform Place, North Road, Durham, DH1 4RZ
Space is already a crucial part of our everyday lives from checking the weather report, hitting ‘buy now’ or calling family at home. Recent developments are making space more accessible as we move from large, expensive, state-driven missions to smaller, low-cost satellites developed by private companies.
17 December 2024
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
D110 (Dawson Building)
18 December 2024
Pedro Fonseca, Master of Laws, Stanford University
19 December 2024
Zoom
You are warmly invited to join fellow Durham alumni and friends for a catch-up dinner before the holidays, organised by the Delhi Alumni Chapter.
21 December 2024
Chido, M-18, Outer Circle, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001
Led by Helen Fenwick and Patrick Zuk
01 January 2025 - 31 December 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
TBC
The International Centre of Public Accountability (ICOPA) at Durham University is delighted to announce its third international workshop taking place on 9th and 10th January.
09 January 2025 - 10 January 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Waterside Building, Durham University University Business School
The ‘Pasts in the Present’ project revolves around two fundamental questions: what is the cultural and social impact of former eras in the 21st century, and how does this interact with academic discourses? These questions have become increasingly important in the 21st century as ideologies of nation, often connected to racism and intolerance, have weaponised ideas about the past for contemporary political ends--and implicated academic disciplines in doing so.
09 January 2025
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Gree
Part of the Department of Earth Sciences Research Seminar Series.
13 January 2025
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM
ES231 (TR4)
Join us on 14 January for an Information Session about the School's PhD Studentships Application Process
14 January 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online
Our NHS is in crisis: What's next? Come and join our critical discussion and debate as we review Lord Darzi’s critical report on our NHS, debate causes, discuss solutions and make a plan of action to respond to his critique
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Durham University Business School Waterside Building Riverside Place Durham DH1 1SL
As private companies race to conquer the cosmos, new legal frontiers have emerged. Join us for a recurring guest lecture by a Durham alumnus on the cutting edge of the space industry on Space Law and Contemporary Legal Issues in the Space Industry, where we'll navigate the intricate legal landscape of outer space and dive into the complex legal framework surrounding space exploration, commercial space activities, and international space treaties.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
CLC407
Do you work or study at Durham University? Are you interested in what we do here at the Institute for Medical Humanities? Then come and join us for Fika!
15 January 2025
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
IMH (Confluence Building)
The Center for Neurodiversity Studies (CNS) at O.P. Jindal Global University (India) and the Centre for Neurodiversity & Development at Durham University (UK) cordially invite you to the online Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025. This year-long monthly, online seminar series aims to facilitate a global interdisciplinary dialogue on neurodiversity by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various cultural contexts.
15 January 2025 - 26 November 2025
CHESS Weekly Research Meetings (term time only)
16 January 2025
PO004, 48 Old Elvet
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