Research - Durham University

Latest research news
- Parents should be allowed to make informed choices over infant bed-sharing, says child sleep expert
  
  Parents should be given more information and be encouraged to make informed choices to minimise the risks of infant bed-sharing, a child sleep expert has said.
- Brain frontal lobes not sole centre of human intelligence
  
  Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers.
- Museum find proves exotic ‘big cat’ prowled British countryside a century ago
  
  The rediscovery of a mystery animal in a museum’s underground storeroom proves that a non-native ‘big cat’ prowled the British countryside at the turn of the last century.
- New fracking research led by Durham University finds it is “not significant” in causing earthquakes
  
  A new study of hundreds of thousands of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) operations has found that the process has only caused earth tremors that could be felt on the surface in three cases.

Research is at the core of Durham University. It shapes and inspires the disciplinary structure of our departments, several of which lead the UK - and even the world - in their fields. Research leads the content and development of our teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and creates new cross-disciplinary programmes through our centres and institutes. In partnership with policy-makers, industry, healthcare and education, Durham's cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research shapes local, national and international agendas.

Links to recent research highlights and to the Research Office and other units and schemes that support our research can be found on this page.

Forthcoming research seminars

Durham Bluff

30th October 2012, 18:00 to 19:00, Kenworthy Hall, St. Mary's College, Durham University

Durham Bluff

Do you wonder if your academic friends and colleagues are making up some of the terms they bandy about? Maybe they’re just bluffing! On 30^th October 2012 in Kenworthy Hall (St. Mary's College) is your chance to find out. Staff and students are invited to attend the first Durham Bluff, an informal game hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study. The members of the two Bluff teams will offer three definitions to choice examples of disciplinary jargon and the opposing team will try to figure out which one is true.This event is free and open to all members of Durham University.

The event commences at 6.00pm prompt. Tea / coffee will be available from 5.30pm. Places are limited and therefore should be registered here or with the IAS (0191 334 2589). Please note car-parking is not available at St. Mary’s; other car parking facilities are available such as Elvet Hill car park (opposite Building 51 on the linked map).