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Research and Impact

Archaeology at Durham has a worldwide reputation for research and impact.

Embracing humanities, social sciences and sciences, our inclusive environment thrives upon collective endeavour and co-production and a commitment to address challenges of local, national and global significance.
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Our research covers five continents, ranging from the palaeolithic to the contemporary world with particular strengths in material and visual culture, archaeological science and landscape archaeology as well as prehistory, India, Egypt and the Near East, medieval and historical archaeology and the Roman and Classical world.

With over 70 research active staff and increasing numbers of projects, publications and postgraduates, the Department has developed pathways for research and engagement with more diverse audiences than ever before. We believe Archaeology has a powerful part to play in shaping the modern world. We co-produce research and impact with a wide-range of organisations and users from schools and educators to theatre companies, museums, Government agencies and NGOs with research and fieldwork focused on past inequalities and health challenges, urbanism, ancient empires and major diasporas. We are setting out new understandings of human resilience in challenging environments and fostering sustainable programmes of archaeological and forensic skills training and education in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, South East Asia and the UK.

 

Durham Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection

Find out more about our new MOOC

Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage

Our new MOOC, developed with the University of Oxford and FutureLearn
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FSSH International Brochure

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Health has an extensive global collaboration in research and education with partners across the world, promoting Social Science solutions to the world’s greatest challenges.

The stories presented in our International Brochure demonstrate sustained and positive engagement with international partners, particularly around work with social justice in society and the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Our eight departments have funded research projects on every continent.
Find out more in our International Brochure
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