Durham University

Durham University

Arms of the University of Durham
Latin: Universitas Dunelmensīs
Motto Latin: Fundamenta eius super montibus sanctis
Motto in English
 "Her foundations are upon the holy hills"
Type Public
Established 1832
Endowment £71.1m (exclusive of Colleges) (as at 31 July 2015)[1]
Chancellor Sir Thomas Allen
Vice-Chancellor Stuart Corbridge
Academic staff
 1690 (2014/15)[2]
Administrative staff
 2735 (2014/15)[2]
Students 17,595 (2014/15)[3]
Undergraduates 12,870 (2014/15)[3]
Postgraduates 4,725 (2014/15)[3]
Location Durham and Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK
Student Newspaper Palatinate
Colours      Palatinate Purple
Athletics Team Durham
Affiliations Russell Group
Wallace Group
ACU
Association of MBAs
EUA
EQUIS
AACSB
N8 Group
Universities UK
Matariki Network of Universities
Virgo Consortium
University of the Arctic
Coimbra Group
Website www.dur.ac.uk

Durham University (legally the University of Durham)[4] is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in nearby Stockton-on-Tees. It was founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and granted a Royal Charter in 1837. It was one of the first universities to commence tuition in England for more than 600 years and claims to be the third oldest university in England[5] (which would make it the seventh or eighth oldest in the UK), although this is disputed.[6] The Durham University estate includes 63 listed buildings, ranging from the 11th-century Durham Castle to a 1930s Art Deco Chapel. The university also owns and manages the Durham World Heritage Site in partnership with Durham Cathedral. The university's ownership of the World Heritage Site includes Durham Castle, Palace Green, and the surrounding buildings including the historic Cosin's Library.[7]

The chancellor of the University is Sir Thomas Allen, who succeeded Bill Bryson in January 2012.[8] As a collegiate university, its main functions are divided between the academic departments of the university and 16 colleges. In general, the departments perform research and provide lectures to students, while the colleges are responsible for the domestic arrangements and welfare of undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and some university staff. The university is a member of the Russell Group of leading UK universities[9] after previously being a member of the 1994 Group. Durham is also affiliated with several university groups including the N8 Research Partnership, the Matariki Network of Universities and the Coimbra Group.

The university is currently ranked 4th to 6th by recent national league tables of the British universities and in the top 100 in two of the three major global tables (see below). In terms of average UCAS points of new entrants in 2014, Durham ranked 4th with the average entrant amassing 524 UCAS points.[10] "Long established as the leading rival to Oxford and Cambridge", the university attracts "a largely middle class student body" according to The Times's Good University Guide.[11] In 2014, Durham had the fifth highest proportion of privately educated students at 36.6%.[12] In 2013, Durham was judged to have the best quality of student life in the country in the inaugural Lloyds Bank rankings and has never (in 2015) been out of the top three, coming in third in 2014 and second in 2015.[13][14][15][16] The university was Sunday Times University of the Year for 2005, also making the shortlist for the 2004 and 2016 awards,[17][18] and the Times and Sunday Times Sports University of the Year for 2015.[19]

Current and emeritus academics include 14 Fellows of the Royal Society, 17 Fellows of the British Academy, 14 Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, 5 Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2 Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts and 2 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[20] Durham graduates have long used the Latin post-nominal letters Dunelm after their degree, from Dunelmensis (of, belonging to, or from Durham).[21]

History

Origins

Durham Castle houses University College, making it the oldest inhabited university building in the world[22][23]

The strong tradition of theological teaching in Durham gave rise to various attempts to form a university there, notably under King Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell, who issued letters patent and nominated a proctor and fellows for the establishment of a college in 1657.[24] However, there was deep concern expressed by Oxford and Cambridge that the awarding of degree powers could hinder their position.[25] Consequently, it was not until 1832 when Parliament, at the instigation of Archdeacon Charles Thorp and with the support of the Bishop of Durham, William van Mildert, passed "an Act to enable the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral to appropriate part of the property of their church to the establishment of a University in connection therewith" that the university came into being. The act received Royal Assent from King William IV on 4 July 1832.

The Church University 1832 - 1909

An examination taking place in Cosin's Library, 1842

The University opened on 28 October 1833. In 1834 all but two of the bishops of the Church of England confirmed that they would accept holders of Durham degrees for ordination. In 1835 a fundamental statue was passed by the Dean and Chapter, as governors of the University, setting up Convocation and laying down that Durham degrees would only be open to members of the Church of England. Regulations for degrees were finalised in 1836 and the university was incorporated by Royal Charter granted by William IV on 1 June 1837 as the "Warden, Masters and Scholars of the University of Durham", with the first students graduating a week later.[25] Accommodation was provided in the Archdeacon's Inn (now Cosin's Hall) from 1833 to 1837. On the accession of Queen Victoria an order of the Queen-in-Council was issued granting the use of Durham Castle (previously a palace of the Bishop of Durham) to the university.[25]

In 1846, Bishop Hatfield's Hall (later to become Hatfield College) was founded, providing for the opportunity for students to obtain affordable lodgings with fully catered communal eating. Those attending University College were expected to bring a servant with them to deal with cooking, cleaning and so on. Elsewhere, the university expanded from Durham into Newcastle in 1852 when the medical school there (established in 1834) became a college of the university.[25] This was joined in 1871 by the College of Physical Sciences (renamed the College of Science in 1884 and again renamed Armstrong College in 1904). St Cuthbert's Society was founded in 1888 to cater for non-resident students in Durham (although now mainly caters for resident students), while two teacher-training colleges – St Hild's for women, established in 1858, and The College of the Venerable Bede for men, established in 1839,[25] also existed in the city. These merged to form a mixed college (the College of St Hild and St Bede) in 1975. From 1896 these were associated with the university and graduates of St Hild's were the first female graduates from Durham in 1898.

During the expansion phase the University also became the first English university to establish relationship with overseas institutions.[26] Firstly in 1875 with Codrington College, Barbados, and secondly in early 1876 with Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone.[27] Under the arrangements the two colleges became affiliated colleges of the university with their students sitting examinations for and receiving Durham degrees.[27][28] The landmark event was not met with universal applause, with the London Times stating "it would not be much longer before the University of Durham was affiliated to the Zoo".[29] After nearly a century of affiliation and with the prevailing winds of decolonization Fourah Bay became independent of the university in 1968 to form part of the University of Sierra Leone, while Codringon College retained its affiliation with the university until the 2000s.[30][30]

The first debating society in Durham was founded in 1835. This may have closed by 1839. In 1842, the Durham University Union was established and later revived in 1872-3, when it took up the name of the Durham Union Society and moved to Palace Green.[31][32] The Durham Colleges Students Representative Council (SRC) was founded c. 1900 after the model of the College of Medicine SRC (in Newcastle). The Durham University SRC was formed in 1907 with representatives from the Durham Colleges, the College of Medicine, and Armstrong College (also in Newcastle). In 1963, after the creation of Newcastle University, the Durham Colleges SRC became the Durham University SRC, and was renamed as the Durham Students' Union in 1970.[33]

Until the mid 19th century, University of Durham degrees were subject to a religion test and could only be taken by members of the established church. Medical degrees in Newcastle were exempt from this requirement from the start of the affiliation of the Medical school, but in Durham it lasted until the revision of the statutes in 1865.[34] Despite the opening of degrees, staff and members of Convocation were still required to be members of the Church of England until the Universities Tests Act 1871. However, "dissenters" were able to attend Durham and then sit the examinations for degrees of the University of London, which were not subject to any religious test.[35] Following the grant of a supplemental charter in 1895 allowing women to receive degrees of the university, the Women's Hostel (St Mary's College from 1919) was founded in 1899.[36]

The Federal University 1909-1963

St Chad's College, one of the two independent colleges

The Newcastle division of the university, which comprised both Armstrong College (named after Lord Armstrong) and Durham University College of Medicine, quickly grew to outnumber the Durham colleges, despite the addition of two independent Anglican foundations: St Chad's College (1904) and St John's College (1909). A parliamentary bill proposed in 1907 would have fixed the seat of the university in Durham for only ten years, allowing the Senate to choose to move to Newcastle after this. This was blocked by a local MP, with the support of graduates of the Durham colleges, until the bill was modified to establish a federal university with its seat fixed in Durham. This reform also removed the university from the authority of the Dean and Chapter of Durham Cathedral, who had been the governors of the university since its foundation.[37] Thirty years after this, the Royal Commission of 1937 recommended changes in the constitution of the federal university, resulting in the merger of the two Newcastle colleges in the Newcastle Division to form King's College. The Vice-Chancellorship alternated between the Warden of the Durham Division and the Rector of the Newcastle Division.[38] (The legacy of this lives on, in that the de facto head of the university is still called "The Vice-Chancellor and Warden".).[39]

After World War II, the Durham division expanded rapidly. St Aidan's Society (St Aidan's College from 1961) was founded in 1947 to cater for non-resident women and the decision was made to expand further on Elvet Hill (where the science site had been established in the 1920s), relocating St Mary's College, building a new men's colleges, vastly expanding the existing pure science provision in Durham, and adding applied science (1960) and engineering (1965).[40][41]

In 1947, the foundation stones for the new St Mary's College building on Elvet Hill were laid by the Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II).[42] The new building opened in 1952. In the same year, tensions surfaced again over the Durham-Newcastle divide, with a proposal to change the name of the university to the "University of Durham and Newcastle". This motion was defeated in Convocation (the assembly of members of the university) by 135 votes to 129.[43] Eleven years later, with the Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne Act 1963, King's College became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, leaving Durham University based solely in its home city.[44]

The Modern University 1963-1999

By the time of the separation from Newcastle, the Elvet Hill site was well established, with the first of the new colleges, Grey College (named after the second Earl Grey, who was the Prime Minister when the university was founded) being founded in 1959. Expansion up Elvet Hill continued, with Van Mildert College and the Durham Business School (1965), Trevelyan College (1966) and Collingwood College (1972) all being added to the university, along with a Botanic Garden (1970).[45][46]

The lawn at St Mary's College, one of the first Elvet Hill colleges

These were not the only developments in the university, however. The Graduate Society, catering for postgraduate students, was founded in 1965 (renamed Ustinov College in 2003) and the (now closed) Roman Catholic seminary of Ushaw College, which had been in Durham since 1808, was licensed as a hall of residence in 1968. In 1988, the last men's college (Hatfield) became mixed, followed by the women's college of Trevelyan in 1992, leaving the original women's college of St Mary's as the last single-sex college.[47]

In 1989 the university started its fund-raising and alumni office, with a virtual community for alumni[48] and several large gifts made to the university, including for the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Physics and the Wolfson Research Institute.

Development in Stockton 1992-1999

In 1991, a joint venture between the university and the University of Teesside saw the Joint University College on Teesside of the Universities of Durham and Teesside (JUCOT) established at Thornaby-on-Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, 30 miles (48 km) to the south of Durham. It opened under the name of University College Stockton (UCS) in 1992.

UCS was initially intended to grant joint degrees validated by both institutions (BAs and BScs). However, Teesside, which had only become a university in 1992, had difficulties in taking on its responsibilities for the college and withdrew in 1994, Durham taking over full responsibility for UCS and the degrees to be awarded there.

A programme of integration with Durham began, with the Privy Council approving changes in Durham's statutes to make UCS a college of the University of Durham. Further integration of the Stockton development with the University led to the formation of the University of Durham, Stockton Campus (UDSC) in 1998 and the separation of teaching responsibilities from UCS.

21st Century

School of Government and International Affairs

In 2001, two new colleges, John Snow and George Stephenson (after the physician and the engineer) were established at Stockton, replacing UCS, and the new medical school (which operates in association with the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) took in its first students – the first medics to join Durham since 1963. In 2002, her golden jubilee year, the Queen granted the title "Queen's Campus" to the Stockton site.[49]

In 2005, the university unveiled a re-branded logotype and introduced the trading name of Durham University. However, the official name of the institution remains the University of Durham and the official coat of arms is unchanged.[4] The same year, St Mary's College had its first mixed undergraduate intake.[50][51] In October 2006, Josephine Butler College, a long-standing development, opened its doors to students as Durham's newest college - the only purpose-built self-catering college for students within Durham. This was the first new college to open in Durham itself since the 1970s, at the creation of Collingwood.[52]

By 2005, Queen's Campus, Stockton, accounted for around 18% of the total university student population.[53] In 2007 the campus cafeteria, "The Waterside Room", was renovated and now serves as the campus student bar. In addition to this facility both colleges at the campus benefit from their own college bars, managed centrally, however, and not by their JCRs.

The university's Department of Theology is partly housed in buildings on Dun Cow Lane

In July 2009, Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, announced a strategic partnership with Durham University, following Yale University and the National University of Singapore, to create a global network of twelve leading research universities for delivering his Faith and Globalization Initiative in association with Tony Blair Faith Foundation.[54]

In May 2010, Durham joined the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU) together with Dartmouth College (USA), Queen's University (Canada), University of Otago (New Zealand), University of Tübingen (Germany), University of Western Australia (Australia) and Uppsala University (Sweden).[55]

In 2011, the University of Durham's ethical reputation was called into question by the revelation that a donation of £125,000 had been accepted from British American Tobacco despite the involvement of members of the university's department of anthropology, School of Applied Social Sciences and medical school in the tobacco control field. Criticised as being of dubious financial necessity and showing insensitivity to the surrounding population (Durham being in the North East, one of England's worst-afflicted regions as regards smoking-related ill health),[56] the controversy led to direct appeals to the then Chancellor Bill Bryson - to whose scheme for educating female Afghan students the donation had been made. The tobacco industry donation was not repaid.

Campus

Durham University owns a 227.8 hectare (ha) estate which includes part of a UNESCO world heritage site,[57] one ancient monument, five grade-one listed buildings and 68 grade two-listed buildings along with 44.9 ha of woodland.[58] The estate is divided across two separate locations: Durham City and Queen's Campus, Stockton. The two locations are connected via a free bus service that runs frequently throughout the week. One of the major public attractions in Durham City is the 7.3 ha Botanic Gardens, established in 1970, with over 78,000 visitors (2007/08).[59][60]

Durham City

The former home of the university's administration, Old Shire Hall

Durham City is the main location of the university and contains 14 of the 16 colleges along with most of the academic departments. The Durham City estate is spread across several different sites

The Bailey is the historic centre of the University and contains 5 colleges as well as the departments of Music and of Theology and Religion, the Institute of Advanced Study and Palace Green Library, housing the University's special collections. The Bailey is linked to Dunelm House, home of the Students Union in New Elvet, by the University's Kingsgate Bridge.

The Old and New Elvet areas contain a number of departments in Humanities and Social Sciences including Philosophy, and Sociology. The Leazes Road site on the north bank of the Wear, opposite the University's Racecourse playing fields and Old Elvet, is home to the School of Education and Hild Bede College. Old Elvet was previously the site of the university's administration in Old Shire Hall, which has, since September 2012, been based on the Mountjoy site, in the Palatine Centre on Stockton Road.[61]

The Mountjoy site (formerly the Science site) south of New Elvet contains the vast majority of departments and large lecture theatres such as Appleby, Scarborough, James Duff, Heywood and more recently the Calman Learning Centre, along with the Bill Bryson library.[62] Upper Mountjoy contains the Psychology and Biological & Biomedical schools, along with various research centres.

Elvet Hill, south of the Mountjoy site, has 8 of the colleges as well as the Botanic Garden and the Vice Chancellor's residence in Hollingside House. It is also home to the Business School and the department of Government and International Affairs, as well as the Teikyo University of Japan in Durham and the Oriental Museum. The University plans to build accommodation for 1000 students at Mount Oswald on Elvet Hill.[63] This is to be in two colleges of around 500 self-catered rooms each, with the first 700 rooms hoped to be available for the 2019/20 academic year and the remaining 300 by the 2021/22 academic year.[64]

Ustinov College is slated to move from its current site at Howlands Farm on Elvet Hill to a new site at Sheraton Park in Neville's Cross from the 2017/18 academic year. The two colleges currently at Stockton (Stephenson and John Snow) will then partly move to the current Ustinov College site in Durham in 2018/19, before one of them moves into the new development at Mount Oswald in 2019/20 and the other fully occupies the current Ustinov site. Ustinov students have launched a campaign against the move.[65]

Ushaw College, 5 miles west of Durham, is a former Catholic seminary that is a licensed Hall of Residence of the University. It hosts parts of the Business School and of the Centre for Catholic Studies. It used to house some students from Josephine Butler College, but since summer 2015 the only students at Ushaw are business marketing students.[66]

Queen's Campus

Wolfson Research Institute

Queen's Campus was established in 1992 and is located in the town of Thornaby-on-Tees some 30 miles away from Durham City.[67] The Campus is home to around 2,000 full-time students, two residential colleges (John Snow and Stephenson Colleges) and the Wolfson Research Institute.[68] Currently a number of subjects can be studied at Queen's Campus: Medicine (shared with Newcastle University), Pharmacy, Accounting, Business and Finance, Applied Psychology and Primary education.[69] In 2007 the university purchased an option for a 4-acre (16,000 m2) site on the north bank of the Tees, announcing plans to develop the academic structure at Queen's and the possibility of a new college.[70] A bus line connects Queen's Campus to Durham City and a one-way journey usually takes 45 minutes.[67]

In November 2015 it was announced that the University would not be renewing its option on development of the Northshore site and would be holding a "wide and robust consultation process" on the future of the Queen's Campus.[71] In February 2016 it was revealed that the University's working group had recommended moving the colleges and academic activities currently at the Queen's Campus to Durham City from September 2017. Possible future uses for the Queen's Campus include an international foundation college, where students from other countries would study for a year before moving to Durham. The University said at the time that the proposals were at a "relatively early stage"; with a final decision expected by July 2016.[72][73] It was later confirmed that the colleges and most of the academic departments would be moved to Durham City, with the School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health being transferred to Newcastle University. The relocation is expected to start in September 2017. The Queen's Campus will remain part of Durham and become an International Foundation College.[74][75]

Libraries

The original university library is now known as the Palace Green Library

The Durham University Library system holds over 1.5 million printed items.[76] The library was founded in January 1833 at Palace Green by a 160-volume donation by the then Bishop of Durham, William Van Mildert.[76] The library operates four branches: Bill Bryson Library (the main library), Education Library, Queen's Campus Library and the Palace Green Library which holds the special and heritage collections. The Bishop Cosin's Library contains medieval manuscripts and over 5,000 printed books, many early,[77] and the Sudan Archive ("the pre-eminent archive on the Sudan outside Khartoum"[77]) of the central library were granted Designation Status in 2005 by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.[77] In 2012 the university was part of a partnership with the British Library and Durham Cathedral to purchase Europe's oldest intact book, the St Cuthbert Gospel, for the nation for £9 million. It is displayed equally in London and Durham, being shown at the University's Palace Green Library for the first time as part of the Lindisfarne Gospels Durham exhibition, 1 July – 30 September 2013, and again subsequently.[78][79][80]

In addition to the central library system, each College maintains its own library and reading rooms such as the Bettenson, Brewis, Williams and Fenton Libraries of St Chad's College, which contain over 38,000 volumes.[81] Many departments also maintain a library in addition to the subject collections in the central and college libraries. Readers are also entitled to use the theology library housed by Durham Cathedral in its cloister.

Museums

Durham University Museum of Archaeology

The university manages a number of museums. Built in the 1960s, the university's Oriental Museum grew predominantly from the acquisitions of the university's former School of Oriental Studies.[82] Initially housed across the university and used as a teaching collection, the size of the collection led to the building of the current museum to house the material.[82] The collection to date contains over 30,000 objects from Asian art to antiquities, covering the Orient and Levant to the Far East and the Indian Sub-continent, with over a third of the collection relating to China.[82][83] The national importance of the Chinese and Egyptian collections can been seen in the Designated Status from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council achieved in 2008.[83][84][85]

The Old Fulling Mill is the university's Museum of Archaeology. The museum was opened in 1833 being the second university museum in England to allow admittance to the general public.[86] The museum focuses on the heritage of the North East of England with collections spanning the prehistoric, to Ancient Greek and Roman to the Anglo Saxon periods, although the key collection is that of the Medieval & Post Medieval period.[87]

Organisation and administration

Academic year

The academic year at Durham is divided into three terms: Michaelmas term, which lasts 10 weeks from October to December; Epiphany term, which lasts nine weeks from January to March; and Easter term, which lasts nine weeks from April to June. All terms start on a Monday. The weeks of term are called "Teaching Weeks", numbered from 1 (start of Michaelmas) to 28 (end of Easter), although this period is used for teaching and exams. Additionally, there is an "Induction Week" (informally known as "Freshers' Week" or Week 0) for first year students prior to the start of Michaelmas term, starting on the first Monday in October.[88]

Students at the university are also expected to "Keep Term", whereby students must fulfil their academic requirements at the university. As such Heads of Departments must be satisfied that each student has attended all necessary tutorials, seminars and practical work throughout the term and vacation period.[89]

Colleges

The Victor Watts Library, Grey College

Durham operates a collegiate structure similar to that of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, in that all the colleges at Durham (and the Wesley Study Centre) are "listed bodies" in part two of the Education (Listed Bodies) (England) Order 2013 made under the Education Reform Act 1988,[90] as bodies that appear to the Secretary of State "to be a constituent college, school, hall or other institution of a university which is such a recognised body" (the "recognised body" being, in this case, Durham University).[91] Though most of the Durham colleges are governed and owned directly by the university itself (the exceptions being St John's and St Chad's), the legal status of the Durham colleges is similar to Oxbridge colleges, setting them apart from those at the universities of Kent, Lancaster, and York.[92] However, unlike at Oxford and Cambridge, there is no formal teaching at Durham colleges (with the exception of Cranmer Hall theological college within St John's), although colleges are active in research.[93][94][95] The colleges dominate the residential, social, sporting, and pastoral functions within the university, and there is heavy student involvement in their operation.

Formal dinners (known as "formals") are held at every college; gowns are worn to these events at just over half of the colleges. Gowns are not worn for formals at Collingwood, St Aidan's, St Cuthbert's, Hild Bede, Van Mildert, Stephenson or Ustinov.[96][97] There is a great deal of intercollegiate rivalry, particularly in rowing and other sporting activities. There is also rivalry between the older "Bailey" colleges and the newer "Hill" colleges.[98][99]

The colleges are:

Governance

Archdeacon Charles Thorp, founder and first Warden of Durham

The University is governed by the Statutes put in place by the Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne Act, 1963, and subsequently amended by the Privy Council. The Statutes provide that: "The University shall be governed by a Visitor, Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Convocation, Council, Senate, and Boards of Studies." (Statue 4). [100]

The Visitor for the University of Durham is the Bishop of Durham. The Visitor is the final arbiter of any dispute within the university, except in those areas where legislation has removed this to the law courts or other ombudsmen, or in matters internal to the two non-maintained colleges (St Chad's College and St John's College), each of which has its own Visitor. Student complaints and appeals were heard by the Visitor until the Higher Education Act 2004 came into force.[101] All student complaints are now heard by the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education.

The Chancellor of the university is Sir Thomas Allen, who succeeded Bill Bryson in January 2012.[8] The Chancellor is appointed by Convocation for "a fixed period of not normally less than five years as determined by the Council",[102] which can be renewed. The role of the Chancellor is mainly ceremonial; The Vice-Chancellor (formally the Vice-Chancellor and Warden) is the Chief Executive Officer of the University and is appointed by Council.[103] As Warden, they are responsible for the 14 maintained colleges of the University.[104] Since September 2015 this has been Stuart Corbridge,[105] succeeding Chris Higgins who retired in September 2014.[106]

The university's graduation ceremonies take place in Durham Cathedral with receptions on Palace Green

Convocation is the assembly of members of the university. It consists of the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and Pro-Vice-Chancellors, all graduates, the teaching staff (lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, and professors), and the heads of colleges and licensed halls of residence. It must meet once each year in order to hear the Vice-Chancellor's Address and to debate any business relating to the university. Further meetings can be called if representation is made by a minimum of 50 members. Its powers are limited to appointing the Chancellor (and even then, only on the nomination of Council and Senate) and the making of representations to the university on any business debated (Statue 30).[100]

Council is the executive body of the university. In addition to representatives from the university it includes up to 12 lay members (not being teachers or salaried staff in the university or any of its colleges), the Dean of Durham and the President of Durham Students' Union (Statute 10). Its powers include establishing and maintaining colleges, and recognising non-maintained colleges and licensed halls of residence (Statutes 12 & 13).

Senate is the supreme governing body of the universifty in academic matters. It nominates the Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellors to Council, and recommends the establishment of Faculties and Boards of Studies. It is Senate that grants degrees, and has the authority to revoke them. It also regulates the use of academic dress of the university (Statutes 19 & 20).[100]

The day-to-day running of the University is in the hands of the University Executive Committee (UEC), which is also responsible for the development of the policies and strategies. This is a joint subcommittee of Senate and Council and consists of the Vice-Chancellor and Warden, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost (Chief Academic Officer), the two portfolio Pro-Vice-Chancellors (for Education and Research), the three faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Warden (who has responsibility for the colleges), the Registrar (Chief Operating Officer) and the Treasurer (Chief Financial Officer). All heads of departments and of colleges report directly to one of the members of the UEC.[107][108][109][110]

Schools and faculties

The teaching departments of the university are divided into three faculties: Science, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences and Health. Each faculty is headed by a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and one or more Deputies. These, along with the heads of the departments in the faculty and the Vice-Chancellor, make up the Faculty Board for that faculty. Each department also has a Board of Studies consisting of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of their faculty, the teaching staff of the department, and student representatives (Statute 29).[100] Associated with the three faculties are three combined honours degrees: Natural Sciences (BSc & MSci), Liberal Arts (BA), and Combined Honours in Social Sciences (BA).[111]

The largest degree programmes offered by the university, by number of entrants from the 2013-14 admissions cycle, were Business, Accounting and Finance (395), Natural Sciences (221), Modern Languages and Cultures (216), and Geography (216).[112]

Faculty of Social Science & Health[113]

Faculty of Arts and Humanities[114]

  • Department of Classics & Ancient History
  • Department of English Studies
  • Department of History
  • School of Modern Languages and Cultures
    (Includes Arabic, Chinese & Japanese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Hispanic Studies Departments)
  • Department of Music
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Theology and Religion
  • English Language Centre
  • Centre for Foreign Language Study

Faculty of Science[115]

Academic profile

Admissions

Cosin's Hall, home to the Institute of Advanced Study

The average UCAS point score for new entrants in 2014 was 524 points, placing Durham University fourth in the country in terms of entrants' points.[10] Durham's student body consists of 12,954 undergraduates and 4,552 postgraduate students (2014/15).[116] In 2014/15, Durham had the fourth highest number of students from middle class backgrounds at 85.8%.[117] For the same year, 34.31% of the undergraduate full-time student population came from independent schools and 8.75% from grammar schools,[118] 19.35% of full-time students are of ethnic minorities[119] and the gender split is 53.87:46.13 female:male.[120] In 2014-15, 44.79% of full-time undergraduate students lived in University (including St John's and St Chad's colleges) accommodation.[121]

Durham charges undergraduate fees of £9,000 for home/EU students. Following the announcement that fees in England would be allowed to rise by 2.8%, Durham became one of the first universities in the country to announce it intended to take advantage of this to raise fees to £9,250 for students entering in 2017.[122]

For the undergraduate admissions cycle 2013-14, Durham received 26,030 applications (for around 4,200 places),[123] of which 38.4% were from independent schools[124] and 13.8% (of UK applications) from ethnic minorities,[125] overall 64.2% of applicants were successful in receiving an offer of admissions.[123] Durham requires students applying for degrees in Law to sit the LNAT admission test[126] and the UKCAT for the MBBS in Medicine.[127]

In 2009, it was claimed that top schools were warning their students against applying to Durham due to the preference the University was said to be giving to pupils from schools that had less good exam results on average. The chair of the Headmasters Conference said that "Durham … are missing some good people because it isn't possible for a brilliant person surrounded by other gifted people to stand out in the way that a bright person, surrounded by not so successful people, will do". The University responded that competition for places was "so fierce our selectors have to make choices between applicants who present themselves with identical credentials".[128] Despite this, Durham still ranks fifth for the proportion of students educated at private schools.[129]

Widening Access

Since 1992 the university has run a widening access programme, originally called the Centre for Lifelong Learning. Now called the Foundation Centre, it delivers courses at both Durham City and Queens campus, Stockton on Tees. The centre provides access to Durham degrees for mature students who show academic promise but do not hold the traditional entry requirements and international students who require an extra year of study to bring them up to the standard expected. The Centre runs a range of courses which cover specific academic disciplines and key skills. From the 2013–14 admissions cycle, 153 students took up offers of places in the programme.[130][131]

Durham partners with the Sutton Trust to run the Durham University Sutton Trust Summer School for gifted and talented school children[132] and to run the Durham Teacher Summer School.[133] The University also runs the Durham International Summer School.[134]

In 2014, Durham became the first UK university to participate in the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program.[135] The scheme, where students study alongside inmates, ran in Durham Gaol and the high-security Frankland Prison in 2015 and will be expanded to include Low Newton Prison in 2016.[136]

Durham gives a bursary, known as the Durham Grant, of £2,000 per year to students from households with an annual income of less that £25,000. The University planned to reduce this to £1,800 per year for students entering from 2016 onwards, after the Office for Fair Access encouraged moving away from bursaries to other schemes to widen participation. However, this decision was reversed after the government decided to abolish maintenance grants.[137]

Research

The Dawson Building houses the departments of Archaeology and Anthropology

The university is part of the Russell Group, Virgo Consortium and the N8 Group of Universities. According to the latest CWTS Leiden Ranking 2016 that measures the scientific performance of 500 major universities worldwide, Durham is ranked 61st in the world in terms of the proportion of its scientific papers in the top 10% for impact (the "PP(top 10%)" measure).[138] Furthermore, Durham's Physics Department's research into Space Science and Astrophysics was rated as number one in Europe and fourth in the world by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators (1998–2008).[139]

Research institutes at the university include the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, the Durham Energy Institute, the Institute for Hazard and Risk Research, the Institute of Advanced Study, the International Boundaries Research Unit and the Institute for Computational Cosmology.

In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, Durham was assessed to have a research profile of 33% world class (4*), 50% internationally important (3*), 15% internationally recognised (2*), and 1% nationally recognised (1*).[140] This was an improvement on the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, when Durham was judged to have a profile of 20% 4*, 41% 3*, 31% 2*, 8% 1*, and 1% unclassified.[141] However, this was in the context of a rise in the average profile from 17% 4*, 37% 3*, 33% 2*, 11% 1*, 2% unclassified in 2008 to 30% 4*, 46% 3*, 20% 2*, 3% 1*, 1% unclassified in 2015.[140] In the Times Higher Education ranking by grade point average (GPA; measuring average quality), Durham fell from joint 14th in 2008 to 20th in 2014 despite a rise in GPA from 2.72 to 3.14.[140] Similarly, Durham fell from 19th to 20th in the Times Higher Education ranking by total research power.[140] However, in Research Fortnight's ranking by total research power (which uses a weighting closer to that used by HEFCE in making funding allocations, with 2* and 1* research zero-weighted[142]) Durham rose from 19th in 2008 to 18th in 2014.[143]

Centre for Iranian Studies

The Centre for Iranian Studies was founded in 1999 as a subsidiary research body of the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University.[144] In 2010 it was noted that the centre had commenced an official relationship with the Iranian government, using a "memorandum of understanding" to collaborate on exchange of faculty members and experts, joint research projects, activities and experiences, conferences, scientific meetings, educational workshops and joint book projects.[145]

Rankings and reputation

Rankings
ARWU[146]
(2016, national) 		22-28
ARWU[147]
(2016, world) 		201-300
QS[148]
(2016/17, national) 		12
QS[149]
(2016/17, world) 		74
THE[150]
(2016/17, national) 		12
THE[151]
(2016/17, world) 		96
Complete[152]
(2017, national)		 6
The Guardian[153]
(2017, national)		 6
Times/Sunday Times[154]
(2017, national)		 4
Durham Law School

Durham University's Strategic Plan 2010–2020 calls for it "to be in the top 5 universities in major UK league tables" (defined as the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide and the Complete University Guide) and "to be in the top 50 universities in the Times Higher Education world rankings by 2020".[155] The first objective was met in 2012 and 2015, the second remains as yet unmet, with Durham ranking 70th in the world in 2015.[155] The previous 2005–2010 strategic plan called for Durham "to be ranked among the top 30 universities in Europe and the top 100 in the world in the Times Higher Education Supplement international league tables";[156] Durham ranked 85th in the world (19th in Europe) in 2010 and has since maintained its position in the top 100.[157]

Durham does consistently well in rankings of universities in the United Kingdom, having ranked in the Times top ten since the 2004 tables, the Complete University Guide top ten since it was founded in 2007 (2008 tables) and the Guardian top ten since the 2012 tables. It has also ranked in the top ten of the Time Higher Education Table of Tables since it was founded in 2008 (2009 tables), ranking 5th for 2016.[158] Many Durham University courses are also individually ranked among the best in the country, as noted below.

The 2017 Complete University Guide ranks Durham 6th overall. In the individual subject rankings, Durham is top in the UK for English, second for Classics & Ancient History, French, German, Iberian Languages, Italian, Middle Eastern & African Studies, Music, and Russian & East European Languages, third for Anthropology, Chemistry, Education, Geography & Environmental Science, History, and Theology & Religious Studies, and in the top ten in a total of 30/32 subjects.[159] Durham is one of only three multi-faculty universities (along with Cambridge and Oxford) and five universities overall (including Imperial College London and the Royal Veterinary College) to have over 90% of their subjects in the top 10 in this ranking.[160] The Complete University Guide also ranked Durham as the third safest university in England and Wales for crime in 2015.[161]

The Guardian University Guide 2017 ranks Durham 6th overall. In the individual subject rankings Durham ranks first in English & creative writing, second in Forensic science & archaeology, third in Classics & ancient history, Education, Geography & environmenta studies, Modern Languages and linguistics, and Sports science, and in the top ten in a total of 21/26 subjects (with a further 3 subjects not ranked due to insufficient data).

The 2017 The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide ranks Durham 4th overall. In the individual subject rankings, Durham is top in Music, second in Archaeology, East and South Asian Studies, Education, English, Geography, History, Iberian Languages, and Theology & Religion Studies, third in Chemistry, Italian, Middle Eastern & African Studies, and Russian & Eastern European Languages, and in the top ten in a total of 27/33 subjects.[162]

Durham was ranked 11th overall in the Sunday Times University Guide's cumulative table over 10 years of study (1998–2007).[163] Durham was ranked in the top ten of the Sunday Times table from 2009 until 2013, when the Times and Sunday Times tables merged, placing as high as 3rd in 2012.

Durham does marginally less well in global rankings than in national league tables. However it has still placed in the top 100 universities in the world in both the Times Higher Education (THE) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings since 2010. The University monitors both the THE and QS rankings, but not the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) or other international rankings.[164]

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2017 place Durham 96th in the world (12th in the UK) in 2016, down from 70th in 2015. In the individual subject areas rankings for 2016-7, Durham is placed 60th (2015-6: 83rd) in the world (8th in the UK) for physical sciences,[165] 60th (2015-6: 36th) in the world (9th in the UK) for social sciences,[166] and 29th (2015-6: 28th)in the world (6th in the UK) for arts and humanities.[167] Durham is not ranked on the other top-100 subject tables (business and economics; computer science; engineering and technology; life sciences; clinical, pre-clinical and health) nor on the 2016 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.

The QS World University Rankings place Durham 74th in the world (12th in the UK) in 2016, down from 61st in 2015 – the fall experienced by many UK universities in the rankings has been attributed to uncertainty over Brexit.[168] In the "faculty" subject areas for 2015, Durham ranks 44th in the world (9th in the UK) for arts and humanities, 256th in the world (28th in the UK) for engineering and technology, 366th in the world (30th in the UK) for life sciences and medicine, 57th in the world (7th in the UK) for natural science, and 86th in the world (13th in the UK) for social sciences and management.[169] In the subject rankings for 2016, Durham was ranked 3rd in the world for Geography and 5th for Archaeology. Earth Sciences (24th), Anthropology (35th), English (38th), History (39th) and Law (41st) also featured in the top 50 in the world, while Durham also ranked in the top 100 for Modern Languages, Sociology, Chemistry, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology, Physics and Astronomy, and Performing Arts.[170][171]

Durham does somewhat worse on the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, being placed in the 201-300 bracket (equivalent to 22-28 in the UK). In individual subject areas, Durham in placed in the 51-75 bracket for science and the 101-150 bracket for social science, it is not ranked in engineering, life sciences or medical sciences. In individual subjects, the ARWU places Durham 27th in the world (5th in the UK) for physics, and gives no rank for chemistry, mathematics, computer science, or economics/business.[172]

The CWTS Leiden Ranking, based on bibliometric indicators of research, placed Durham 61st in the world (12th in the UK) in 2016. In scientific subject areas, Durham ranked 91st in the world (22nd in the UK) for biomedical and health science, 98th in the world (27th in the UK) for life and earth sciences, 291st in the world (31st in the UK) for mathematics and computer science, 76th in the world (8th in the UK) for physical sciences and engineering, and 57th in the world (8th in the UK) in social sciences and humanities.[138]

In 2015, Durham was placed 47th in the world (8th in the UK) in QS's pilot global employability ranking,[173] and 6th in the UK for graduate employability by the Times and Sunday Times.[174] It did not, however, feature in the Times Higher Education Top 150 Global Employability rankings,[175] but was placed joint 16th in the UK.[176] The 2011 Mines ParisTech: Professional Ranking of World Universities ranked Durham joint 92nd in the world (joint 8th in the UK) for the number of Fortune Global 500 CEOs among its alumni.[177] Also in 2011, Durham was placed in the top 25 universities globally for employer reputation in a survey of 5,000 blue-chip companies around the world with regard to the quality of, and international demand for, its graduates.[178] The High Fliers Research UK graduate market report for 2016 placed Durham 8th in its table of universities targeted by the largest number of top employees.[179]

In 2015 the Chambers Student triennial survey of which universities law firm trainees had attended ranked Durham third behind Oxford and Cambridge, supplying 7.6% of law trainees in the UK (up from 4th in 2012). The survey also placed Durham second (behind Manchester) in supplying national firms (up from 11th in 2012) and third in supplying US firms in London (up from 5th in 2012).[180][181]

Since April 2009 Durham University Business School has been one of a group of academic institutions worldwide which are accredited by the three major bodies – AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.[182] In 2015, the MBA programme was ranked 68th in the world (9th nationally) by the Economist,[183] while the Global MBA, MSc in Finance and MSc Management programmes were ranked 79th, 35th and 57th respectively by the Financial Times.[184][185][186] In 2016, the Financial Times ranked Durham's Global MBA 66th in the world,[187] and the Online MBA 4th in the world.[188] The Durham Global MBA was also placed 11th in the world and 5th in the UK by the 2015 QS Distance Online MBA Rankings,[189] while the Executive MBA was ranked 49th in the world by the 2013 Economist EMBA Ranking.[190]

Durham is a member of the 'Sutton 13' of top ranked universities in the UK,[191] and is one of the few universities to have won University Challenge more than once (1977 and 2000).[192]

Student life

Residential life

The Great Hall at University College - communal dining is traditional at most Durham colleges

Durham students belong to a college for the duration of their time at the university. Most students live in their college for the first year of their undergraduate life, then choose to 'live-out' in their second year, and subsequently have the option of moving back into college for their final year, usually via a ballot system.[193] The Colleges provide a key role in the pastoral care and social centre of students with each running a college tutorial system,[193][194] along with JCRs providing events and societies for undergraduate members, MCRs being a centre for postgraduate students and the SCRs for the college officers, fellows and tutors. These common rooms are run by an executive committee, usually headed by a President. Some colleges use other titles for the head of their JCR: Hatfield retains "Senior Man", having rejected a motion to move to "JCR President" in May 2014[195] and a motion to allow the incumbent to choose between "Senior Man", "Senior Woman" or "Senior Student" in January 2016.[196] University College voted to allow "Senior Man", "Senior Woman" or "Senior Student" in June 2015,[197] the incumbent switching to using "Senior Student",[198] and St Chad's uses "Senior Man" or "Senior Woman".[199]

Each college has a unique identity and a variety of facilities for students ranging from computer rooms and libraries to tennis courts and gyms.[200] In 2015, Durham University were voted number 1 in the UK for best university WiFi, on a review platform StudentCrowd.[201] Most colleges have their own sports teams and compete in the collegiate leagues (such as Durham College Rowing) and have their own theatre company and orchestra which operate parallel to the university level sports teams and organisations.[202]

Student organisations

The Durham Union Society is the university's largest student society

Approximately 200 student clubs and organisations run on Durham's campuses, covering academic, active, Arts, culture and faith, hobbies and games, outdoors, political and causes, and music interests.[203] Durham Students' Union (DSU) charters and provides most of the funding for these organisations. The DSU runs a Comedy Café, Fresher's Ball, Silent Discos and Vintage fashion fair.[204]

Civic engagement

Durham's Student Community Action (SCA) oversees 45 volunteer projects in Durham and the surrounding area.[205] Colleges often organise their own outreach and charitable activities.

Durham University Charity Kommittee (or DUCK) is the university's equivalent of student's rag week.[206] Original set-up as a week event, DUCK has become a permanent feature in raising money for local or national charities with events taking place throughout the year. Activities take place within each college, as well as centrally over the university.[207] DUCK also organises expeditions to the Himalayas,[208] Jordan[208] and Mount Kilimanjaro[208] to raise money as well as being involved in the university-run 'Project Sri Lanka'[209] and 'Project Thailand'.[210]

Dunelm House, home of the Durham Students' Union

Team Durham Community Outreach is a sports community programme aimed at giving support and opportunities through the use of sport.[206] The programme runs projects such as Summer Camps for children from the Youth Engagement Service and fostered backgrounds along with providing coaching at local schools as well as participating in sports in action.[211]

Student media

Palatinate, Durham's independent student run fortnightly newspaper, has been continually published since 1948.[212] Notable former editors include George Alagiah,[212] Hunter Davies,[213] Piers Merchant, Sir Timothy Laurence,[214] Jeremy Vine[212] and Harold Evans.[212]

Purple Radio is Durham's student radio station. It broadcasts live from the DSU 24 hours a day during term time. The station has existed since the 1980s and is a recognised DSU society. Two daily news bulletins are broadcast every weekday, as well as a Breakfast Show and an Evening Show.[215]

The Bubble, founded in 2010, is an online magazine based at the university covering various subjects, including student and university news.[216]

Sport

University College Boat Club and Newcastle University racing at Durham Regatta

Sport at Durham is a key aspect of student life with some 92% of students regularly taking part.[217] There are 45 university level sport clubs, organised by Team Durham with many being predominantly based at the Graham Sports Centre at Maiden Castle which has 26 courts and pitches for sports ranging from rugby to lacrosse to netball, additional facilities include eleven boat houses and two astroturfs a fitness studio and weights room. The university also owns The Racecourse which has a further eight courts and pitches for cricket, rugby (union and league), squash and football.[218]

The university is recognised as a Centre of Cricketing Excellence (one of only six university centres to play first-class matches)[219] by the England and Wales Cricket Board[220][221] and subsequently the Marylebone Cricket Club[222][223] along with rowing[219] and fencing[219] also being recognised as centres of excellence. Durham also hosts the House of Sport which includes an English Institute of Sport hub site and being a British Olympic passport holder's site.[219]

Durham has been 2nd across all sports in the British Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) table since 2011/12. In 2014/15 it became only the second University (after Loughborough) to pass 4000 BUCS points and the top university in the country for team sports. Both of these were repeated in 2015/16, which also saw Durham beat its own records for total BUCS scores in League and Cup competitions.[224][225] In rowing, it has a good record at the BUCS Regatta, having won the title for ten consecutive years (2004–2013) before coming second in 2014, then regaining the title in 2015[226] before losing it again in 2016.[227] Durham University Boat Club also competes in Durham Regatta and the Boat Race of the North against Newcastle University, which ran 1997 - 2010 and was revived in 2015.[228]

The Racecourse is one of the university's main sites for sporting facilities

Durham University is one of four universities to compete in the unofficial "Doxbridge" Tournament in Dublin, a sporting competition between Durham University, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and the University of York.[229] Durham colleges also compete officially with colleges from the University of York in the annual College Varsity tournament held since 2014.[230] Durham won this tournament in 2014 (in York) and 2015 (in Durham) before York recorded their first victory in 2016 (in York). Durham also competes again long-standing BUCS champions Loughborough University in the 'BUCS Varsity', a coordinated set of BUCS matches across multiple sports, and in a competition between Durham colleges and Loughborough halls of residence, both of which were organised for the first time in 2015/16. Durham won the BUCS Varsity both home and away in 2015/16 but lost the colleges' competition, held in Durham.[231]

Palatinates are given to athletes who demonstrate a high standard (such as international representation) in their sport. It is similar to a blue awarded at other British universities. The award is named after the colour palatinate associated with the university.

Music and drama

Durham University Botanic Garden

The central body for theatre at the university is known as Durham Student Theatre (DST),[232] which comprises around 600 active student members throughout 29 separate, student-run theatre societies as of 2016.[233] The Assembly Rooms is the university-owned theatre, located on The Bailey, which hosts a number of student productions each term. Alongside this, student drama productions are held at Durham City's Gala Theatre (notably Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) and Durham Opera Ensemble (DOE), which both perform one show in the Gala every year in Epiphany term), venues around Durham University and within the colleges, Durham Castle, Durham Cathedral, as well as in national and international venues and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Since 1975, the university has played host to the Durham Drama Festival that celebrates new theatrical and dramatic material written by Durham students.[234]

The Durham Revue is the university's sketch comedy group. Tracing its roots back to the early 1950s, and known under its current name since 1988, the group consists of six writer-performers (auditioned, interviewed and chosen each Michaelmas Term) and produces a series of shows each year. The group performs annually with Cambridge University's Footlights and Oxford University's The Oxford Revue, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[235]

Music is particularly marked by the Durham University Chamber Choir and Orchestral Societies (including the Palatinate Orchestra[236]). The Durham Cathedral Choir offers choral scholarships to male students, and several of the colleges (University, Hatfield, Hild Bede, St John's, St Chad's, St Cuthbert's, Grey and St Mary's) also offer organ and/or choral scholarships, as does the Catholic Chaplaincy.[237]

Durham is also home to the oldest Gamelan slendro set in the UK with an active community group and an artist in residence. The instruments are currently housed in the Grade II listed Durham University Observatory.[238] Recently a set tuned to peloghas been added meaning that Durham now has a complete Gamelan orchestra. In recent years, the Durham Gamelan Society has performed at several major public events such as the Gong Festivals 2011 & 2012 [239] and at the Gamelan Lokananta all night wayang kulit in celebration of York University's Gamelan Sekar Petak 30th anniversary in April 2012 [240] as well as many smaller performances for the International Students' Festival and college events.

Alumni

General Sir Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff

Durham alumni are active through organizations and events such as the annual Reunions, Dinners and Balls. There are 67 Durham associations ranging from international to college and sports affiliated groups that cater for the more than 109,000 living alumni.[241]

A number of Durham alumni have made significant contributions in the fields of government, law, science, academia, business, arts, journalism, and athletics, among others. These have included Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury (St John's, 1992), Sir Milton Margai, first prime minister of Sierra Leone (MD, 1926),[242] the 7th Queensland Premier John Douglas (BA, 1850),[243] Henry Holland, 1st Viscount Knutsford, Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1887 to 1892 (Law, 1847), Herbert Laming, Baron Laming, head of the Harold Shipman inquiry and the investigation of Britain's social services following the death of Baby P, (Applied Social Studies, 1960),[244] Dame Caroline Swift,[245] the lead counsel to the Shipman inquiry, and Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland at the time of the Good Friday Peace Agreement (Sociology and Anthropology).[246] Durham graduate Libby Lane was the first woman to be consecrated bishop in the Church of England.[247]

Within the military graduates include General Sir Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt (Economic History), the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army,[248] Vice-Admiral Sir Tim Laurence (Geography), Chief Executive of Defence Estates and husband to The Princess Royal,[249] and Rear-Admiral Amjad Hussain (Engineering, 1979) highest-ranking officer from an ethnic minority in the British Armed Forces.[250]

Tim Smit founder of the Eden Project

In academia, Durham graduates include John D. Barrow (Mathematics and Physics, 1974), winner of the Templeton Prize,[251] Sir George Malcolm Brown (Chemistry & Geology, 1950), invited by NASA to work on the moon rock samples recovered from the Apollo 11 lunar mission,[252] George Rochester (1926), co-discoverer of the kaon sub-atomic particle,[253] alongside Sir Harold Jeffreys (Mathematics, 1919), winner of the Royal Society's Copley Medal,[254] Sir Kingsley Charles Dunham (Geology 1930) former director of the British Geological Survey and E. J. Field, early discoverer of what were to become prions and significant contributor to MS research,.[255] The current Vice-chancellors of Cardiff University (David Grant),[256] and the University of Wollongong (Paul Wellings, previously V-C of Lancaster),[257][258] are also graduates, as is Chris Higgins, former vice-chancellor of Durham.[259]

Several alumni hold top positions in the business world. Richard Adams (Sociology), founder of fair trade organisation Traidcraft,[260] Paul Hawkins (PhD in Artificial Intelligence), inventor of the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system,[261] Dame Elisabeth Hoodless (Sociology), Executive Director of Community Service Volunteers,[262] Sir Nick Scheele (German, 1966), former President and Chief Operating Officer of Ford Motor Company,[263] entrepreneur Brenda Lindiwe Mabaso-Chipeio, David Sproxton (Geography, 1976), co-founder of Aardman Animations who produce Wallace & Gromit,[264] Tim Smit (Archaeology and Anthropology), co-founder of the Eden Project and David Walton (Economics and Mathematics, 1984), member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee,[265] and Apprentice Ben Clarke (MBA, 2011).

Sir Harold Evans, Editor at Large, Reuters
Jonathan Edwards, Van Mildert College, Physics

Prominent journalists and media specialists include: George Entwistle, former Director-General of the BBC;[266] Sir Harold Evans (Politics and Economics), editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981 and The Times from 1981 to 1982; Nigel Farndale (Philosophy), Sunday Telegraph journalist; George Alagiah (Politics), presenter of the BBC News at Six; Peter Middlebrook (Political Economy) World Bank; Matthew Amroliwala (Law and Politics, 1984), BBC News channel presenter; Biddy Baxter (1955), former producer of Blue Peter; Arthur Bostrom (BA Hons), Officer Crabtree in 'Allo 'Allo!; Jamie Campbell (English Literature), filmmaker; Benton Cade (East Asian Studies), filmmaker; Alastair Fothergill (Zoology, 1983), series producer of The Blue Planet, Planet Earth and the director of Earth; Shelagh Fogarty (Modern Languages, 1988), host of the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show; Lorraine Heggessey (English Language & Literature), the first female Controller of BBC One; Chris Terrill (Anthropology and Geography), documentary maker, writer and adventurer famous for being the only civilian to pass the Royal Marines Commando tests to gain an honorary green beret. Other BBC hosts who have graduated from Durham include Chris Hollins, sports presenter on BBC Breakfast, Gabby Logan (Law, 1995), Kate Silverton (Psychology), Jeremy Vine (English), Tim Willcox (Spanish), Nina Hossain (English Language and Linguistics).

Noted writers include Edward Bradley author of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, Minette Walters (French, 1971), author of The Sculptress and The Scold's Bridle, Graham Hancock (Sociology, 1973) author of The Sign and the Seal, Tim FitzHigham, comedian and author, James Kirkup, travel writer, poet and playwright, Patrick Tilley, science fiction author, and Lorna Hill (born Lorna Leatham, English, 1926), children's writer, author of the Sadlers Wells series.

In the sports realm, former England rugby captains Will Carling (Psychology),[267] Phil de Glanville (Economics),[267] and vice-captain Will Greenwood (Economics, 1994),[267] alongside Olympic gold-medal triple jumper Jonathan Edwards (Physics, 1987),[268] Beijing Olympics Bronze-medallist rower Stephen Rowbotham (Business Economics),[269] London 2012 Gold-medallist rower Sophie Hosking (Chemistry and Physics),[270] former England cricket captains Nasser Hussain (Geochemistry)[267] and Andrew Strauss (Economics) are among the most famous.[271]

See also

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