Institutes and Centres
Our ten research institutes bring together staff to work collaboratively, across departments and with external partners, to develop new ways of thinking that contribute positively to societal challenges, such as preparing for natural hazards, developing cleaner energy, enhancing physical and mental well-being, and using artificial intelligence to interpret large datasets.
Research and Business
Health at Durham
We're a collaboration of 44 specialist centres, academies and projects, with over 40 undergraduate courses and postgraduate programmes. Unbound from clinic, we frame health differently. Our vision for health is for people to thrive in the places they live. We embrace physical, mental, social and environmental health, envisioned as a synergy of self, beliefs, culture, family, community and planet.
Research Institutes
Our research institutes and centres allow researchers to focus on areas of specialism, often sitting between traditional disciplinary boundaries.
- Biophysical Sciences Institute
- Durham Energy Institute
- Institute for Computational Cosmology
- Institute for Data Science
- Institute for Medical Humanities
- Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology
- Institute of Advanced Study
- Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience
- Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
- Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Research Centres
- Advanced Instrumentation, Centre for
- Banking, Institutions and Development, Centre for
- Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Research Centre
- Catholic Studies, Centre for (CCS)
- Chinese Law and Policy, Centre for
- Classical Reception, Durham Centre for
- Commercial & Corporate Law, Centre for
- Communications Systems, Centre for
- Comparative Modernities, Centre for
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Contemporary Chinese Studies, Centre for
- Criminal Law & Justice, Centre for
- Crop Improvement Technology, Centre for
- Culture and Ecology, Centre for
- Death and Life Studies, Centre for (CDALS)
- Digital Theology, Centre for
- DurhamARCTIC Research Centre
- Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences)
- Durham Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (DCAMP)
- Durham Centre for Bioimaging Technology (DCBT)
- Durham Centre for Indian Law and Policy
- Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy
- Durham Centre for Soft Matter
- Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre
- Durham Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection
- Durham European Law Institute
- Durham Geochemistry Centre
- Durham Infancy and Sleep Centre (DISC)
- Durham International Dispute Resolution Institute
- Durham Research in Economic Analysis and Mechanisms
- Durham University Evidence Centre for Education (DECE)
- Durham X-ray Absorption Facility (DXAF)
- El Sharaani Centre for Ethical Finance, Accountability and Governance
- Environmental and Energy Economics, Centre for
- Ethics of Cultural Heritage, Centre for the (CECH)
- Experimental Methods in Business Research Group
- Extragalactic Astronomy, Durham Centre for
- Gender and Law at Durham
- Global Infectious Disease, Centre for
- Global Policy Institute
- HH Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah Programme
- History of Medicine and Disease, Centre for the (CHMD)
- Human Rights Centre
- Humanities Engaging Science and Society, Centre for (CHESS)
- IBRU: Centre for Borders Research
- Innovation and Technology Management, Centre for
- Institutions and Political Behaviour, Centre for
- Intercultural Mediation, Centre for (CIM)
- International Centre of Public Accountability
- International Centre for Moral Injury
- Law and Global Justice, Centre for
- Leadership & Followership, Centre for
- Learning and Memory Processes (LAMP)
- Macroeconomic Policy, Centre for (CEMAP)
- Marketing and International Business (MIB)
- Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies, The
- Modern Conflicts and Cultures, Centre for
- Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics, Centre for
- Monks in Motion
- Neurodiversity & Development, Centre for
- Nineteenth-Century Studies, Centre for (CNCS)
- Organisations and Society, Centre for
- Particle Theory, Centre for
- Physics Education and Scholarship
- Poetry and Poetics, Centre for (CPP)
- Political Thought, Centre for
- Quantitative Research in Financial Economics
- Quantum Light and Matter (QLM)
- Research into Inner Experience, Centre for (CRIE)
- Research into Violence and Abuse, Centre for (CRiVA)
- Research Methods Centre
- Social Justice & Community Action, Centre for
- Spirituality, Theology and Health, Centre for (CSTH)
- Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East, Centre for the (CAMNE)
- Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics, Centre for the
- Sustainable Chemical Processes, Centre in
- Sustainable Development Law and Policy, Centre for
- Vision and Visual Cognition, Centre for
- Visual Arts and Cultures, Centre for (CVAC)
- XRDur (Durham X-Ray Centre)
- Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art and Culture