Life at South

Hello, you’ve been allocated to South College. Congratulations! A Southie You are now a Southie, and exciting times are ahead. If you are anything like me, when you decided on Durham University being the one for you, you scoured the internet to find out all you could about the collegiate system. Your search history may […]

What’s it like studying Psychology?

A bit about Psychology: I study straight Psychology which is great as in third year I got to choose from a really wide variety of modules, covering everything from understanding social behaviour to learning in intricate detail about the memory function of a mouse! Exciting right? Why Psychology? Like a lot of students, I started […]

Bringing ‘Frankenstein’ to life.

Directing is almost always challenging – the spontaneity of theatre is what attracts most of us to it. Directing Frankenstein was a reminder of this sentiment to all of us in the production team. The pandemic brought with it all types of adapted theatre and with it came Radio Theatre; arguably taking a front seat […]

Trevs Night 2020: We’ve been to the year 3000

Please note – this blog was written before the UK lockdown restrictions came into place. In early March 2020 Trevelyan College was taken to the Year 3000, and whilst nothing was underwater the college was transformed into a futuristic playground of food, drink, and entertainment. The event was organised by Junior Common Room (JCR) Social […]

Betsy MacDonald

Hi, I’m studying a Masters of Education and play professional basketball for the WBBL Durham Palatinates.

More memories of Congregation 1970

David Breeze, University College The interviews at Castle and the History Department in 1961 clinched it for me; I was captivated by Durham. When I arrived in September 1962, my first tutor was Eric Birley, Professor of Romano-British History and Archaeology. Towards the end of term he mentioned that the university ran an archaeological training […]

Get published

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Remembering Freshers Week

Thinking back to when Freshers’ Week came to a close and the infamous Freshers’ flu had kicked in, you would think it would time for a slower pace of life at Durham University. But you would be wrong! Freshers’ Week is packed to the hilt with stuff to do: during the day, nights out, College […]