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July 2020

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Alumni 25% Fee Scholarship

For 2020-21, we have a new Fee Scholarship to provide 25% towards the cost of tuition fees for all postgraduate taught Masters and PGCE programmes – including MA, MSc, PGCE, LLM and MBA – for all of our global alumni and forthcoming ‘Class of 2020’ graduates.

CASE ‘Gold’ Award 2020

Our Alumni and Supporter Engagement Team are thrilled to have been awarded the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) ‘Gold’ Award for the Class of 1970 50th Anniversary event held in January 2020

Building a respectful and inclusive graduate community

Thank you to the scores of alumni who have responded constructively to our recent email. If you haven't already, please view our recent message here.

Royal award for student volunteers

Our Student Volunteering and Outreach (DUSVO) has been honoured with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

Scientists Next Door

The Scientist Next Door project was started to help children keep learning during lockdown by staff at Edinburgh and Durham universities, and now involves scientists all over the world.

New Decarbonising Heat successes for Durham

Durham Energy Institute (DEI) has won funding for three major new projects on decarbonising heat.

Events

The BIG Durham Talent Show

Semi-Final - Wednesday 1 July, 6pm
Final - Wednesday 8 July, 6pm

Join us for fun, original Durham entertainment and nostalgia next Wednesday 1 July and vote LIVE for your favourite act from an amazing line-up of singers, collaborative bands and poets, guaranteed to get the lockdown party started!

Covid-19 and Supply Chain Risk Mitigation Strategies

Join Professor Kiran Fernandes on Thursday 2 July as he talks us through several strategies companies can adopt to be resilient and innovative.

Your Entrepreneurial Self - An Enterprising Mindset

Join this interactive session with our Durham careers team on Thursday 9 July, as we consider how developing entrepreneurial skills and mindset can help you achieve more impact in your career.

A Look Behind the Scenes of Durham’s Special Collections

On Wednesday 22 July our colleagues from the Archives and Special Collections team join us to share some of the treasures they are privileged to work with and look after for future generations.

Your Business Idea

Got a great business idea but not sure what to do next?

Durham’s Enterprise team join us on Thursday 23 July to discuss some options of how to take a great idea forward.

Covid-19 and Reporting On Your Sustainable Development Goals

On Thursday 30 July this session will be looking at what does Sustainable Development mean for you and your business?

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Alumni

Get Involved - Congregation Celebration

Our Durham finalists will soon be graduating but their Congregation ceremonies in the Cathedral have had to be postponed until next year. They will be awarded their degrees with a short online ceremony and hopefully we will be able to celebrate with them fully next year.

We would love to hear from you with any of your graduation stories that we could share with this year’s class.

Did you have a celebration away from Durham? Anything that disrupted you or didn’t go to plan? Did you celebrate your graduation remotely, with family and friends using the online streaming service or with the DVD afterwards?

Or do you have an out of the ordinary memory of your Congregation? Maybe you celebrated a birthday or special occasion on the same day as graduation, maybe you had a leg in plaster and had to process on crutches, maybe the weather wasn’t ideal but you didn’t let it spoil your day! Perhaps you had some special guests or fun surprises – anything that they would like to share, we would love to hear about it.

Please email around 200-300 words about you and your experiences, along with some images, if you have them, to the alumni office by the end of July so we can share these special moments with our Class of 2020.

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Class Notes

Catherine Brahams (Arts Combined, Grey College, 1987-1990) novel Imprisoned by Love, in which the two main characters “met” at Durham, is out soon.

Alumnus Ed Bowyer (Arts Combined, Hatfield College, 1992-95) from Hogan Lovells provides expert advice on this webinar on Returning to Work Safely.

Dan Colegate (Chemistry, Ustinov College, 2006-09) has recently written What Adventures Shall We Have Today? based on his adventures with Esther Dingley (Research Methods, College of St Hild & St Bede, 2007-09)

As part of Women in Engineering Day on 23 June, Sarah Hawes (Physics, Grey College, 1988-91) reflected on her own experience in the webinar What’s unique about nuclear asset management.

Jacquetta Gomes (Economic History & Sociology, St Aidan's College, 1972-75) who is the SLEDP South Lakeland Equality and Diversity Partnership Lead on Interfaith and Multifaith took part in WIHW World Interfaith Harmony Week Kendal.

Alumna Amy Mead (Natural Sciences, Collingwood, 2006-09) has helped set up Now-u a new non-profit app that enables users to tackle global issues with simple actions.

David Russell (Geology, St Cuthbert’s Society, 1971-74) has written a book of eco-poetry, An Ever River.

Tim Wright (Economic History, College of St Hild and St Bede, 1980-1984) has had his third book CrowdAsset published.

Last Summer Suhasini Vira (Economics & Politics, St Mary’s, 2017-20) published her book Why People Give.

Colleges

Durham Virtual Inter-Collegiate Alumni Pub Quiz- Save the Date!

Our first Inter-Collegiate Alumni pub quiz is coming your way, as there’s nothing wrong with a bit of healthy College competition right?

It's time to gather your team, pick your team name and brush up on your Durham and College knowledge. It’ll be going live on Friday 24 July. Keep an eye on your College's social media, more details coming soon!

Collingwood College

Set a reminder for Monday 20 July at 3pm, for an episode of The 3rd Degree on BBC Radio 4 which was recorded in front of a live audience in Collingwood’s Mark Hillery Arts Centre. The 3rd Degree is a radio quiz show hosted by Steve Punt in which a team of three students takes on a team of their professors.

Hatfield College

We’d like to express our sincere gratitude for all of your kind offers of support for our Hatfield Horizons programme- compiling resources to provide careers support and opportunities for Hatfield students and recent graduates during these testing times. To find out more, please visit our social media pages @HatfieldCollege on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

St John's College

Join Johnians across the UK and around the world for a reunion dinner from your own home. 10 September – save the date!

St Cuthbert's Society

Find out the latest news and events from St Cuth's here.

Ustinov College

As Easter Term ends, we continue to offer a range of activities and events for Ustinovians!

Departments

Centre of Catholic Studies

CCS members continue to reflect on the pandemic and create fora for others to do so; our new resources webpage includes reflections on hope, resilience, vulnerability, grief, workers’ rights, and more.

Durham University Business School

Our Masters in Finance programme has been ranked in the global top 50 in today’s Financial Times rankings. This is the first Financial Times ranking of the Masters in Finance programmes since 2018.

Palatinate and College Sport Awards 2020

It’s been another great season for Team Durham which culminated in the first ever online Palatinate and College Sports Awards.

Theatre

We’re proud to introduce Conversations in Quarantine; a series of live Q&A with alumni artists and companies. Everything from site-specific theatre to carbon neutral theatre. Guests include Allo Allo’s Arthur Bostrom, Christopher Robin’s Nick Mohammed, Musical Director John Reddel, and much more. Catch the series now:

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