Above image – An artist’s impression of a micronova explosion from the base of the accretion stream at the magnetic pole of an accreting white dwarf in a binary star system. Credit Mark Garlick and Durham University.
My research project
In the academic year 2020-21, I spent my MPhys project at Durham trying to…
My PhD
Did you hear the one about the native Brit who defined Spanish humour? Welcome to my thesis, completed in December 2021 at Durham University: ‘Side-Splitting: Humour and National Identity in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (1970-2020)’.
Over 3½ years at Durham, funded by AHRC Northern Bridge, my project examined…
Flashes of scenery from the highway. The looming silhouette of a black bull against the blue sky. Flashes of scenery from a train. Arid scrub and seas of plastic greenhouses. I am abroad on PhD fieldwork, triangulating a research visit at the University of Alicante, visiting a friend in Madrid, then shadowing a Swiss colleague…
Staying at the same university for one’s postgraduate endeavours may seem like a comfortable, not so challenging, or even exciting option at first. However, it took less than a week into this new journey for me to realise that whilst I hadn’t necessarily joined a new academic institution, there was so much more of Durham…
Summer 2020 was a weird time; you already knew that though. Some of us had too much time on our hands and nothing fun to do (unless you were in downing street apparently).
Anyway, this isn’t a political blog, this is kind of a chance to brag. I was part of the inaugural Behavioural Science MSc cohort, that is not the brag.
My scholarship experience: MSc New and Renewable Energy
10th February 2022
While growing up, I realised that climate change is one of the most significant challenges of this century and that we humans are responsible for most of it. I knew that if I wanted to be an active part of the solution, I had to dedicate my studies and work towards this cause. That is why after finishing my B.S. in Sustainable…
Excited to start Durham University? We asked the Durham SU Student Officers what their favourite parts of Freshers’ were and any advice they have for you. Here’s what they said…
Seun Twins, SU President
“For many of you, this will be the first time you have left home so a good hot water bottle, a weighted blanket…
What a year!
Summer 2020 may not be the most memorable of experiences for most of us. It definitely doesn’t feature in my top three for hedonistic fun summers. But it might just be number one for summers that meant something.
The covid-19 pandemic flipped us, our worlds, and our education on its head. But as Uni students…
I’ve recently started studying the Online MBA programme at Durham University Business School. I wanted to give an update on how I’m finding the course three months into it, along with a few tips to anyone starting a similar path.
Juggling work, study and family
I am currently the director of marketing at CIPHR, a UK…
Durham University PhD astrophysics research student Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro talks about how her studies have led her to learn a lot about machine learning statistics and Artificial Intelligence, skills that can be applied to other fields like healthcare and natural language processing.
Find out more about Astronomy and Cosmology…
