Welcome to your November/December edition of Dialogue Magazine. Whether you’re Christmas shopping or planning to start 2025 with good intentions for your health, wellbeing or finances, you can benefit from our Reward Hub. Our Reward team have pulled together their top tips for colleagues, for the festive season and into 2025.
At Durham, we undertake a huge range of work which contributes to the success of the North East. We took a look at our recent achievements and partnerships which will boost our region.
We also met Ruth Wilson, the Vice-Principal of John Snow College, who’s raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity after a major series of challenges in advance of her 40th birthday.
Looking ahead to the end of the year, we’ve checked out what’s on at the Botanic Garden this winter, as well as celebrating their success of receiving a gold award from Northumbria in Bloom.
If you’d like us to cover a particular issue, share a story or highlight your interesting hobby with us, please email internal.communications@durham.ac.uk.
Highlights
Are you benefiting from our Reward Hub?
Whether you’re Christmas shopping or planning to start 2025 with good intentions for your health, wellbeing or finances, everyone can save money or improve their wellbeing through our Reward Hub.
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Getting better all the time
As we get stuck into the new academic year and all the work that can bring, our University Business Improvement team have been busy getting ready to launch practical training workshops focused on helping us to continuously improve our work and to develop and improve our ways of working. We spoke to Hilary Whitaker, a Continuous Improvement Senior Manager, to find out more.
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Discover my world
Driving inclusive growth for North East England
We’re undertaking a huge depth and breadth of work here at Durham that contributes to the success of our region. Dialogue magazine looks at our recent achievements and partnerships that will boost the North East economically, socially and culturally.
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Durham Book Festival returns
Durham’s annual book festival returned in October, welcoming a host of writers from across the world. Members of our Durham community were among the global names in attendance
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Durham inspires
‘£40k before 40’ for Vice-Principal Ruth Wilson
Ruth Wilson, Vice-Principal of John Snow College, has just passed her target of raising £40,000 for charity after a series of challenges and fundraising events.
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Nurturing innovation
Attending university is so much more than the academic experience. We provide all our students and graduates with access to career and enterprise support, including through our Venture Lab.
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Insights
Mastering the martial arts with Jason Black
Jason Black is an IT Business Partner in Computer and Information Services (CIS). He has been with the University just three years but has spent many more training in martial arts.
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Women@DU: making connections and building community
Women@DU is a network that brings together staff who identify as women from across the University to share experiences, opportunities and knowledge, offering mutual support and a networking space to discuss issues as a group.
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Our Botanic Garden in Bloom
If you think Northumbria in Bloom is all about hanging baskets, think again! We explore how our Gold winner, the Botanic Garden, contributes to our sustainability commitments and highlight what is on offer during the festive season at our visitor attractions.
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