Thursday 13th February saw DIRDI host Fleet Commander Vice-Admiral Andrew Burns CB OBE FDIRDI at our laboratory in Durham. We were honoured to host the Admiral as part of his 3-day visit to the Northeast, and the programme included: DIRDI Fellow Dr Oliver Vogt, Industrial Tutor in the Department of Engineering at Durham University presenting …
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DIRDI Kicked off the New Year with a Dinner in our “Spiritual Home” at Hatfield College, Durham on 16th January 2025. Senior academics from Durham, and other Universities including Cambridge and Sunderland, joined us in the SCR Dining Room at Hatfield College. We were honoured to also welcome Mr Nigel Vaughan FDIRDI from QinetiQ as …
The 11th of December saw DIRDI’s final event of 2024, a special and Inaugural Dinner co-hosted by the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre (SST-CCW) and The Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention (DIRDI). The event was hosted at University Church, Oxford: the primordial heart of the University, where lectures first …
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What follows is a blog post by Durham physics undergraduate, Thomas Rudkin. I recently took part in EEOPS-D, a 3-day opportunity to build and explore the use of drones run by the Durham Institute of Research, Development and Innovation (DIRDI). When we arrived, we first had some practice flying much smaller drones than the one …
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Later this month, DIRDI will be hosting the first of our series of online webinars entitled ‘Biophotonics: A Marriage of Sciences’. Our speaker will be Professor John Girkin, a distinguished physicist at Durham and a fellow of DIRDI, the Institute of Physics, the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, and the Optical Society of …
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New Invention Institute opens in Durham seeking next Newtons and Edisons A NEW research Institute dedicated to finding and supporting the next Isaac Newtons and future Nobel Prize winners of science in the United Kingdom has been officially opened this week. The Durham Institute of Research, Development, and Invention (DIRDI) is a scientific research institute …
Durham students from across disciplines took part in DIRDI’s very own drone competition at the start of this year’s Easter Term. The weekend Drone competition, known as “EEOPS-D” (Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities using Drones), was the first in what will become an annual event for students. With the vital support of DIRDI Fellow and senior academic …
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Second-year Durham undergraduate and theoretical physicst, Maria Athina Vogiatzi (pictured) recently wrote an article on Acoustic Metamaterials (AMMs). Her work has gone beyond the areas of study covered in her course, to explore an innovative field that first emerged in the 1990s and has applications in acoustic cloaking and quantum optomechanics. Selected for publication via …
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On Wednesday the 16th of February 2022, Head of DIRDI, Daniel Dobrowolski and Director-General, Carl Stephen Patrick Hunter OBE were delighted to be joined by Professor Jacqui Ramagge, Executive Dean of Durham’s Faculty of Science, for a panel discussion at the Durham Union Society. The Durham Union Society is the University’s oldest student society, dating …