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DIRDI’s Second Annual Impact & Invention Conference

On the 27th of March 2025, DIRDI’s Impact and Invention Conference returned to Durham, held at Durham University’s Ogden Centre for Fundamental Physics. We welcomed delegates from 8 different universities: Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland, York, Cambridge, Oxford, and King’s College London; as well as a host of innovative spin-out companies. Introductory remarks on DIRDI and …

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Speakers at DIRDI’s First 2025 Dinner Touch on AI, Enzymes, and The Strength of Weak Ties

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 …

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Inaugural Oxford Dinner Co-Hosted By DIRDI and the SST-CCW

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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DIRDI Lunch & Talk With Professor Leah Morabito FDIRDI

DIRDI was delighted to host Members and Fellows for a presentation by Professor Leah Morabito FDIRDI on 6th November 2024.  The talk, entitled ‘High-Resolution Imaging at the Lowest Frequencies: Technical Advances Driving Science’, provided an in-depth exploration of Leah’s recent work in astronomical imaging. We welcomed a number of academics from the Departments of Physics, …

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DIRDI Launches 2024/2025 Academic Year with Inaugural Dinner in Cambridge

On Tuesday, 10th September 2024, DIRDI’s first event of the 2024/2025 academic year took place and the first ever DIRDI event to be held outside of Durham. At Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, the Insitute was privileged to host 22 distinguished Members and Fellows from a wide array of institutions, including the Universities of Oxford, …

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