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...

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...

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...

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...

DIRDI Hosts its first london Dinner at the In & Out Club, London In 2024, DIRDI has begun implementing the vision of establishing a national “brains trust” across elite UK...

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:...

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...

Easter Term Dinners On 9th and 23rd May 2024 we were delighted to host our two Easter Term Dinners in the Senior Common Room Dining Room of Hatfield College, Durham. Each dinner saw both new and...

Epiphany Term As we approach the end of Epiphany Term, we are incredibly grateful to be able to share our two dinners we have hosted this term. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all those...

Innovate UK Funds DIRDI Research on EM Metamaterials It is with great pleasure that we can announce that DIRDI has been successful in applying for the Innovate UK – Accelerated Knowledge...

Ultrasonic Agitation in electroplating This year, DIRDI has supported two projects looking into the effects of ultrasonic agitation on the industrial electroplating process. In Epiphany Term 2023, we...

Michaelmas 2023 Termly Dinner DIRDI’s first termly dinner of the 2023/2024 Academic Year was held on the 29th November 2023 and was enjoyed by a number of Fellows and Members. We are grateful to...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

DIRDI has been awarded a grant from Durham University’s Enterprise Education Fund, in partnership with Dr. Oliver Vogt, Department of Engineering, Durham University. This grant will help kick start a...

Last month, DIRDI members Matyas Draskovits and Xiayao Yin penned articles on subjects of their interest. In reviewing the literature around a given topic related to the core research areas of DIRDI...

17 December 2021 Coltraco Ultrasonics and Durham University have taken a new step in furthering their relationship to develop collaborative research activity and to create research impact, within the...