THE MACE AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF THE UNIVERSITY
The Mace was presented to the University in 1933 by University architect Emanuel Vincent Harris. It is approximately four feet long with a solid silver shaft and head. The finial at the top contains a representation in enamel of the University’s coat of arms. This symbolises the historical associations of the University with the locality. The triangular gold castle with three towers comes from Exeter’s coat of arms and is thought to represent the Rougemont Castle as alluded to by the red background. The 15 gold bezants around the edge of the shield are from Cornwall’s coat of arms, whilst the green cross on a white background is from Devon County Council’s coat of arms. The theme of learning is symbolised by the book with gold edges and a Latin inscription translating roughly as “We follow the light”.
YOUR CEREMONY
We hope you have a fantastic day and enjoy the ceremony. Just to let you know, we undertake filming and photography during the day which we may use for promotional purposes at a later date. We’ve done our best to ensure that the information presented in this brochure is correct at the time of going to print (November 2024).
History
The Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees is the occasion whereby a ‘graduand’ receives the degree of the University. The graduates are then known as alumni and are entitled to use post-nominal letters.
The ceremony has its origins in medieval times. This is reflected in the use of Latin phrases such as in absentia for graduands being awarded in their absence and honoris causa which is applied to honorary degrees.
Academic dress of gown, cap and hood worn by graduates, University officers and academic colleagues also originated in the medieval period. The varying colours of the gowns and hoods and the subtle variations in their style and cut indicate the degree obtained and the awarding university.
Music
The music for the ceremonies is performed by the Chapel Choir and Graduation Brass.
Processional music: Introit and Flourish was commissioned through the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra by the University to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the University in 2015. The music was composed by Stephen Montague.
Order of ceremony
• Processions enter
Please rise and remain standing until all the processions have taken their position and the Chancellor has invited you to be seated.
Processions enter in the following order after the Marshal’s address:
Academic, Senate, Council and Emeritus Professors’ procession;
Civic procession (if attending);
Chancellor’s procession including the Honorary Graduand and/or College of Benefactors inductee (if attending);
The Chancellor and the President and Vice-Chancellor are the last people to enter and are preceded by the University Mace Bearer.
• Welcoming address by Sir Michael Barber, Chancellor, University of Exeter (or his representative)
• Address by Professor Lisa Roberts, President and Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter (or her representative)
• Conferment of the first cohort of graduands
• Public oration and award of Honorary Degree and/or College of Benefactors induction, or external speaker if applicable
• Conferment of additional cohorts of graduands
• Vote of thanks from the Students’ Guild/Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union Sabbatical Officer, or nominated apprentice for Degree Apprenticeship ceremonies
• Closing address by Sir Michael Barber, Chancellor, University of Exeter (or his representative)
• Processions exit
Please stand while the processions leave in reverse order. The processions are then followed by the graduates as directed by the Marshals. Guests may then leave the ceremony venue to meet their graduates outside.
THE CHANCELLOR
Sir Michael Barber
The Chancellor’s Role
The post of Chancellor dates back to 1955, when the University of Exeter was created with the award of a Royal Charter from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Michael Barber is the seventh Chancellor of the University of Exeter. The first Chancellor was Mary Dowager Duchess of Devonshire. She was followed by Lord Amory, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer; the scientist Sir Rex Richards; and the barrister Lord Alexander. In 2006, the actress and writer Baroness Floella Benjamin was installed as Chancellor, stepping down in 2016. Businessman and former government minister, The Lord Myners of Truro CBE, succeeded Baroness Benjamin in 2016, and was Chancellor until he stepped down at the end of 2021.
The Chancellor is the ceremonial head of the University and is a part-time, honorary appointment. The Chancellor’s most public role is to preside over degree ceremonies, and behind the scenes to act as an important adviser and advocate for the University.
Sir Michael Barber has been Chancellor of the University of Exeter since 1 January 2022. He is a world-leading authority on education and public service delivery and the Founder and Chairman of Delivery Associates, which works with government leaders across the world to enable them to deliver their domestic policy priorities. He is the author of ‘How to Run a Government’ (Penguin 2016) and ‘Accomplishment: How to Achieve Ambitious and Challenging Things’ (Penguin 2023).
Sir Michael was educated in York and studied history at the University of Oxford, where he was President of the Queen’s College Student Union. He was a teacher from 1979 to 1985 and subsequently a Professor of Education, first at the University of Keele and then at the Institute of Education, London.
In 1997, Sir Michael embarked on a highly successful career in central government, initially as the Chief Adviser on School Standards in the Department for Education. In 2001, he founded the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit at No 10 Downing Street, which he ran until 2005.
From 2005 to 2011 he was a partner at McKinsey and Company and Head of its global education practice. From 2011 to 2017 he was Chief Education Advisor at Pearson, where he played a key role in Pearson’s strategy for education.
From 2017, Sir Michael was inaugural Chair of the higher education regulator, the Office for Students, a role from which he stepped down in March 2021. In June 2023, he took up the role of Chair of the South West Social Mobility Commission, which aims to drive forward transformational change in education and employment outcomes for disadvantaged young people in our region. In September 2024 he was appointed as the Prime Minister’s Adviser on Effective Delivery. He has also recently become the Government’s Envoy on Governance in the Palestinian Authority.
Sir Michael lives in North Devon with his family, and in 2022 took up the role of Chair of Somerset County Cricket Club. In 2009, the University of Exeter awarded Sir Michael an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in recognition of his many achievements. For several years Sir Michael was a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard School of Public Health. In 2005, he was knighted for his services to improving government.
THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-CHANCELLOR
Professor Lisa Roberts
Professor Lisa Roberts became President and ViceChancellor of the University of Exeter on 1 September 2020. In her role, Professor Roberts is responsible for the leadership and management of the University, promoting and advocating for the University globally, nationally and locally, and ensuring the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, with its vision to use the power of our education and research to create a sustainable, healthy and socially just future.
Before joining Exeter, Lisa was Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Leeds, where she led on the development of the university research and innovation strategy. During this time she led a major step change in the quality and impact of the university research and in business collaborations, launching a new innovation hub and leading a city-wide team of senior city stakeholders through the MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programme (REAP). Before joining Leeds, Lisa was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, leading the Schools of Bioscience and Medicine, Psychology and Health Sciences, where she also developed and launched only the eighth School of Veterinary Medicine in the UK, and developed a successful One Health Strategy.
Professor Roberts is a Professor of Virology, having studied for her PhD at the BBSRC Institute for Animal Health (now the Pirbright Institute) and the University of Kent. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Product Development Manager for Procter and Gamble in the UK and Belgium. Lisa is a Board member of the Russell Group, a Board member of Jisc, and a Board member of Universities UK (UUK), where she was also recently elected as the UUK Policy Lead for Student Experience, Education and Skills. Lisa also chairs the IDP Connect Strategic Advisory Board, and is an inaugural Commissioner for the South-West Social Mobility Commission. In 2023, she was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Surrey.
A Welcome from the President and Vice-Chancellor
A warm welcome to this wonderful graduation celebration. On behalf of everyone at the University, I would like to say what an honour it is for us to share this very special day with you. Graduation is a chance for all of us at the University to join you in celebrating your achievements, and give thanks to the friends and family who have supported you during your studies. I hope that this special day will be a memorable occasion, and that you enjoy your celebrations.
Graduation is also a time to reflect on your university journey, and on everything that you have achieved. A university education is about more than your degree – it is about growing and developing yourself, challenging your own assumptions and absorbing new perspectives, so that you are equipped for the global workplace. You graduate today having demonstrated the knowledge and skills you need to go out into the world and help forge a greener, healthier and fairer future, and I know that you will be successful in whatever you choose to do next.
As a graduate of the University of Exeter, you now join a vibrant alumni community which extends to more than 185,000 people across the world. These people carry Exeter with them in everything they do, and I encourage you to become an active participant of our alumni family.
Congratulations again on your fantastic achievements, you should be very proud of your success.
I hope you leave Exeter with fabulous memories that will last a lifetime, and that you continue to stay in touch in the years ahead.
THE PROVOST AND DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLORS
Professor Dan Charman
Senior Vice-President and Provost
Professor Dan Charman has held the role of Senior VicePresident and Provost at the University of Exeter since August 2023. He was previously the inaugural Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the new Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy and before that was the Dean, and then Pro-Vice-Chancellor, of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences. He undertook his undergraduate degree in Agricultural and Environmental Science at the University of Newcastle and completed his PhD in physical geography at the University of Southampton, subsequently working at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the University of Plymouth before coming to Exeter in 2009. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is an Earth system scientist researching long-term ecosystem and climate change, with a focus on peat-forming wetlands and the global carbon cycle.
As Provost, he is deputy to the President and Vice-Chancellor and represents the University externally through Universities UK, Russell Group and other networks. Dan leads the academic community, working with the Pro-Vice Chancellors of the University’s three faculties and the Deputy Vice-Chancellors across research and impact, education and student experience and business engagement and innovation. His primary responsibility is to lead the delivery of the University’s Strategy 2030, through the development and implementation of the major academic strategies, and the University academic planning, resourcing and budgeting process.
Professor Krasimira TsanevaAtanasova
Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact)
Professor Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova is Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact and Professor of Mathematics for Healthcare.
Professor Tsaneva-Atanasova earned her undergraduate and MSc degrees in mathematics at the University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria and her PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Following postdoctoral fellow positions in the USA and France she spent five years at the University of Bristol. She joined the University of Exeter in 2013.
She has previously held a number of leadership roles at Exeter including the Associate Dean for Global and the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Impact in the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy. Professor TsanevaAtanasova’s research addresses open questions in Health and Life Sciences by means of mathematical modelling and analysis including advanced data analytics.
As Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Impact), Professor Tsaneva-Atanasova oversees a total research portfolio of more than £500 million and leads the research and impact strategy for the University. Her overarching responsibilities include our preparation and submission for the Research Excellence Framework in 2029; interdisciplinary institutes, networks and centres; strategic leadership of our Doctoral College, the University Ethics Committee and the Research and Impact Executive Committee; and ensuring our research is utilised and impacts positively on the wider world. Professor Tsaneva-Atanasova represents the University externally via a number of research-related groups including GW4, our regional alliance of the Universities of Bristol, Bath, Cardiff and Exeter, and as Chair of the UUKi Global Research and Innovation Network (GRIN) (2024-2025).
Professor Richard Follett
Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement)
Professor Richard Follett leads the development and delivery of the University’s Global Strategy and has oversight of the University’s global activities, including student recruitment, global experiences for staff and students, establishing and leading the University’s relationships with key global partners, and engaging alumni around the world.
An elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Richard is also Professor of American History and a specialist on the history of African American slavery. Richard joined Exeter in January 2023 from the University of Sussex where he worked for 23 years, latterly as Associate Vice-President (International). He is a graduate of the University of Wales, the University of London, and the University of Illinois. He obtained his doctorate from Louisiana State University where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Exeter’s Global Strategy lays out the University’s vision to be a truly global institution by extending our presence, reach and impact around the world. We aim to be an internationally recognised leader in human health and wellbeing, sustainability, and social justice; to grow our mutually beneficial partnerships; to diversify our international student community; and to provide an inclusive and world-class staff and student experience. In his role Richard works with Exeter’s leading international partners, including the University of Queensland, Duke University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Tsinghua University. This year, Exeter also joined the prestigious Worldwide Universities Network.
Richard has lived in Spain, Ireland and the US, and worked in more than 30 countries, including visiting appointments at the Universities of Lagos, Nanjing, Peking and Heidelberg, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was Chair of Universities UK Africa and Middle East Network from 2020-2023.
Professor Tim Quine
Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education and Student Experience)
Professor Tim Quine is the Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience and Professor of Earth Surface Science. Tim is responsible for leading the delivery of the University’s Education Strategy, and the Education and Student Experience vision within our Strategy 2030.
Tim’s brief is captured in the Education Strategy commitments to Success for All our Students and Valuing Educators, and encompasses the undergraduate and taught postgraduate student journey from arrival, through excellent teaching, learning and assessment, to the next stages in graduate life. He maintains a close partnership with the Students’ Guild in Exeter and the Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union in Cornwall to ensure that our students’ interests are central to our plans for continuous enhancement. He also works closely with the Education Leadership Team including the three Faculty Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellors (Education) to ensure that the University maintains its excellent academic standards and continues to innovate in teaching and learning for the benefit of all students, as was recently evidenced by the University’s Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023.
He is a graduate of University College London where he obtained his Bachelors degree in Archaeology. Tim went on to complete his doctorate at the University of Strathclyde, and his research in earth surface science focuses on perturbation of the terrestrial carbon cycle and ecosystem services by soil erosion and sediment deposition. Tim’s research projects have seen him collaborate with researchers in universities and research institutes in China, India, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand and many European countries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and member of the Russell Group Education Network.
THE PROVOST AND DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLORS
Stuart Brocklehurst Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Business Engagement and Innovation), Director, Green Futures Solutions
Stuart Brocklehurst is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation, leading the University’s collaboration with business and our drive to deliver innovation through our research and education. In addition, as Director of Green Futures Solutions he heads up the University’s drive to translate our world leading work on climate change into practical impact.
Stuart started his career in banking, holding a number of roles with Barclays in the UK and Africa, then as Senior Vice President for Digital Commerce at Visa International CEMEA leading the adoption of new business models and technologies. Following a period as a Partner at consultancy Carbon, Stuart joined Amadeus in support of its initial public offering and served as Group Communications Director after the flotation. He went on to run his own business up to its sale to the Troy Group, where he remains a board advisor.
Stuart is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered IT Professional, a Chartered Manager, a Freeman of the City of London, and holds a degree in theology from Oxford. He has served on numerous company boards, on the synod and Bishop’s Council of the Diocese of Exeter, as a Governor of Petroc College in North Devon and as a Leadership Fellow of Exeter Business School. He chairs the Exeter Science Centre Advisory Board and is Vice Chair of the Great South West Pan Regional Partnership; as well as serving on the boards of SETsquared; GW4; the Centre for Resilience in the Environment, Water and Waste; the South West Investment Fund’s Strategic Advisory Board; and, the Liveable Exeter Place Board. Additionally, he is on the Executive Committee of parliament’s Rural Economy Research Group and the Selection Committee for the Zayed Sustainability Prize.
Professor Martin Siegert Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Cornwall)
Professor Martin Siegert is Vice-President and Deputy ViceChancellor for Cornwall and is responsible for the strategic development of the University of Exeter’s activities in Cornwall. Martin joined the University of Exeter in November 2022. Previously, he was Co-Director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, and Head of the School of Geosciences and Assistant Principal for Climate Change and Energy at the University of Edinburgh.
Martin is a polar scientist who uses airborne and ground-based geophysics to explore the subglacial environment of Antarctica, and to understand how the ice sheet has changed in the past and how it may change in the future. He has undertaken three Antarctic expeditions and has been the UK lead on over a dozen international scientific exploration programmes across the continent. He has published over 250 papers, has written/ edited eight books and has convened four major international conferences concerning Antarctic exploration.
Using his knowledge of polar change, Martin has offered talks on the necessity of the net-zero transition to a variety of audiences, including major corporates (HSBC, Octopus, SAF), TV and radio (such as the Life Scientific and Inside Science), and to secondary schools (through the Speakers for Schools programme).
Professor Rajani Naidoo Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (People and Culture)
Professor Rajani Naidoo was appointed Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for People and Culture at the University in January 2024. She holds a UNESCO Chair in Higher Education Management; sits on the European Foundation for Management Development Research and Development Committee; and is a member of the British Council Education Advisory Group.
Rajani was featured in the Stanford/Elsevier top 2 per cent most highly cited scholars in her field and her research focusses on the transformation of contemporary universities and their contribution to the global good. She has been involved in global research projects on the changing academic profession, international higher education partnerships, and the contribution of higher education to social justice; and has presented numerous keynotes at major conferences in Europe, the US, Canada, Asia and Africa.
As the Deputy Vice-Chancellor for People and Culture, Rajani leads on the development and implementation of the ‘Our People’ theme of the University’s Strategy 2030 with overall responsibility for championing and driving a step change in Exeter’s people and culture priorities across the whole University community. She co-chairs the Wellbeing, Inclusivity and Culture Committee, providing senior leadership and ensuring the integrated delivery of our strategic vision for culture, inclusion and performance. She works closely with Faculty Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Divisional Directors and the Community and Inclusion team to co-create support, development and inclusive leadership strategies.
Rajani is a graduate of the University of Cambridge; University College London; and the University of KwaZulu-Natal with majors in Law, English, Psychology, Education and Management.
THE DEANS
Professor Stacey Hynd Dean of Postgraduate Research and of the Doctoral College
Developing the researchers of the future is fundamental to tackling some of the most important global issues we face today. At Exeter, our 2,200 research students are addressing challenges from healthy aging to living systems, conflict and human rights, food security and renewable energy.
Our postgraduate researchers come from across the world to work within, and across, all our disciplines and research groups as essential members of our research community. We offer PhD studentships funded by UK Research and Innovation across all our Faculties, as well as industry-funded schemes and a range of support for international students. In addition, we work in collaboration with high-quality partners: from academic institutions such as the University of Queensland and the London Film School, through to industrial partners, charities and government organisations. Alongside our Masters by Research, MPhil and PhD programmes, we offer professional degrees such as the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Doctorate of Education, alongside part-time, distance-learning and both by Practice and by Publication programmes to suit individuals’ needs.
The Doctoral College supports our community of research students, helping our postgraduates develop as researchers and move forward into a wide and exciting range of careers. As the Dean of Postgraduate Research, I have the privilege to meet with many of our postgraduate researchers and learn about their work, see how they support and encourage each other, and read about their wide-ranging successes. I also see the many challenges that they face, both intellectual and personal. Today’s ceremony is a celebration of advances in knowledge, but also of their hard work, dedication and determination, and the support from their peers, friends and families. I warmly congratulate all students graduating today, and wish you all every success in the future.
THE DEANS
Professor Beverley Hawkins Dean for Taught Students
We have welcomed over 4,200 postgraduate students this year – 55 per cent of whom have come from outside the United Kingdom. Our postgraduates are from such varied backgrounds and are studying for many different reasons. Some are undertaking further study to gain additional qualifications. Some are undertaking research training in preparation for doctoral study and/or a career in research. Others have a vocational objective and may well be studying a new subject in order to progress their career. Exeter is a national leader in the provision of PGCE degrees for aspiring teachers, as well as offering many pioneering programmes such as: our Master of Public Health that develops visionary public health leadership; our Business School’s world-renowned MBA; and many other Masters qualifications. Other students study while pursuing their career, and we increasingly cater for their needs through part-time programmes provided via distance or blended modes of learning. We are all so proud of our vibrant, diverse postgraduate community.
Our partnership arrangements offer the opportunity to develop subject specialisms at other institutions, both in the UK and abroad. These include the unique MA in International Film Business in partnership with the London Film School, where students spend time both in Exeter and London, gaining a broad theoretical understanding of the international film business along with practical experience. Students and graduates benefit from a growing network of alumni who are currently working in the international film industry. The innovative QUEX Institute, established in partnership with the University of Queensland, allows Postgraduate Research students on the QUEX PhD programme to divide their time between the UK and Australia. Students join an international research team to conduct impactful research, addressing global challenges related to Global Sustainability and Wellbeing. As a member of the Venice International University (VIU), a prestigious global consortium of 20 universities, Exeter undergraduates can apply to study a term of exciting interdisciplinary modules at VIU with a cohort of international students, with further opportunities available for graduates. In partnership with Exeter College, our range of partnership programmes allow students in the region to benefit from the facilities, advice, and sports clubs of both institutions, while developing in their current careers, progressing towards chosen future employment, or towards further study.
We are also delighted to celebrate the graduation of apprentices from our undergraduate and postgraduate Degree Apprenticeship programmes. Celebrating their success this year are apprentices from Applied Finance, Civil Engineering, Clinical Associate in Psychology, Data Science, Digital and Technology
Solutions, Healthcare Leadership and Management, Human Resource Management, Senior Leader MBA, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner, Responsible Business Management, and Systems Thinking. With 15 Degree Apprenticeship programmes, supported by over 400 employers, we look forward to many more such events in the future.
As Dean, I work closely with our Faculties, the Students’ Guild and the Falmouth & Exeter Students’ Union in Cornwall to ensure the highest quality of student experience leading to excellent academic and employment outcomes. Your feedback is so important, so if you would like to share any further thoughts on your time at Exeter, please feel free to contact me directly. Meanwhile, I wish to add my congratulations on your achievements, and my best wishes for your future success. Please keep in touch - I can’t wait to learn what you do next.
BEHIND THE SCENES OF YOUR GRADUATION
Mike Shore-Nye Senior Vice-President and Registrar & Secretary
My role is to lead the University’s Professional Services teams, ensuring the effective and efficient operations and governance of the University. These teams cover everything from accommodation to wellbeing services; libraries, IT and sports facilities to careers advice and guidance.
Professional Services play a pivotal and vital role in University life, no more so than for graduation. We take pride in supporting every aspect of the ceremonies each year, with over 2,000 team members involved in making it a very special day for our graduands, their friends and families. There is a huge amount of work behind the scenes during the 12 months prior to the ceremonies; many colleagues volunteer away from their day jobs to help the events run smoothly on the day.
I hope you have a wonderful day, enjoy every moment and I wish you all the best for whatever the future brings.
In Winter 2024 we are holding 9 graduation ceremonies:
In the average ceremony, each person claps approximately 7,000 TIMES
4,655 STUDENTS GRADUATE with 5,907 GUESTS in attendance
The Mace Bearer
The role of the Mace Bearer is a historic one dating back to the 12th century. The Mace Bearer’s role is to protect the dignitary who follows them: in our case, the Chancellor. Original maces were weapons which could be used if necessary to protect the King. As time progressed, maces became increasingly decorative and the use of silver-covered maces in Exeter can be traced back to the late 14th century. You can read more about the University of Exeter’s mace on the inside front cover. The Mace Bearer and Marshals, who lead the procession carrying the less ornate wooden ‘wand’, are selected from Professional Services to ensure both the academic and professional support functions are reflected in the ceremonies. The remainder of the procession and stage party comprises academic staff, and representatives from the University’s Council, University executive staff and the University’s Multifaith Chaplaincy.
During our typical winter and summer graduation ceremonies:
Over 6,000 HOURS WORKED by hospitality team members
26 GROUNDS TEAM MEMBERS prepare the grounds, set the stage and make the displays
More than 100 CLEANERS spend nearly 1,000 HOURS CLEANING
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
RATED ‘TRIPLE’ GOLD in the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework. Gold Overall rating, with Gold aspect ratings in both Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
RANKED 4TH in the UK for Best University Careers Service in the StudentCrowd awards 2024.
MORE THAN 99% OF OUR RESEARCH is rated of international quality in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) with 12 OF OUR SUBJECTS IN THE TOP 10 for world-leading impact.
TOP 15 IN UK UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 14th in The Complete University Guide 2025 and 13th in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
We achieved the ATHENA SWAN SILVER AWARD for the advancement of gender equality and a BRONZE RACE EQUALITY CHARTER MARK for our commitment to race equality.
TOP 50
30TH in the QS Sustainability World University Rankings 2024, demonstrating how we are tackling the greatest ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL and GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES.
We’re home to the UK’S TOP FIVE MOST INFLUENTIAL CLIMATE SCIENTISTS – the only UK climate scientists to secure places in the global top 21 –according to The Reuters Hot List.
4TH in the British University and College Sport (BUCS) Points 2023-24 Overall league and 1st in the South of England and Wales.
RANKED 10TH GLOBALLY in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2024*.
Exeter graduates in the TOP 10 FOR MOST TARGETED BY LEADING UK EMPLOYERS according to The Graduate Market in 2024 report by High Fliers Research.
*TheTHEImpactRankingsareglobalperformancetablesthatassess universitiesagainsttheUnitedNations’SustainableDevelopmentGoals (SDGs).Exeterisplaced1stgloballyforCleanWaterandSanitation; 6thglobally(1stintheUK)forLifeBelowWater,=7thgloballyfor ResponsibleConsumptionandProduction;12thglobally(1stintheUK) forClimateAction;Top20globally(2ndintheUK)forZeroHunger.
HONORARY GRADUATES AND GUEST SPEAKERS
Each year, we award Honorary degrees to a number of exceptional people who demonstrate outstanding merit in their field. Since 1955-56, over 600 people from all walks of life have been honoured in this way. The following abbreviations for Honorary degrees are used: LLD Doctor of Laws; DLitt Doctor of Letters; and DSc Doctor of Science.
A full list of Honorary degrees conferred by the University is available at: exeter.ac.uk/honorarygraduates
During the Summer 2024 ceremonies, we honoured:
Josh Widdicombe (DLitt)
Dougie Scarfe OBE DL (DLitt)
General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen (LLD)
Will Young (DLitt)
Cush Jumbo OBE (DLitt)
Tom Chapman (LLD)
Damon Albarn OBE (DLitt)
Professor Sir Robert Tony Watson CMG FRS (DSc)
Rachel Skinner CBE FREng FICE (DSc)
Dr Alex George (DSc)
Stephen Catlin (LLD)
Emeritus Professor Desmond Walling (DSc)
In acknowledgment of the importance of philanthropy, the University of Exeter invites its most generous donors to become members of the prestigious College of Benefactors. Induction into the College is the highest honour that the University can bestow upon its donors. The following became members in 2024:
Oppenheimer Generations Research Conservation
Wol Kolade, CBE
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message from a recent honorary graduate:
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (DLitt)
Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels which have been translated into over 30 languages. One of her awardwinning novels, Home Fire, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Hellenic Prize, was long listed for the Man Booker Prize, and shortlisted for eight other prizes. Vice-President and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, she was one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ in 2013.
“ When I graduated, I had no idea what was ahead of me. Believe me when I tell you that you are only at the very start of knowing what your time at Exeter will truly mean for your lives. So much is possible, so much is still ahead, but right now let me congratulate you on this present moment and the achievement of being here, graduates and graduands of this fine University into which I am so delighted to have been welcomed.”
HONORARY GRADUATE
Gerry Brown (LLD)
Gerry Brown is a business book author writing four books about being an Independent Chairman/Director and corporate governance not just in business but in society. He is a regular speaker on the topic. Gerry was educated at The Universities of Exeter and Reading and The London Business School.
Gerry was a member of the Council of The University of Exeter and Chair of the Audit Committee as well as an Associate of Critical Eye. He also mentors Chief Executives and was an elected member of the Berkshire County Council, where he served on the Education Committee and Chaired several boards of school governors.
Gerry enjoyed a very diverse career as an Independent Chairman/ Director of 11 different companies. These positions were at public, private equity and privately owned businesses across a wide range of different sectors. Gerry chairs a global specialised Private Equity Fund focused on life sciences based in the USA with over $3bn under management which is one of the largest of such funds. He was an Independent Director of clinical research organisation Quantiles and also chaired Biocompatibles PLC, a medical devices company.
The peak of his executive career was Operations Director of Exel plc (now DHL), then a Board member of TDG plc and Chairman of Europe for Tibbett and Britten plc. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics.
He is a Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School and has funded research into governance in government and in the NHS, Universities, Charities and Sport. He is a supporter of The Leadership Institute of London Business School. Brown chairs the Fundraising Board at The University of Exeter which has, so far, raised over £120 million.
More recently, Gerry and his wife founded a charitable trust to support Colombian students studying for higher education. He chairs the family business G Brown Associates Ltd providing consulting services in marketing, property and event management.
COLLEGE OF BENEFACTORS GUEST SPEAKER
Oppenheimer Generations Research Conservation
We are delighted to welcome Dr Duncan MacFadyen, Head of Research and Conservation and Rendani Nenguda, Senior Research Associate from Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation to the University of Exeter’s College of Benefactors.
In 2021 Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation made a transformative philanthropic gift to support the creation of the Oppenheimer Programme in African Landscape Systems (OPALS), initially a six-year programme of applied scientific research to investigate optimum land management and ecosystem resilience in Africa. The programme is translating scientific tools and insight to support real-world impact across the continent. A key focus is to build capacity by empowering African researchers and strengthening collaborative networks. The OPALS Scholars are co-producing sciencebased solutions to understand, mitigate, and adapt to environmental change.
Joseph Valente
Joseph Valente is a dynamic and accomplished entrepreneur, mentor, and best-selling author, renowned for his incredible journey as the youngest winner of TheApprentice UK and the first candidate to “fire” Lord Sugar. After securing a £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar, Valente boldly bought him out, showcasing his unwavering self-belief and strategic acumen. By the age of 34, he had built two 8-figure businesses, earning the title ‘King of Construction’.
From plumbing apprentice to multimillion-pound business owner, Valente’s inspiring journey highlights his ability to turn challenges into opportunities and establish himself as a leader in the business world. Through mentorship and training, he continues to shape the next generation of entrepreneurs, proving that resilience, innovation, and hard work can lead to extraordinary success.
PRESENTATION OF GRADUATES
This programme lists the names of those upon whom Honorary and substantive degrees are to be conferred at this Congregation. The programme also lists those who elected to receive their award in absence earlier in the session. Graduands who have elected to receive their award in absence at this Congregation are indicated by an asterisk.
PRESENTATION OF GRADUATES
Friday 13 December 09:00
IN THE FACULTY OF HUM ANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN ADVANCED QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES (POL)
Maria Cristina Montero De Espinosa Garcia
Thesis: Impacts of corporate agri-business on Bolivia’s Indigenous Peoples: a case study of soya bean value chains in the region of Santa Cruz
IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo
Thesis: Congenital Syphilis Prevention in Colombia: Multiple Ontologies, Silences, Absences and Collateral Realites
Jessica Hooper
Thesis: Civets in Society: What the Transspecies Relationships of the Family Viverridae Can Teach UsAbout Disappearance in theAnthropocene
IN ANTHROZOOLOGY
* Elizabeth Vanessa Vander Meer
Thesis: ‘They are exactly like people’: the symbolic, embodied and material lives of wild animal circus performers in France
IN PHILOSOPHY
Jonathan Benedict Holden Lane
Thesis: A Shared Moral Quest: Wittgensteinian Perspectives on Moral Progress
* Lucius Shaun Tan
Thesis: The Phenomenology and Psychopathology of Feeling Out of Place
IN POLITICS
Rebecca Mary Jane Baker
Thesis: Participation Through Political Education:Amixed methods study assessing the utility of an inclusive democratic promotion framework for enhancing youth engagement interventions
IN SOCIOLOGY
* Jessica Fagin
Thesis: “Without the Muslims, We’d be out of aJob” Deconstructing Narratives and Hierarchies of Race, Whiteness, Nation and Class in England’s Sheep Slaughterhouses
IN STRATEGY AND SECURITY
Tarik Solmaz
Thesis: RethinkingThe Concept of ‘Hybrid Warfare’:ARevisionist Perspective
* Thomas Gordon Miller
Thesis: China in Latin America and the Caribbean:AStructural PowerApproach
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN ANTHROZOOLOGY
Alida Christie
* Maxine Gaskin-Towell
Kelis Hamilton
Annie Elizabeth Harratt-Slinn
* Sophie Hughes
Sorrel Magenta Linsley
* Carole McCarthy
* Penny Mills
Victoria Mitchell
Papillon Moon
* Sindhoor Pangal
* Gino Querini
Oliver Skinner
* Kirsty Spencer
IN CONFLICT, SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Holly Kate Asia Baker
Sophie Alexina Brown
Joseph Eckert
Sylvia Hanlon
George Hogge
* Montague Fergus Lampard
Martha Isabelle Lawrence
Rory McCarthy
Robert McNamara
Jennifer Mary Robinson
Molly Victoria Dyson Sacker
Jonathan Sebborn
Mégane Warren
Abby Sarah Withnall
IN CULTURES AND ENVIRONMENTS OF HEALTH
Juyena Najnin
Hannah Joan Welters
Matthew Francis Wheele
Cerys Elizabeth Wood
IN FOOD STUDIES
* Charley Bartolo
Megan Lloyd Haslam
Yuyan Liao
IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Pushkar Haravoo Raghuveer
Domingo Mujica
* Raymond Anthony Warren
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Toby John Harry Bagshaw
Jonathon Brett
Eve Caplowe
Rachel Coles
* Archibald John Crowne
Zhouxuan Cui
Joelle Dalwani
Olivia Delargy
* Jacob Donahue
Jack Fung
Aishwarya Gopal Gowda
* Rosie Grace Hancock
Oliver James John Heath
Annabelle Howorth
Sora Ito
Chloe Tina Montana Nanda Jarrett-Bell
Jack Jones
Ozlem Deniz Kahraman
Euan Kelsey
* Kanokporn Kupatavetin
Ana Lataria
William Lloyd-Brennan
Callum McDermott
James Painton
Sreeraj Raghunathan Pillai
Peter Gwyn Smart
Mohammad Ali Syed
Ngoc Phuong Linh Trinh
* Omosijuade Omotiwalade Wahab
* Hifsa Waseem
Charlie Wellings
Charlotte Elizabeth Wright
* Hina Yousaf
IN PHILOSOPHY
Firas Abdulkhaleq
* Richard Lloyd Dennison
Bethany Kate Linham
Oliver Rowles
Adrian Webb
IN PHILOSOPHY: ETHICS AND SOCIETY
* Ahsen Nur Bozkus
Lukas Brierley
IN PHILOSOPHY: SCIENCE AND THE NATURAL WORLD
* Tyler Pridemore
Anish Seal
IN POLITICAL THOUGHT
* Robin Campbell
Rosa Lily Elliott-Arkell
IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Scarlett Rose Evans
Nur Murat
IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE
Alexander Ferguson
Jodie Warren
Jason Jacques Willems
IN SOCIETY AND CULTURE: MEANING, MAKING, CONSUMING
* Shiyu Ge
Wenjie Guo
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
* Joo Young Choi
* Kunbo Ji
* Zhichao Jia
* Hyelan Jung
Zhuoma Qiangjiu
* Yunhua Yang
* Luwei You
IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION WITH APPLIED STUDIES
* Hyonmok Kim
* Joong Jin Lee
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF RESEARCH IN POLITICS
Ilaha Baghirova
IN SECURITY, CONFLICT AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Thomas Ewings
IN SOCIAL RESEARCH
* Lucia Janigova
Rosie Quick
Annie Lynn Ransom
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN FOOD SYSTEMS AND SUSTAINABILITY
* Soumitree Sarkar
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
Ramazan Ari
Charlotte Deegan
Xueyao Gao
Matthew Gaston
Arman Islam
Benjamin Searle
Evangeline Tonks
Amy Wonnacott
IN GLOBAL SECURITY STUDIES
* Charles Edward Griffith
Mustapha Khan
Michael Thomas Edmond Lyddon
* Peter Maybin
Ethan Ruskin
Anny Matilda Toresater
Jared Williams
IN PUBLIC POLICY
* Ibraahiim Ahmed
Megat Fariq Muzammir Bin Megat Firdouz
* Cavanagh Luke Davis-Holmes
Thomas Ford
* James Heron
* Chenlu Liu
* Aaron Luke Mingay
Eliza Ruby Morgan
Elinor Smith
Ahmet Tekin
IN SOCIAL DATA SCIENCE
Abulfaz Aghamaliyev
Roger Alejandro Chavarria Díaz
Sasha Jasmine Hartwell
* Haruka Katsuyama
Ella McLintic
Pimpitchya Panupichit
Gunel Rustamlilar
Milad Sarvestani
Katherine Florence Wells Shuttleworth
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
* Julian Muhoho
* Isabella Oberoi
Ahmed Mustafa Syed
IN PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY
Willem James Dekoning Samuel
IN PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS
Michael Eker
IN POLITICS
George Baker
Theo John Malcolm
IN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Munira Devey
IN POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY WITH STUDY ABROAD
Natalie Amy Boon
IN POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS WITH STUDY ABROAD
* Andrea Soldan Urrutia
IN SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Ella Lauren Price
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CRIMINOLOGY
Elena Pearce
IN PHILOSOPHY AND MANAGEMENT
* James Henry John Berry
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY
Afiqah Binte Abdul Hamid
IN POLITICS
Luke Foody
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IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN LAW
Feray Firinciogullari
Thesis: DirectActionAgainst P&I Clubs
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF LAWS IN COMMERCIAL LAW
Mohammad A H A Aloraifan
Lydia Ruth Blandford-Baker
* Mohamad El Masri
* Jeanne Marie Etienne
Yiying Fang
Pauline Marie Valentine Guillemot
Jasmine Lahmadi
* Maylis Marie-Thierry Charlotte Laverriere
Margaux Francoise Marie Lefloch
Cellya Valoris Sandrine Lejemtel
Zenan Lin
Bing Liu
* Huizi Min
* Eva Camille Patricia Mouchet
Do Hanh Mai Nguyen
* Léandre Baptiste Placide
Jiayu Qiao
* Sergey Zhuk
IN COMMERCIAL LAW: CORPORATE
Madeline Bernard
Gulce Celik
Dara Stanislas Everhard
Clémentine Enora Jeanne Honorine Gaudry
Juliette Eva Emilie Alix Gomez
* Jeanne Marie Heitz
Zhengyu Hou
* Thibault Louis Marie Leon Jannin
* Zeyue Lu
Cosima Marie Princesse De Broglie
* Antonin Anton Louis Péré
Simon Rovelon
* Yiming Yang
* Yibo Zhou
IN COMMERCIAL LAW: TECHNOLOGY
Isabel Grace Elizabeth Algar
Alessandro Salvatore Ciceri
Tsun Hin Ryan Ng
* Loucas Pelle
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
* Dylan Ruben Oskar Karssens
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONFLICT, PEACE, AND JUSTICE
* Gregoire Benjamin Heller
Mei Tarao
IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: HUMAN RIGHTS
Suchita Tamang
IN LAW
* Fathima Sadiya Cassim
Shuddhi Dev
Georgia Hill
Lucy Jenkins
William Jones
Uchenna Kanu
Thomas Robin Leitch
* Jiayi Li
* Junying Liang
Sophie Spring
Zhaohui Wang
* Haomin Wei
Xinyi Wu
Haoyu Yan
Xirui Yang
IN LAW AND BUSINESS
* Zhiguo Dong
Jamie Robert Howard-Green
Thomas Jose
Emily Catherine Kane
Shing Hang Sean Ko
* Youming Liu
* Ronna Dzifa Logan
Mary Catherine McElvogue
Lekha Palaypu
Artemios Bernar Pappas
* Kaiyue Qiao
Charlotte Ruth Smale
* Xiaohan Zhang
Wen Zhou
IN LAW AND BUSINESS (FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING)
* Luke Good
* Hanyang Liu
Ryan Nour
* Max Oskar Wiljanen
IN LAW AND BUSINESS (MANAGEMENT)
Kojo Osei Asante Acheampong
Basilia Ganagana
Serhat Goksal
Joaquin Wagner
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF RESEARCH IN SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH
Courtney Dawn Jones
Kseniia Lavrenteva
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS
IN ENGLISH LAW AND FRENCH LAW/ MASTER 1 (MAITRISE)
* Julia Jourdeuil
IN LAW
Rahma Ahmad
* Ellie Blyth
Madeleine Louise Catchpole
Tamara Gabrielle Darby
Samuel Conor French
Otylia Rae Hazle
Nikita Jayne Leigh
Ash Mayfield Howson
Marie Nsenga Myriam Mayingi
Charlotte Rosie May Prosser-Wrench
Ben James Scott
Courtney Jade Kate Tarner
IN LAW WITH BUSINESS
Rosemary Adewunmi Damilola Feyisara Fadaka
Yee Lee Hong
* Yash Yuven Ramasamy
IN LAW WITH PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT
Claudia Johnson
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN LAW
Dhivya Serena Raakesh
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Friday 13 December // 9:00
IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ARCHAEOLOGY
* Clara Freer
Thesis: An ExperimentalApproach to Understanding BronzeAge Pottery Using Case Studies from Cumbria and Wiltshire IN HISTORY
* Jesse Lynch
Thesis: In Papirio: The Introduction and Acceptance of Paper in Medieval England, 1275-1400
IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Hannah Louise West
Thesis: Lay Religion in Late Medieval Bridgwater
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY
IN CORNISH STUDIES
* Christopher Ernest Parsons
Thesis: The Nassamonian and the Cornish
Revival: what didJames Dryden Hosken contribute to the Cornish School of Writing?
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN ARCHAEOLOGY
* Sergio Albeiro González Avendaño
Mohd Rafay Hussain
* Chihiro Yamamoto
IN HISTORY
Ysobel Andrews
Sarah Elizabeth Baxter
William Cardullo
Charles Anthony David Carson
Maria Ciszkowicz
Evan George Fisher-Smith
Ewan Gregory
Samuel Hill
* Dakota Jones
Elodie Brigitte Magg
Alexander Alan Mann
Isabel Moon
Noah Northcott
Finlay Lawrence Tankard
Alexander Richard Kingsley Varley
* Louis Willis
Vinson Wan Ching Yip
* Emily Victoria Young
IN ROMAN ARCHAEOLOGY
* Micah Farenik
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF RESEARCH
IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY
* Rebecca Mary Giffard
* Javiera Scarratt
* Robert Walker
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY (FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY)
Kiera Bhardwaj
Ella Taylor-Leigh Frost
Kayano Ashleigh Matthews
Lauren Williams
IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY (HUMAN OSTEOLOGY)
Shannon Margaret Barnett
Josie McDonald
Abigail Rose Scott
IN BIOARCHAEOLOGY (ZOOARCHAEOLOGY)
* Alice Anghi
Isaac Ananda Bower Jervis
IN EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Alfred John Bradshaw
* Zhaoshi Li
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY
Anastasia Jarrett
Sami Mortazavi
* Jordan Owuye Williams
Renee Pinkett
IN HISTORY AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Tor Heron-Brett
Saffron Pinkett
IN HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Tsz Yan Ng
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Friday 13 December // 9:00
IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
John Henry William Anderson
Thesis: Court Politics, ImperialAuthority, and the Role of the Emperor in the Reign of Theodosius II
Antonia Caroline Clark
Thesis: Late Roman IvoryArtefacts in context: Materiality and Meaning
Philip Diaz-Lewis
Thesis: Aristotelian Objectivism about Beauty:ADefence
IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION
* Alistair Kenneth Harper
Thesis: Can Subversive-Fulfilment Provide a FreshApproach to Understand the Engagement between the Christian Assembly and the Surrounding Cultures (Judaism, the Nations, and the Roman State) within the Narrative Flow of the Acts of theApostles?
* Jack Slater
Thesis: Together andApart:AQueer Posthuman TheologicalAnthropology
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY
Adam Atkins
Hazel Cox
Jai Davda
Emily Marie Dodge
Alexander Charles Eustice
Adam Fitzwalter
Arthur William Jones
Sarah Jane Jones
Christos Lambrianos
Noemi Pasqualetti
* Eduardo Maximiliano Pavez Berríos
Benjamin Moses Roth
IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION
* Yik Ching Chow
Chul Yong Park
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Oliver Alfred Crocker
IN ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Georgina Harper
IN CLASSICAL STUDIES
Joshua Thompson Caird
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN CLASSICAL STUDIES AND ENGLISH
Lucy Beales
IN GREEK AND ROMAN STUDIES
Rebecca Lemmon
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Friday 13 December 11:45
IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN CREATIVE WRITING
Joseph Mead
Thesis: The Fantasy of Deduction: Detective Fiction and its ties to the Fantastic, and, TheAleera Mysteries IN ENGLISH
Ashwag Abdul Hakeem M Al Thubaiti
Thesis: Mary Stewart’sArthurian Fiction:A Comparative Study
* Reem Saad F Alqahtani
Thesis: Community, Identity, and Resistance in Minority Literature:ArabAmerican Poets - Samuel Hazo, Nathalie Handal, and Naomi Shihab Nye
* Zamda Ramadhani Geuza
Thesis: Feminist Publishing Practices in Tanzania (1980s to 2020s): Creating Reading Publics and Inclusive Knowledge Bases
* Clément Laurelli
Thesis: Lyannaj in Simone Schwarz-Bart, Michelle Cliff, Buchi Emecheta and Assia
Djebar: Towards RelationalApproaches to World Literature
Lauren Huggett
Thesis: Memory, History, Guilt—Daphne du Maurier’s Writing of the 1950s
Philip John Wallinder
Thesis: John Trevisa and the Gospel of Nicodemus
* Mary Anna Evans
Thesis: Agatha Christie, Witness to the Evolution: Women, Justice, and the Twentieth Century
Jean Harris
Thesis: Virago Modern Classics: Uniting Women to Change Literary Culture
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN CREATIVE WRITING
Ronald Immanuel
Yempati Keziah Lavanya
* Aldwyn Abbott
Laith Alobaidi
Isabelle Rose Collingwood Arnfeld
Annabelle Louise Cairns
Ambre Crystal
* Sonal Didwania
Arthur Greenhalf
William Groucutt
Anna Jones
* Alisa Maryam Hyat Khan
Sachal Ahmed Khan
Janelle Kim
Olivia Rose Lewis
Stuti Raha
Aditi Sachin Sawant
Will Taylor
Tia Stacey Lillian Vincent
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES
Molly Elizabeth Brown
Samuel Dutton
Madeleine Edwards
Georgina Elizabeth Frances Houghton
Poppy Isobel Jones
Erin Rose LeVar
Archie Lockyer
Charlotte Neaves
Uyen Tu Nguyen
* Mary Poorman
Lara Ritchie
William Taylor
* Kayla-Jane Walker
Curtis Daniel Webster
* James Thomas Welsh
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH AMERICAN AND ATLANTIC STUDIES
Sam Bovey
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH CRITICISM AND THEORY PATHWAY
Alka Maria Simon
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH FILM STUDIES PATHWAY
Maximus Aidan Woodley
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH MEDIEVAL STUDIES PATHWAY
Samantha Aurora Sudol
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH RENAISSANCE STUDIES PATHWAY
Laurie Adrian Higgins
Charles Nadin
IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES WITH VICTORIAN STUDIES PATHWAY
Seoungwoo Choi
IN PUBLISHING
Jasmine Aldridge
Arya Anil Kumar
Carrie-Anne Beale
Rhiannon Violet Lois Berney
* Lana Rose Danzeisen
Hollie Davis
* Nerissa Evita Niamh De Groot
* Catherine Maureen Gilhooly
Elizabeth Anne Greenwood-Spicer
Olivia Hargood
Ruth Angharad Clare Kell
Amelia Kemmer
* Aditi Kumar
Jessica Laffan
Tessa Ley
* Yubin Mai
Shruti Mukherjee
Bethan Hannah Oakley
Olivia Charlotte Pearce
Bethan Pepler
Katherine Terri Peppiatt
Haritha Prashanth
Katie Scott
Elio Smith Diaz-Andreu
Abigail Louise Soddy
Emma Stonehouse
Hannah Jayne Van Den Branden
* Luc Ward
Kate Elizabeth Warring
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES
* Chloe Chandler
IN PUBLISHING
* Shruti Shekhar Nimkar
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENGLISH
Jacob Owen Avery Elliot Buckler
* Benedict Harrison
Evie Irene Robinson
IN ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING
* James Lee Bates Jemima Bromfield
IN ENGLISH AND FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
James Matthew Beale
IN LIBERAL ARTS (ENGLISH)
* Marie Sophie Lie-Nielsen
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IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN DRAMA
Bojana Daw Srdanovic
Thesis: Acting on the edge – a transdisciplinary study into the experiences of actors with learning disabilities constructing professional identities in the contemporary UK
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN CREATIVITY: INNOVATION AND BUSINESS STRATEGY
* Chenyue Bei
Maria Regina Cervantes Saucedo
* Qianer He
Shujun Hu
Tingwei Huang
Suqiao Li
* Xiangze Lin
* Jiangting Wang
* Yuan Wang
Jianing Zhang
IN FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES
* Yuanning Chen
* Mark D’Arcy
George Dacey
Amber Rose Edwards
* Yuchen Guan
* Siyu Han
* Xiaoyu Lei
* Bingzhe Li
Yuting Luo
Ruben Miles Martin-Ward
Alice Kay Orchard
Abhay Mehulkumar Parmar
* Zhiying Peng
Peiying Qiu
Carissa Annabella Rego
* Yi Sun
* Yuwen Wang
Samuel Wilson
* Xusikun Xin
Yating Xing
IN INTERNATIONAL FILM BUSINESS
Jiaxin Chen
* Kyle Anthony Figueroa
Lindsey Michelle Garcia
* Jianing Hu
* Yan Jin
Angha Joshi
Shih-Yuan Kao
* Qiuman Li
* Xinyi Li
Xinyue Li
Zijun Li
* Qianzhe Liang
* Jia Liu
Siqi Lu
Yezi Luo
* Puteri Zulaikha Binti Megat Fairouz
Junaidi
Sakura Nakatani
* Oscar Charles Narbel
Molly Radabaugh
* Edward Spriet
* Arianna Francesca Turalba
Anu Vardhan
Lachlan Walker
* Shiqi Wang
Alexandra Wasdovich
Suqian Yang
Yingying Yang
Zhang Lin
Xinyi Zhang
* Jiarui Zhao
Kunjin Zhao
Yufan Zhou
IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
* Luyao Chao
Negar Dashti Moghaddam
Tengbo Dong
* Yilin Dong
Danlin Fan
* Jingyi Ge
* Mingzi Geng
Logan Hahn
* Xinhe Hu
Yaxin Hu
* Qiongqiu Huang
Xin Huang
* Jinheng Jiang
* Ruifeng Li
Tianjiao Li
Yuanyuan Liao
* Zhiwei Liao
* Jiahui Liu
* Xinjing Luo
Wenyan Ma
* Bridget Mills
Hong Van Nguyen
Nadine Ifeyinwa Nkemjika OkigboSokei
Shulin Ren
* Yiming Ruan
Seyed Bashir Sayyah
Yi Shen
* Tianjiao Song
* Siyu Tao
Konstantina Olga Vougiouklaki
* Ning Wang
* Xinrui Wang
Shihan Wu
* Changyuan Xia
* Yuqing Xia
* Yue Xiao
Waner Yang
Siliu Yi
* Zidong Yu
* Huichao Zhang
* Tianyi Zhang
* Weitong Zhang
* Xinyuan Zhang
* Xinyan Zheng
IN THEATRE PRACTICE
* Jingyi Chai
Yuxi Huang
Shrividhya Murlidhar Iyer
Yongping Li
* Shuo Ma
Amelia Catriona Sale
Yeva Shamaieva
IN THEATRE PRACTICE (APPLIED THEATRE)
* Pei-Yi Lin
* Xinru Shao
* Zhiheng Ying
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN COMMUNICATIONS
* Daniel John Herbert Sutton
IN FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Danish Khan
Niah Rose Vall
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IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN ART HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE
Mie Ibrahim M Al-Missned
Thesis: Rites Without Passage: Ritual
Performativity in Transnational Networks of ContemporaryArt
IN TRANSLATION STUDIES
Abeer Mohammed A Alkahtani
Thesis: AssessingArabic Non-professional
Subtitling of Cultural References inJane Eyre’s FilmAdaptations:AStudy Based on Pedersen’s FAR Model
Seul Ki Oh
Thesis: Translation in International Relations: News that Quotes Foreign Media in the Korean Peninsula
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN CURATION: CONTEMPORARY ART AND CULTURAL MANAGEMENT
* Yujie Chen
* Ching-Wei Chu
Fei Geng
Shuo Gong
* Siyuan Huang
* Jiayi Kang
Sampada Suresh Ladke
* Yingjun Li
Isla Ann Catriona McGregor-Smith
Zhouying Meng
Ashleigh Sirs
Sabrina Ainslie Sudol
* Yuxin Wang
* Yueyao Wu
* Shijia Yan
IN GLOBAL LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Devi Chatterjee
Maryse Deanna Mulford Girgis
* Jasmine Lear
Leila Saghili
Rui Yang
Rui Zhu
IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION
* Zhongyi Li
* Songlan Wang
IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
* Dongfang Liu
Florence Maria Constance MacSwiney
Luke Noble
IN TRANSLATION STUDIES
Emily Rose Cooper
Annette Alexandra Elmes
Georgina Hawkins
Lutao Huang
Brandon Jackson
* Ningyi Jiang
Olivia Thackway
* Yutong Wu
Xiangyu Yu
* Yilin Yu
* Zhuochi Zheng
* Sara Zukari
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN ART HISTORY AND VISUAL CULTURE AND FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES
Maya Makepeace-Mishkin
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IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN ARAB AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
Nur Efeoglu
Thesis: The Representation of the Seljuk and Ottoman Past in British Museums: A Comparative Critical Evaluation of the Collections in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museums Scotland
Harriet Elizabeth Walker
Thesis: Jewish BabylonianAramaic Bowl Texts: Uncovering the Operational Mechanisms of the Practice using Digital Methods
* Venla Koivuluhta
Thesis: Everyday (Im)Possibility: Women
Living, Embodying and Contesting Undocumentation in Cairo
IN KURDISH STUDIES
Karwan Mahdi Osman
Thesis: AStructural Study ofAbdullah Goran’s Poetry
IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
Ali Alsayegh
Thesis: Emotional Entrepreneurism (EE): The Case of GrandAyatollah Sayyid ‘Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS
IN ADVANCED ARABIC
Zain Ali Akbar
* Jiwen Song
IN GENDER STUDIES (MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAMIC WORLD)
Sumiah Ann Elbortoukaly
Sakura Fukuda
Momoka Kirihata
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ARABIC
* Vera Colombi
IN ISLAMIC STUDIES
Mohammed Makii Atiq
Leah Sharmain Branley
Muhammad Khowarizmi
Ali Baba Muhammed
IN KURDISH STUDIES
Saman Mohammed
IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES
Chloe Agnes Butt
Elizabeth Gerken
* Sofia Ignazia Greco
Cerys India Tanton
Sergei Tokarev
IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS
Shahrzad Akbari
* Omar Gebril
Charles Smerdon
IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS AND ARABIC
Kaori Isobe
Francesco Gregor Piras
IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES
Rakan Alahmadi
Maria Gibson
Christopher Kunzler
Alex Martin
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF RESEARCH IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES (SOCIAL STUDIES)
* Yun Song
Melissa Makai Verbeek
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION SECONDARY
Tinotenda Masvaure
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND SPANISH
Maria Granovska
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IN THE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND ECONOMY
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN LEADERSHIP STUDIES
Zexi Li
Thesis: IntegratingAttachment Style and Social Networks in the Workplace
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN FINANCE AND INVESTMENT
Shreel Katewa
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Ka Shing Kan
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN APPLIED DATA SCIENCE AND STATISTICS
Hannah Goodman
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MARKETING
Xiaoying Huang
IN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING PRACTICE
Isabella Caine
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Friday 13 December 15:00
IN THE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND ECONOMY
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Phillip Adams
* Anita Adamska
Sobia Afzal
* Carol Alexandre
Algy Ayson
Amandeep Singh Badyal
Chantal Lucy Baker
Ananya Bilimale
* Christopher Blakey
Jonathan Bradley
Lisa Marie Brown
Sally Burt
* Chiranjit Chakraborty
Emma Clark
* Louise Cook
* Joel Crompton
Katharine Mary Dale
Carla Sofia De Sousa Fernandes
Simon Thomas Evatt
* Bryony Finch
* Pete Gammon
* Christopher John Gatenby
Emmanuel Ake Gbenedion
Anneka Geary
James Matthew George
Arunima Gurung
Fatemah Habib
Joanne Sara Hamilton
* Lucy Hayes
Desmond Hennelly
Alice Hobbs
Christopher Hutchings
Benjamin Jackaman
Sherin Antonita John
* Gary Jones
Shahira Kassam
Vinay Kaushik
Vartika Kulshrestha
Sanjeev Kumar
* Dominic Lavin
Jongho Lee
Srujan Kumar Manchi Saraff
Paul John McCann
* Helen McEvansoneya
* Gayatri Modi
* Ekananda Samba Siva Rao Nadendla
Kaustuv Nag
Maria Navrotskaya
* Stephen Norton
Joshua Vasilis Efthymios Papanicola
Rajesh John Parinthirical
* John-Lloyd Phillips
Andrew Quinton
Andrea Grace Rannard-Lambert
* Martin Reyes
Kyle Richards
Jacques Lionel Roizes
Nilanjan Roy Choudhury
Christopher Rust
Sumit Saha
Amruth Ramesh Savadatti
James Joseph Schuldenfrei
Melanie Sealey
Mark William Smalley
* Arline Sperryn-Jones
Emily Stevens
Mark Streather
Wanida Tirasarnvong
Shona Turnbull-Kirk
Sirakan Umporntheep
* Caroline Susan Upton
Khan Mohd Urooj
Ashvin Varsani
* Jacqueline Vaughan
Andrea Danae Villanueva
Valentyn Vorobiov
Sheryl Waldron
Lucy Webster
* Mohammad Zayyad
IN EXETER MBA
Rubala Thangaraj
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN APPLIED HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Ryan Akhurst
Victoria Lisa Amado O’Sullivan
* Priyanka Arora
Lucy Juliet Baker
* Olivia Bishop
Sophie Jessica Brown
Claire Byrne
Fraser Copley
Ruth Curley
Cecilia Anna Valeria Da Forno
Molly Deslandes
Hannah Duffy
Louise Matilda Edwards
Rachel Anne Egan
Sophie Fishwick
* Todd Goodyear
Emma Rebecca Holmes
Shelley Hooper
* Rebecca Hunt
Jessica Ingram
* Bethany Jolliffe
* Daniel Damian Kwiecien
* Jennifer Laidlaw
Luckksha Logeswaran
Charlotte Mahoney
Suzanne Marfleet
Michelle Melrose
Letitia Merrell
David Moir
* Charlotte Nancarrow
Melanie Eloise Anne Paine
Mark Rainbow
Andrew Thomas James Ratcliffe
Sarika Nilesh Read
Nicola Ryan
Furqan Shahid
Sandra Sidgwick
* Izabela Sieronska
Grant Matthew Sinden
Steven Smith
Julie Taylor
Sian Ellis Tillott
Rachel Tobias
Daniela Paskaleva Vasileva
Chad Wilkinson
Lydia Wilson
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
* Antony Hopkins
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Tina Ainsley
Raheel Anwar
* Matthew Armstrong
Alistair James Baker
* Joshua Barker
* Neil Birch
* Dominic Brendell
Katrina Elizabeth Broster
Ashley Burson
* Jack Carr
Jason Chambers
* David Chapman
Nicola Cole
* Catherine Connor
* Kavian Cope-Lahooti
* Christina Davey
* Patrick Daws
Julie Dickson
Thomas Ignatius Fowles
* Philip Thomas Hawthorne
* Vicky Hicks
* Anna Hopwood
* Katrin Huhne
Andrew Johnson
* Andrew Keast
* James Kershaw
Hiba Khan
* Tamer Latif Salem
* Miles Lovegrove
* Ronnie Miller
* Helen O’Connor
Tara O’Neill
Louise Osborne
* Kristian Phillips
Martin Reeves
Richard Rowley
Rajat Sharma
* Peter Summers
Jemma Thomas
* Royce Thomas
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
* David Coulthard IN APPLIED FINANCE
Fraser Abbott
Sharmila Keya Akther
Ayesha Idrish Ali
* Daniel Asrat
Danielle Attah
Ethan Barett
Isabelle Anita Bates
Mia Beveney
Aman Singh Bhoarla
Alice Clara Marie Bowman
Alfred Charlton
* Aymane Cheikh
Rebecca Leigh Child
Miranda Clifford
Claudia Cousins
Annabelle Cowan
Kyrra-Rhianne Crawford
Samuel Michael Cross
Juwon Davies
Isabella Aneva Davis
Keean Kevin de Villiers
Daniel John Dryden
Mollie Dyer
Isobel Bryony Earle
Jonathan Edwards
Ciara Eileen Fahy
Charlie Ford
Kieran Rhys Gibbons
Adam John Gill
Olyvia Gitlin
* Zachary Gray
Benjamin David Green
Rebecca Jane Green
Joe Gross
Alfred Jack Halliday
Molly Halliday
Melissa Hemmings
Emily Hodgson
Sara Hussain
Raees Jiwa
Sophie Johnstone
Samuel Jack Steven Kidman
Marina Kisel
Fiona Lahu
Roan Lundy
Daniella Alice Martin
Kyrah McIlwraith
James McKirdy
Isaac Charles Mecklenburgh
Trevin Michelo
Alex Middleton
* Arthur Martin Morgan
William Murray
Yasmin Nayyar-Bhatia
Beth Marie Newman
Holly Ivy Terese Nicholls
Thea Ifeoma Okeke
* Folorunsho Owo
Prajay Patel
Samuel Philpott
Connor David Pope
Lacey Pottle
Zara Gabriella Raslan
Thomas Riley
Sacha Jodie Roberts
Cameron William Robertson
Callum Russell
Gianluca Sciaraffa
Simonet Valentina Shenay Sedat
Shahbaz Sheikh
Callum Matthias Shortt
Olivia Slater
Harry Spencer
Jacob Stellmacher
* Benedict Stewart Haspell
Jasper Otis Stoof
Isabella Taylor
Ayush Tiwari
Mitchell Torlot
Sorcha Treston
Annabelle Grace Trower
Aidan William Walters
Jamie Ian Waterhouse
Eleanor Isabella Watson-Black
Gracie Way
Elizabeth Amelia Wilcox
Liberty Wilson
* Ewan Young
IN RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Donna Anne Baker
Jordan Nasseur Berry
* Neil Burns
Kelly Louise Coller
Shannon Gemma Corbishley
* Peter Fielding
Michael John Harvey Foster
Bradlee Hodgson
Sharon Louise Johns
Louise Mary Kasparian
Colin Mason
Naomi Marie McCafferty
Gemma McClure
Nathalia Moura-Lunn
Pamela Elizabeth Navran
Michael John Stelling
Duncan Tarrel
Lisa Tuck
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IN THE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE AND ECONOMY
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN DATA SCIENCE (PROFESSIONAL)
* Cameron Anderson
* Sourav Chakraborty
* Kathryn Dobinson
Serena Hanotu
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DATA SCIENCE (PROFESSIONAL)
Rutuja Ajmire
Pooja Bhatia
Alana Boles
* Eleanor Brooks
* Aidan Burt
Eleanor Cheese
Karteek Goud Cheruku
* Scott Andrew Cooper
* Nathan Creaser
Paul Diplock
* Varun Dube
* Matthew Feeney
Benjamin Heckford
Regiane Hoffmann
Nachiket Anil Joshi
* Stavros Karathanasis
Bhawana Kumar
* Nikita Kushnaryov
* Conor Paul McGough
* Venkataraman Natarajan
* Akchay Ozten
* Helen Paffard
Sandra Sofia Sanabria Espanol
* Ben Shaw
* Christopher Twomey
Bing Zhang
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
Tinka Clare Dos Santos
James Curtis Furzer
Cleopatra Jennifer Joy Gatting
David Hudson
* Michael Jordan
Aaron Robertson
Patrick James Smith
Finley James Tapp
Keanan Waters
IN CIVIL ENGINEERING SITE MANAGEMENT
Rajan Bhalla
Ella Blakeley
Samuel Cartledge
Lewis Crolla
Samuel Anthony Mark Dickinson
Anna Rosemary Gates
Patrick William McAuliffe
Brian Muchineripi Munyanyiwa
Luke Nutland
James Robinson
Rachael Stephens
Miranda Turbin
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (BUSINESS ANALYSIS)
Emily May Brook
Bradley Cruickshank
* Sujay Kalidas
Aleksandra Lesiuk
Daniel William Wowkula
IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (CYBER SECURITY)
Declan Collins
Chloe Faulkner
Jack French
Anna Lucille Ball Hamilton
George Hendry-Smith
Abigail Charlotte Johnston
Daniel Kevin McHugh
Anish Sohal
Sam Wilde
IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (DATA ANALYSIS)
Jonathan James Ashe
Ryan Bearsford-Walker
Amelia Bowers
Tom Burden
Alex Dagg
Eleanor Hannah Rose Dawson
Chukwuemeka Ezebuiro
Winter-Belle Foster
Eshaac Jebari
Safir Al Karim
Maryam Khan
Reginald Maunze
Jack Sandeman
Elisabeth Mary Smith
Joseph Tang
IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (IT CONSULTING)
Joshua George Abrahams
Hishaam Ahmed
* Samir Farah
Matthew Simon Eric Fry
Thomas Harris
Rahan Ishfaq
Finn Marco Lawford Mee
Farida Mofetoluwa Momoh
Sam Phypers
Callum Paul Young
IN DIGITAL AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS (SOFTWARE ENGINEERING)
Jad-Yassin Achagra
Thomas Aspinall
Craig Attwood
Luka Bediashvili
Charlotte Amy Brooks
Benjamin Addo Bulley
Jordan Dunford
Samuel Garber
Jack Gittoes
James Oliver Hurst
* Lewis James
Dominic Jones
Glenn Roy Keates
* Benjamin Rhodri Main
James Mann
Gerard Egan Mascarenhas
Zachary George Miles
Favour Erhunwunse Tega Omoragbon
* Rohan Sunil Radia
Mina Frances Rice
Lobsang Sumda
Edward Thomas
Matthew Peter Wakeham
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IN THE FACULTY OF HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE
Carla Bartlett
Aaron Brereton
Kirstin Sara Buckley
Natalie Care
Stephanie Eve Driver
Lucie Gillard
Lauren Michaela Govier
Matthew Hammill
Daniel Harris
Hayley Jo Kirtland
Catherine Lee
Claire-Louise Moore
Gemma Norton
Luke Hannam Popplestone
Jasmine Elizabeth Ramsden
Amy Tanner
Deborah Wakeham
Thomas Wilson
IN CLINICAL ASSOCIATE IN PSYCHOLOGY (MENTAL HEALTH IN ADULTS)
Hasaam Ahmad
Alexandra Ann Badger-Ward
Alicia May Bell
* Laura Blotor
Matthew Bradley
Deena Lauren Jade Camps
Sally Crisp
* Sophia Ebrahim
Sophie Gettings
* Megan Holden
* Uzair Javid
Treesa John
* Amanda Kay
Grace Olivia Ann Loxley
Rochelle McKenzie
Ellie Jane Meredith
* Olivia Morton
*
Serena Wing Shan Ng
* Kate Emma Oates
Daniela Palade
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Anna Park
Samuel Pittam
Zara Michelle Searley
* Rishi Sheta
* Rachel Sweeney
Jade Walker
* Ellie-May Watkins
Summer Whyte
IN CLINICAL ASSOCIATE IN PSYCHOLOGY - ADULT
Lauren Baker
Danni Burton
Natalie Copson
Amy Dickens
Kiri Green
Chante Parkes
Jaynaa Patel
Blythe Roberts
Luke Taylor
Celine Majella West
IN CLINICAL ASSOCIATE IN PSYCHOLOGY - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE (CYP)
* Emily Bevan
* Hannah Bowles
* Megan East
* Jasmine Hlad
* William Jonas
* Isobel Martin
IN HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
* Laura Drummond-Smith
Sarah-Jane Ridler
FOR THE DEGREE OF POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Dawn Bartin
* Karen Burton
Louise Cann
Andre Clinchant
* Alan Hewitt
* Laura Francesca Hopkins
* Camilla Hutchings
Caroline Jones
Claire Lam
Helen Maharaj
* Sally Plumb
* Sanjeev Rana
* Audrey Ryan
* Sonia Sansom
Michelle Stallibrass
* Rebecca Whittaker
FOR THE DEGREE OF GRADUATE CERTIFICATE
IN PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING PRACTICE
* Inez Acquah-Aikins
Saida Aden
Fahmida Alam
Valeria Antaluta
Julie Elizabeth Attwell Cook
Fahima Begum
* Tanya Burns
* Sabah Choudhury
Theodore Colley
* Benjamin Complin
Melanie Mitchelle Delgado Morales
* Kiranjit Dhaliwal
* Hannah Dixon
Della Dunsin
* Romy Foster
* Christian Gamecho
* Nicola Clare Gleed
* Lauren Hamilton
* Neil Hamp
Christopher Knight
Melissa Lorraine Mbazira Nanyange
* Liam McCarten
* Aoife McNamara
* Hamish Miller
* Poppy Moule
Patience Ncube
Natalie Neville
Hannah O’Brien
* Olabisi Oladeji
Sophie Price
* Katherine Quigley Turner
Max Robinson
Benjamin Ryan
Rianna Shephard
Lafia Sissoko
Natalie Louise Smart
Efrata Solomon
Dina Tewolde
* Shusana Thirunavukarasu
* Gemma Jamie Totman
* Adam Treeby
Amarinder Vadera
* Lily Walpole
Paula White
Candice Williams
Ilayda Yuce
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IN THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SYSTEMS THINKING
George Robert Adamson
Nafeessah Zainab Begum Ameerudden
Anna Louise Bridgman
Joanne Caughlin
Thomas Cunningham
Amy Margaret Down
Cintia Faria
Miranda Josephine Foster
Alan Frampton
Simon Goatcher
Alison Guthrie Wrenn
Justine Hill
* Alexander Holland
* Rosemary Anne Johnson
Louisa Jane Joslin
Hayet Laverack
Sarah Lee
Valeria Livina
Christina Jane Ruby Lowe
Julie Mackie
* Thomas Marshall
* Aaron Moon
Ceri David Morgan
Mark Pajak
* Rikki Shanks
Emilia Slawkowska
Gregg Smith
Michael Ward
* Angela Windsor
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STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
So many of our students have achieved great things over the past year. Here we feature just a few examples where our students have excelled in academia, sport, arts, entrepreneurship and community.
Innovation from Renewable Energy Engineering students shines at international solar boat competition
This summer, 12 Renewable Energy Engineering students took part in the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge. The competition featured solarand hydrogen-powered boats of various shapes and sizes, tested across events designed to measure speed, power and endurance. Going up against teams from 25 nations, the students from the Penryn Campus competed as “SOLEX” in the Solar Class. Events included qualifying laps, top-speed time trials, a four-hour endurance race, a slalom event, and a final championship race to push these vessels to their limits.
Leading up to the event, the team worked hard to design, manufacture and test different elements of the boat’s electrical system and mechanical features, using Stithians Reservoir for water testing.
The team finished commendably in 11th place overall, with their best performance in the speed category, where they placed 6th. Congratulations to the team!
Exeter students and alumni star at Paris 2024 Olympics
Congratulations to the Exeter students and alumni who competed at the 2024 Olympics in Paris!
FdSc Coaching and Fitness student Jess Buchanan was part of Team GB, helping the women’s hockey squad reach the quarterfinals. BSc Environmental Science student Charlotte Webster competed for the Cayman Islands in the women’s dinghy event, placing 41st after the weather interrupted some of her racing in Marseille. BA Philosophy and Politics student Freya Black made her Olympic debut in the women’s skiff 49erFX class alongside Saskia Tidy.
Finally, honorary graduate Dina Asher-Smith was part of the 4x100m women’s relay team who claimed silver for Team GB. Dina also delivered an impressive performance in the 200m, finishing just three-hundredths of a second from the podium, and proudly represented Team GB in the 100m.
Politics, Philosophy and Economics student wins this year’s Hutton Prize for Excellence
Libby Rush, a final-year Politics, Philosophy and Economics student, was honoured with the prestigious Hutton Prize for Excellence for her dissertation exploring the relationship between COVID-19 and domestic abuse support services.
Her research sheds light on how the pandemic exposed systemic issues undermining the ability of service providers to respond adequately to domestic abuse and offers a series of research-based policy recommendations.
Awarded annually within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Business School, the Hutton Prize celebrates students who place ethical conduct and transparency at the forefront of government, business and the professions.
Exeter medical student becomes first British student to win international racial justice award
Medicine student Naabil Khan has made history as the first British recipient of the Racial Justice in Medicine Award from the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
The award, presented at the Future Physicians for Change conference in Washington, DC, celebrates Naabil’s dedication to supporting aspiring medical students and tackling inequality in teaching materials.
Beyond her studies, Naabil has launched several impactful initiatives. She hosts the VeryJuniorDoctorspodcast, offering an accessible and personal look into life as a medical student, and created SkinForAll, a website which shows different skin conditions on a range of skin tones.
She also founded the Future Dr newsletter, encouraging student engagement in extracurricular and super-curricular activities spanning over 12 medical specialties.
Exeter triumphs in first round of University Challenge
At the time of printing, the University of Exeter’s team has advanced to the second round of the BBC’s University Challenge after a decisive victory over the University of Reading. Led by captain Martin Newman (PhD History), with teammates Lucy Carr (BA Art History & Visual Culture and Classical Studies), Ryker Moorcroft (MSci Natural Sciences), Elliott Mouelhi (BA Ancient History and Archaeology), and reserve Benjamin Roth (MA Classics and Ancient History), the team established an early lead and finished with a score of 240-100.
When the episode aired on BBC2, the team celebrated at the Ram Bar on Streatham Campus, where friends cheered them on. Reflecting on the experience, Lucy described it as “surreal” to see herself on the show she has watched since childhood.
Following their success, the team will return for the next round later this season. Congratulations to the Exeter team for their impressive start!
Student entrepreneurs celebrated at annual awards
We celebrated another successful year of student startups and innovation at the Student Entrepreneurship Awards, recognising outstanding achievements across the University.
Tomiwa Adeoye (Business and Management) won the Social Impact Award for AfroExeExperience, which brings Afrobeat and Amapiano music nights to Exeter. Iman Alibeigi (Engineering) received the Environmental Impact Award for his platform InfraFund, while Eleanor Griffin (Engineering and Entrepreneurship) was honoured with the Tech Innovation Award for Opas Guides, which designs patient-specific instrumentation for orthopaedic surgery. The Rising Star Award went to Lorenzo Satta Chiris, and Giselle Hegstad won the People’s Choice Award for her positive contributions. Ruairi Duignan (Business and Environment) received the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Award for his work on his venture Turbo Zone.
Exeter rugby has starring role in Six Nations 2024
University of Exeter rugby talent shone at this year’s Six Nations Championship, with ten players linked to the University selected for various national squads. Dafydd Jenkins, an Exercise and Sport Sciences student and Exeter Chiefs player, captained the Wales men’s team. Medicine student and Exeter Chiefs winger Immanuel FeyiWaboso received his first England men’s call-up, joining alumnus Henry Slade.
Joe Bailey (Exercise and Sport Sciences) represented England’s U20 men’s squad, while alumna Lizzie Hanlon played for England in the women’s squad (Red Roses), earning her first cap at Twickenham against Ireland.
In support of the Red Roses, Exercise and Sport Sciences students Maisy Allen and Katie Buchanan were called up for the training squad before and during the tournament, where the Red Roses won the Six Nations Grand Slam title.
Economics student Ross Vintcent joined Italy’s squad, alumnus Sam Skinner played for Scotland, and Anthropology student Elliot Young played in Scotland’s U20 men’s squad.
Psychology student represents Team GB in Sailing
Matilda Nicholls, who graduated this summer with a degree in Psychology, has represented Team GB internationally in sailing throughout her studies. Earlier this year, she took bronze in the ILCA 6 women’s single-handed dinghy series at the Princess Sofia World Cup in Palma. Matilda has also represented the University in multiple British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) events, including winning gold at the BUCS Fleet Racing Championships and being part of an all-women’s BUCS Match Racing team.
As a training partner for Team GB’s ILCA 6 Olympic representative, Hannah Snellgrove, Matilda spent the summer supporting her in preparation for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Reflecting on this experience, Matilda said, “It’s been a long summer of hard work and training, but it has allowed me to gain lots of experience and insights ahead of the next Olympic cycle ... I am really excited to use all I have learned this summer to go on and win a medal at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.”
Exeter Medical Students Excel in National Neuroanatomy Competition
University of Exeter medical students achieved outstanding results at the National Undergraduate Neuroanatomy Competition (NUNC), held at the University of Glasgow. Competing against peers from across the country, Exeter’s six representatives earned five awards, including a historic double win of the NUNC Pre-Clinical Prize and Runner-up PreClinical Prize—making Exeter the first university to achieve this distinction.
Second-year student Amelia Dickson won Best Pre-Clinical Prize, with fellow second-year Arsh Thao earning the Runner’s Up Pre-Clinical Prize, while Jack Read, John Donnelly and Sean Ho received Distinction Prizes.
20-hour walk for period poverty
In February, medical students Ella Daly and Maisie Harvey from the Truro Campus completed a 20-hour continuous walking challenge, raising over £2,500 to help tackle period poverty in Ghana.
They travelled to Ghana in April, as part of their self-funded medical elective, to shadow doctors in hospitals and outreach clinics. With 95% of schoolgirls in Ghana missing 20% of school due to their menstrual periods, the two students used their free time there to create an education programme and distribute sanitary products purchased with their raised funds. Before the trip, Ella and Maisie trained to become women’s health ambassadors, enabling them to hold six educational sessions and product distributions across Ghana. Their efforts reached 370 girls and drew interest from the communities they visited.
A local leader who helped the pair with translation and provided organisational support, is now going to undertake training to continue the education programme.
TED WRAGG AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING TRAINEES
The Ted Wragg Awards for Outstanding Trainees are in honour of the late Professor Ted Wragg (Director of the University’s School of Education, 1978-1994), a nationally-recognised advocate of the teaching profession and a man who inspired a great many of today’s best teachers and teaching practices.
These awards have been developed to recognise, encourage and financially reward our best PGCE trainees. Why? Because a fundamental part of our PGCE programme is the sharing of experience, good practice and support, not just from staff to trainee but between trainees themselves. We look for, and reward, excellent trainees because we know they are an important part of creating a programme that encourages all trainees to succeed and become great teachers.
Primary PGCE winners:
Ruby Gabb (Primary Science)
Katy Shearman (Primary Science)
Olivia Jenkins (Primary Humanities)
Alexa Clarke (Primary English)
Tanisha Matthews (Primary (School Direct))
Emma Golebiowska (Primary with SEND (School Direct))
Secondary PGCE winners:
Bryony McNally (Secondary English)
Charlotte Tye (Secondary History)
Philippa Bryant (Secondary Mathematics (School Direct))
Scarlett Henry (Secondary German)
Freya Clark (Secondary Physical Education)
William Pearce (Secondary Physics)
Thomas Seager (Secondary Geography (School Direct))
STORIES FROM YOUR TIME AT EXETER
Exeter secures global top 10 position in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
We are delighted to have retained our position as number one in the world for our impactful research, actions and commitment towards clean water and better sanitation in the latest influential rankings.
For the second consecutive year, we’ve been ranked first globally in the Clean Water and Sanitation category of The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
We also placed 10th overall, and 2nd in the UK, in recognition of our steadfast commitment to sustainability, improving health and tackling inequality.
These rankings, introduced in 2019, measure universities’ overall impact through their work towards meeting the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
University of Exeter rated leading institution in the country for ecology and evolution research
Our research quality in ecology and evolution has been ranked as the best in the country by a new international league table.
The rankings, compiled by Research.com, also place us 14th globally for the discipline, ahead of institutions like Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, and the University of California, Berkeley.
The results highlight that we’re home to many of the field’s most highly cited researchers, including Professor Kevin Gaston, who ranks second overall.
This league table is based on an analysis of more than 166,000 scholars and includes over 800 universities worldwide.
Exeter features amongst top institutions for graduate employers
We’re proud to be listed as one of the top institutions targeted by leading graduate employers. Exeter ranks 10th nationwide in The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers list, published in The Graduate Market 2024.
This list, compiled by independent research company High Fliers, highlights the UK universities most targeted by leading UK national and multinational graduate employers.
University welcomes two symbolic globes from groundbreaking national arts project
We’re pleased to have received two poignant art installations in support of TheWorldReimagined, a national project that seeks to redefine how the country understands the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and its lasting impact. This mass participation art education initiative reflects on British history and encourages people to take meaningful action to make racial justice a reality.
A total of 103 globes have been created for the project, and we’re delighted to have two of these installations. Each globe is crafted by a different artist and displayed in prominent locations across the country, including the National Maritime Museum in London and Rhodes House in Oxford.
In July, a stunning globe by artist Caroline Daly, adorned with 400 swallows – each representing one year of the Transatlantic Trade – was installed at our Penryn Campus in Cornwall. A second globe, UncertainVoyage:AComplexTriangle, created by illustrator Nadia Akingbule, was unveiled on our Streatham Campus in Exeter during Black History Month in October.
Exeter secures global 150 place in influential rankings
We’re delighted to be ranked in the global top 150, and 13th in the UK, in the influential U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities ranking. Our success in the standings was due to strong performances across multiple assessment categories, including percentage of most highly cited papers.
We also featured in 29 of the individual subject rankings within the assessment – with nine subjects placed in the top 100 globally.
Penryn Campus celebrates its 20th anniversary
This year our beautiful Penryn Campus celebrated its 20th anniversary. Shared by the Universities of Exeter and Falmouth, the campus opened with a mission to transform degree-level education in Cornwall, boost social mobility and help retain talent in the region. Over the past two decades, the campus has flourished, establishing world-renowned research centres, state-of-the-art facilities, and an emerging civic, business and community engagement programme.
Home to thousands of Exeter students over the years, Penryn has offered a wide array of degrees across sciences and social sciences, humanities and arts, and engineering and business.
Exeter wins ‘University of the Year’ in Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards
We’re thrilled to have been awarded ‘University of the Year’ in this year’s Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards. The awards celebrate talent and diversity within multicultural communities, recognising the achievements of apprentices and the contributions of employers and learning providers.
Nine of our apprentices also received award nominations and we’re delighted that Miranda Simms won in the Retail, Hospitality and Tourism category. Miranda is currently on our Senior People Professional programme and works at TUI.
With nearly 3,000 apprentices enrolled across 19 programmes, we proudly hold the largest portfolio of any Russell Group learning provider. We collaborate with over 400 employer partners to enhance access to higher education, address skills gaps and build more diverse workforces.
Exeter retains top 15 position in Complete University Guide 2025
We’re pleased that Exeter has once again secured a place in the top 15 universities nationwide in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025, ranking 13th overall and 3rd in the South West.
The Guide evaluates universities on indicators such as student satisfaction with teaching quality, student experience, research quality, graduate prospects, and the entrance qualifications held by new students.
Penryn Campus celebrates Green Flag Award for seventh consecutive year
Our Penryn Campus has been honoured with the coveted Green Flag Award for the seventh year in a row. This award, administered by Keep Britain Tidy under licence from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, serves as a benchmark of excellence for well-managed green spaces across the United Kingdom and around the world.
Set in 100 acres of countryside, our campus grounds and gardens feature a unique collection of herbaceous beds, subtropical planting and a fruit-producing orchard. One of the many green initiatives that contributed to this year’s award is the Wildflower Planting Project where over 1,200 wildflower plugs were planted. Now in its second year, this project is supporting biodiversity on campus and helping wildlife thrive.
Exeter celebrates 20 years of Medical Imaging excellence
This year, we’re celebrating 20 years of teaching and research excellence in Medical Imaging, training much-needed radiographers for the NHS and beyond. Since our programme launched in 2004 to help address a national radiographer shortage, we’ve trained over 1,000 skilled radiographers, with active student placements in ten NHS trusts across Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset. Our Medical Imaging programme is consistently ranked among the best in the country, producing outstanding radiographers to help meet the needs of the NHS.
With the government’s recognition of the need for more clinical radiographers, we’ve adapted to meet this demand. Over the past four years, we’ve introduced the UK’s first degree apprenticeship in Diagnostic Radiography and Imaging, which allows students to “earn while they learn” through a combination of NHS and academic settings, as well as offering a pre-registration MSc degree apprenticeship and an MSci to prepare radiographers for enhanced practice.
OUR HISTORY
The University of Exeter received its Royal Charter in 1955, although its origins can actually be traced further back to the nineteenth century.
Our ‘founding father’ was Sir Stafford Northcote, a prominent politician in the Disraeli government, who seized on the popular enthusiasm for learning following the Great Exhibition. In 1855 he backed the establishment of a School of Art in Exeter, offering subjects ranging from construction to freehand drawing. A School of Science quickly followed.
Following Sir Stafford’s death, Jessie Montgomery became secretary of the University Extension Committee in 1888, and put forward an ambitious plan, leading to the Exeter Technical and University Extension College being created, with generous
funding from the University of Cambridge. By 1895 students had formed a guild and in 1898 the first student magazine was published. In 1900 the title of Royal Albert Memorial College was adopted, which is where the students’ RAM bar of today gets its name. The College offered external degrees of the University of London and teacher training.
Scots philosopher Hector Hetherington became Principal in 1920 and pushed for university status. To succeed, a more impressive home was needed and in 1922 a local benefactor, Alderman W H Reed, was persuaded to buy the Streatham Estate. Shortly afterwards, the University Grants Committee visited the campus and awarded the status of University College and an annual government grant.
In 1926 John Murray was appointed Principal of the University College and led an expansion programme which included the opening of the Washington Singer building in 1931 and Mardon Hall two years later.
University status was awarded in 1955 with James Cook our first Vice-Chancellor. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the following year to present the charter and unveil the foundation stone of the Queen’s Building. In the 1960s we secured sufficient government funding to radically develop the campus; over a dozen major new buildings were constructed, including the Great Hall and the Physics building, while student numbers rose from 1,400 to 3,300.
Higher education funding was tight in the 1970s and 80s but Exeter saw some positive developments. In 1978 we became a two campus university when St Luke’s College merged with the University to become its School of Education. A new library was built in 1983, thanks to a gift from the Ruler of Dubai in recognition of our research and teaching on the Arab world.
By 1991, we had 6,500 students, and in 1993 the Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall became a part of the University. We also became a founding member of the research-intensive 1994 Group.
The new century saw an unparalleled period of progress and success, beginning in 2001 when His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, the Ruler of Sharjah and an Exeter graduate, provided a new building for the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. In 2002 we secured government backing for the Peninsula Medical School, a joint project with the University of Plymouth, and two years later opened our Penryn Campus with Falmouth University in Cornwall. In 2007, we were named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards.
In recent years we have invested significantly in our campuses, constructing new student accommodation, refurbishing labs and study spaces, and developing new buildings such as the Forum in Exeter and the Exchange in Cornwall, which seamlessly merge academic and social space through spectacular architecture. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II returned to our Streatham Campus in 2012 to officially open the Forum.
Other significant developments included the creation of the Environment and Sustainability Institute – an interdisciplinary research centre at Penryn – and the Research, Innovation, Learning and Development building, a partnership with what is now called the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which was part-funded by the Wellcome Trust and The Wolfson Foundation.
In 2012 we were invited to join the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities, and in 2013 we were crowned The Sunday Times University of the Year. In the same year we also accepted the first students into the new University of Exeter Medical School, created after we formed our own medical school following our successful 10-year partnership with the University of Plymouth. In 2014 the Research Excellence Framework, which assesses the quality of universities’ research, saw us awarded an additional £3.8 million for research, the third highest gain amongst English universities. We were named Sports University of the Year 2016 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
2017 saw us open the Living Systems Institute (LSI) on our Streatham Campus. The Institute pioneers novel approaches to understanding diseases and how they can be better diagnosed.
On the Penryn Campus the Stella Turk building was completed in 2019, enabling the continued growth and success of a range of subject areas. In 2020, we were awarded our fourth Queen’s Anniversary Prize in recognition of our world-leading research for combatting the effects of marine plastic pollution.
President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Lisa Roberts took up her post on 1 September 2020. The following year Professor Roberts launched the University’s exciting Strategy 2030 which aims to use the power of our education and research to create a sustainable, healthy and socially just future.
The 2021 Research Excellence Framework review showed that we are doing more research, of better quality, with a bigger impact on the world than ever before. Our world-leading research impact grew more than any other Russell Group university, more than 99 per cent of our research was rated of international quality* and 12 of our subjects were in the Top 10 for world-leading impact.**
In 2023 we secured a ‘solid gold’ standard for our commitment to providing world-class teaching in the Teaching Excellence Framework assessment. We were one of only four Russell Group institutions to achieve this ‘solid gold’ assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Exeter Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), and the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste (CREWW) Building were also officially opened.
Today, our courses and research cover every aspect of the sciences, humanities and social sciences. We attract 30,000 of the best and brightest students from more than 150 countries around the world.
STUDENT LIFE...
...FROM THEN TO NOW
THIS IS NOT GOODBYE...
Congratulations on completing your studies and welcome to your community of University of Exeter alumni. Today you have joined a supportive global community of more than 185,000 alumni willing to help you achieve your full potential.
WELCOME TO YOUR ALUMNI COMMUNITY
Our alumni go on to do amazing things and we hope you’ll keep in touch to tell us your story, get involved in our events, and continue to play an active role in your Exeter community.
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For more information, visit exeter.ac.uk/alumni
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Our alumni and friends have helped Exeter become one of the very best universities in the world. Alumni support the University in many different ways. Some volunteer their time helping current students. Others donate to support our students, our research, or our facilities. Some are ‘country contacts’, organising alumni networks and events in cities around the world. Some simply inspire us with their incredible achievements.
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