Graduation Ceremony Class of 2023
Faculty of Technology
Order of Ceremony
Prior to the ceremony a selection of organ music will be played by Doctor David Price, HonDMus, GMus (TCL), HonFASC (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Portsmouth Cathedral):
Suite from Henry Vth – William Walton
Forlarna – Gerald Finzi
Festival Toccata – Percy Fletcher
Flower Duet – F. Delibes
The procession enters the auditorium in the following order:
Members of Faculty
The University Mace
Guests of the University
Officers of the University
Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Graduates and guests will be asked to stand as the procession enters the auditorium.
Opening of the ceremony
Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Bernadette Topham, opens the ceremony.
The Executive Dean and Professor of History, Professor Anne Louise Murphy, MA, PhD, FHEA, FRHist, addresses graduates and guests.
Academic Registrar confirms the awards
The Academic Registrar, Stephen Wiggins BTh (Hons) MBA, confirms that all candidates presented are duly qualified to graduate.
Conferment of the degrees
The Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor congratulates all those who are graduating.
The Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
Doctor Paul Norman,BA(Hons), MA, D.Phil, Pg.Cert, Senior Fellow of HE Academy; Head of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, will read the names of successful candidates present
Chancellor’s Speech
The Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor introduces a video from the Chancellor, Karen Blackett OBE, addressing graduates and guests.
Closure of the ceremony
The Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor will close the ceremony.
Recessional music
Maestoso (from ‘Organ’ Symphony No 3) – Camille Saint-Saens is played by Doctor David Price.
The procession leaves the auditorium
The Mace Bearer enters the stage and leads the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, from the auditorium followed by the Officers of the University, Guests of the University and Members of Faculty.
Graduates leave the auditorium and guests remain seated until the graduates have left.
*First-class Honours/Distinction
Order of candidates
Samuel Lawrence
Non-Linear Relativistic Effects on Cosmological Perturbations
Mark Linton
Pure Momentum Transfer Interactions in the Dark Sector
Samuel Patrick
Ab Initio Simulations of Direct-Collapse Black Hole Formation
Elizabeth Swann
The Host Galaxies of Type Ia Supernovae and the Future of Spectroscopic Type Ia Cosmology
Samantha Youles
Cosmology with the Lyman Alpha Forest: Effects of Quasar Redshift Uncertainties on Correlation Functions and a Novel Source for Weak Gravitational Lensing
Alison Duguid*
Kalina Yordanova
Amrah Majeed
Luke Bennett
Matthew Bradley*
Undergraduate Trafalgar Award
Jonathan Cowan*
Jordan Marks
Matthew Pennington*
Jack Fielder*
James Mccrory
Richard Bateman
Thomas Budd*
Liz Bishop Award
Bethany Burton
Joshuah Haining-Finch
Joshua Jenner*
Luke Johnston
David Kirby*
Benjamin Williams
Matthew Brooke
Rebecca Fane*
James Hartley*
Vyrnwy Rainbird*
Jason Pipe
Alan Bishop
Simon Harris
Trevor Quinn
Shirley Smith
Matt Williams*
Vincent Darko
Johnson Folarin
Darran Queenan
Mogomotsi Marculate Tshoane
Oliver Heath
Daniel Merchant
Angela Scadden*
Steven Wilson
Paul Dimeck
Morgan Goldsmith
Darren Bartlett
Nicholas Coleing*
Philip Cope
Michael Donovan*
David Forrester-Addie
Arthur Gribbin
Matthew Hodgkinson*
Clinton Hume
Zbigniew Husak
Ashley Illingworth
Sean Mallaband
John Manners
Daniel Parnell
Steven Partridge
Benjamin Payne
Michael Quance
Robert Scribbins
Liam Talbot*
Benjamin Taylor*
Lauren-Rose Taylor
Stevie Winikerei*
Asad Alam
Jodie Cole
Alexandra Wignall
John Afamgbe
Amanda Gates*
Benedict Mason
Priscilla Mfeka
Sean Loughlin
Dhruvkumar Patel
Markella Hadjioannou
Alice Bolton
Skevi Christou
Amy Clark
James Francis
Jonathan Grufferty
Ellie-Mae Hickman
Douglas James*
IMA Prize For Highest Achievement
Douglas James*
IMA Prize for Highest Achievement
Maia Johal*
Alexandra Kenmegne
The Barry Taylor Memorial Award
Siliya Mabo
Harry Nickless*
Callum Pennells
Ross Porter
Kaone Shianyana
Chloe Sims*
Michael Tomlinson*
Naveen Weerasinghe
Louis Wilson
Sian Brokenshire*
William Elsley
Szymon Gorski
Jacob Harper*
Samuel Hubbard*
Victoria Marten
Kenichi Matsui*
Robert Pigott
David Pratley*
Emily Ruddell*
Catrin Searle*
Jack Bolt*
IMA Prize For Highest Achievement
Callum Morris
Cameron Bourne
Ellie Beames*
Angus Campbell
Edward Catchpole
Matthew Cookson*
Joseph Dow*
Jake O'Brien*
Hayden Powney
Jevon Rixson
Brandon Simmons*
Venkatesh Srinivasan*
Best Student BSc Physics
Zeshan Afgan
Joey Cornwell
Samuel De'Arth
Joseph Griffiths
Rafael Lopes
Benjamin Panaser
Andrew Ross
Nancy Sylva
Michael Taylor
Nikoleta Tserou
Jacob Turnham
Best Student BSc Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Joshua Scullion
Emily Bamber*
Robert Fry*
Adam Jackson*
Daria Owens*
Morwenna Redwood*
Lisian Topalli*
Best MMath student
Niall Holley-Smith
Helena Faustino Vieira*
Abi Abraham
Luis Alberto Amaral Ferreira Lufinha Dos Santos
Samuel Blandford
Rhys Chetland
Holly Clement*
Nathan Cruickshank*
Best Student MPhys Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Lewis Davies
Dominic Day*
Ben Dixon
Matthew Genge
Timothy Glading
Kieran Graham*
Summer Harding*
Damon House*
Nicolae Ionas*
Michael Kavanagh Blatt
Jack Lloyd-Walters*
Graham Bryant Prize for the Best Observatory Project
Jack Neville*
Ekaterina Osipova*
Maud Ous
Medi Powell*
Andre Sanderson
Sean Smith
Jakub Spychalski
Michael Staunton
Peter-James Waitt
Victoria White
Jessica Yorke-Johnson
Andrew Budgen*
Samuel Court*
Best Student MPhys Physics
Jake Hallman
David Hopkins*
Lottie Owen*
Amy Rymer
Allen Shibu*
Kian Smith
Jordan Wayland*
Sean Werren
Eloise Woolley
Cameron Yeo*
Consuelo Cannas
Amoge Ihuoma
Muhammed Faiz -
Mahalakshmi -
Adedoyin Olugbenga Adesanya*
Samy Ahmed
Thuraiya Habib Abdullah Al Wahaibi
Liaqat Ali
Arpit Dennis Bond*
CILT Prize for Best MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management Project
Matilda Ejaita Boroh
Adam Broz
Hareesh Chinta
Thi Phuong Nam Do*
CILT prize for the best MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management student
Belgin Gulsah Duygun
Mahfuz Ullah Faisal
Glen Fernandez
Sudharsan Gunasekaran
Thomas Hoarty*
Md Safiqul Islam
Lokesh Chowdary Jagarlamudi
Tawhida Jahangir
Mir Oais Kabir
Digant Ashokkumar Kapadiya
Muhammad Soban Salah Ud Din Khan
Naznin Sultana Laizu
Tran Trong Minh*
Md Shakil Nawze
Nitharsan Nayanachandran*
Dharmendra Parmar
Mayankkumar Bharatbhai Patel
Shreyas Perasandra Nanda Kumar
Megan Pogue*
Shahunjah Rahman Ridoy
Ashik Shine
Sakthimanikandan Tamilselvam
Liang Ee Tan
Mohit Niranjankumar Vaidya
Mubarismon Vallikkadan Abdurazak
Sakthivel Viswanathan
Derek Cook
Topology via Enriched Category Theory
Judi Thurlby
Rigorous Calculations of Renormalisation Fixed Points and Attractors
Leo Turner
Exploration of Prostate Cancer Cell Dynamics
Callum Waite
Constructing Solutions of the Ultra-discrete Painlevé Equations
Danilo Triggiani
Quantum Sensing Schemes based on Multi-Photon Interference