WE READ about so many things that are being done to ensure the workforce is more representative, but what more needs to be done? What about women returning to work after career breaks?

The expected shortfall in experienced scientists, engineers and technicians in Scotland could be improved with appropriate employment policies and practices to make it possible for women with these qualifications and skills to re-join the workforce after a few years career break for family commitments.

These issues were discussed at an Engineering Policy Group Scotland (EPGS) “Holyrood briefing” at the Scottish Parliament recently (29 May) chaired by Maureen Watt MSP. Attendees included MSPs, academics, industrialists and Scottish Government representatives.

Some organisations are taking a leading position, such as the Scottish Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, as well as Scottish academia.

There are signs that pockets of Scottish industry are waking up to the need to operate flexible working and recruitment policies, which make it possible for women to get back into the workforce at appropriate levels.

Companies such as Selex Electronic Systems in Edinburgh, are recognised for their positive policies and practices towards ensuring equal opportunities for women so they can achieve the right family/ work balance; and the need to enthuse young people about science, engineering and mathematics.

MSPs have shown some consideration for this topic, too, and this is evident when looking at the committee work that guides the Scottish Government’s economic policies.

An area that requires particular attention is the need to ensure that child care policies and costs make it economically viable for women to return to work.

But, more than anything else, is the need for more employers to ensure their employment policies and practices are attractive. Otherwise the economy will suffer as we continue to have a shortage of these vital skills.

• Derek Elder is chairman of IET Engineering Policy Group Scotland

The Scotsman, 3 July 1950

A SCOT recently in Paris reported with surprise that a third of the women were either wearing tartan or had tartan-covered handbags and accessories. Yet I am reminded by that learned connoisseur of the kilt, Mr Telfer Dunbar, that a visitor in Europe would have seen plenty of tartan in Paris 130 years ago. The Scottish troops in Paris after Waterloo set a fashion for all, and la nouvelle mode for the ladies must have stimulated weaving in Scotland or imitation elsewhere. Whenever Scots start arguing, there are two historical topics which fill the columns or the air. One is 1745 and All That. The other is the origin of tartan. Furthermore, there is a type of Scot, let us call him Peevish McKnocker of Glen Debunker, who is always ready to inform you that everything visible by tourists in Scotland is phoney, bogus and a racket. Highland Games and Highland tartans are especial targets of his contempt.

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EVENTS, birthdays and anniversaries for 3 July

1583: Russia’s Tsar, Ivan the Terrible, in a fit of rage, killed his son Ivan.

1608: Quebec was founded by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain.

1863: The Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War ended.

1883: When the SS Daphne capsized after launch, 124 workers were drowned in the Clyde’s worst accident of its type.

1898: Captain Joshua Slocum arrived back on Rhode Island in his 37ft Spray, having completed the first solo circumnavigation.

1912: Board of Trade inquiry into the Titanic disaster found Captain Edward J Smith, who went down with the White Star liner after it hit an iceberg on its maiden voyage, guilty of negligence.

1928: The world’s first television transmission in colour was made by John Logie Baird, at the Baird Studios in London.

1938: The LNER Mallard reached 126mph on the Stoke Bank stretch of line between Grantham and Peterborough, heading south – the world record for a steam locomotive.

1950: United States and North Korean troops clashed for first time in Korean War.

1954: Food rationing ended in Britain. Smithfield market opened at midnight instead of 6am to cope with the demand for beef.

1987: Richard Branson and Per Lindstrand abandoned their hot-air balloon Virgin Atlantic Flyer off Rathlin Island, having flown it from Maine, setting a world distance record.

1987: Klaus Barbie, former SS officer known as the “Butcher of Lyons”, was jailed for life for war crimes against humanity in France.

1993: Steffi Graf won her fifth Wimbledon ladies singles title – and her third in a row – when she beat Jana Novotna.

1996: John Major, the prime minister, announced that the Stone of Destiny would be returned to Scotland, seven centuries after it was taken to England by Edward I.

2002: The FTSE 100 went into freefall, plummeting 154.2 points to close at 4392.6, its lowest close in five years and wiping more than £37 billion off the value of the UK’s biggest companies.

2011: Novak Djokovic won the Wimbledon singles title after beating defending champion Rafael Nadal in four sets.

BIRTHDAYS

Paul Young, Edinburgh-born actor, 69; Evelyn Anthony, British thriller writer, 85; Julie Burchill, journalist, 54; Tom Cruise, actor, 51; Judith Durham, Australian pop singer (The Seekers), 70; Sir Richard Hadlee, cricketer, 62; Michael Martin, speaker of the House of Commons 2000-09, 68; Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney, 75; Susan Penhaligon, British actress, 64; Sir Tom Stoppard CBE, British playwright, 76; Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver, 26.

ANNIVERSARIES

Births: 1728 Robert Adam, Kirkcaldy-born architect and designer; 1854 Leos Janécek, composer; 1883 Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist; 1923 Baroness Ryder of Warsaw (Sue Ryder), charity worker; 1927 Ken Russell, British director and documentary film maker.

Deaths: 1582 James Crichton of Eliock, “the Admirable Crichton”; 1904 Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born journalist and founder of Zionism; 1986 Rudy Vallee, singer and bandleader; 1969 Brian Jones, Rolling Stone (drowned); 1971 Jim Morrison, singer (The Doors); 1995 Pancho Gonzales, tennis player; 2011 Anna Massey CBE, British actress.

FULL list of graduands from Edinburgh University graduation ceremonies on 3 July

11.00 Ceremony

Doctor of Philosophy – Arnold, Rene; Ayoub, Sherif; Kowalski, Tina; Li, Hsien-Ta; Loureiro, Andre; Moran, Clare; Park, Jeong-Yang; Sanchez Barrios, Luis; Strokosch, Kirsty; Watts, Michael; Xiang, Linxi; Zuin, Debora

Master of Philosophy – Ho, Hoang

Master of Business Administration – Ayala De La Garza, Alfredo; Fu, Zheng; Ghiringhelli, Enrica; Imbert, Sarah; Kagka, Gavriella; Khamkosit, Wichaya; Koncan, Steven; Naskidashvili, Nikoloz; Slizhevska, Anna; Suzuki, Jun; Tsoglis, George; Wattanasombat, Perapak

Master of Science

Carbon Management – Richardson, Iain

Postgraduate Diploma

Economics – Liao, Anna; Yang, Leijie

Master of Arts with Honours

Accountancy and Economic History – Grant, David

Accounting and Finance – Chen, Lihao; Chowdhury, Smita Roy; Fairgrieve, Graeme; Lawrence, Christopher; Liu, Xiaopeng; Seo, Katie; Syed Omar, Sharifah; Sze, Ching; Wang, Yajun; Wickramasinghe, Raveen; Yang, Binrui; Zhang, Chenni

Business Studies and Accounting – Ahn, So Youn; Alexander, Caeran; Allardes, Stephanie; Anderson, Rebecca; Anniss, Stephen; Cameron, Harris; Castro, Antonia; Chan, Lydia; Charlton, Christina; Chu, Emily; Chung, Hin; Connell, Gillian; Cook, Jonathan; Crawford, John; Dearden, Stuart; Douthwaite, Guy; Fettes, Jodie; Fok, Yun; Fortnum, James; Gilmour, Molly; Green, Antonia; Guild, Jonathan; Hamilton, Sine; Hassan, Amjad; Hay, Matthew; Headley, Lauren; Jin, Qiutong; Johnstone, Carla; Kim, Hye-In; Kim, Tae-Gon; King, Ross; Lam, Jane; Lau, Sin; Leake, Alice; Lewington, Michael; Liang, Shuai; Lin, James; Lombardi, Oliver; Lyon, Scott; Martin, Kenneth; McCulloch, Darren; McDonald, Callum; McGlinchey, Nicholas; Merigot, Phil; Ness, Daniel; Qiang, Wei; Rafiq, Kasim; Ritchie, Lauren; Robertson, Sian; Ross, Calum; Scott, Duncan; Smith, Bethan; Smith, Hayley; Spink, Adam; Stuart, Antony; Stuart, Gary; Sturrock, Fraser; Sun, Yiqi; Taggart, Greg; Tan, Senglee; Tan, Xiaohong; Thomas, Gareth; Wallace, Nikki; White, Jonathan; Xu, Si; Zhang, Yan

Business Studies and Economics – Bailey, Harry; Charow, Sophia; Dyer, Derek; Gibson, Nicola; Harper, Iain; Okhten, Nataliya; Rose, Alistair; Xu, Shiya

Business Studies and French – Prentis, Emma

Business Studies and Geography – Gemmell, Courtney; Kigawa, Mimi

Business Studies and Law – Kim, Sean; Lima, Stefanie; Liu, Shiyun; MacLeod, Roddy; Palsdottir, Helena

Business Studies – Ainslie, Andrew; Aitchison, Rachelle; Aitkenhead, Joanna; Askarov, Mirjamol; Baldry, Sophie; Banks, Philip; Barmanroy, Ryan; Benson, Peter; Berg, Knut; Borrell, Will; Brown, Chrissie; Brown, Mark; Chambers, Martin; Charlton, Ciara; Colquhoun, Erin; Coombes, Robbie; Craig, Stephanie; Cursiter, Adam; Duncan, Kyle; Ferguson, Alexandra; Ferguson, Blaine; Ferguson, Sophie; Fong, Jennifer; George, Kirsty; Georgeson, Naomi; Greene, Kelly; Green, Michelle; Gujadhur, Helen; Gupta, Arushi; Hamilton, Ruaridh; Hay, Richard; Hilmy, Sarah; Hogan, Leah; Hu, Bin; Hughes, William; Ion, Kirsty; Ionova, Iryna; Jack, Fergus; Kamolvisit, Wunlop; Ketley, Thomas; Khalaf, Maysem; Kilpatrick, Andrew; Lee, Wan-Chen; Leonard, Kirsty; Liljeberg, Andreas; Longley, Thomas; Lorentzen, Peder; MacDonald, Eve; MacKenzie, Rachael; MacKinnon, Stuart; Madan, Siddharth; May, Iain; McGuinness, Tomas; McKinney, Alastair; McLuckie, Ellis; Mill, Amy; Moorhead, Peter; Moosavi, Cyrus; Norbye, Torstein; Percy, Max; Roeser, Louis; Said, Jordan; Santoni, Carla; Shah, Simran; Simpson, Jonathon; Simpson, Murray; Small, Hilary; Spriet, Quentin; Thompson, James; Todd, Robbie; Wang, Cheng; Wang, Quanquan; Watson, Helen; Wells, Nathalie; Welsh, Julia; Westbrook, Jayne; Williamson, Rebecca; Xiang, Xiaoman; Xu, Weiqiao; Young, Eilidh; Zhang, Wenqian

Economics and Accounting – Abrar, Haidar; Aird, Katrina; Anderson, Amy; Barr, Kirsty; Bjerke, Oyvind; Chan, Simone; Dong, Ziruo; Filsell, James; Freeman, Katherine; Gray, Stewart; Gwee, Eugene; Hawkins, Connor; Horsburgh, Fraser; Huang, Jingyi; Hunter, Charlie; Jumat, Faiz; Law, Timothy; Li, Zeming; Ng, Julian; Noka, Natsumi; Poon, Tak; Russell, Jamie; Tien, Michael; Wang, Mengfei; Wang, Ying; Wu, Hao; Xiao, Yu; Zhang, Jiuhong

Economics and Chinese – Jennings, Ross

Economics and Economic History – Allen, Georgina; Brown, Alistair; Gamzin, Artem; Mildred, Benjamin; Nhuyen, Liyen; Vildavskaya, Maria

Economics and Islamic Studies – Sarwar, Aiysha

Economics and Law – Foo, Mirabella; Lei, Yi

Economics and Mathematics – D’Origny, Louis; Foster, Christopher; Gao, Lufei; Hart, Cameron; Lam, Juanita; Lin, Ruohan; Shaw, Daniel; Shen, Xiaojun; Wallace, Kirsty; Yao, Bin

Economics and Physics – Thomson, Thomas

Economics and Politics – Butt, Douglas; Graham, Timothy; King, Janine; Pryde, Frederick; Sahasrabuddhe, Aditi; Zaveri, Umair

Economics and Statistics – Ahn, Taeyoung; Lee, Sung; Li, Zehong; Lukpanova, Malika

Economics – Adam, Robert; Adamski, Mateusz; Andrews, Michael; Atkinson, Liam; Batchelor, Guthrie; Bottjer, Michael; Brock, Andrew; Buck, Michael; Calder, Jonathan; Chamling, Vivek; Chandaria, Shiv; Cho, Jonghyun; Chukwumah, Cyril; Cockburn, Jonathan; Craig, Cameron; Craxton, Melanie; Dovigen, Martine; Elven, Sarah; Fang, Wei; Faulkner, Olivia; Florence, Nicholas; Gray, Gary; Hatfield, Isobel; Hill, Ruairidh; Hodgson, Josie; Holloway, Emma; Ispahani, Mirza; Johnson, Scott; Jones, Thomas; Kelly, Charlotte; Kelly, Michael; Kim, Chanwon; Kim, Seong Wook; Knyazeva, Marianna; Lappin, Shira; Laverick, Tom; Lee, Cheuk; Lee, Sarah; Lee, Yurim; Libre, Jonathan; Li, Ka Ho; Manger, Clement; Masroor Zakherdi, Nima; McCall, David; McClelland, Olivia; McCormack, Isabel; McLellan, Sarah; Measom, Joe; Millar, Louise; Mohammed, Kiran; Nelson, Bryony; Oxlade, Jennifer; Pallot, Robert; Petrov, Maxim; Randerson, Tom; Rankin, Craig; Roberts, Claire; Rowan, Patrick; Sedgwick, Stephen; Seneviratne, Mihiri; Shin, Seung; Simpson-Wells, Poppy; Singh, Davinder; Slaughter, Samuel; Smith, Nicholas; Snedden, Gordon; Sonecki, Tomasz; Styr, Charlie; Tamakloe, Pius; Taylor, Katharine; Van Der Byl, Casimir; Van Der Stroom, Anton; Wallace, Kate; Ward, Zoe; Wilkinson, Laura; Wilson, Aaron; Zhao, Tian

Economics with Finance – Alzimaiti, Hatem; Hanif, Marriam; MacKerron, Euart; MacNeil, Roderick; Pozov, Ivan

Economics with Management Science – Cummings, Edward; Du Toit, Ryan; Hayes, Jodie; Killarney-Ryan, Sarah; Seedaket, Sammy

International Business – Abram, Hayley; Aird, Robert; Bjorni, Joachim; Blom, Alexandra; Brown, Michael; Calder, Samuel; Chalmers, Joanne; Chojnowski, Krystian; Dabbs, James; Dawson, Ciaran; Fuhrmann, Charles; Haga, Linn; Henderson, Robin; Kennish, Hannah; Khan, Ali; Shoosmith, Euan; Ward, Edward; Zhang, Keyi

International Business with a Language – Church, Henry; Cottingham, Charles; Cunningham, Daryl; Edmiston, Reina; Gallacher, Declan; Lebrun, Chloe; More, Alison; Northcott, Emma; Selby, Sophie; Slack, Jennifer

Bachelor of Arts (Humanities and Social Science) – Chaudhry, Dawud; Lin, Ne; Oddy, Kirsty; Wu, Longqi

Undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education – Anderson, Natasha; Easton, Neil; Ford, Scott; Graham, Jamie; Haider, Ali; Ng, Haymen; Yusaf, Aneeqa; Yu, Suhang

15.00 Ceremony

Honorary Degree

Doctor of Laws

Professor Daniel Petrus Visser

Professor Laurens Clarus Winkel

Doctor of Laws – O’Neill, Aidan

Doctor of Philosophy – Abel, Wiebke; Blaustein, Jarrett; Carrick, Ross; George, Carol; Huang, Yangyang; Keegan, Sandra; Lõhmus, Katri; Magnússon, Bjarni; Papageorgiou, Ioannis; Robbie, Jill

Doctor of Philosophy (By Research Publications) – Guadamuz, Andres

Master of Laws

Global Environment and Climate Change Law – McDermott, Meghan

Master of Laws by Research

Law – Bogle, Stephen; Evans, Margaret; Peto, George

Postgraduate Diploma

Advanced Legal Studies – Chen, Yu-Ting; Huang, Qixing; Mengal, Sazen; Sangokunle, Ayodele; Somritutai, Peerasanti; Tapaswini, Tadasha

Professional Legal Practice – Adam, Alan; Angus, Jennifer; Anwar, Awais; Anwar, Omar; Attfield, Elisabeth; Bales, David; Balfour, Lorna; Biggart, Gayle; Brewster, Devon; Brubaker, Rachel; Buchan, Lauren; Buckingham, Nathaniel; Burke, Chris; Burrows, Caroline; Calderwood, Alan; Cameron, Dan; Carwood, Rebecca; Chapman, Amy; Chrystal, Geum; Clanahan, Kathleen; Clark, Andrew; Clarke, Patrick; Coleman, Rachel; Colquhoun, Claire; Combe, Lyndsey; Critchley, Alexander; Cuddihy, Aoife; Cuttress, Colin Andrew Nathan; Dale, Helen; Dalziel, Emma; Davidson, Chloe; Devlin, Clare; Dunn, Murray; Findley, Sarah-Jayne; Flood, Lottie; Forgan, Richard; Forgie, Roddy; Fox, Calum; Fraser, Donald; Frazer, Lucy; Fusaro, Jennefer; Gehlen, Nadia; Gillanders, Eilidh; Gleeson, Kirstyn; Graham, Sophie; Grant, Iain; Grassick, Sarah; Green, Jarron; Greig, Rebecca; Grierson, Brian; Groom, Andrew; Guthrie, Emma; Haddow, Tim; Hardie, Ralph; Harkins, Owen; Hart, Richard; Hay, Katherine; Hendry, Stephanie; Hindmarsh, Caitlin; Hussain, Natasha; Innes, Alan; Jack, Claudia; Jackson, Andrew; Jamieson, Avril; Jamieson, Kirsty; Janowska, Beata; Janus, Sebastian; Johnstone, Jasmine; Jones, Charlotte; Judge, Ben; Kelly, Nicholas; Kerr, Jack; Kildare, Fergus; Laing, Craig; Laing, John; Law, Francine; Lee, Andrew; Lewin, Pete; MacDonald, Catriona; MacDonald, Grace; MacFarlane, Stephanie; MacIver, Colin; MacLennan, Nicola; MacLeod, Anna; MacNeil, Louise; MacPherson, Benjamin; MacTier, Eilidh; Maynard, Rebecca; McAteer, Alison; McCabe, Liam; McHardy, Eluned Lucy; McIntyre, Craig; McLachlan, Melanie; McLaren, Victoria; McLeod, Alison; McManus, Dominic; Millar, Orla; Mitchell, Alexander; Mitchell, Lyndsey; Moffett, Kathryn; Motion, Peter; Murdie, Alastair; Nelson, David; Newlands, Lewis; Paterson, Claire; Penman, Kiara; Pia, Carlo; Reilly, Paul; Risino, Francesca; Robbie, Jill; Ross, Kirsten; Schumann, Arleen; Shanks, Allan; Sinclair, Laura; Smith, Lauren; Smith, Melissa; Sparks, Elizabeth; Starritt, Hannah; Steven, Gemma; Stewart, Sarah; Sweeney, Hannah; Tamburrini, Paolo; Templeton, Robert; Thom, Caroline; Thomson, Jamie; Tombs, Michael; Tsang, Baron Kwon Lunn; Tully-Jackson, John; Urquhart, Kirsty; Vanderburg, Keri; Van Rietvelde, Chris; Walls, Ellis; Watson, Leisha; Williams, Martyn; Wilson, Louise; Wood, James

General Postgraduate Certificate – Berzina, Ieva; Hardy, Fiona

Postgraduate Certificate

Law – Lees, Ann; McDonnell, Aoibhinn

Bachelor of Laws with Honours

Law and Business Studies – Campbell, Victoria; Chanturia, David; Kara, Ludmila; Krayenbuhl, Yves; Nasr, Alexander

Law and Economics – Abu Shaqra, Sudqi; Alkhaja, Khaled; Nassar, Ramsey

Law and German – Beveridge, Lorna; White, Emily

Law and History – Forte, Alexa; Schmueckle, Mara

Law and International Relations – Lelong, Charlotte

Law and Politics – Bonnar, Erin; McKinney, Tanya

Law and Sociology – Abeling, Marlene

Law and Spanish – Gascoyne, Sophia; Ingemarsson, Rezzi; McCorry, Maeve; Patrick-Patel, Charlotte

Law – Amirsolimani, Amir; Andem-Ewa, Nella; Anwar, Aadil; Ashe, Andrew; Barclay, Grant; Bisset, Amy; Broadley, Alanna; Bruce, Anna; Carr, Annie; Cashmore, Sarah; Corbett, Shaun; Corrance, Joanna; Couper, Derek; Crichton, Lynn; Crofts, Ellen; Cumming, Lindsay; Cunningham, Christy; Dalziel, Phoebe; Danks, Richard; Davies, Adam; Davies, Joe; Deans, Andrew; Devaney, Rebecca; Dickson, Rebecca; Dobson, Eilidh; Douglas, Eilidh; Duff, Suzanne; Duguid, Cerys; Dunn, Jaclyn; Fleming, Jordan; Flett, James; Forsyth, Caitlin; Fowler, Lauren; Fowlie, Zoe; Galbraith, Allan; Garrick, Mary; Gibson, Karen; Gilchrist, Rachel; Girot, Emma; Graham, Emma; Graham, Kelsey; Graham-Smith, Andrew; Gray, Jill; Hamilton, Duncan; Harvey, Nicola; Hastie, Samantha; Hayes, Ruaridh; Hay, Jordan; Henderson, Jessica; Honeysett, Paul; Howard, Duncan; Hunter, Jordan; Hyams, James; Iannetta, Paul; Jackson, Natalie; Jamieson, Ross; Johnston, Adam; Jones, Connor; Kempton, Stephanie; Kyle, Douglas; Laird, Cheryl; Lang, Carolyn; Leslie, Calum; Leslie, Rebecca; Logue, Andrew; Lyle, Helen-Anne; Malone, Gina; Marriott, Kara; Martin, Natalie; Matson, Laura; McCluskey, Shona; McCue, Callum; McEwen, Ross; Moffett, Ruth; Morrison, James; Mundell, Eve; Munro, Patrick; Murray, Calum; Nabi, Tariq; Nairn, Christopher; Neil Martin, Camilla; Neville, Pamela; Nicholson, Andrew; Nisbet, Pamela; Oliver, Felicity; Pallucci, Daniela; Panagopoulou, Ariadne-Anna; Patterson, Mark; Philippou, Stephanie; Phillips, Callum; Pugh, Sally; Rackley, Claire; Ralston, Rachael; Rault, Anastasia; Reekie, James; Reid, Andrew; Reid, Jamie; Rennie, Christopher; Rennie, Fiona; Robertson, Neil; Romero-Dutschmann, Hernan; Rosie, Michael; Salvarli, Anna; Santikarn, Nawin; Selman, Natalie; Shah, Aslihan; Sharkey, Natalie; Shortreed, Nicola; Sigler, Simon; Smith, Lauren; Sneddon, Ross; Stathacopoulos, John; Stewart, Fern; Stirling, Andrew; Stoneham, Richard; Stott, Rachel; Swanson, Matthew; Tait, Fraser; Tait, Lynsey; Tate, Robert; Thomson, James; Tierney, Caitlin; Todd, Rachel; Towers, Murray; Trainer, Sarah; Tsoi, Natalie; Vasyuk, Natalya; Warburton, Sophia; Watret, Thomas; Weir, Jessica; Wellock, Lauren; Whitfield, Jessica; Whyte, Christopher; Wilkinson, Emily; Wyllie, Katie; Wynne-Mchardy, Ruairidh; Yule, Andrew; Zaporozhets, Olesya; Zoltie, Amy; Zulkernain, Saima

Bachelor of Laws – Alexander, Kathryn; Barette, Julia; Bhebhe, Nganele; Blott, Jason; Boynton, Daniel; Buerger, Ian; Chan, Christopher; Dennis, Ava; Forrest, Ross; Fraser, Alice; Galastro, Sebastian; Garrick, Mary; Glennie, Patrick; Gray, David; Hall, Chloe; Hodge, Amanda; Inman, Melissa; Jenkins, Jonathan; Kielski, John; Leighton, Alison; McDonald, Laura; McEwan-Strand, Amy; McGeough, Kirsty; McKenzie, Rachel; McMurtrie, Abby; Notkin, Harrison; Olupona, Omotola; Perry, Carlene; Philips, Annabel; Ponton, April; Priest, Christina; Runciman, Scott; Sheikh, Aleem; Short, Alexandra; Simpson, Jane; Smith, Matthew; Summan, Kapil; Sutherland, Catriona; Tocher, Linsey; Wadhwani, Megha

Undergraduate Certificate of Higher Education – Lee, Sang; McGuigan, Seamus; McMillan, Lucy; Petrovic, Ivana; Tang, (Janice) Yee Ting; Wright, Emily

FULL list of graduands from University of Aberdeen graduation ceremonies on 3 July

11.00 Ceremony

Honorary Degree – Degree Of Doctor Of Science – Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell FRS, FRSE

Arts & Social Sciences – Undergraduate Degrees – Master Of Arts – Designated Degree – Mathematics – Brenda Manson

Honours Degrees

Computing – John O’Leary

Mathematics – Ting Chen; Shazia Afrin Chowdhury; Aaron Duffus; Andrzej Stanislaw Kucik with First Class Honours; Nicole Mearns with First Class Honours

Mathematics- Philosophy – Guanhao Li

Natural Philosophy – Fredric Daniel Dalqvist

Science

Undergraduate Degrees

Master in Science – Artificial Intelligence with Industrial Placement – Paul Alexandru Zah

Biological Sciences – Catriona Burrow; Carola Elisabeth Dehler with First Class Honours; Martha Gavan with First Class Honours; Kerry Mackay; James Andrew Margrove with First Class Honours; Kurtis Toy

Master of Chemistry – Laura Anderson; Jura Aponaviciute; Gabriella Elizabeth Espepance Flynn with First Class Honours; Greg Alexander Mutch with First Class Honours; Luke Malcolm Sutherland

Bachelor of Science – Designated Degrees – Chemistry – Neesha Milini Dissanayake; Jaki Fong

Computing Science – Grzegorz Gabriel Mercik; Benjamin Cheong Sing Shek

Conservation Biology – Andrew Robert Ford

Marine Biology – Callan Charles Rennie

Mathematics – Daniel Lee

Physics – Liam Tulloch

Wildlife Management – Kirsty Emma Harris

Zoology – Ashleigh Linda McLeish

Honours Degrees – Artificial Intelligence – Daniel Csimszi; Bogdan Ibanescu; Robin Alexander Henry Morton

Biology – Ian Alisdair Campbell; Andrea Bertha Victoria De Costa; Rachel Jane Farquhar; Laura Carrol Jamieson; Tanja Lepore

Chemistry – Joseph Jack Edward Cassidy; Jenni Davidson; Joshua Nicholas Doyle; John Murray Alexander Gillies; Alistair James Lurie; Andrew Irvine McNab; Daniel Alexander Paterson; Steven Pitt; Christopher Riggs; Ming Him Tong; Iain Wellman; Paulina Maria Zyskowska

Computing Science – Chiedu Agborh; Stanislav Beran with First Class Honours; Calum Campbell with First Class Honours; Liam Michael Douglas with First Class Honours; Owen James Hall with First Class Honours; Henry George Arthur Ing-Simmons with First Class Honours; Lukasz Michal Lyczba with First Class Honours; Dimitar Mihaylov with First Class Honours; Tommy Mihaylov with First Class Honours; George Piatek; Denis Pilipenko with First Class Honours; Brian Craig Plunkett; Shashank Shetty; Arabella Jane Sinclair with First Class Honours; Craig Michael Valentine with First Class Honours; Jacek Zajdel

Computing Science-Mathematics – Ngaiman Chan

Conservation Biology – Christine Berrill; Hazel Clements; James William Davies; Daniel Hulmes; Catriona Laird with First Class Honours; Lynne McKenzie; Rebecca Louise Rae with First Class Honours

Ecology – Kirsty North; Laura Jane Phillips; Thomas James Shannon; Brodie Strasser Shaw

Environmental Science – Feruzah Attah; Marvin Rajan Beckert with First Class Honours; Nicole Charlotte Cochrane; Megan Nicholls; Alexander Wöhling

Forest Sciences – Denise Louise Dawson

Information Systems – Yowana Kuvaka

Marine Biology – Manolya Oyku Adan; David Bloxsom; Sarah Anna Breimann; Claire Alexandra Dagen; Danalouise Fisher; Ellis Chloe Forbes; Arthair Fionngall Auryn Gordon; Bruce Thomas Leishman; Calum Scott McFadyen; Kelsey Padgett; Christine Rolin with First Class Honours; Charles Henry William Salisbury; Theannie Veronica Thomas; Seona Rebecca Wells with First Class Honours; Saskia Wischnewski

Mathematics – Zulqarnain Abbas; Hayley Avraam; Michael Robert Dennis Fitton with First Class Honours; Paul Kellman; Claire Mary Mackenzie; Michael Olagunju with First Class Honours; Maxwell Alastair Robertson with First Class Honours; Kara Taylor Sellar; Senthuran Somasundaram

Mathematics –Physics – Danielle Burns; Daniel Eaton; Clare Honor Parton; Louise Elizabeth Pettigrew

Physical Sciences – Dimosthenis Dimitrios Gkotsis

Physics – Steven Armstrong; Harry Barnard with First Class Honours; Matthew Thomas Burke; Pascal Simon Heymann; Alistair Owen Hodson with First Class Honours; Andrew Stephen McLeman with First Class Honours; Roddy Grimmond Macrae with First Class Honours; Teodora Oniga with First Class Honours; James David Sinclair

Physics with Geology – Mark Iain Hughes

Physics with Philosophy – Jan Andries Lek with First Class Honours

Plant and Soil Sciences – Dawn Wood

Plant Biology – Jack Davey; Natasha Falconer; Panagiotis Spiliotis

Wildlife Management – Alannah Mariah Isbell

Zoology – Julie Margaret Anderson; Ruth Boddington; Heather Broad; Rory Brown; Richard Burrows; Gavin Jamie Cameron; Stephanie Jade Cockram; Leanne Donochie; Claire Louise Dornan; Claire Downie; Marc James Dunn; Hannah Eastman; Bethan Ellerton; Aileen Mary Farquhar; Daniel Harry Charles Gane; Sima Lionikaite with First Class Honours; Lucy Rachel Marshall; Sophie Miles; Adam James Muir; Alannah Ni Cheallaigh-Mhuiri; Holly Claire Peek; Jennifer Claire Small; Gordon Peter Smith; Rebecca Katherine Sherrard Smith; Ruari Edward Spriddle; Max Turner; Heather Dawn Wells; Aaron Wilkinson; Douglas Ian Wilson

15.00 Ceremony

Honorary Degree – Degree of Doctor of Laws – Steven John Cannon MA Lately Secretary and Director of Operations, University of Aberdeen

Science – Higher Degrees – Doctor Of Philosophy – Sarah M Bannon; Jessica Craig; Sarah Hempenstall; Robert Ian Hobkirk; Ogonnaya Ijeoma Iroakasi; Jamie Richard Kerr; Christoph Konrad; Ully H Kritzler; Laura Anne MacRitchie; Felicity Elwina O’Callaghan; Jakub Szymon Olewski; Samuel Quin; Elahe Radmaneshfar; Ashley Marie Shepherd; Innes Michael William Sim

Master of Philosophy – Thomas Daniel Linley

Master of Science – Taught Programmes – Artificial Intelligence – Yeliz Kumser

Ecology and Environmental Sustainability – Craig Hynd

Information Technology – Robert Anthony Philip Clark with Distinction; Khaulat Omo Musa-Elakama with Commendation

Engineering – Higher Degrees – Doctor of Philosophy – Celestine Onyema Iwendi

Master of Philosophy – Matthew Searle

Master of Science – Taught Programmes – Oil and Gas Engineering – Kwadwo Boateng Aniagyei with Commendation; Patricia Alejandra Fleitas Calzadilla with Distinction; Joseph Kyeyune with Distinction; Ikechukwu Chukwuemeka Onyegiri with Distinction; Maxwell Ujiri Otobo; Oghenekevwe Serena Ovbije with Commendation; Derek Ross Porter with Commendation; Chukwuemeka Chinaka Uzukwu

Oil and Gas Structural Engineering – Siew Jun Chan with Commendation

Project Management – Simon Keith John Dacre with Commendation; Ian Edwards with Commendation; Alex Kofi Eruwa with Commendation; Craig Gowdy with Distinction; Paul James Naughton with Commendation; Andrew Norman Parke; Suzette Anne Pentland with Distinction; Robert Neil Peterson with Distinction; Robert Reid with Commendation; Orlaith Ryan

Safety and Reliability Engineering – Steven John Riddell

Subsea Engineering – Olalekan Tajudeen Animashaun; Duncan Stuart Hogg; Teck Siong Lee with Distinction; Prospect Chijioke Maduforo

Undergraduate Degrees – Master Of Engineering – Honours Degrees – Engineering (Chemical) – Adam Philip Baxter; Rebekah Louise Burnett; Scott Calderwood; Christopher James Dunn; Andrew Ellis with First Class Honours; Holly Fraser; John Colin Fraser; Sean Ronald Hepburn with First Class Honours; Stuart Livingston; Euan Taylor Murdoch; Robert John Pullem; Martin Robertson; Jamie Andrew Smith with First Class Honours; Katherine Pieternella Stephen with First Class Honours; Caroline M Suttie with First Class Honours; Christopher James Thomson with First Class Honours; Ross James Turnbull; Jack Christopher Vamplew

Engineering (Civil) – Patrick McFarlane

Engineering (Civil and Environmental) – Anthony Mullane

Engineering (Civil And Structural) – Allen Benton with First Class Honours; Michael Bruce; Collette Arlene Carrigan; Enda Cusack; Alistair Thomas Jones with First Class Honours; Thomas George Little; Catherine McKenzie with First Class Honours; Wangu Mburu with First Class Honours; Jose Pablo Ortiz Levi with First Class Honours; Matthew Daniel Sananikone

Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) – Darren Ross; Bruce John Webster with First Class Honours

Engineering (Electronic and Computer) – Joshua Cowpland; Geoffrey James Benzie Hudson with First Class Honours

Engineering (Mechanical) – John Bowman; Michael Boyd; Claire Christie; Kieron Grant Dalgarno; Thomas Drew; Euan Alan Duncan; James Flegg; Liam Henderson with First Class Honours; Mark Lawrence with First Class Honours; Carlos Felipe Lozano Bravo; Jamie McCallum with First Class Honours; Alasdair Macdonald; Calum MacDonald; Stuart David Robertson with First Class Honours; Allan On Ching Sham with First Class Honours; Kristian Sletthaug; Chris Stewart; Michael Young with First Class Honours

Engineering (Mechanical with Materials) – Edward John Daly; Alice Fiona Macleod with First Class Honours

Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) – Scott Lewis MacLennan

Bachelor of Engineering – Honours Degrees – Engineering (Chemical) – Khalil Barakji; Bridget Erekaife; Axle Herrera; Mateusz Kolbuc; Jennifer MacLean with First Class Honours; Hassan Raja

Engineering (Civil) – Alistair Hall Ness

Engineering (Civil and Structural) – Adam Michael Harkin; Chun Yiu Hau with First Class Honours; Michael Kiely; Dionysios Potamianos with First Class Honours; James Power; Panagiotis Xiourouppas

Engineering (Electrical and Electronic) – Richard Birkill; Ebrahim Heidari; Bruce Hinds; Keith Robertson; George Dominic Toolit

Engineering (Electronics with Communications) – Wellington N. Gutsa

Engineering (Mechanical) – Adetomilola Ademide Ademuyewo; Hasan Alshukr with First Class Honours; Ross Fulton; Jonathon Hughes; Ruairidh Howard MacDonald; Andrew Miller; Ross Milne; Aidan Mitchell; Eilidh Moffat with First Class Honours; Cristoforo Ranocchi; Nikolaos Stavridakis

Engineering (Mechanical with Materials) – Nicola Ann McCall

Engineering (Mechanical with Oil and Gas Studies) – Darran James Falconer with First Class Honours; Richard Thomas Irwin

Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical) – Adam Christopher Filsell; Ruaraidh Scott McKeever; Redouane Zerfaoui

Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) – Redwan Jamal Youssef Atwiri; Nurkenay Bulekbayeva with First Class Honours; Mohamed Nefati Nami Tarhuni

Bachelor of Science in Engineering – Engineering (Civil) – James A Higgins; Greg Alan Tillman

Engineering (Electronic) – Craig Dyke; David Maclean

Engineering (General) – Elieze Antonio; James Nickolas Henderson; David Antonio Kissungo; Alina Rimska

Engineering (Mechanical) – Abdulmuhsen Ali; Richard Francis Core; Lorenz Philippe D’heygere; Michael James Fawcett; Ewan Robertson

FULL list of graduands from Glasgow Caledonian University graduation ceremonies on 3 July

11.00 am Ceremony

School of Health and Life Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy – Anne Marie Allen, Sandhya Anantharaman, Joseph Humble, Poornima Roy, Simon Rose, Elaine Coulter, Kellie Gibson, Paul McCrorie

Doctorate Psychology in Counselling Psychology – Rhiannon King, Gurid Simonsen

Master Of Philosophy – Una MacGlone

Master of Science in Public Health – Ramat Adedoyin Adeigbe, Johnpaul Chuma Ezeakunne, Ibrahim Giwa

Masters in Social Work – Alison Attrill, Lorna Catherine Barton, Ann-Marie Black, Suzanne Breckenridge, Sarah Cullen, Caroline Rose Doohan, Emma Catherine Fraser, Susan Hall, Nicola Hunter - With Distinction, Sarah Jean Hyslop, Sheena Claire Irvine - With Distinction, Cheryl Lindsay, Derek MacPherson, Jillian Jackalyn McDowall – With Distinction, Kirsty McGuire, Alison McKay, Lauren Moyra McLean, Amy McQueen, Claire Mollison, Ailsa Newlands, Michelle Shaw - With Distinction, John Robert Shortland

Master of Science in Diabetes Care and Management – Gada Alsharif Mohamed Abugalia

Master of Science in Biomedical Science – Kirsty Jane McLaughlin

Master of Science in Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences – Ikechukwu Johnpaul Chukwu, Obinna Omire Nwogu, Chigozie Clinton Osondu

Master of Science in Biotechnology – Nelly Warau Kamau, Chukwunonyerem Chika Ogwunga

Master of Science in Clinical Microbiology – Areej Saud M Albalawi, Prasanna Ravindran Kamal Prakash Nair

Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition and Health – Michael Peter Gibb Wong

Master of Science in Dietetics – Emma Bidgood, Alexandra Cremona – With Distinction, Beth Gripton

Master of Science in Food Bioscience – Eman Saad M Alamri, Alexandra Nana Bea Ampofo, Anishkumar Eswaran, Aditya Vikram Singh, Holly Taylor – With Distinction

Master of Science in Pharmacology – Ayesha Munnawar, Lavanya Pothuguntla

Master of Science in Health and Social Care (Diagnostic Imaging) – Sahal Saad Al Otaibi

Master of Science in Health and Social Care (Social Work) – Sheila Cooper

Master of Science in Health and Social Care (Physiotherapy) – Katarzyna Czaplewska, Cian McMahon

Master of Science in Occupational Health and Ergonomics – Monika Maria O`Neill

Master of Science in Occupational Therapy (Pre Registration) – Gillian Adams, Christopher Byrne, Nina Christine Conlon, Gillian Elizabeth Dorward, Emma Louise Dunlop, David Joseph Dunn, Kristen Elizabeth Hefner, Lesley Gaynor Kinloch, Shira Rachel Levine, Calum Ross MacIver, Obioma Nnamuka, Justine Marie Shaw - With Distinction

Master of Science in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy – Brendan Herron - With Distinction, Martin McQuade

Master of Science in Physiotherapy – Lisa Cairns, Karen Ziegler

Master of Science in Physiotherapy (Pre-registration) – Sarah J Adams, Sharon Michelle Andrews, Mark Wesley Austin - With Distinction, Andrea Michelle Bachand, Joseph Kyle Bursey, Kayla Christine Clarke, Natalie Anne Di Croce, Nicole Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Andrew Patrick Harrington, Katrina Anne Hawkins - With Distinction, Holly Dianne Higgins, Lindsay Humphries - With Distinction, Stephen Istefanos, Kirsteen Martin, Caoimhe McCann, Amy Elizabeth Milliken-Stubbings - With Distinction, Gillian Kirsteen Mullaney, Katelyn Ruth Anne Pierce - With Distinction, John Edward Redding - With Distinction, Kyle John Rough, Anna Catherine Smith, Rebecca Wallace - With Distinction, Heidi Allyssa Warr, Kelley Diana Whitten, Moray Carnduff Wright-Whyte

Master of Science in Psychological Counselling – Tracey Allen, Jennifer Loy, Michael William Peyton

Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound – Catriona Annadh MacDougal Beattie, Kate Rae

Postgraduate Diploma in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy – Simon Johnston

Postgraduate Diploma in Health and Social Care (Podiatry) – Adele Osborne

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapeutic Practice – Kay Louise Millan

Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Human Nutrition – Aeda Cantillon, Farah Farooq

Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics – Cherri Croser, Susan Hunter – With Distinction, Lynsey Jean Mavor, Eve McCalmont, Ciara Nagle, Niamh O’Brien, Carol Smith – With Distinction, Helen Jane Thompson – With Distinction, Natalie Charlotte Thomson

Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology – Mashan Jafran J Aldawsari

Postgraduate Diploma in Food Bioscience – Yen-I Chen

Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacology – Fasahat Ali Mohammed

Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology and Mental Health – Karina Krawiec

Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Ultrasound – Nabila Abdullah Habib Al Hasni, Stephen Boyce

Postgraduate Certificate in Health and Social Care Education – Carol Orr

Postgraduate Certificate in Psychological Counselling Studies – Marousa Kalagkona

Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology in Forensic Settings – Ayodele Akpezi Ajala

Postgraduate Certificate in Research Methods – Wendy Jane Paton - With Distinction, Mary Claire Renfrew, Heather Strachan - With Distinction

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science with Honours – First Class – Claire Louise Tuthill

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Louise Allardice, Fiona Bolland, Blair Gelling Brown, Julianna Maria De Felice, Ross Fenwick, Rabia Khan, Jennifer Lyon, Sarah Louise MacLellan, Julie McMahon, Rachael Orr, Emma Paton, Karolina Katarzyna Plocienniczak, Ravi Sabherwal, Jamie Sroka, Sara Tariq

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Shahrzad Akbari, Yasmin Al-Dean, Rahela Begum, Jilly Saly George, Janine Mulgrew, Steven O’Brien, Daryl-Anne Watson

Bachelor of Science in Cell and Molecular Biology with Honours – First Class – Liam Robert Ireland

Bachelor of Science in Food Biosciences with Honours – First Class – Victoria Charlotte Loudon, Dominika Wieslawa Pieprzyk

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Adebimpe Abebi Ademosu, Azita Boozchaloo, Stuart Campbell, James Allan Forster, Kerryann Gallagher, Andrew Derek Leaker, Kirsten Helen McLean, Laura Wilson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Judith Anne Donald, Melyssa Gail Malley, Fiona Martin, Debbie McLaren, William Shaw

Bachelor of Science in Human Biosciences with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Amy Donaldson

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology with Honours – First Class – Lindsay Fulton

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Jennifer Louise Blaney, Patrycja Beata Bobel, Natalie Stevenson

Second Class – (Lower Division)

Innocencia Mpofu

Nosheen Siddique

Bachelor of Science in Pharmacology with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Adam Clark, Michael Callum Finch, Danielle Sarah Gourlay

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Megan Dunn, Jessica Martin, Natalie Purdie

Third Class – Narges Elgrady

Bachelor of Science in Applied Biomedical Science with Honours – First Class – Scott Alexander Martin, Corrinne Margaret Watson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Aishah Akhter, Kayleigh McCrindle Armstrong, Robert Andrew Coleman, Gillian Currie, Scott Farrelly, Hazel Gardiner, Namdip Kaur, Melissa McGinley, Heather Mhairi Mitchell, Michelle Kayleigh Moran, Nicola Reid, Narmada Nathalie Selladurai, Rachael Sim, Amanda Wright

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Katy Louise Latta, Claire Milligan, Cheryl Anne Murray, Jade Elizabeth Rocks

Bachelor of Science in Clinical Physiology with Honours – First Class – Katie Fisher, Jamie MacDonald, Nicholas Paul Martin

Bachelor of Science in Human Biology with Sociology and Psychology with Honours –

First Class – Rebecca Anne Byrne, Fiona Reid

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Sheryl Brown, Kirsty Anna Campbell, Allison Frances Currie, Kerry-Ann Dougan, Genna Drennan, Jack Edward Fisher, Emma Fitzpatrick, Karen Louise Foster, Chiara Gioiella, Laura Aisling Kirkwood, Kimberley Dawn Munro Love, Alasdair MacIver, Claire Rough

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Natalie Hunter, Claire Laing, Kerri Milne

Bachelor of Science in Life Sciences with Honours – Second Class – (Lower Division) – Wallis Davidson, David Stuart

Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Dietetics with Honours – First Class – Leanne Campbell, Lauren Henderson, Nicole Suzanne Higgins, Susan Claire Miller, Sara Murphy, Michael Jonathan Potts

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Brenda Black, Joanne Davidson, Shona Esler, Laura Irene Anderson Gillespie, Fiona Gratzke, Kathryn Anne Kerr, Carolyn Deborah Souter, Joanne Sara Thomson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Christine Lindsay Campbell, Christopher Kirk

Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honours – First Class – Kirsty Guthrie, Ruth Kelly, Neil McDonald, Ruth Margaret Eva Sandison

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Jessica Aspden, Karyn Baxter, Joanne Becker, Chloe Brown, Rose Brown, Fiona Anne Buchanan, Rebekka Christine Carter, Joanne Crumley, Jennifer Doherty, Kyle John Donegan, Sarah Dowds, Diane Emo, Ewan Ross Fair, Lisa Fleming, Christie Fotheringham, Katriona Marie Hawthorne, Nicole Carla Jackson, Natassja Emily Jenson-Boon, Gillian Lambie, Lyndsay Anne MacDermid, Natalie Margaret MacPherson, Sara Caitriona McCombe, Lauren Elizabeth McKinna, Nicole McLaughlin, Heather Elizabeth Meikle, Emma Frances Milne, Irene Elizabeth Murphy, Mary Elizabeth O`Hara, Kara McGregor Price, Scott Smart, Megan Grace Smith, David Christopher Tagg, Ailsa Thomson, Natasha Mehreen Usmani, James White, Abbey Rachel Williamson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Laura Elizabeth Cain, Martin-James Cusick Coull, Helen Rea Higgins, Ann-Marie Hunter, Georgia MacKay, Alice McDermott, Graham McGowan, Jennifer Miller, Lisa Marie Moynes, Samantha Jane Toffoletti

Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Interactive Entertainment with Honours – First Class – Grant Barclay McKenna

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Emma Elizabeth Carmichael, Jamie Moan, Sarah Victoria Walker

Bachelor of Science in Optometry with Honours – First Class – Humera Aslam, Claire Beattie, Laura Elaine Campbell, Hannah Guthrie, Lisa Jane MacKintosh, Eilidh Rankine, Michelle Snowball

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Hazel Aitken, Alia Alam, Rezvi Sultana Ali, Zara Kiran Ali, Douglas Ramsay Allison, Abdul Rehman Arshad, Zarqa Ashraf, Arooj Azad, Gillian Bleakley, Hannah Boyd, Ryan Thomas Boyle, Alex Phillip Broker, Sophie Isabel Campbell, Maria Carlin, Ruth Scott Clayton, Sean Connolly, David Robert Cooper, Euan Corstorphine, Thomas Dickson, Wajid-Ibrar Haq, Alison Louise Henry, Debbie Hosie, Daniel Hunter, Aamir Kayani, Irene Kennedy, Maureen MacDonald, David A MacTaggart, Maddiha Mahmood, Jennifer Scott Marshall, Heather Alison McCammon, Claire McFadyen, Kathleen McQuade, Robert John McQueen, Adele Milton, Ross Murray, Henna Nazir, Alison Lorna Nee, Hannah Oldfield, Laura Priester, Taiyuba Rasul, Kirsten Ann Ross, Elizabeth Catherine Scott, Jayne Shirley Smeaton, Seok Theng Tan, Kirsty Thomson, Claire Watt, Helen Mhairi Wright

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Uzma Afzal, Uzma Ahmad, Veronia Aziz, Christopher John Bone, Marc Robert Funai, Michael Paul Hiscock, Ross Jamieson, Robyn Kerr, Adnan Khan, Steven McArthur, Melissa McKinnon, Alison Elizabeth Middler, Hannah Monteith, Pako Serumola, Isra Hijab Shafiq, Grant Crawford Simpson, Stephen Young

Third Class – Danish Ashraf, Sebopeho Veronica Sebudi

Bachelor of Science in Diagnostic Imaging with Honours – First Class – Aimee Elizabeth Abbott, Sarah Black, Emma Boyle, Lauren Elizabeth Craig, Rhona Fleming, Ruth Elizabeth Gilmour, Laura Hastings

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Sana Ahmad, Madina Sultanovna Azaeva, Claire Berwick, Karin Alice Ann Borland, Gayle Rachel Byrne, Rebecca Cherry, Iain James Currie, Stuart Dickson, Nicola Graham, Sarah Kate Hayes, Joanna Hewitt, Kenneth Hill, Nicola Helen Hurcomb, Stephanie E Johnstone, Barbara Jurkowski, Alison McGaw, Sarah Elizabeth McKelvie, Gregor Muir, Mairead O’Malley, Emma Elizabeth Quinn, Lindsay Rea

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Abdulaziz Aljuhaymi, Karen Elizabeth Edgar, Shelley Frame, Kathryn Rebecca Gardner, Gloria Gweredza, Caitlin Emma Maxwell, Joanne Lesley McMath, David William Nelson

Bachelor of Science in Radiotherapy and Oncology with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Morven Helen Alexander, Kevin Bonner, Neil Dyer, Lynsey Fraser, Suzanne Gardiner, Megan Jade Gracie, Kirstin Sarah Pringle Graham, Kirsty Hamilton, Ailsa Gillian Harvey, Laura Jayne Hill, Kerri Holmes, Alexandra Helen MacLeod, Jennifer Kathleen Read

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Emma Clark, Lisa Ann Gordon

Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy with Honours – First Class, Lindsay Horton, Claire Louise McCormack, Donna Karen Wilson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Leeanne Allan, Aileen Brown, Fiona Campbell, Maria Dolan, Sandra Jane Forbes, Elaine Fox, Laura Hamilton, Rachel Hassan, Carly Johnstone, Natasha Jayne Lamont, Tan Wun Chean Marian, Thien Hui Yan Marion, Louise Marron, Hazel Elizabeth McCartney, Stephanie McCready, Alison O’Donnell, Sarah Roebuck, Chan Yu Rong, Kathryn Elizabeth Swanson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Rebecca Charlotte Aynsley, Charlotte Jasmine Binns, Lindsay Keir Boyd, Emma Charleston, Edith Clark, Maxine Dadd, Fiona Deegan, Kirsty Duffield, Angela Duffy, Kerry Hainey, Karyn Hendry, Joanna Irvine, Hannah January, Ruth Joanne Jardine, Lindsay Margaret Knight, Hanna Lyttle, Laura MacKechnie, Sarah MacKinnon, Pamela McInnes, Marie McVey, Chloe Morrow, Kim Alicia Moxham, Emma Louise O’Neill, Laura Pennell, Amy Rodgie, Louise Sara Cowan Shanks, Jennifer Shevlin, Rosalyn Surgenor, Aileen Wilson

Third Class – Natasha Elizabeth Duncan, Megan Ann MacLean, Ailsa Margaret Purdie

Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy with Honours – First Class – Jane Beecher, Kirsty Janet Borthwick, Rosemary Carr, Aisling Finnegan, Clodagh Gormley, Natalie Kyle, Yang Liying, Magalie MacKay, Alastair Elmer McFarland, Anne-Marie Monaghan, Foo Chia Wen Samantha, Sarah Sargent, Ewan MacDonald Sharp, Katie Maaike Verweijmeren-Stewart, Jiayen Wong

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ashley Jane Barr, Heather Bennett, Karen Brandon, Katie Brawley, Mary Burke, Scott Andrew Campbell, Amy Chalmers, Tan Siew Rui Cherie, Rosie Davie, Janine Dickie, Olivia Ann Doogan, Peter Robert Eagleson, Morten Lyden Eng, Johnathan Farrell, Rebekah Val Golding, Alistair Gray, Eleanor Jane Gregory, Lyndsay Louise Henning, Chua Hui Min, Mhairi Inglis, Ellen Louise Johnston, Hayley Johnston, Linda Johnston, Liam Magee, Chua Shu Hui Marilyn, Gillian Martin, Katharine Maxwell, Gayle Sarah McCaig, Lyndsay McCreath, Charlie Amber McFarlane, Jill Meldrum, Danielle Moran, Sean Gerard Morris, Anna Murray, Ashley Anne Ross, Suzanne Torrance Sadowski, Ken Sowamber-Rubiola, Heng Shi Tien, Agata Anna Wroblewska

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Andrew Nicholas Bell, Djennah Benaouicha, Andrew Britten, Roy Spence Cameron, Kirsten Ferguson, Scott MacAulay, Eimear Masterson, Shannon Hazel McGregor, Katherine Flora McNaughton, Emma Parkinson, Omolola Moromoke Popoola, Claire Shannon, Susan Wilson

Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy Studies with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Low Rui-Jia Claire

Bachelor of Science in Podiatry with Honours – First Class – Samantha Alexander, Corey Gillen, Robyn Victoria Hobson, Joanne Edith Hurst, Natalie Mason, Cameron Iain McLaren, Piotr Skrzypiec, Sian Mary Margaret Steele

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ciaran John Canney, Jennifer Siew Cheng Eunson, Caroline Janet Graham, Ophelia Rose Harborne, Karen Hendry, Demi Lee, Christina Banner Lynas, Kirsty MacGregor, Catharine Smith, Alia Sohail

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Amy Margaret Bisset, Scott Oliver Ian Campbell, Emma Crichton, Jill Garvie, Robert Victor Alexander Lynas, Amanda MacDonald, Donna McDowall, Laura Marie McGeown, Tracey Taylor, Emma Thapa

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work with Honours – First Class – Nicholas David Cronin, Kirsty Davidson, Gerard Healy, Louise Laird, Nicola Salisbury, Robert Todd

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Amanda Bird, Denise Brown, Louise Buchanan, Nicole Cahill, Lorna Cairns, Charlotte Rose Coburn, Lisa Hilary Davidson, Brian Douglas, Sean Kieran Duggan, James Farrell, Caroline Feighery, Morag Frame, Liam Gallagher, Deborah Louise Giannoni, Gillian Gillespie, Mariusz Jargielo, Mary Ann Kearney, Kirsteen Marshall, Francesca Suzanne May, Frances Mitchell McKay, Lauren McKirdy, Sharon McLellan, Elizabeth Reid, Afsah Sadiq, Natalie Shaw, Kerrie Snaddon, Catriona Watters, Ainsley Wilson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Kimiko Shereena Bailey, Connie Bell, Joanne Carruthers, Nicola Farrell, Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Elaine Forrester, Fiona Gallacher, Sharon Kirk, Sharon Lecki, Thomas Flannery Logan, Kevin John Marshall, Sundass Nasir, Christine Ritchie, Jeanette Thomson, Graduate Diploma in Psychology, Arlene Mary Anderson – With Distinction, Nazia Nazir – With Distinction, Victoria Weston

Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences – Haira Akram, Jennifer Callander, Danielle Caroline Cathie, Steven Dunsmore, Modar El Ousta, Shivani Gandhi, Farhana Ladli Khan, Gregory Nicholas Lee, Susan Alice McCallum, Amy McFadyen, Victoria Lynn McKinstry, Martin Moir, Jolene Richardson, Christine Waugh, Henry Weir, Allan Steven Whitton

Bachelor of Science in Physiological Sciences – Nicola Silva

Bachelor of Science in Human Biology with Sociology and Psychology – Dawn Elizabeth Burns, Pamela Gray

Bachelor of Science in Ophthalmic Dispensing – Janice Morag Brown, Miranda Mara Da Prato, Nosheen Hanif, Bridgin McCloy, Sanah Rasul, Priya Sahi , Hannah Simpson, Joseph Donald Simpson

Bachelor of Science in Oral Health Science – Colette Castle – With Distinction, Edward Yun Tun Cheung – With Distinction, Heather Darby, Martha Sharon Irwin – With Distinction, Vjosa Islami, Amanda Kemp, Yvonne Kimbley – With Distinction, Victoria McFadden – With Distinction, Sarah Jane McInally – With Distinction, Faiza Saba Ullah – With Distinction

Bachelor of Science in Health and Social Care – Ewan Carlton, Sandie Hunter, Karen Bertha MacGowan, Andrew Dale MacKenzie, Kirsten McManus

Bachelor of Science in Psychology – Sadeq Mohamed Ebrahim Ali Isa, Laura Jane Paterson

University Diploma in Biological Sciences – Rory Richards Carmichael

University Diploma in Health and Social Care – Alison Aitken – With Distinction, Linda Cunningham

Diploma of Higher Education in Paramedic Practice – Jaleel Akhtar, Sarah Hogg, Diploma of Higher Education, Amanda Gardner, Suzanne Mark, David Andrew Wright

University Certificate in Health and Social Care – Claire McGill

University Certificate in Psychology – Gina Mabon Perring

Certificate of Higher Education in Ambulance Studies – Alexander Allan, David MacKay, Allan Mitchell

3.30 pm Ceremony

School of Engineering and Built Environment

Doctor of Philosophy – Marcus Ogwu Edino, Panagiotis Fotis, Abdullahi Abubakar Mas’ud, Lewis McGibbney, John O`Neil, Henry Chukwuemeka Okafor, Akunna Uchechi Oledinma, Ena Enameguolo Orugbo, Gumesindo Osorio Garcia, Petros Papadopoulos, Karol Slawomir Sikora, Mary Frances Stewart, Quoc Tuan Vien

Professional Doctorate (Built Environment) – Morag Young Ferguson

Master of Philosophy – Jared Parnell

Master of Arts in 3D Design for Virtual Environment – Ahmad Sami M Alsawaf, Kenneth MacAskill

Master of Science in Applied Instrumentation and Control – Muhammad Arshad, Nazik Mohammed Omar Basaad - With Distinction, Yemi Benedict Eludiwura - With Distinction, Emeka Innocent Isikaku, Sujith Kumar Medidam, Innocent Ovia, Craig Malcolm Wilson

Master of Science in Maintenance Management – Muhammad Asif - With Distinction, Gary Brown, Andrew Currie - With Distinction, Khalid S Mohamed Dabouh, Lee Ryan Hutton - With Distinction, David Andrew Livesey - With Distinction, Alasdair Fraser McQuilken - With Distinction, Christopher Sleep

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Shahnawaz Arshed, Aatif Hayatleh, Stewart James Stenton

Master of Science in Particulate Solids Handling – Jairo Alberto Paternina - With Distinction

Master of Science in International Project Management – Oluwadamilola Oluwakemi Ige, Nauman Khalid, Mukhtar Ahmed Mohamed – With Distinction, Michael Kwesi Nartey – With Distinction, William Nanor, Craig Sinclair Porteous – With Distinction, Michael Ross – With Distinction, Robert Rostandt Seyara – with Distinction

Master of Science in Construction Management – Talgat Baimukanov – With Distinction, Sushmita Singh Thapa

Master of Science in Quantity Surveying – Susan Mwila Kabwe

Master of Science in Building Services Engineering – Patrick Bernard Temidayo Adenuoye, Ikenna Reginald Ajiero - With Distinction, Lena Kirkpatrick

Master of Science in Energy and Environmental Management – Paul Brown, Dingyuan Guo, Inusa Ibrahim, Abdul Hannan Khan, Alexander James Lawson, Andrew Martin, Enyinnaya Udy Mbakwem

Master of Science in Sustainable Energy Technology – Patrick Akhabue Akhuemokhan

Master of Science in Forensic Biological and Chemical Analysis – Tariq Razzaq

Master of Science in Advanced Computer Networking – Pradeep Byadigere Rajashekar , Tahira Perveen Ahmed, Krishna Doodi, Varalakshmi Devi Kannasani, Mohan Kumar Nakka, Collins Kelechi Nwakerendu, Achilleas Tsitsikas, Nirmal Singh Daniel Winfred

Master of Science in Network Security – Craig Bishop - With Distinction, Siddarth Naik, Chioma Ogonnaya Uzoamaka

Master of Science in Wireless Networking – Manmohan Alla

Master of Science in Web Systems Development.Net – Francis Muir Kerrigan

Postgraduate Diploma in Real Estate Management – Margaret Daly

Postgraduate Diploma in Construction Management – Henry Howat

Postgraduate Diploma in Maintenance Management – John Unwin

Postgraduate Diploma in Wireless Communication Technologies – Arinze Kevin Onyido, A H M Mostafa Zaman

Postgraduate Diploma in Web Systems Development.Net – Kirsty Fawbert

Postgraduate Diploma in Network Security – Folajimi Temitope Akinbobola

Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Computer Networking – Dheeraj Bekkanti

University Postgraduate Certificate – Ajit Narayanrao Shinde

Bachelor of Arts in 3D Computer Animation with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Jennifer James, Caroline McCaig, Kelvin McGuire, Scott George McLean, Susan MacIver Mooney, Marc Small

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Robert Edward William Cartwright, Craig Hume

Third Class – Derek Francis Sellar

Bachelor of Arts in Computer Games (Art and Animation) with Honours – First Class – Nanao McKay

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Richard William Jewitt Jones, Connor Reid McKenzie, Heather Miller, Paul Sloey

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design for Digital Media with Honours – First Class – Andrew David Behan

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ross Fraser Baynham, Steven Kelly, Paul Alexander Milroy, Sarah Wylie

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Seona Douglas Christie, Dean Habbick, Samuel Lland, Rhoda Faye Preston

Bachelor of Arts in International Product Design with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division), Samantha Blair, Alexander Frederick Holliman, Zsara Anne McEwan, Daniel Ortiz, Peter Sunderland

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Christopher Dougan, William Francis Noon, Iain Smith, Adam Walley

Third Class – Melung Chan, William McAlpine

Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design with Honours – First Class – Karen Doherty, Darya Fomkin, Catherine Rhiannon Stewart

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Lynsey Kermack, Syearah Usman, Kirsten Whitelaw

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering with Honours – First Class – Paul John Carruthers, Fraser James Connery, Gary Dalton, Andrew David Hill, Christopher Holland, Stuart Kerr, Colin Pearson, Greg Roberts, Hadi Zalzala

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Olugbenga Joseph Akinyele, Khaled Mansour Alsalman, Michael Courtney, Daniel Doherty, Alan James McCracken, Tracy Ann Talbot, Shuai Wang

Second Class – (Lower Division) – William Conway, Michael Kidd, Urszula McNeill, Ernest Nsangou Yeyap

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering with Honours – First Class – Gareth Davis, Ross Hastings, Peter Hume

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Sam Allan

Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems Engineering with Honours – First Class – Derek George Duncan, Daniel Stewart

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Jamie Ewing

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Robert Devennie

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Electronic Systems Engineering with Honours – First Class – Laurie Paul Candlish, Sean Duffy, Craig Jarvis, Martin MacDonald, John Marr, Fraser Andrew McGregor, Vittorio Orsi, Kenneth Pollock, Stuart Sherlock, Andrew Stevens, Mark Swan, Kenneth Woods

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Christopher I Alexander, Blair Armitage, Gary Neil Connell, Brian Douglas, Colin Gribben, Stephen Laurence Harkins, Catriona Jane Harkness, David Thomas Graham Linton, Andrew John Skilling, Gary Watson, Matthew Cameron Watson, Craig Robert Welsh, Steven Whittet, Donald Wilson

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Gary Culbert, Hussein El Gaili Mustafa Abdel Rahman, Nayab Khan Mohammad Suleman Sarfaraz

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Power Plant Systems with Honours – First Class – Sophie Vivaudou, Fraser Wilson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ali Abdalla Lasefer

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Roque Ladislau Capeio, Ovais Khan, Muhammad Waqas Nafees, Pharuhat Nuchsiri, Jahanzeb Shuja Ur Rahman

Bachelor of Engineering in Technology (Engineering) with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Paul James Gallagher

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Andrew Dunn

Bachelor of Engineering in Technology (Electronic Engineering) with Honours – Third Class – Scott Gallagher

Bachelor of Science in Audio Technology with Electronics with Honours – First Class – Heather Elizabeth Andrews, Samuel John McCormack, Andrew McGill, Joanna Marie Ann Sutherland

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Christopher Timothy Gay, Cameron George Stevenson, David Wood

Bachelor of Science in Audio Technology with Multimedia with Honours – First Class – Ruaridh Connor, Alastair Ross Crombie, Andrew Ogg, William Leslie Robertson, Paul Shanks, Jamie Edward Stewart

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Christopher Barker, John Andrew Brown, Bobby Cahill, Thomas James Cameron, Nathan Currie, Andrew Dixon, Robert Henderson, Darren Michael Lowe, Gary Peter Watson, Leslie Willox

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Robert David Ronning

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering with Honours – First Class – Connor Iain Taylor

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Abdulkarim Baba, Peter James Bell, Sean-Paul Havelin, Stewart Young

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Gregory Tosan Dabor, Kieran Stephen Gallacher, Jamie Millar, Andreas Stylianou

Bachelor of Science in Forensic Investigation with Honours – First Class – Kevin Airens, Rhian Lafferty, Eilidh MacKenzie, Nicole McLean, Erin Jayne McMillan, Yasmin Louise Murdoch, Kaitlin Eleanor Dickson Ramsay, Shannon Rachel Cameron Thomson, Karen Mary Wilson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Lisa Boyle, Donna Louise Cameron, Claire Currie, Darren Devlin, Saimah Din, Louise Ann Dunn, Lynne Ewing, Carolyn Marie MacAulay, Justine McKerlie, Shaun David Rainey McLaren, Julie Louise Scott

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Cherie Sarah Baillie, Rachael Campbell, Don Billy Pike, Joanna Pilarczyk

Bachelor of Science in Computer Aided Mechanical Engineering with Honours – First Class – Martin Brown

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Darren Grant, Craig John Kerrigan, Sarmad Malik

Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics with Honours – First Class – Martin Peter Campbell, Mark David Jenkins, Martin James Rock

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ahmed Mohamed Abdel Razek Ahmed Afifi, Allan Faulds, Lyle Frank

Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Bander Khaled Bamualeem, Christopher Cairns

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Scott McLelland, Jonathan Williams

Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Telecommunications Engineering) with Honours – Second Class – (Lower Division) – Zakariya Ahmed Mohammed Al Ofi

Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering with Honours – First Class – James William Fleeting, Scott Thomas McHale

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Iram Fatima Hussain, Stuart McCarthy, Darshana Thomas

Bachelor of Science in Building Surveying with Honours – First Class – Emma Chambers, Graham MacNicol, Simon Joseph Shaldon, Ian Watson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Louise Bell, Steven Charles Blair, Alistair Stephen Burrows, Paul Cullen, Emilio De Marco, Rosa Docherty, Matthew Gormley, Calum David Henderson, Ross James MacDonald, Billy Reid, James Shearer, Kenneth Wright

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Ross Jamieson Carpenter, Craig James Connery, Avril Watson Currans, Dale Gary Goodwin, Michael Jones, Gary Walker, Laurence Welch

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Civil Engineering with Honours – First Class – Ryan O’Neil, Paul Stephen Smith, Ross Wilson

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Paul Brown, Oluwatoyin Oluwafemi Dada, Kieran David Dolan, Julien Gillet, Steven Greig, Gerard Kelly, Laura McCubbin, Owen McVerry, Mark Morrison, Gary John Thomas Shields, Peter Ben Walsh

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Stephen Boslem, Andrew Hennan, Neil MacKenzie, Daniel McCormick, Kelly McNee, James Ng, Christopher John O’Hare, Bogdan Stefan, Rachel Thomson, Aung Thu

Third Class – Ilyas Azhdamov, Nathan Kerr, Jamie Reid

Bachelor of Science in Fire Risk Engineering with Honours – Second Class – (Upper Division) – Anthony Michael O’Donnell

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Graeme Shaw

Bachelor of Science in Construction Management with Honours – First Class – Shaun Michael Gallacher, David Cox Gilmour, Stuart Glass, Craig Steven

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Ian McKinnon Brown, Luke Hambly, Ian William Hamilton, Aran Hassan, Scott McBain, Adrien Neveu, Rory Duncan Walker

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Gary Gibson

Bachelor of Science in Construction Management by Blended Learning with Honours – First Class – James McDonald, Lorraine Starrs

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Laura Allison, Greg Andrew Boyd, Michael Cunningham, Stephen Lamb, Nicola Rodger, Derek Watret

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management and Planning with Honours – First Class – Richard Thomas Carr, Gareth Manson, Ellis Marshall-Padkin, Kirsty McGregor

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Katja Behrendt, Phoebe Davidson, Joseph Haigh, Christopher Campbell Landsburgh, Samuel MacKeddie, Craig Manson, Huiyi Zhang

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Jay Bell, Kirsty McDaid, Greg Stevenson

Third Class – Blair Turnbull

Bachelor of Science in Property Management and Valuation with Honours – First Class – Claire Elizabeth Chambers, Jane Ann Douglas, Benedict Farrell, David Findlay, Alister Gibson, Anna Ruth Thorburn

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Nicola Baxter, Andrew Stewart Brass, Kenneth Geddes, Leigh Kathryn Nisbet, Derek James Reid, Jane Smith, Martin Speirs

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Zuzana Fronkova, Calum Fraser Michael Henderson, Omar Khan, Greg Andrew Scrimgeour

Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying with Honours – First Class – John-Paul Din, Emma Flanagan, Brian Foy, Craig MacKenzie, Stuart Fraser Mann, Sally McLintock, Gordon McRae, Christopher Ryan, Adrian Walley

Second Class – (Upper Division) – James Callan Anderson, Allan Barrie, Murray Bell, Craig Cunningham, Steven Cunningham, Barry Donald, Lloyd Philip Elkerton, Yannick Fabien, Craig Robert Fairbairn, Ross Fairbairn, Andrew Govan, Jennifer Alison Graham, Darren James Gualtieri, Graeme Robert Hill, Isla Elinor Hillyear Hill, Cheryl Jacqueline Jedrzejewski, Rakesh Ricky Kewal, Ee Lu Ku, Ross MacDonald, Steven Mailer, Jonathan Maisey, Azeem Malik, Fraser Maxwell, James McAlinden, Andrew McFarlane, Kieran McManus, Jacob Peter Joseph Mitchell, Marc Muir, Richard Murray, Lisa Marie Pettigrew-Rennie, Ben Simpson Rankin, Louise Riley, Enrique Alejandro Roca, Shaun Rundell, John Derek Selfridge, Euan Sheridan, Douglas Robert Stainton, Jamie Stewart, Finlay Gilchrist Thomson, Darren Walker, Andrew Workman, Frazer Yates

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Sean Corrigan, Barry Coyle, Patricia Edwards, Oliver Edward MacDonald Erskine, Colin Ferguson, Graeme Cameron Holms, William Ross MacDonald, Daniel Lawrence McAllan, David Alexander Murray, Kevin Murray, Robert O’Kane, Anna Wierzbicka, Anton James Young

Bachelor of Science in Computer Games (Design) with Honours – First Class, Oliver Dowling, Christopher Andrew McGerr, Sean Hills Galbraith Watt

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Matthew Campion, Baldeep Chahal, Toni Elrick, Craig John Forrest, Scott Baillie Gibson, Gavin Stewart, Ian Robert Todd, Steven Andrew Warren

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Darius Ilkhani, James Montgomery, Aseeb Moughal, Scott Thompson

Bachelor of Science in Computer Games (Software Development) with Honours – First Class – Maria Brewster, William Chan, Fely Maitland

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Kieran Bamford, Gregg Richard Gibson, Laurie Green, David Clarke McArthur, Jason McCann, Mohan Raj, Ryan Anthony Welsh

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Stuart Gillies, William Main, Matthew Swinburne

Bachelor of Science in Computing (Information Systems Development) with Honours – First Class – Laura Ryan

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Bartosz Lukasz Cybula, Neil MacMillan, Anne Marie McDaid, Hameara Saddiq, Emilia Todorova

Bachelor of Science in Computing (Web Systems Development) with Honours – First Class – Alexander James Kirk, Mohammad Nokhbatolfoghahaei, Andrew Craig Young

Second Class – (Upper Division) – David Alford, Kevin Buick, Jonathan Peter Carter, Scott Thomas Houston, Mark McLaughlin

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Alexine Lorrien Craig, Tomasz Daraszewicz, Daniel McAteer

Bachelor of Science in Computing (Web Systems Development) with Honours – Martin Kacaljak

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management for Business with Honours – First Class – Leanne Joan Gallacher, Craig Winning

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Lindsay Ready

Bachelor of Science in Interactive Media Development with Honours – First Class – Marcin Wilinski

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Marc J D McStay, Conor Morrison, Catriona Murphy

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Paul Munro

Third Class – Andrew William Gardiner

Bachelor of Science in Network and Systems Support with Honours – First Class – John Clark, Kevin Clark, Liam Joseph Elder, John Fitzpatrick, Anthony Gara, Kris Gray, Lukasz Kaczorowski, Ryan Mackin, John Andrew McKenna, Ian McKenzie, Kenneth Martin Ovens, Gary William Redpath, Patryk Sadowski, Christopher Stevenson, Anthony Whyte

Second Class – (Upper Division) – Jack Adam Ben Charlton, Barry Davison, Tomasz Janusz Golba, David Hanney, Declan Jewell, Mohsin Ali Kayani, John Allan Narey, Forbes Robert Prosser, Maxine Reid, Nicola Scholefield, Raghubir Singh

Second Class – (Lower Division) – Matthew Lyden, Christopher McShannon

Third Class – Irfan Mohammad

Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design for Digital Media – Alexandra Fraser, Christina Little

Bachelor of Arts in International Product Design – Jahanzeb Awan, Claire Frances Grant, Ruth Mary Lees, Hollie Mercedes Peters

Bachelor of Engineering in Manufacturing Systems Engineering – Derek Brown

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Power Engineering – Jim Boyle, Gordon Chalmers, Christopher Dillon, Kevin Adam Farmer - With Distinction, James Higgins – With Distinction, Greg Loftus, Nathaniel Moos, Harjot Singh

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering – Andrew Brailsford, Ben Cross, Mao Sau Trung

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Power Plant Systems – Dumisani Ncube, Yves Idris Sobze

Bachelor of Engineering in Building Services Engineering – David Coulter, Iain Scott Stewart, Benjamin Tavakoli

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Electronic Systems Engineering – Robert Grant Adam, Mahendra Pratap Choudhary, Iain Fallon - With Distinction, Nishad Niwas Patil, Craig Colin Ramsay

Bachelor of Engineering in Networked Systems Engineering – Scott Fergus James McCallum

Bachelor of Science in Audio Technology with Electronics – Charlie Gerard Albert Dub – With Distinction

Bachelor of Science in Audio Technology with Multimedia – Jack Antony Friskey, Shaun Gouck, Greg R Hadlow, Grant Higgins, Charles James Law, David Maguire, William Reid

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering – Mohammad Yusuf Anwar, Paul Farrell, Colin Thomas Law, Alasdair Graham Rutherford

Bachelor of Science in Forensic Investigation – Liam Gillen

Bachelor of Science in Multimedia Technology – Alexander Innes

Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering – Jonathan Campion

Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications Engineering – Reda Jalali

Bachelor of Science in Computer Games (Design) – Stefan Anton Braekkan, Conor McGhee, David Paterson, Paul Reid

Bachelor of Science in Computer Games (Software Development) – Aidan Dodds, Martyn Andrew Thain Swan

Bachelor of Science in Computing (Information Systems Development) – Grant Ian Anderson, Kevin Campbell, Michael Rutherford

Bachelor of Science in Computing (Web Systems Development) – Michael Bertholet, Thomas Alasdair Crawford, Amanda-Jayne Davies, Ross McMillan, Laura-Anne Prentice

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Management for Business – Hamza Iqbal, Blair MacKie, Grace Robertson

Bachelor of Science in Computer and Communication Systems Engineering – Craig Millar

Bachelor of Science in Internet Software Development – Joseph McNelis, Ryan McWhinnie

Bachelor of Science in Network and Systems Support – Mohammad Ayub Anwar, Mark Cahill, Colin Duncan - With Distinction, Joseph Erskine, Marc Farren, Troy Robert Grandison – with Distinction, Steven Hamilton – With Distinction, Jamie Hannan, James Hugh Hoggan, Craig Hunter – With Distinction, Alex Murray – With Distinction, Richard Andrew Noble, Mark David Osborne

Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security and Networks – Velayutham Ahilan, Kyle Breslin, Andrew Kidd, Chris Love - With Distinction, Minthaka Prasad Uduwaka Hettiarachchige - With Distinction

Bachelor of Science in Interactive Media Development – Tania Bell, Jordan Dickie, Catherine McMillan, Leeanne Montgomery, Evgeni Shevtsov

Bachelor of Science in Interior Design – Magdalena Krzyzanowska

Bachelor of Science in Building Surveying – George King

Bachelor of Science in Building Control Surveying – Iain McTaggart

Bachelor of Science in Construction Management – Ewan Charles Kelly, Laura Miller, William Ryan

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Civil Engineering – John Graeme Bain, Andrew MacKinnon, David Stewart McAdam

Bachelor of Science in Fire Risk Engineering – James Differ, Daljit Gharra, Allan Hunter, Paul Matthews

Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying – Hannah Calder, Andrew James Dick, Robert Stuart Gardiner, Denis Lonie, Lee McCleary, Stuart Arnot Ross, Donna Soutar, Ronnie Strain

Bachelor of Science in Environmental Management and Planning – Aidan Keyes

University Diploma in Computer Games (Software Development) – Steven Pretswell

Diploma of Higher Education in Fire Safety Design and Regulation – Alan John Bateson - With Distinction, Michael John Crawford, Stuart English - With Distinction, David George Hemple, Allan Keith Hughes, Mark David McCormack, Gerard McManus, Graham McMillan - With Distinction, Audrey Meikle - With Distinction, Brendan O’Dowd, Gerard O’Neill, Diploma of Higher Education, John William Scott

University Certificate in Mechanical Electronic Systems Engineering – Matthew Ian Heger

FULL list of graduands from University of the West of Scotland graduation ceremonies on 3 July

FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

School of Creative and Cultural Industries

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Journalism – John Berry, Thomas Blane, Alona Cameron, Martin Currie, Scott Currie, Liam Roddy Cutkelvin, Ross James Fingland, Rachel Elizabeth Guy, Michelle Hardy, Karolina Jindrova, Gemma Sarah-Anne Kirkwood, Emma McDaid, Gabriel McKay, Kimberly McKenna, Fiona Nicolson, Sean Sweeney, Grant Robin Thomson, Jonathan Stanley MacFarlane Watt

Bachelor of Arts

Journalism – Kathryn Currie, Steven Lee Dawson, Paul Edward Deatcher, Lynn McKenna, Susan Shields

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Sports Journalism – Ross Brady, Paul Michael Fisher, Alan Galindo, Martin Kelly (posthumously), Francis Patrick Kerr, Scott Lowrie, Christopher Marzella, Jordan Alexander McCallum, Simon Reid

Bachelor of Arts

Sports Journalism – Alan Goodfellow, David Killarney, Alan Potts

Bachelor of Arts

Commercial Sound Production – Christopher Hunter

FACULTY OF EDUCATION, HEALTH & SOCIAL SCIENCES

School of Education

Professional Graduate Diploma

Education (Primary) – Kelly Anderson, Mabel Barrie, Lisa Borland, Gillian Nicola Christie, Rosemary Currie, Amanda Jane Dinnen, Lindsay Ellen Duncan, Jennifer Alison Gardiner, Jill Graham, Claire Anne Ingram, Conal Jardine, Eibhilin Macphail, Natalie Martin, Phillip Richard Mathis, Penny Rosemarie Meegan, Caron Nicholas, Lindsay Reynolds, Cheryl Elizabeth Sarah Smyth

School of Health, Nursing and Midwifery

Master of Science – Adult Nursing with Registration – Karen Elizabeth Gillespie, Michele MacFarlane, Janey MacRae, Gemma Rankin McMaster, Linsay Waddell, Ashleigh Lauren Ward, Nicola Watt, Stephen Wood

Master of Science with Distinction

Mental Health Nursing with Registration

Hollie Helen Thomson

Master of Science

Mental Health Nursing with Registration – Michelle Lees, Jesca Masiyazi, Antony McCue, Elizabeth Nisbet, Gerard O’Neill, Adrian Walker

Postgraduate Diploma

Health Studies – Alison Elizabeth Bate

Bachelor of Science

with Distinction

Adult Nursing – Nascera Mahria Adams, Gillian Aitken, Susan Rachel Baker, Lynn Baxter, Emma Jayne Bruce, Lorraine Elizabeth Fleming, Allison Ingram, Kathleen Mary McIntosh, Gayle McQuade, Lynne Melia, Courtney Morgan, Anne O’Hear, Carole Quinn, Sharon Linda Riddell, Pamela Santangeli, Alison Treharne, Anne Clare Willis

Bachelor of Science

Adult Nursing – Melissa Jade Bain, Gillian Beattie, Francis James Bradley, Emma Frances Brown, Christopher David Bruce, Laura Elizabeth Bryan, Kimberleigh Buchan, Kirsty Burnett, Alison McGovern Close, Marion Bell Herne Coghill, Orlaith Conlon, Lynsey Currie, Paul Deighan, Lucy-Anne Dixon, Jenna Donald, Jennifer Donnelly, Steven William Felvus, Lee Alexander Geddes, Roberta Ann Geddes, Kelly Jane Gorman, Alyson Jane Grainge, Stephanie Greig, Elaine Montgomery Grenfell, Rebecca Isabel Hay, Susan Hunter, Caroline Johnstone, Tracey Kelly, Lesley Elizabeth Kirkwood, Vanessa Marie Lee, Gary Major, Louise McAdam, Angela Cunningham McDonald, Charlene McInally, Kerry Anne McKenna, Susan McKenzie, Kimberley Moffat, Natalie Ann Newman, Samantha O’Connor, Elisa Porteous, Yvonne Porteous, Mhairi Ferguson Rodger, Rachel Simpson, Gary John Skouce, Annie Marshall Thomson, Yvonne Trainer, Danielle Ward, Mary Ann Watson, Kristopher Watters, Waldemar Wiltshire

Bachelor of Science

with Distinction

Mental Health Nursing – Cheryl Chambers, Claire Elaine Alice McCarron, Julie McKenzie, Tracey Rea, Emma Suzanne Watson

Bachelor of Science

Mental Health Nursing – Moira Banks, Suzanne Clark, Thomas Clark Hannah, Michelle Elizabeth Henery, Emma Joanne MacLeod, Vicky Catherine McAlinn, Ann Louise McNee, Anne Frances Murray, Yvonne Sutherland, Catherine Davidson Wilson

Bachelor of Science

Midwifery – Claire Kiernan

Diploma of Higher Education

Adult Nursing – Tracey Kimmins, Rachel McClure, Iain Murray, Nicola Pender

Diploma of Higher Education

Mental Health Nursing – David Connelly-Calvert, Peter Alexander Ralph Heaton, Catherine Wendy Leith, Sarah Louise MacDonald, Elizabeth-Anne Miller

School of Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Criminal Justice – Isha Arshed, Gail Lillias Barrie, Jamie Burrell, Rebecca Casey, Jamie Cameron Clark, Jack James Crawford, Sarah Jane Gall, Mark Heron, Daniel Hinshelwood, Bethany Hoggard, Jamie Lithgow, Darren David Macdonald, William Morrison, Gemma Margaret Murphy, Lukundo Nachembe, Jenna Catherine Reilly, Daniel Scott Robert Smith, Iain James Smith, Lauren Jayne Thomas, Alana Walsh

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Economics and Politics – Kenneth MacDonald Martin

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Economics and Sociology – Ashleigh McGuinness

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Politics and Psychology – Samantha Craw, Elaine Furmage, Jordyn Elizabeth Christine Hutchison, Rhona Hutchison, Marysia Kurdell, Nicola Manson, Eilidh Jean McCulloch, Rebecca Jayne Watson

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Politics and Sociology – Rebecca Addies, Stuart Anderson, Gemma Blessing, Michael Boyd, Alex Brown, Fraser John Cowan, Erin Rose Doherty, Craig Robertson, Jenna Sneddon

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Psychology and Sociology – Rachel Bannerman, Laura Black, Pauline Goldfarb, Ainsley Jane Law, Amanda Slaven, Caroline Margaret Walker, Nicole Ward, Jennifer White, Michael James Bernard White

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Policing – Iain James Johnstone

Bachelor of Science

Policing – Derek Callan, Andrew Chalmers, Colin Alexander Cunningham, Kathleen Lennie, Stella McCulloch, Misheck Loveridge Muchemwa, Jamie Alan Paton, Keith Alan Scott

Bachelor of Arts

Criminal Justice – Kerry Louise Johnston

Bachelor of Arts

Politics and Psychology – Kirsty Grace Love

Bachelor of Arts

Politics and Sociology – Kirsty Macleod, Roxanne Messer, Shirley Anne Watson

FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

Business School

Master of Business Administration – Muhammad Tanveer Hameed, Esther Oluwafunlayo Otakoya

Master of Science with Distinction

International Financial Management – John Perrie Laird

Master of Science

International Financial Management – Gary James Gillon, Rhona Louise Hattie, Hai He, Ntufye Frank Mwanjasi, Yuxin Zou

Master of Science

International Human Resource Management – Safia Khalid, Irfan Ahmad Khan

Master of Science with Distinction

International Management – Marjolaine Pruvost, Master of Science

International Management – Andrea Spaska, Master of Science

International Marketing Management – Carlos Baena Diaz, Maxim Dovgy, Marc McFarlane, Rita Pennisi

Master of Science

Management and New Technology – Peter Tarique Khawli, Kayode Sunkanmi Kumapayi

Postgraduate Diploma

International Marketing Management – Valentin Didier Bomy

Bachelor of Accounting with Honours – Lauren Bain, Ashley Michelle Devoy, Jennifer Dolan, Lauren Donachie, Siobhan Catherine Donnelly, Helen Frazer, Julie Frances Henderson, Carla Borland Hudson, Stuart Ingram, Christopher Jeffrey, Suzanne Johnston, Bonita Kandjemuni Katjangua, Suzanne Kennedy, Shavon Lennox, Mark Liesch, Ruth McGinness, Stuart McLelland, Kulraj Purewal, Stephen Ross, Christine Thomson, Mark Wilson, Carrie-Ann Woods

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Business Studies – Gary Bruce, Adam Lauder Campbell, Shona Johnston, Lesley Ann Jones, Siobhan Elizabeth Blue Kenny, Kirsty Magee, Kimberly Marie Main, Chris McBride, Marie McCahon, Andrew Iain McIntyre, Natalie Paula McPake, Robert Muldoon, Amy Mulligan, Karen Lynn Murphy, Jennifer Nelson, David John Rance, Ashleigh Shaw, Laura Marie Sinclair, Jamie Stewart

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Event Management – Nicole Borland, Linda Carty, Rosalyn Ashley Cowe, Diarmuid Martin Fleming, Rachel Fyfe, Lynsey Clare Grant, Lynn Green, Julie Griffin, Kirsten Marshall, Rosemary Strain

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Law – Sandra Black, Louise Mary Boyd, Elaine Margaret Burns, John Lamb, Ashley McCallum, Jamie McCarry, Kieran McCusker, Stephen Peter McKenna, Leigh McQuillan, Jonathan Murphy, Slawomir Stanislaw Piotrowski, Hannah Catherine Provan, Mark Alan Lewis Richardson, Louise Scullion, Ryan James Wemyss

Bachelor of Accounting – Aimi Johnston, Victoria Wylie

Bachelor of Arts

Event Management – Gemma Andrews, Danielle Freedman, Christina Rose Hart, Mark McFarlane

Bachelor of Arts with Distinction

Law – Jessica Watt

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

School of Computing

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Computer Networking – Jamie Edward Chalmers, Allan Elliott, Calum James Henderson, Peter Thomas Marshall, Charles Martin, Bryan Patrick Mclernon, Tony Selvey, Rajinder Singh

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Computing – Colin Duncan, Alastair Kerr, Antony Lawlor, Campbell Letham, Brian Lindsay, Dionne Russell

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Information Technology – Lynn Martha Young

Bachelor of Science

Computer Networking – Michael Allan, Robert Burns, Jason Miller, Craig Morrison

School of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering

with Honours

Engineering Management – Stefano Carlo Clemente, Paul Robert Coakley, Drew Campbell Irvine, Mark John Monaghan, Qasim Shaukat, Matthew Sweeney, Robert Ian Urquhart, Nicholas Timothy Wells

Bachelor of Engineering with Honours

Motorsport Design Engineering

Alexander Jon Baylis, Stephen Brown, Ross Alastair Cockburn, Paul Patrick Feeney, Peter Gordon Macdonald

Nathan Richard Mawhinney, Frazer Kerr McChlery, Andrew Pearson, Jamie Robert Steele, Mateusz Robert Szalapski

Bachelor of Engineering

Engineering Management – Michael Vincent Alfer, Sandy Kennedy, Anthony Ross

School of Science

Doctor of Science – Julien Steven Baker

Postgraduate Diploma

Biotechnology – Lail Al-Madani

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Sport Development – Gillian Baas, Daniel Michael Baker, Gregor Ballard, David James Campbell, Scott Chaplain, Neil Connelly, Chloe Cassidy Davidson, David Fallon, Daniel Greene, Stephanie Hanlin, Jordann Herity, Marion Hutton, James Robert Kirk, Katrina MacGibbon, Paul McCusker, Joanne Morrison, Euan Alexander Murray, Lesley Anne Nicol, Austin Thomas Reid, Eireann Clare Screen

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Applied Bioscience – Robyn Gracie, Jennifer Kelly, Caroline Kennedy, Scott Kerr, Laura Fiona McLaughlin, Angela Boahema Oppong, Michelle Seymour

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Sport and Exercise Science

David Black, Ross Farro, Ryan Robert McKellar, Jamie John McMaster, Graeme Gavin Sorbie

Bachelor of Science with Honours

Sport Coaching – Kris Allen, Lauren Buchanan, Nicholas Burns, Linzi Cameron, Claire Currie, Hailey Currie, Marcus Dorman, Craig Duncan, Chloe Fairley, Mark Gallacher, Fraser Galloway, Ryan Gemmell, Andrew Gemmill, David Gray, Jamie Haldane, Andrew Irvine, Rohanna Irvine, Yasmin Kelly, Marc Kinghorn, Daniel Mackay, Sarah Marshall, Martyn McGuigan, Daniel Millar, John Hamilton Mushet, Michael Osborne, Jennifer Mary Rogers, Diane Toner Scott, Laura Janet Somerville, Graham John Sullivan, Antonio Benito Ventre, Ryan Wood

Bachelor of Arts

Sport Development – Joseph Anthony Bowers, Stacey-Ann Buist, Liam James Kirkland, Stuart McCubbin, Marc McFarlane

Bachelor of Science

with Distinction

Applied Bioscience – Kayleigh Morris, Alix Ailie Reid

Bachelor of Science

Applied Bioscience – Taegan Henry, James McGregor, Anissa Mouffok, Amy Osborne, Iqra Saeed, Kirsty Marion Scott

Bachelor of Science

Sport Coaching – Stuart Aitken, Liam Adam Frame, Craigan William Guy, Gemma Kelly, Smart Osadolor, Adam Reece Thomson,

A wishing well where the currency is cloth instead of coin, a clootie well harks back to ancient Celtic tradition.

Historically, visitors brought rags to clootie wells and tied them to nearby trees in the belief that the offering would cure sickness. As the cloth left at the well began to rot, the person for whom the offering was made would get better.

Traditionally, old rags and bits of cloth were brought to the well, but socks, t-shirts, dresses and even pants have been found twisted on the branches of the trees, hanging off the bark like clothes on a washing line.

Though numerous in previous centuries, there are only two clootie wells in Scotland. One lies one mile away from Munlochy in Inverness-shire, and another can be found in Avoch on the Black Isle.

Clootie wells are not a uniquely Scottish phenomenon. Referred to as cloughtie wells in England, and raggedy bushes in Ireland, they are also found in Cornwall and Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath.

Messages are sometimes written onto the rags, wishing health and happiness for whoever the rags were left for.

Pilgrimages to clootie wells are more frequent around the time traditional Gaelic festivals - May’s Beltane among them.

FULL list of graduands from University of Strathclyde graduation ceremonies on 3 July

11.00 am Ceremony

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Professor Scott MacGregor

DOCTOR OF SCIENCE

Mr Colin Hood, Founding Chair of the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Former Chief Operating Officer and Deputy CEO of Scottish & Southern Energy plc

Doctor of Philosophy – for research in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry – Bushra Salim AL-Wahaibi, Sharon Elizabeth Baillie, Lee Barrett, Pier Francesco Caponi, Yuvaneswari Chandramoulee Swaran, Natalie Marion Clark, Alison Ruth Cochrane, Lisa Helen Garden, Cheska Marie Gillespie, Pauline Grosshans, Saravana Kumar Jayaram, Zoe Livingstone, Georgios Nikiforidis, Rajeev Rajasekharan Nair, Louise Rocks, Fraser Scott, Ibrahim Tajo Siraj, Saadeldin Elamin Taher, Louise Turnbull, Danny Martinus Heinrich Johannes van Lierop, Zuzana Vobecká, David Wilsdon, Hainan Xie

For research in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Mahmuda Khatun, Jill Miscandlon, Jiafeng Pan, Andrianarivo Fabien Rabarison, Mikolaj Roj, Abid Saeed

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY – for research in the Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry – Patrick Boissarie, Suzanne Helen Davies, Camille Roxane Indey

MASTER OF SCIENCE – in Forensic Science – Dave Ricardo Brown

in Fire Investigation – Robert David Coss

MASTER IN SCIENCE – in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Sam Kelly

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Caity Cooper

in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering – with First Class Honours – Rory Cartwright, Craig Alan McAnally, Gemma Joanne McGarvey

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Ross James Miller, Fraser Mole, Joshua Robinson-Davies

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Lauren Elizabeth Morrison

MASTER OF CHEMISTRY – in Chemistry – with First Class Honours – Iain Baird Andrews, Roisin Elizabeth Brown, Harry Gavin Imlay, Andrew Ian Philp, Iain Alexander Stepek

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Graeme William Blair, Stuart Cameron Davidson, James William Buchanan Fyfe, Claire Louise Hobday, Stuart Robert Ernest Maxwell, Samantha Alana Orr, Andrew James Roberts, Alison Mary Thomson, Laura Wurker

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Jemma Louise Cowan, Hugh Aaron McMullen, Lauren Mather, Colin Ross Guyan Muir, Amy Romaniuk, Gary George Scott

in Forensic and Analytical Chemistry – with First Class Honours – Thomas Guy Calder, Anna May Groom, Jacqueline Amanda Gunn, Gillian Ashleigh Miller, Kerry O’Hare, James Robert Prescott, Danielle Spence, Claire Thomson, Allan Young

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Alexandria Docherty, Nico Giordano, Jessica Elizabeth Harris-Jones, Stephanie Ann McEwan, Claire MacIntyre, Nicola Masey, Kirsty Joy Phillips, Gillian Rundell, Sian Sloan-Dennison

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Siobhan Michelle Conner, David Finlay, Lauren Elizabeth Griffiths, Natalie Louise McSkimming, Claire Louise Plunkett, Suzanne Lisa Shaw, Jakub Wawrzyczek, Shu Yi Yeo

in Chemistry with Drug Discovery – with First Class Honours – Amelia Mercedes Bieling, Lisa Margaret Miller

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Simone Lauren Buonaccorsi, Amber Dawn McFarlane

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Mark McGoldrick

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE – in Chemistry – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Timothy James David McCabe, Roddy John MacLennan

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Andrew William Baxter, Sonya Ferguson, Iain Peter Leitch

with Third Class Honours – Amanda Rachel Buist, Cairney Jane McAteer, Stacey Reilly, Sara Megan Stevenson

Bachelor of Science – Ryan Muldoon, Omair Munir, Iain Murdoch, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith

in Chemistry with Analytical Chemistry – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Robert Ian Urquhart

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Sarah Christmas, Ben Dinwoodie, Gavin Foubister, Graeme Macintosh, Sandy MacDougall MacLarty

with Third Class Honours – Shanelle Sela Atabu

in Forensic Chemistry – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Victoria Catherine Campbell, Ailidh Jayne Forrester, Senna Volbeda

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Scott James Malone, Jessica Julie Padden

with Third Class Honours – Ashton Robert Wright

in Chemistry with Drug Discovery – with Second Class Honours – lower division – Rachel Elizabeth Green

with Third Class Honours – Matthew Lyons, Stephanie Shannon

in Applied Chemistry – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Dominic Leung

with Second Class Honours – lower division – John Michael Higgins

in Mathematics – with First Class Honours – Stacey Louise Anderson, Justin Conn, Christopher Patrick Porteous, Emma Ritchie, Matthew James Sheerin

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Steven Bryan Chalmers, Liza Jane Dalziel, Laura Duncan, Vincent Arthur Keenan, Ryan Andrew Mearns, Vivian Elisabeth Miller, Charmaine Walker, Steven Wilson

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Megan Jane Campbell, Gordon Davidson, Stephen David Foggo, Francesco Tognini, Michael Tolfrey, Lynn Wallace

with Third Class Honours – Andrew Deegan, Lucy Jolly, James Douglas Rae Mundie, Andrew Robson, Mohammed Kazim Ali Sheikh

Bachelor of Science – Amy Sutherland

in Mathematics and Statistics – with First Class Honours – Jianqiu Lu, Qiaosheng Wang, Mengyuan Zhang

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Ghebrihiwet Andom Araya, Catriona Jane Bell, Jordan Kean, Weiyin Tang, Weilu Wu

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Jamie Alexander, Elaine Glass, Iain Allardice Hendry, Michael Mulholland

in Mathematics and Physics – with First Class Honours – Megan Barbara Clark

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Stephanie Crosthwaite, Sean Martin O’Connor

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Victoria Irena Phillips

in Mathematics, Statistics and Accounting – with First Class Honours – Chelsea McCrory, Ruaraidh John McPike

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Allyson Gemma Banford, Craig Paul Brown, Susan Elizabeth Loudon, Nadine Elaine Mitchell

with Second Class Honours – lower division – David Andrew Haughney

with Third Class Honours – Stuart Moffat

in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics – with Second Class Honours – lower division – Laura Thomson

in Mathematics, Statistics and Finance – with First Class Honours – Hazel Hamilton Scott

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Samantha Fraser, Ryan Mackle

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Kelly Friel, Aynsley Hay, Stuart William Singleton

in Mathematics, Statistics and Management Science – with First Class Honours – Corinne Ann Freeman

in Mathematics with Teaching – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Iain Maclean

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Fiona Haxton, Melissa Elaine Murdoch

in Natural Sciences – Bachelor of Science – Rebecca Jean McBride

3.00 pm Ceremony

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Professor Tony McGrew

Strathclyder of the Year – Susan Anderson

Research Costing Officer, Research and Knowledge Exchange Services – Jennifer Davidson, Director, Centre for Excellence for Looked-after Children in Scotland (CELCIS

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY – in English – Sarah Galletly, Michael Rodgers

in History – Alison Lang Chand, Linsey Jean Robb

MASTER OF SCIENCE – in Historical Studies – Nicola Martin with distinction, Ben Young with merit

BACHELOR OF ARTS – in English – with First Class Honours – Mark Boland, Jamie Peter Redgate, Rachael Shanks

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Christopher James Brophy, Scott Fraser Bryson, Andrew John Gerard Burgoyne, Rachel Burns Carroll, Kara Connor, Barry Fitzsimmons, William James Fulton, John Neil Harris, David Hislop, Kate Elisa McCormack, Colin McCulloch, Catriona Susan MacDonald, Michael McKeen, Catherine Marie Mann, Nicola Ralston, Maxine Jay Simpson, Sean Smith, Heather Williamson

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Eva Grace English, Alan Thomas Falconer, Amy Hynes, Andrew Alan Jones, Kyle McKerracher, Katie Leigh Miller, Christopher William Rocks, Peter Wangendo

in English and History – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Gillian Claire Montgomery, John Robertson Rieck

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Louise Osborne, Michaela Strachan

in English and Human Resource Management – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Ronald Torrance

in English and Journalism and Creative Writing – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Jenna Couston

in English and Politics – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Lauren Mary Black, Tala Phyllis Byrne, Ashleigh Elizabeth Donaldson, Laura Elizabeth Mckelvie, Lynn McMaster, David Rorrison, Jessica Carlin Wagstaff

in English and Psychology – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Emma Gibson

in Journalism and Creative Writing and English – with First Class Honours – John Campbell, Melissa Stirling Reid, David Rush

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Jennifer Carr, Kathleen Coyle, Kerry-Ann Kerr, Anthony Lydon, Caitlin Ann McKenna, Callum Richard McSorley, Michelle Margaret O’Donnell, Melissa Sarah Elaine Ryan, Cheryl Scott, Dean William Turner

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Laura Christina Forsyth, Edan Samuel Mackenzie

in Journalism and Creative Writing and French – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Claire Alexander

in Journalism and Creative Writing and History – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Stephen Edwardson, Rachel Anne Macdonald, Thomas Jeremiah Mackie

in Journalism and Creative Writing and Law – with Second Class Honours – lower division – Gary Cumming

in Journalism and Creative Writing and Politics – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Gemma Elizabeth Auld, Stephen Brian McIlkenny, Jenna Niblock, Martha Evelyn Shardalow

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Katharina Prokopp

in History – with First Class Honours – Scott Manuel Carballo, Christopher Ryan Pearse Cavin, Andrew Michael Glen, Simon Harold Walker

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Neil David Cameron, Michael Alan Clark, Rachael Dorothy Connor, Kirsten Craig, Robert James Cruickshank, Annalie Margaret Cunningham, Nicholas Curran, Lorraine Dunn, Karen Gallacher, Alix Galbraith Kerr, Andrew Kinnear, Karen Anne Lee, Jillian Christine McGee, Ellis Elizabeth McGinty, Jordan Kristofer McKee, Sharlene McLaggan, Finlay John MacLennan, Sean Macmillan, Scott Francis Pearce, Rachel Kathryn Scott, Lisa Anne Sinclair, Courtney Elizabeth Vinnicombe

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Euan David Alexander, Alison Borthwick, Andrew Burns, Katy Anne Mitchell, Jennifer Margaret Louise Montague, Jade Christina Naismith, Antonia Robb, Linda Scott, Marie Catherine Elizabeth Venables

in History and Economics – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Michael Raymund Greig

in History and English – with First Class Honours – Daniel Joseph McCluskey

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Ashleigh Armstrong, Kirsty Gilday, Claire Gillespie, Liam Haggerty

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Sam McKeand, Jennifer Elizabeth Scally

in History and German – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Louise Bell

in History with Law – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Stacey Crawford

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Nicola Cunningham

in History and Politics – with First Class Honours – Morris Iain Brodie

with Second Class Honours – upper division – Scott Alexander King, Rebecca McSheaffrey, Lewis Maclean Rennie, Lynsey Turnbull

with Second Class Honours – lower division – Sharon Black, Claire Patricia Coffey, Alastair Ross Crawford, Ben Lester, Cheryl Catherine Sarah Piggot

in History with Politics – with Second Class Honours – upper division – Lauren Eleanor Watson

in History and Sociology – with Second Class Honours – lower division – Claire Doherty

in Politics with Geography – Bachelor of Arts – Ewan Jonathan Smith

in Arts and Social Sciences – Bachelor of Arts – Rachel Aiton, Paul Doherty, Gordon Edge, Rebecca Tara Fraser, Gerry Gray, Michael James Hannah, Elyse Margaret McCormick, Elizabeth McDonald, Paul Francis McLean, Lesley Maguire, Kieran Mulhern, Ashley Johann O’Neill, Danielle Quinn, Sarah Hannah Rakhra, Andrew John Richardson, Graeme John Ritchie, Joanna Robertson, Samantha Margaret Rundell, Alexandra Twigg, Joseph Alexander Wilson

John Menzies, the Edinburgh-based aviation and distribution group, continues to be hit by a slump in magazine sales, caused by the lack of major “social or sporting events” so far this year.

However, in a pre-close trading update yesterday, ahead of its interim results, the firm said that the performance of its freight handling business means it is still on course to hit full-year profit forecasts for a £56 million haul, up from £54.5m last year.

Mike Murphy, an analyst at house broker Numis Securities, upgraded his rating on the stock from “hold” to “add” after “share price weakness” since an interim management statement in May.

“Trading is behind last year as the first half of 2012 benefited from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Euro 2012 and the Olympics,” Murphy said. “Management does not expect an improvement during the remainder of the year in revenues, but cost management initiatives have limited the impact on the bottom line.”

THE catalogue and online fashion firm behind brands such as Figleaves, Jacamo and Simply Be thanked the sunnier summer weather for getting womenswear sales back on track yesterday as revenues growth gathered pace.

N Brown hailed a “good start to the year” after like-for-like sales rose 7.8 per cent in its quarter to 29 June, building on the 6.1 per cent seen in the first ten weeks of its financial year.

New boss Angela Spindler – the former managing director of Debenhams, who joined this week from discount chain The Original Factory Shop – takes the reins as N Brown benefits from a customer recruitment drive.

The group, which is also home to the High & Mighty brand, said its push to gain new customers had gone “according to plan”, with spending remaining at last year’s increased rate.

Ladieswear recovered after a poor start to the year following the cold early spring weather, while menswear and footwear continued to see strong sales growth.

NATIONAL Express, the transport group that last week recruited former ScotRail boss Mary Grant as part of its attempt to capture more of the UK rail market, has hailed success in North America and Spain for an acceleration in its half-year sales.

In a trading update ahead of its interim results, the bus and train operator said that turnover is up 7 per cent year-on-year.

Revenues in North America, where it runs yellow school bus services, were up 19 per cent on last year. National Express also said it had secured “significant” price increases on renewed contracts in the United States.

The group said that its North American transit business, which makes $75 million (£49.2m) a year in revenues, has a bid success rate of 30 per cent and a bid pipeline worth $200m.

In Spain, the company said demand had been affected by wider austerity, but that “there are signs that the rate of decline is diminishing”. First-half revenues in Spain rose 3 per cent.

Sales rose 30 per cent in Morocco, where the group is adding Tangiers to existing coach operations in Agadir and Marrakesh.

The company’s UK rail business, which runs the c2c commuter line between London and Essex, continued to perform well, while its British bus business recovered from a slow first quarter to record a 3 per cent rise in underlying sales, it said.

National Express plans to bid for the Essex Thameside rail contract this year and has been shortlisted for the Crossrail bid process expected to start later this year, with the winner to be announced at the end of 2014. The FTSE 250 stock closed up 2.7p at 231.7p.

DEPARTMENT store chain John Lewis yesterday promoted Paula Nickolds to its main board as buying and brand director.

Nickolds, who joined the employee-owned business as a graduate trainee and is currently buying director for its home department, replaces Peter Ruis, who is leaving after nine years to become chief executive of clothing retailer Jigsaw.

Managing director Andy Street said: “Peter has revolutionised our fashion, home and technology offer and led our marketing team to its first ever Cannes Lion win. We will all be sad to see him go.”

Stagecoach rejects new Welsh powers

TRANSPORT firm Stagecoach yesterday urged the Welsh government to use its existing legislation to encourage partnerships between bus operators and local councils, rather than introducing further regulatory powers.

In its response to the Integrated Public Transport in Wales report, the Perth-based company called for the creation of single regional bodies to take responsibility for roads and public transport planning and delivery, but rejected proposals for a bus contracting system and separate regulatory powers for the Welsh government.

SCI in £500,000 training investment

A TRAINING centre for offshore workers is to open at Stonehaven harbour following a £500,000 investment by Survival Craft Inspectorate (SCI).

The company is using the former Maritime Rescue Institute (MRI) site.

SCI chief executive Derek Sinclair said: “We’re confident the academy will boost local hotels and shops because of the numbers of people who will attend the facility. MRI trained organisations such as the Dutch Lifeboat Authority and special forces. We would expect our new academy to attract similar such organisations.”

A CAMPAIGN group led by retail expert Leigh Sparks has demanded that planners adopt a “town centre first” assumption, under which developments that would draw-in shoppers should be built at the heart rather than on the edge of communities.

Scotland’s Towns Partnership, an off-shoot of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy (CSPP), wants out-of-town sites to be given planning permission only if a suitable location cannot be found in a town centre. The group also wants the Scottish and UK governments to put incentives in place to encourage more people to live in town centres by reusing empty properties above shops.

A review of the “role and function” of every town in Scotland should also be undertaken, according to the organisation, with communities asking themselves “What’s the purpose of this place?”

Sparks, professor of retail studies at Stirling University, and other members of the group – which includes Business Improvement Districts Scotland, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland – issued their call ahead of the publication of the results from the Scottish Government’s National Review of Town Centre.

CSPP policy director Ross Martin said: “We very much hope, and anticipate, that the review will take up these ideas.”

Last year, the UK government gave its official backing to television personality Mary Portas’s recommendations to rejuvenate town centres.

A £10 million high street innovation fund was launched, with Scotland receiving about £1m. But the sums involved were criticised for being too small as shops continue to struggle against the onslaught of competition from internet retailers.

SIX Scottish universities will share in £20 million of Medical Research Council (MRC) funding to establish a UK health informatics research institute.

The funding is part of a £39m investment in the new Farr Institute, which will link research in 19 universities across the UK.

Scotland is represented in the Institute by the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Strathclyde, as well as NHS Scotland.

Their combined expertise will be co-ordinated from Dundee to support the safe use of patient and research data for medical research across all diseases.

Professor Andrew Morris, dean of the school of medicine at Dundee, said: “Working closely with NHS colleagues and the public, we have a terrific opportunity to create a groundbreaking virtual research institute that will harness data for patient and public benefit, resulting in tangible improvements in healthcare.”

The Farr Institute builds on four “e-health informatics research centres” (eHIRCs) recently funded by a consortium of research councils, health departments and leading medical research charities.

Its research is expected to support innovation leading to advances in preventative medicine, improvements in NHS care and better development of commercial drugs and diagnostics.

Professor Jonathan Seckl, vice-principal in charge of research at the University of Edinburgh, said: “This will bring a major change in the way we understand common diseases, their causes, best treatments and how to organise the NHS better to deliver healthcare.”

RETAILERS’ margins are poised to be squeezed even more tightly in the coming months after shop prices fell at their fastest rate since 2007.

The drop in the cost of products accelerated last month, according to data released today by the British Retail Consortium (BRC). Experts warned that retailers will have to focus on price cuts and multi-buy offers in order to attract customers.

Overall shop prices fell by an annual rate of 0.2 per cent in June, having fallen by 0.1 per cent in May. The decrease was triggered by an acceleration in non-food price deflation, with costs dropping by 1.9 per cent last month compared with a fall of 1.5 per cent during the previous month.

In contrast, food inflation continued to rise during June, accelerating to an annual 2.7 per cent from 2.4 per cent in May.

Increases in the price of beer, soft drinks and vegetables stoked the first month on month rise in food-price inflation for seven months.

Helen Dickinson, director general at the BRC, said: “Shop prices fell at their fastest rate since February 2007, building on the downward trend that we saw in May. The deflation is driven entirely by non-food, a reflection that the summer sales are well underway as retailers battle it out to shift stock and compete for customer spending.”

She added: “The volatile weather also had a part to play in pushing down non-food prices. It’s telling that the categories that saw some of the deepest discounting – clothing, footwear, furniture and DIY – were those whose sales were hit the hardest during the lingering cold snap.

“Food inflation has edged up marginally since the near three-year low seen in May, driven by slight increases in ambient and fresh food prices. However, I would expect it to remain fairly stable over the medium term.”

Official data released last week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) pointed to continued weakness in household disposable income, which fell by 1.7 per cent during the opening three months of the year.

Mike Watkins, head of retailer and business insight at market research firm Nielsen, which helped to compile the figures, said: “Shoppers are indicating that they still need to economise in 2013 so underlying demand remains weak, particularly in non-food where price deflation continues.

“The story is a little different in food, however. After a three-year low point in shop price inflation and a slight recovery in volume growth in the past six months, and with promotion spend plateauing, some seasonal cost price increases are again filtering through to the shelf.”

He added: “If this trend continues, it will set the shoppers’ agenda for the next six months and food retailers may need to focus on simple price cuts as well as multi-buys in order to drive footfall and spend.”

The consumer prices index (CPI), the UK government’s preferred measure of inflation, rose to 2.7 per cent in May from 
2.4 per cent in April, driven by a rise in the cost of transport, including air fares. Inflation has stubbornly remained above the target set for the Bank of England of 2 per cent.

ACCOUNTANCY firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) is cutting 60 jobs at its Glasgow office after it agreed to outsource part of its global IT support to a third party in an effort to cut costs.

It is thought that a further 40 contract roles will also be lost. The move will make a huge dent in the number of staff at Pacific House, where the “big four” practice employs 165 people.

The firm has done a deal with Stefanini, a Brazil-based business process outsourcing company. It is thought the roles will be moved to the Philippines and Romania.

Stefanini has more than 16,000 employees spread across 71 offices in 30 countries.

Staff at the accountancy firm were told on Monday at a “town hall”-style meeting about the cuts, which are part of E&Y’s “vision 2020” programme. The firm pledged to redeploy staff where possible.

A spokesman for E&Y said: “As with all organisations, we routinely review our business and staffing structures, particularly during times of continued economic uncertainty. We have taken the difficult decision to transfer some of the IT services provided by the Glasgow-based division of our global IT service desk to an external vendor, Stefanini.

“As a result, we are now consulting with a small number of people, 60 full-time global IT service desk staff, around 0.5 per cent of our entire UK workforce. We do, of course, hope to redeploy a significant number of those people into other areas of the firm where their skills are transferable.”

OUTDATED social networking site Bebo looks set for a relaunch after one of the founders who sold it for $850 million (£560m) five years ago bought it back for just $1m.

Bebo, which was once an early rival to Facebook, was sold to AOL in 2008 but plummeted in value as users ditched it in favour of more fashionable sites.

It was sold on again in 2010, for just $10m, and sought bankruptcy protection in May this year.

Co-founder Michael Birch has now bought it back at a knockdown price and announced his plans, ironically, on Twitter. “Can we actually reinvent it? Who knows, but it will be fun trying …” he wrote.

Birch set up Bebo in 2005 with his wife Xochi. At its peak it boasted 40 million users.

START-UP companies incubated by Sir Tom Hunter’s Entrepreneurial Spark programme are in line to receive further business support when they leave his “hatcheries”.

E-spark has signed a deal with the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in Scotland, under which the organisation will offer its services to the 300 firms that pass through the incubator scheme each year.

Hunter set up E-spark in 2011 alongside Jim Duffy and Sir Willie Haughey, with incubation centres in Ayrshire and Glasgow offering advice and support to start-up companies.

A third “hatchery” was opened last year, in Edinburgh, under the leadership of Stagecoach co-founder Ann Gloag.

Peter Clark, chair of FSB’s recruitment arm, said: “The first time I walked through the doors of E-spark’s Glasgow hatchery, I was struck by the amount of energy, creativity and sheer hard graft in the room.

“We are really excited about helping these amazing businesses get off the ground and we look forward to welcoming them as full FSB members when they graduate and start trading.”

Lucy-Rose Walker, a senior member of the management team at E-Spark, added: “We rigorously select and demand a lot from our chiclets while they’re in the hatchery, but in return they receive an unrivalled level of support and expert help.

“We are delighted that this partnership with the FSB will give them free access to more of the key information they need to turn their concept into a going concern.”

Under the E-spark scheme, companies receive free mentoring, IT support and office space for five months.

In February, “big four” accountancy firm PwC announced that it would be offering free advice to “chiclets” within the incubation centres through a series of workshops.

Sixteen of the 18 start-ups that secured funding last month through the Scottish Government’s “Edge” fund came through the hatchery programme, with more than £700,000 being handed out in total to Scotland’s “brightest and most-innovative” young businesses. Haughey was among the Edge fund judges.

A SEARCHING probe of Royal Bank of Scotland’s lending to small and medium sized businesses will be kick-started today in an apparent attempt to defuse political controversy over the issue.

The aim of the independent review, to be conducted by City grandee Sir Andrew Large and management consultancy Oliver Wyman, will be to have a “thorough and independent” look at the bank’s lending standards and practices towards SMEs. The business lending of RBS’s NatWest arm will also be scrutinised.

Large, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, said in a statement: “There is a disconnect between what the bank says it is doing on lending, and what many businesses say they experience on the ground.

“That is why we have been asked to conduct an independent review to establish what is going on, and what steps can be taken. Clearly, the business community needs to have confidence that deserving firms can get the support they need.”

Large, also former chairman of the now-defunct financial regulator, the Securities and Investments Board, and Wyman will also talk to the new City regulators, the Treasury and small business trade groups to make the review “objective and unbiased”.

Some will see the move as RBS succumbing to political pressure. Outgoing chief executive Stephen Hester has been grilled in the past at the Treasury select committee about the bank’s lending to SMEs. while Chancellor George Osborne has stressed he wants the 81 per cent taxpayer-owned group to focus its business on kick-starting a UK recovery.

However, Hester has publicly told politicians that while the money is there to lend, many SMEs in the tough economic climate have preferred to pay down debt.

Chris Sullivan, RBS’s UK corporate banking head, said: “We are the biggest lender to SMEs in the country, and have identified £20 billion in surplus deposits that we want to put to work to support the economy – but we constantly hear that businesses can’t get the finance they need.”

Sullivan said that with the economy now recovering “it is the right time to have a fresh look at lending, to make sure we are making the right judgements, to challenge ourselves to get better and support even more businesses”.

RBS is the biggest lender to smaller businesses in the UK, with a market share of 24 per cent, but accounting for 35 per cent of SME loans and overdrafts balances outstanding.

The group said the review, whose findings will be made public this autumn, will not consider “market demand factors”.

It will test how much RBS and NatWest have been willing to lend to SMEs with conditions that are “reasonable” – defined as being “unconstrained except by legitimate and necessary concerns related to prudence”.

Small business groups reacted positively to today’s development, with the British Chambers of Commerce saying the review was “sensible and welcome”.

It added: “We would hope that other major lenders follow RBS’s lead, and shine a light on their own business lending practices.”

The Forum of Private Business said: “It’s in everyone’s interest that the right lending decisions are made, and this process should help RBS do just that.”

• Andrew Bailey, head of the Prudential Regulation Authority, told MPs yesterday that the organisation’s regulatory predecessor, the Financial Services Authority, “never approved” the Co-operative Bank’s abortive takeover of 632 Lloyds bank branches.

Bailey told the Treasury select committee that the FSA urged the Co-op two years ago to strengthen its capital position – a £1.5bn hole in the mutual’s balance sheet eventually scuppering the Lloyds deal.