HUNDREDS of students will receive their degrees at three ceremonies at the University of York.

Almost all the students – about 80 to 90 per cent – completed postgraduate masters and PhD courses. But some undergraduates were conferred with degrees, including a number of honorary ones.

The main graduation ceremony is held in July. The spring ceremony is held to reduce the wait for postgraduates who finish their courses in September and PhD students who can complete their studies at any point in the year.


Department of Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology;
Anne Patricia Heard, Patricia Ruth Alcock Reynolds, Stephen Watson.

Master of Arts (by research) in Archaeological Studies; Jennifer Elaine Clarke, Gillian Frances Mary Sanderson.

Master of Arts in Archaeological Heritage Management; Alison Drake, Claire Marie Enderby.

Master of Arts in Archaeology of Buildings; Laura Gray Boardman, Victoria Brocksopp, Catherine Grace Dove, Katie Margaret Graham, Mark Stiles Johnson, Joy L Longfellow, Saba Samee, Thomas Straszewski, Emma Wells.

Master of Arts in Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings); Elizabeth Caroline Marsh.

Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage Management; Effrosyni Anagnopoulou, Anna Louise Booth, Jessica Moody.

Master of Arts in Field Archaeology; Susanna Catherine Maria Hunt, Alia Wallace.

Master of Arts in Historic Landscape Studies; Michelle Kurnik, Hazel Marion Williams.

Master of Arts in Historical Archaeology; Sarah Margaret Giddings Birch, Allison Forney.

Master of Arts in Landscape Archaeology; Lloyd Bosworth, Jacob Streatfeild-James.

Master of Arts in Medieval Archaeology; Abbey Flower, Jennifer Heidi Lang, Christina Patricia Pierce-Winters, Meagan Schoenfelder, Hanne Lila Sheeran.

Master of Arts in Mesolithic Studies; Paul Richard Crofts, Stormy Harrell.

Master of Science in Archaeological Research; Sara Louise Gilby.

Master of Science in Early Prehistory; Jessica Behrman Cooney.

Master of Science in Zooarchaeology; One Tshukudu.

Department of Biology Doctor of Philosophy in Biology; Daniel Agustus, Gemma Catherine Atkinson, Emily Rose Beynon, Michael Buckley, Lorenzo Caputi, Andrew Graeme Firth, Jessica Ellen Frith, Mabel Dionisia Giménez, Elizabeth Penelope Holland, Rachael Madison, Christopher Mulligan, Maria Ines Schauvinhold, Yamel Sonia Ugartechea Chirino, Supachai Vuttipongchaikij.

Master of Research in Bioinformatics; Mohammed Shahraz.

Master of Research in Computational Biology; Min Jie Ding, Thomas Evangelidis, Scott Alexander Lindsay,
Vinca Nicole Louise Russell, Andrew Schofield, Robert James Weatheritt.

Master of Research in Ecology and Environmental Management; Sarah Elizabeth Beatham, Alison Elizabeth Beresford, Matthew John Carroll , Tomas Chaigneau, James David Fletcher, Hilary Ford, Peter Colin Gabriel, Matthew Geary, Stuart Thomas Hands, Clare Mary Hanna, Colin Trevor Haygreen, Joanne Claire Hodgson, Eifion Jones, Sarah Knight, Louise Maltby, Jennifer Peters, Samuel Laurence Oliver Quin, John William Redhead, Naboon Riddhiraksa,
Kate Elizabeth Somerwill, Shashank Srinivasan , S Lynn Stevenson, Simon John Ward , Jonathan Laurence David Watkinson, Alastair James Welch.

Master of Research in Functional Genomics; Anisha Bansal, Sebastian Nikolaus Doerfert, Payal Jain, Jing Yang Liu, Zeren Liu, Laura Jane Eleanor Millican, Andrew Robert Joseph Murphy, John Andrew Rushton, Anyess Von Bock.
Master of Science in Bioscience Technology; Katie Louise Abranson, Munira Amur Hamed Alshidhani, Letta Argyri, Suleyman Semih Ekimler, Tobias Antony Hodges, Madhav Kishore, Laura Amy Snowdon, Nilumi Christina Withanage.

Bachelor of Science in Biology; Annis Elena Louise Bontempelli.


Centre for Medieval Studies


Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies; John-Henry Wilson Clay, Jesus Fernando Guerrero Rodriguez, Christine Frances Maddern.

Master of Arts in Medieval Studies; Karen Alvarez, Catherine Marie Baker, Katharine Rachel Bilous, Richard Anthony Burley, Amy Burns, Sarah Jean Burton, Elise Kimberley Butler, James Alexander Fenton, Nicole Ford, Robert David Gallagher, Christopher Godby, Michael John Horswell, Shamsi Modarai, Lynette Rochelle Morris, Zosia Kinga Olenska, Claudia Rother, Laura Suzanne Slater, Nicola Isabelle Sleap, Stephen James Stiles, Carolyn Irene Twomey, Heather Walker-Dale, Graham Paul White, William Roy White, Greg Andrew Williams.


Centre for Women’s Studies


Doctor of Philosophy in Women's Studies; Sun Nam Kim.

Master of Arts (by research) in Women's Studies; Gitta Victoria Brüschke, Tove Ingeborg Elin Solander.

Master of Arts in Women's Studies; Ihsan Ahmed Mohammed

Master of Arts in Women's Studies (Humanities); Amy Burge, Elizabeth Alice Ward

Master of Arts in Women's Studies (Social Research); Jennifer Joan Hambling


Department of Chemistry

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry; Joseph Philip Bennett, Simon Francis, Joseph Hackett, Emma Anne Haywood,
Stuart John Jones, James Michael Keenan, Benjamin Eric Moulton, Rajendran Parthipan, Richard James Paxton, Darren Stead, Paul Watson

Master of Science (by research) in Chemistry; Amjad Ali

Master of Science in Advanced Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry; Alina-Mariana Balu, Andrew Stephen, Brentnall, Richard Alan Green, Marta Rosello Merino.

Master of Science in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technology; Emma Cecelia Cooper, Christopher William Hanning, Ronan McHugh, Christopher Michael Andrew Parlett, Jia Zhao.

Master of Science in Liquid Crystals and Nanoscience; Laila Khamis Humaid Al-Maqbali, Emily Bevis, Edward James Davis.

Master of Chemistry in Chemistry; Philip David Robinson


Department of Computer Science

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science; Grant Brewer, Kester Dean Clegg, Jonathan Arie Ezekiel, Yang Li
Paul Simon Usher, Andrew James Wilkinson, Fan Zhang.

Master of Science (by research) in Computer Science; Matthew Paul Dickens, Barnaby Lee Fisher, Christopher Paul Marriner Haiyun.

Master of Science in Information Technology; Katherine Joy Argent, Baldeep Bains, Yufei Han, Yu-Ming Hsu, Young-Suk Jang, Richard David Kirkden, Dyana Rose, Juan Wei, John Peter Joseph Yule, Jinyi Zhao.

Master of Science in Natural Computation; Eren Aykin, Eleftherios Chatzispyrou, Anton Jakob Flügge, Jennifer Owen, Andrew John Payne, Neil Anthony Reilly, Stephen Rose, Stephen David James Veiss

Master of Science in Safety Critical Systems Engineering; Martyn Christopher Clarke, John Richard Clegg, Anthony David Corkery, Adrian Edward Hill, Christopher John Hodson, Christine Hollinshead, Noel John McAllister, Andrew Nicholas Shore, Allan Stewart Wake.

Master of Science in Software Engineering; Nikolaos Ioannou, Rongxin Liu, Nick Mavrogiannakis, Kimon Polychroniadis, Yeow Cheong Pua, Yanan Sun, Victor Tsitakis, Jichen Wang, Kaiou Wang, Aenxu Wang, Zhe Wang, Ran Wei, Chi Chung Yiu, Hao Zhang, Maliang Zheng, Ping Zhou.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems and Software Engineering; William Thomas Gardner.
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics; Georgios Marios Chrysanthou, Luca Di Corato, Saifuzzaman Ibrahim, Alexandros Kostakis, Yuxin Li, Zhuoshi Liu, Vito Polito, Silvana Robone Master of Science in Economics ; Matthew Ian Beacham, Berksoy Bilgin, Robert Chisholm, James Dunnett Collis, Karan Dube, Jonathan East, Shigeru Hirai, Tomohiro Kamiyama, Andreas Katsikidis, James Anthony Kearney, Anoushka Kenley, Michael Andrew Pywell, Thomas Sturge, Jianping Xuan,
Yanyi Zhu.

Master of Science in Econometrics and Economics; Rosalind Goudie, Helen Taylor

Master of Science in Economics and Finance; Ru Chen, Shih-I Chen, Winnie Daswal, Ben Cross Lewis, Carylann Lobo, Jinping Wang, Ren Wang, Haoyang Yu.

Master of Science in Economic and Social Policy Analysis; Amarathunga Hitihamillage, Tomoyuki Kuwaharada, Claire Elizabeth Macaulay, Xiaofeng Nie, Hanna Yang.

Master of Science in Finance; Yousuf Al-Belushi, Xiao Chuan Chen, Peng Deng, Na Guo, Xiaoyan Ji, Cong Li, Zhihong Liu, Jing Zhao, Shengjing Zhao, Qing Zheng

Master of Science in Finance and Econometrics; Shideh Rafigh

Master of Science in Health Economics; Sarah Kate Adams, Dima Alrashee, Laura Guadalupe Danese De Los Santos, Apostolos Davillas, Manuel António De Oliveira Gomes, Charles Raymond Dotou, James Nelson Eaton, Scott Goulden, Matthew John Jones, William Wai Yip Leung, Adam Martin, Ernesto Mayen Herrera, Carina Righetti, Koonal Kirit Shah, Mindaugas Stelemekas, Petra Szilagyiova, Ranjeeta Alice Thomas, Tazio Vanni.

Master of Science in Project Analysis, Finance and Investment; Panagiotis Detsis, Mingli Feng, Jie Huang, Zizhao Huang, Xue Jiang, Chenjia Li, Yue Li, Jingjin Liu, Yutao Liu, Qing Ma, Yvonne Ndiwila Nkata, Victor Ejike Nwolisa, Zheng Qiu, Enerel Tumendemberel, Daniel Victory, Xiaojun Xie, Jie Xu, Jingxia Yang, Wenran Yang, Yen-Tzu Yang, Min Yin, Yuanyuan Zhang

Master of Science in Public Economics; Simona Cicognani, Matthew John Gilbert, Nicholas Herrick, William John Teager

Doctor of Philosophy in Education; Ju Hyun Back, Andrew Cannons, Mu-Hsuan Chou

Master of Arts (by research) in Education; Alison Ruth Foster-Lill

Master of Arts in Citizenship and Global Education; Marta Grzes, Ayako Mori, Takenori Sagara, Miho Suzuki, Aki Takegawa, Persefoni Zavrou

Master of Arts in Educational Studies, Qingxia Liu, Na Wang, Na Zhao

Master of Arts in Language Learning and Education; Sri Kartika Hj Abd Rahman, Chung Chih Hsu, Tzu-Hsiu Huang,
Meng-Ying Li, Nur Akmaliyah, Olivia Psaliou, Manon Geertje Willemijn Van Dijk, Alaidde Berenice Villanueva, Aguilera Kun Zhang, Hua Zheng, Ping Zhou

Master of Arts in Science Education; Andri Achilleos, Cristina Isabel De Oliveira Santos, Hamlet Tembo
Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, Baoshu An, Fu-Ting Chang, Jia Chang, Jie Chen, Meng Cheng, Feng-Yi Chiou, Lin Fang, Lei Gong, Ian Groves, Fei He, Pei-Ju Huang, Lixi Jin, Joo-Young Kim, Won-Kil Kim, Youn Kyung Kim, Wen-Ping Kuo, Solvor Lauritzen , Jing Li, Qin Li, Kyung Hwa Lim, Yuan Liu, Peng-Jan Mai,
Eleni Neofytou, Kumiko Nishihara, Jeong Hee Oh, Cho Long Park, Arash Rafati Bakhsh, Kelin Ren, Haijing Shao, Xiao Bei Su, Yi-Shan Tsou, Yoshiyuki Uemoto, Guanjing Wang, Hui Wang, Xue Yan Wang, Chen Wu, Lin Yang, Xiaoxiao Ye, Ching-Yi Yeh, Lijia Yu, Yi Zhang, Jing Zhao, Qing Zhou, Xiaopeng Zhou.

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Young Learners; Sarah Handley, Beata Joanna Jesionkiewicz, Gillian White


Department of Electronics

Doctor of Philosophy in Electronic Engineering; Ag Asri Ag Ibrahim , Gul-Muhammad Khan, Pairoj Likitthanasate, Maizura Mokhtar, Hui Xiao, Zhengyi Xu, Lu Zhang.

Master of Science (by research) in Electronic Engineering; Marco Antonio Chessa Da Silva.

Master of Arts in Music Technology; Edward Benjamin Dowie, Shan-Ming Lin, Xiling Sheng.

Master of Science in Music Technology; Gregory David Aldam, David Fairbank, Evangelos Fotiadis, James Michael Henry Hayward, Lily Ning Ching Law, Patrick Leslie Nothard, Vasiliki Schoina, Yu Sun, Lian Zhang.

Master of Science in Communications Engineering; Konstantina Drampi, Shiyu He, Ruofan Jin, Chunshan Liu, Heng Chi Liu, Ye Liu, Daning Lu, Stamatios Mylonas, Ling Sun, Qiang Wang, Tong Wang, Jiewei Wen, Qian Zhang, Yuan Zhang.

Master of Science in Electronics with Electromagnetic Compatibility and Radio Frequency Communications; John Bradshaw.

Master of Science in Internet and Mobile Communications Systems; Arun Kumar Chidambaram, David Bebawy, Huacai Chen, Yuehao Ding, Amit Dutta, Xu Feng, Yu Guo, Jiaxing Han, Sridhar Jayakumar, Ben Li, Peng Li, Zheqing Li, Xiao Jian Liu, Jing Sun, Pei Tang, Kai Hui Tu, Yi Wang, Ziran Wu, Jia Chen Xu, Wenqing Yu , Yuan Zhang, Yunmin Zhang.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering; Wei Dong Yu.


Department of English and Related Literature

Doctor of Philosophy in English; Richard Neil Adelman, Peter Stephen Denney, Mary Caroline Louisa Fairclough, Matthew Stephen Gaughan, Robert Bramwell Hawkes, Imke Heuer, Donald A Lashomb, Jennifer Winter.

Master of Arts (by research) in English; Martin Andrew Stephen Dubois, Michael Ronald Shallcross.

Master of Arts in Cultures of Empire, Resistance and Postcoloniality; Lucy Brisley, Caitlin Mae Charos, Stephanie Hodgins, Madhura Khasnobis, Alexandra Lewis, Charlotta Maria Salmi, Kirsten Mary Shankland, Lavanya Uthaya Kumar, Maichael Stephen Alan Weeks.

Master of Arts in Eighteenth Century Studies: Representations and Contexts 1750-1850; Richard Hereford Webb.

Master of Arts in Eighteenth Century Studies: The Global Eighteenth Century; Amanda Louise Johnson, Benjamin Paul Wilcock.

Master of Arts in English Literary Studies; Eoin Francis Connolly, Mark Robert Hanbury, Anne-Claire Michoux, Christian Daniel Pangilinan, Lucy Pell-Walpole, Anna Wormleighton.

Master of Arts in Medieval English Literatures; Catherine Harriet Baker, Giovanni Bonanno, Anna Clarke, Raluca Crisan, Catherine Errington, Filip Aleksander Missuno, Emma Bridget O'Loughlin, Jaclyn Elizabeth Rajsic, Elisabeth Jane Thomas, Hannah Elizabeth Webster.

Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture; Rosalind Mary Agnew, Robert John Birchall, Robert Stevenson Brown, Chloe Elizabeth Butlin, Rachael Helen Clinton, Katherine Ebury, Stefanie Gaibler, Tomoko Iwatsubo, Yang Liu, Colin Marshall, Jonas Hans Edvard, Victoria Romero, Philip William Edmund Sidney, Sunniva Ivarsdatter Skoglund, Andrea Tallarita, Rebecca Ileana Catrin Whitcombe, Adam Michael Winstanley.