Hundreds of graduates converged on the University of York today to receive their masters degrees and doctorates.

This year the university awarded honorary degrees to Professor Vicki Bruce, an expert on human face perception; Onora O’Neill, a moral and political philosopher; and Jatinder Verma, the founder of an influential cross-cultural theatre company.

They were presented with the honorary degrees of Doctor of the University at the university’s Central Hall.

Department of Archaeology

Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology: Naomi Sian Belshaw, Raymond Henry Moore, Catherine Neal, Susan Richer, Jennifer Susan Walker.

Master of Arts in Archaeological Research: Rebecca Angharad Dean.

Master of Arts in Archaeology of Buildings: Jennifer Louise Barnes, Susan Elizabeth Brook, Gemma Jayne Doherty, Matthew Jenkins, Beverley Jayne Kerr, Andrew McCracken Scott, David Charles Smith, Stephen John Walker.

Master of Arts in Conservation Studies (Historic Buildings): Clare-Louise Booth, Elaine Brett, Jonathan Edward Charlton, Takayo Kogure, Anne Charlotte Ross, Aristofanis Soulikias, Laura-Melpomeni Tapini.

Master of Arts in Cultural Heritage Management: Katherine Louise Bishop, Megan Cullinan, Lauren Elizabeth DeVos, Rachel Frances Isherwood, Foteini Kefalaki, Rosanna Dawn Leithall, Richard Geoffrey Mason, Jane McKay, Nuala Marie Morse, Sarah Margaret O’Farrell, Sophie Elise Palmer, Gemma Platt, Sathaporn Thiangtham, Ward Peter Van Laatum, Shawna Rhiannon Zuck.

Master of Arts in Field Archaeology: Edmund Charles Grenier, Farhat Abbas Hussain.

Master of Arts in Historic Landscape Studies: Richard Jemicz.

Master of Arts in Historical Archaeology: James Anthony Richard Cameron, Lucy Charlotte Saint.

Master of Arts in Landscape Archaeology: Fiona Elizabeth Savine.

Master of Arts in Medieval Archaeology: Jeremy James Burton, Patrick Anthony Gleeson, Lora Moore, Henry Fredreich Squiers.

Master of Arts in Mesolithic Studies: Benjamin Joseph Elliott.

Master of Science in Archaeological Information Systems: David Hugh Harker, Ian Christopher Wyre.

Master of Science in Biological Archaeology: Rose Angelique Monachino, Rebecca Jane Walters.

Master of Science in Zooarchaeology: Rachael Amber Billson, Alison Foster.

Department of Biology

Doctor of Philosophy in Biology: Daniel Atlantic Bonsor, David Brocklehurst, Alastair Philip Droop, Jeremy Stuart Herman, Eleanor Patricia Jones, Hao Liu, Nicole Catherine Norris, Kelly Victoria Pescod, Rebecca Phillips, Maria Sevdali, Nicholas James Smith, Emily Frances Winterbottom.

Master of Science (by research) in Biology: John Kenneth Hughes, Peter Christian Rubenwolf.

Master of Research in Computational Biology: Kieran James Alden, Natalie Louise Dawson, Darya Karelina, Paul McAdam, Elizabeth Asha Palit, Leszek Piotr Maksymilian Pryszcz, Sandhya Premnath Tiwari, Marc Kevin Wadsley, Qianyi Zhang.

Master of Research in Ecology and Environmental Management: Shaun Stephen Astbury, Catherine Baldock, Lorraine Kathryn Broaders, Eugene Austin Dodd, Claire Jane Dodyk, Thomas Jude Evans, Hannah Grist, Natalie Le Brun, Katrina Jane Lucas, Catherine Elizabeth Lutton, Laura Beth Martindale, Sarah Proctor, Kathleen Ella Tabner, Elizabeth Frances Walker, Holly Whiteley.

Master of Research in Functional Genomics: Dominika Ewelina Badyna, Salma Chalak, David Alan Cook, Sandamali Dissanayake, Tamsin Jade Garrod, Caroline Shanni Gough, Xi Li, Ian Thomas Lobb, Harriet Elizabeth Saxby, Peter Weisdepp.

Master of Science in Bioscience Technology: Pooja Agashe, Jennifer Kym Bristow, Clare Lois Dennison, Carl Thomas Fishwick, David Brian Green, Surabhi Pendse, Pranay Rajgarhia, Supatra Sachamitr, Supriya Sachamitr, Prateek Sharma, Rebecca Louise Shreeve.

Bachelor of Science in Biology (with a year in industry): Poppy Marriott.

Department of Centre for Medieval Studies

Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies: Sally Anne Bolitho, Rachel Elizabeth Moss, Michael Francis Reed, Emily Jean Richards.

Master of Arts in Medieval Studies: Breeman Ainsworth III, Elizabeth Anne Alexander, Kirsten Laurie Armstrong, Hannah McKendrick Bailey, Jade Anushka Bailey, Simone Bovair, Rebecca Curtis, Adam William Temple Davis, Andrew William Stewart Ferrara, Alice Patricia Julian, Meghan Katherine Kawka, Kirsty Lorna Kennedy, Lauren Mathews, Nicholas Montegriffo, John David Morgan, Luke John Murphy, Elizabeth Piastra, Emily-Anne Rumble, Jack William Savage, Chelsea Shields-Más, Mary-Anne Helen Slater, Lindsey Rachel Miln Smith, Jessica Brittany Taylor, Matthew Thompson.

Doctor of Philosophy in Women’s Studies: Corinne Malpocher, Petra Sofia Nordqvist, Anna Magdalena Piela.

Master of Arts in Women’s Studies: Joan Marian Baker, Victoria Katherine Miller, Syeda Samara Mortada, Elizabeth Ellen Thomas, Linda Helen Whiting.

Master of Arts in Women, Violence, and Conflict: Julie Elizabeth Petrie.

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry: William James Bromley, Joanna Jayne Buckley, Steven James Canipa, Michael Paul Draper, Ana Catarina Gomes, Eleanor Catherine Hurst, Jonathan Peter Kirby, Andrey Alekseyevich Lebedev, Mikhail Borisovich Shevtsov, Nicola Michelle Watson.

Master of Science (by research) in Chemistry: Frances Laura Chadbourne, Melissa Obiedzinski.

Master of Science in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technology: James Earley, Jessica Gregson, Dogan Grunberg, Dan Han, Charlotte Hollingworth, Grishma Jain, Ian James Keyte, Kathryn Louise Miller, Will Reynolds, David Simmonds, Varvara Varda, Jing Yang.

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry: Sandra Jenny Emmerson.

Department of Computer Science

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science: Paul Simon Andrews, Emine Gokce Aydal, Graham David Clark, Christopher Kenneth Holmes, Ioannis Panagiotou Klapaftis, Amine Marref, Christopher Howard Newell, Edward Jack Powley, David Hartland White, Fengxiang Zhang, Bartosz Ziolko.

Master of Science in Computing: Yuan Cai, Tarun Chhabra, Richard Kembrey Flint, Theodoros Kliaris, Henry Rotzoll, Angel Sebastian, Kunal Vora.

Master of Science in Gas Turbine Control: Peter Banister, Nicholas Paul Davis, Narinder Dhillon, David Leighton Foulkes, Christopher Michael Goy, Jonathan Roberts.

Master of Science in Human-Centred Interactive Technologies: Lucy Buykx, Derek Foster, Peter Clifford Kennaugh, John Ian Precious, Martin Nicholas Rooney, Evanthia Triantafillopoulou, Steven Richard Urmston.

Master of Science in Information Technology: Akshay Dashrath, Robert Thomas Allen, Shasha Du, Chao Han, Timothy Brian Sanders, Teo Chui Eng Audrey, Guozhong Wang.

Master of Science in Natural Computation: Ali James Elliott Afshar Dodson, Neil Stanley Jackson Forster, Peter David Rothery.

Master of Science in Safety Critical Systems Engineering: Robert William Boyd, Benjamin James Bradshaw, Robert William Carruthers, Alistair Cowin, Stephen Drabble, Paul Richard Ensor, Nicola Jane Herbert, Stephen John Howarth, Jason Anthony Eric Langley, William Morgan Jones, Robert Alan Palin, Martin Charles Remnant, Helen Amanda Wood.

Master of Science in Software Engineering: Hala Mohammed Saleh Alazazi, Ian Clayton Belcher, Ting Chen, Christos Christophides, Vasileios Dimitriadis, Kyriakos Efthymiadis, Jichang Gong, Jieming Liu, Qiong Lu, Angshuman Mitra, Jana Mueller, Mohammad Reza Sarshogh, Sotirios Tassis, Faheem Ullah, Edith Valencia Martínez, Andrius Velykis, Sitsofe Wheeler, Baoqiang Xu.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science: Yue Chen.

Department of Economics and Related Studies

Doctor of Philosophy in Economics: Federico Crudu, Simona Grassi, Suleyman Tolga Tiryaki, Deren Unalmis, Ibrahim Unalmis, Jie Zhou.

Master of Science in Development Economics and Emerging Markets: James Richard Evans, Thomas David Farmer, Nadeem Reza Kunwar, Alexander Thomas Campbell Sadler.

Master of Science in Economics: Xiangbin Cheng, Ian Corrick, Sara Eugeni, Toshi Jain, Luiza Leiria Leitao Dias, Keaobo Li, Vladimirs Osipovs, Steven Tom Smith, Jinhyuk Song, Ranyuan Ye.

Master of Science in Economics: Asset Irgaliyev, Junho Park.

Master of Science in Economics and Finance: Jie Ding, Mark Sebastian Hallam, Qin Li, Prapussorn Phengnoi, Batoul Rida, Nan Wu, Xin Wu, Siu Hong Yau.

Master of Science in Economic and Social Policy Analysis: Ruimin Bi, Ji-Yun Chun, Yuan Yuan Xie.

Master of Science in Finance: Apurv Bhatnagar, Yun Chen, Chen Cheng, Eleni Digalaki, Nishit Doshi, Liang Gao, Yang Gu, Wei Guo, Ankit Gupta, Guobing He, Mengwei He, Xiaoyuan Hu, Keith Huber, Suwen Jiang, Bo Liu, Huizhi Long, Lili Ma, Jing Peng, Qiao Feng Qi, Pete Rotpai, Wentao Shang, Panagiota Siouta, Xiaoqi Song, Chuan Sun, Pei-Ying Tsai, Yanping Wang, Lingchen Zang, Nan Zheng, Shasha Zhong, Kan Zhu.

Master of Science in Finance and Econometrics: Marko Aleksic, Hao Lan.

Master of Science in Health Economics: Eliana Andreia Barrenho, Diarmuid Coughlan, Anna Margarete Emmerich, Daniel Gladwell, Nils Gutacker, Antonis Kontemeniotis, Jingjing Lang, Christopher John Livings, Simon James McNamara, Diana Claudia Mendes, Eirini Palaka, Konstantina Paparouni, Mark James Parker, Thomas Edward Patton, Rafael Antonio Pinedo Villanueva, Fatma Elcin Serbetci, David James Trueman, Qi Wu.

Master of Science in Health Economics: Manuel Antonio Espinoza.

Master of Science in Project Analysis, Finance and Investment: Nikolaos Andrianis, Yihe Cao, Su Chen, Yang Cheng, Shenchen Hu, Kenichi Kono, Lin Lin, Cuihua Luo, Tengjiao Mei, Anastasios Skordis, Qian Song, Yongke Sun, Yun Tian, Cong Wang, Yun Wang, Han Wu, Mengying Xie, Shu Yang, Shouqian Zhang, Wenjing Zhang, Ze Zhou.

Master of Science in Public Economics: Nathalie Rachel Sinyard, Marco Augusto Sommariva, Bahar Sungurtekin.

Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology: Bo Yu.

Bachelor of Science in Economics: Michael Grzesiak, Yinhong Jiang, Xiaochuan Wu.

Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance: Mariam Zara Hassan, Wen Wei.

Department of Educational Studies

Doctor of Philosophy in Education: Chia-Chi Keng.

Master of Arts (by research) in Education: Carolyn Barraclough, Frances Doughty, Yudan He, Mazen Ibin Shaheen.

Master of Arts in Citizenship and Global Education: Patpimon Polathorn.

Master of Arts in Educational Studies: Jing Jiang, Hui Li, Xin Wang, Huihui Zuo.

Master of Arts in Language Learning and Education: Tatyana Brekalova, Yi-Chieh Chen, Jing Li, Pu-Ling Lin, Clarisse Poncio Almeida, Win-Whay Tai, Jun Jun Xia, Haigang Yuan.

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages: Rasha Mohammed Abdulrahman Alaudan, Sultan Altalhab, Pooja Bhatia Narang, Ya-Yen Chang, Ling-Ju Chen, Honglei Fan, Xiting Gan, Ling Ge, Laura Margaret Grant, Fei Han, Liu He, Shan-Chin Huang, Yi Huang, Yu-Ting Huang, Shidian Jin, Hsiang-Jung Kung, Honglin Liu, Jing Hua Ni, Geng Pan, Semin Park, Sut Me Park, Dan Ruan, Kana Seki, Yue Sun, Hirotaka Takahashi, Masato Toki, Cong Wang, Huiyuan Wang, Jiaying Wang, Weinan Wang, Liang Xing, Mizuha Yamaguchi, Wei Jun Yan, Ji Eun Yang, Chen Zhao, Mengya Zhou, Yuying Zhou, Zhixun Zhu.

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Young Learners: Katerina Beikou, Harshna Chandaria, Margaret Bridget Gaughan, Maria Luisa Iturain Merino, Shermeena Kurji, Geysa Moreira, Anabela Marques Nobre.

Master of Arts in Teaching English to Young Learners (on-line): Sarah Louise Proudlove.

Department of Electronics

Doctor of Philosophy in Electronic Engineering: Yunlong Cai, Zhi Quan, Ran Song. Ping Kwan Johnny Wong.

Master of Arts in Music Technology: Pouya Ehsaei, Epameinondas Fasianos, Konstantinos Pravitas.

Master of Science in Music Technology: Ángel Andrés Cataño Flores, Andrew James Chadwick, Aglaia Foteinou, Marcelo Enrique Rodríguez, Ian Roger Willem Van Roosmalen.

Master of Science in Communications Engineering: Min Chen,Yi Chu, Fangfang Dong, Mario Alejandro Fonseca Ceballos, Qiang Gong, Muhammad Farrukh Razzaq Janjua, Li Li, Peng Li, Francisco Javier Moreno Diaz, Lin Shi, Jinzhe Song, Thomas Vlachos, Ran Wang, Yue Wu, Jianhua Zhao.

Master of Science in Internet and Mobile Communications Systems: Opeyemi Babajide Adedoyin, Nikhil Agrawal, Mohamed Khalil Ebrahim Abdulla AlQassab, Xin Guo, Tej Kumar Gupta, Ge Liu, Wei Yi Meng, Suyam Pragash Radhakrishnan, Umair Rehmat, Neeraj Sarawgi, Vasileios Vlachos, Guang Yuan Yang.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering: Jin Ming Li.

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering (with a Foundation Year): Mia J Allen.

Department of English and Related Literature

Doctor of Philosophy in English: Tamsin Theresa Badcoe, Cassandra Marie Falke, Alexandra J H May, Varsha Panjwani, Natalie Pollard, Rachel Judith Willie.

Master of Arts in Cultures of Empire, Resistance and Postcoloniality: Andrew Dolan, Daniel Laing, Portia Owusu, Cassidy Parker, Adam Glyn Kim Perchard.

Master of Arts in Eighteenth Century Studies: The Global Eighteenth Century: George Wentworth Beaumont, Ian Charles Calvert, Ruth Scobie.

Master of Arts in Eighteenth Century Studies: Representations and Contexts 1750-1850: Sean Dixon-Gumm, Arlene Carol Leis, Amy Milka, Lindsay Porter, Olympia Sonitis.

Master of Arts in English Literary Studies: I-Hsin Chen, Anna Elizabeth Dougherty, Carina Hart, Charlotte Elizabeth Hughes, David Alan John Hull, Erika Johanna Kvistad, Benjamin Peter Mullen, Matthew James Poland, Yvonne Jennifer Reddick, James Russell Sackett Jr, Hannah Margaret Speake, Elizabeth Louise Swann, Thomas Edward Robert Tallon, Naomi Welsh.

Master of Arts in Film and Literature: Sarah Emily Blewitt, Joanne Sara Gledhill, Lisa Kirsty Herdman, Lucy Pamela Quine, Thomas David Roberts, Amy-Claire Scott, Clare Stephanie Taylor, Holly Williams Master of Arts in Medieval English Literatures: Emma Taylor Borg, Laura Cavallina, Rebeca Cubas Peña, Katie Stevens.

Master of Arts in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture: Alaina-Marie Jane Bassett, Anthony Guy Clarke, Milan Terese Coleman, James Fraser, Julia Gárdos, Peter Lavelle, Pepper Jengyee Lee, Paraskevi Lykou, Luke Korzun Martin, Katherine Mary McCarron, Andrew Edward Munzer, Benjamin Peter Nichols, James Edward Fort Orange, Michael Von Cannon.

Master of Arts in Modern Literature and Culture, 1850 to the Present: Craig Savage.

Master of Arts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Sarah Ruth Iley, Paula Keatley, Catarina Salema Champalimaud, Carla Amy Witcombe, Jia Min Wong.

Master of Arts in Renaissance Literature 1500-1700: Brendan Dwight Byrne, Madeline Heather Stephens.

Master of Arts in Romantic and Sentimental Literature 1770-1830: Ipsita Chakravarty, Emma Elizabeth Curran, Christina Mariou.

Bachelor of Arts in English: Rachel Adams.

Department of Environment

Master of Science in Environmental Economics: Adedolapo Oluyomi Akinde, Louise Helen Brown, Jana Farrugia, Alma Federico, Muneyuki Nakata.

Master of Science in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management: Hye Young Kang, Hei Lam.

Master of Science in Environmental Science and Management: Phillip John Blaen, Richard Coole, Timothy Dowson, Katherine Jane Fleet, Majid Ali Khan, Robin Lovelace, Carol Louise Milner, Joanna Richards, Yiwei Shan, Nathalie Ann Stephens, Hongthai Tan, Hazel Elizabeth Thompson, Georgia Tsitsilidou.

Master of Science in Marine Environmental Management: Jemma Charlotte Aitken, Paraskevi Brounou, John Clarke, Harriet Meredith Condie, Ben Diamond, Stacey Adele Mayer, Ian Jamie McPherson, Luiza Saliba Neves, Stephanie Newman, Monika Marina Van Wyk, Katherine Lucy Yates.

Bachelor of Science in Environment, Economics and Ecology: Lin Yan.