Honorary Graduates and New Professors
Students from the Class of 2023 graduated during a (mostly) gloriously sunny week in June. Honorary graduates included: Sam Torrance (golfer and broadcaster); Kirsty Wark (journalist and television presenter); Professor Margaret Bennett (folklorist and ethnologist, singer, writer and broadcaster); and Professor Carmen Reinhart (economist).
They were joined by 73 students from the Classes of 2020 and 2021, who had missed out on in-person ceremonies due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
During winter graduation in November, students celebrated alongside honorands Dr Margaret Atwood (one of the world’s leading writers); Dame Evelyn Glennie (the Scottish solo percussionist); and Rufus Norris (actor and director). Gordon Moir was presented with the University Medal for services to greenkeeping.
The full list of Honorary Graduates is available here:
Honorary Graduates Summer 2023
Honorary Graduates Winter 2023
Principal’s Medal
The Principal’s Medal is an award made to students who have displayed exceptional endeavour and achievement during their time at St Andrews. Each award carries a value of £1,000 in addition to a specially produced medal.
The students who won the award in 2023 were:
- Isabelle Molinari MA (Hons) Economics and Management
- Simone Korsgaard Jensen MMath (Hons) Mathematics
- Zachary Davis PhD School of Chemistry
Find out more about the Principal’s Medal
New professors
The following new professors were inducted at the Winter Graduation 2023:
- Professor Natalie Adamson
Art History
- Professor Alina Baluch
Business School
- Professor Shiona Chillas
Business School
- Professor David Donaldson
Psychology & Neuroscience
- Professor Victoria Donovan
Modern Languages
- Professor Isobel Falconer
Mathematics & Statistics
- Professor Nicholas Feasey
Medicine
- Professor Timothy Greenwood
History
- Professor Jonathan Keeling
Physics & Astronomy
- Professor Myles Lavan
Classics
- Professor Alexander Long
Classics
- Professor Emily Michelson
History
- Professor Christian Moser
Modern Languages
- The late Professor Simon Northridge
Biology
- Professor Silvia Paracchini
Medicine
- Professor Simon Prosser
Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
- Professor Tom Rice
Philosophical, Anthropological & Film Studies
- Professor Philip Roscoe
Business School
- Professor Kathryn Rudy
Bishop Wardlaw Professor, Art History
- Professor Gurchathen Sanghera
International Relations
- Professor Susmit Sarkar
Computer Science
- Professor William Tooman
Divinity
- Professor Kenneth Wood
Physics & Astronomy