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