Summer graduation 2021
The School of Management congratulates all summer 2021 graduates, with a very special greeting to this week's new Management alumni.
The University of St Andrews is holding virtual ceremonies, when degrees will be conferred by the Vice-Chancellor and the Deans.
Degree conferrals are available to watch live on video at Watch graduation live, where pdf programmes for each event will also be posted.
The University's Beginning to see the light campaign interviewed Class of 2021 summer graduates about their experience of being a student during Covid-19. Aïda Léna Ndiaye, pictured below, graduates this week with an MA in Economics and Management. She spoke in her interview about being an undergraduate at St Andrews and her hopes for the future. Well done and best wishes to Aïda.
The School is delighted to highlight the success of staff member Samantha Letham, who has graduated this week with an MA, and been named winner of the Fife Provost's Prize in recognition of her achievements as an Evening Degree Student. The Prize is awarded to an outstanding student who has persevered and flourished in their degree course, often despite challenging circumstances.
To the following Management researchers receiving their PhDs, a particular "Well done!" from the School:
- Olga Loza, for a thesis entitled 'A Market in the Making: Sociomaterial Enactment of the Graduate Labour Market'
- Marisa Cait McVey, for a thesis entitled 'The "Business of Human Rights"? Exploring the Social Practice of Corporate Accountability under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights'
- Jorge Fernando Pereira Campos, for a thesis entitled 'The Dynamics of Data Donation: Privacy Risk, Mobility Data, and the Smart City'
- Roger Ferdinand Francois von Laufenberg, for a thesis entitled 'Postulating Consumers: How Marketers Conceptualise Consumers in the Era of Big Data Analytics'.
Congratulations, and best wishes for the future!
Image caption: Aïda Léna Ndiaye, from Dakar, Senegal, is pictured at home in Belgium.