Postgraduate Graduation Ceremony

The University stages two graduation ceremonies each year - the one in the Summer is predominately for successful undergraduates. The smaller December ceremony is largely for our MSc and PhD students.

In 2006 the ceremony was held on Saturday 16 December. It was a cold but bright morning when our graduates attended their ceremony along with graduates from other Life Science Schools. Although quite a number of our international students had already returned to their home countries, it was a delight to see so many of our graduates attend the ceremony.

After the ceremony itself, our graduates were invited to return to the Department of Food Biosciences where a small informal reception of wine, coffee and mince pies was laid on. This enabled us to hear how our graduates were progressing in their new careers and for them to show their relatives and friends around the building where they had spent their last year (MSc students) or longer (PhD students).

The photograph shows Dr Jukes, MSc Programme Manager for the Department with some of our 2006 graduates.