Graduation address: Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
“It takes courage to venture beyond consensus, to sit with uncertainty, to temper conviction with tolerance.”
Category: Addresses
Graduation address: Professor Dan Clayton, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
And before you leave, take a final look around the place you have made home, where you have made your student stories and memories, and then think about the kind of places you want to be in, and make, and fight for, in…
Graduation address: Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
Graduation Address: Professor Christopher Baddeley, School of Chemistry
“It is your generation that, given appropriate resources, have the talent, expertise and powers of persuasion to identify and deliver solutions.”
Graduation Address: Dr Catherine Eagleton, University Librarian and Director of Collections and Museums
"Curiosity is what has brought you here, and it is what will carry you forwards..."
Graduation address: Professor Richard White, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Take the time to step back from what can seem to be an avalanche of information and misinformation ... and approach everything as objectively as you can.”
Graduation address: Professor Phillips O’Brien, School of International Relations
“I encourage you to harness the wind of your time and place for the greater good, to make the brightest future you can for yourselves, and for humankind.”
Graduation Address: Professor Zinnie Harris, School of English
“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
Graduation Address: Kerry Tavakoli, International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute
“It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
Graduation address: Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
Delivered during the afternoon ceremony on Wednesday 4 December 2024.