Graduation Address: Professor Derek Duncan, School of Modern Languages
“The labour of translation reminds us that there are always other points of view..”
Category: Addresses
Winter Graduation Address: Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor
“And when you step into new stages of your life... let kindness be the element that holds everything together.”
Graduation Address: Professor Jo Sharp, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
"...do not see this great celebration today as the end of your education but just a change in the location of where it happens."
Graduation Address: Professor Brad Mackay, Deputy Principal
"We live in a world that is full of possibility, progress and potential."
Graduation address: Principal Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
“It takes courage to venture beyond consensus, to sit with uncertainty, to temper conviction with tolerance.”
Graduation address: Professor Dan Clayton, School of Geography and Sustainable Development
"...think about the kind of places you want to be in, and make, and fight for, in the future."
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.”