THE following are expected to graduate today from the Robert Gordon
University, Aberdeen:
BUSINESS SCHOOL
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA
Management Studies
Allan James Arthur; Dora Anne Ashcroft; Fiona Jane Barnes; David John
Bowden; Richard Dudley Bush; Della Calder; Ailsa Kirsten Laird Crum;
Cheryl-Ann Elizabeth Dick; William Henry Duncan; Helen Rosemary Edmond;
David George Elliff; Iain Ferguson; Shirley Ann Firth; Lesley Gellatly;
Rae John Gibb; Diana Teresa Glennie; Julio Miguel Gomez; Ingrid Theodora
Francina Grupping; Lesley Birrell Hall; Andrew John Hunter; Akin-Kunmi
Joseph; Lynda Veronica Kingham; Marcus Peter Knaggs; Christina Lee;
Colin Alexander Mackay; Andrew John Mackenzie; John Graeme Martin;
Suzanne Marie Massie; Dainora Mazeikaite-Grundey; Jill Mcbain; Marilyn
Anne Mcintosh; Jamie Michael; Peter Andrew Michie; Jeffrey Howard
Mountain; Stephen Murray; Michael James Pirie; Julia Porter; Paul
Anthony Reilly; David Eric Roberts; Sine Macdonald Roberts; John Frazer
Simpson; Audrey Stewart (Nee Buchan); Christine Stewart (Nee Kyriacou);
Anna Louise Sutherland; William Cooper Taylor; Sarah Elizabeth Tennant;
James Taylor Webster; Margaret May Wilson; Muriel Wilson; Diana Valerie
Zee.
Personnel Management
Carys Anwen Adams; Susan Blease; Douglas Gordon Boe; C. Lorna Brain;
Michelle Frances Brown; Steven Stewart Brown; Gillian Denise Cowe; Linda
Jean Coy; Morna Gillean Craig Davidson; Caroline Fraser; Gillian
Mcarthur Gallacher; John Mccallum Jarvie; Jane Lister Macaskill; Don
Mackenzie; Shona Ann Mathie; Rosanne Gillian Reid; Fiona Stephanie
Stalker; Carole-Ann Tewnion; Susan Anne White.
BACHELOR OF ARTS
(5-year course)
(Honours)
Business Studies
I -- Anne Lang Erskine; Karen Margaret Iley; Ewan William Shanks;
Susan Smith; Alan Charles Souter. II:1 -- Alison Auld; Lesley Jane
Campbell; Jane Cole; Ruth Virginia Donaldson; Jamie Andrew Duff
Drummond; Scott Simon Duthie; Susan Elizabeth Gilhooley; Steven William
Hay; Lorna Gail Howie; Roderick Iain Kinnear Hutton; Deborah Tracy
Ingram; Elsa Vivien Jack; Graeme Kinghorn; Paula Jane Lemmon; Karen
Moira Livingston; Miles Macleod; Kay Margaret Massie; Andrew Mccheyne;
Iain William Mckenzie; Lesley Ann Noble (Nee Strachan); Lisa Margaret
O'Keefe; James Lindsay Penny; James Stuart Pirrie; Lynn Margaret Rennie;
Joanne Michelle Russell; Jill Margaret Signorini; Nicola Jane Skene;
Shona Hazel Smith; Stephen William Spence; Donald Jon Stevenson; Fiona
Jane Stevenson; Emma Waterman; Craig Robert Watson; Fiona Jacqueline
Wilson; Andrew Derek Winter; Alistair Keith Wood; Jacqueline Maxwell
Young. II:2 -- Neil Peter James Aitken; Averil Cromar Anderson; Amanda
Patricia Argo; Lesley Baxter; Bryan Norman Beaton; John William Beaton;
Karen Hazel Black; Kerry Emma Bone; Angus John Lindsay Brechin; Claire
Nicole Carwood; Cameron George Clark; Blair James Argo Davidson; Gaynor
Julie Davidson; Karen Forrester; Yvonne Margaret Geddes; Margaret
Morrison Geering; Sarah Louise Grant; Aileen Isabel Green; Ian
Henderson; Paula James; Lukshman Kumaradevan; Jacqueline Margaret Laird;
Frances Christian Lamb; Alison Mary Leslie; Lorraine Margaret Low (Nee
Allen); Gary Alexander Mackenzie; Evelyn Grant Maclean; Joanna Mcintosh;
Scott Mckenzie; Michelle Fiona Mcvean; Evonne Mowat; Liam Murphy; Philip
Irvine Prideaux; David Buchan Ritchie; Douglas Alexander Ross; Julie
Anna Rowson; Susan Lesley Evelyn Victoria Scott; Victoria Sloan; Barry
Smart; Roger James Smith; Nicola Constance Smollet; Annette Isobel
Storrier; Mary Frances Tyrie; Jennifer West; David Mcgregor Williams;
Gillian Helen Wootton. III -- Ian William Thomson.
4-year course
(Honours)
I -- Bruce Smith. II:1 -- Ewan Alasdair Barron; Anthony Stephen Brady;
Claire Louise Cameron; Gayl Margaret Clark; David Wayne Coffey; Kevin
Graeme Davidson; Stuart William George Donald; Lindsay Katherine Geddes;
Nicola Mary Gray; Karen Linda Hay; Margret Rose Lawson; Lai Wah Lee;
Ronnie Macaskill; Alastair James Macfarlane; Philip Alexander Martin;
Julie Mclean; Helen Mcgregor Meek; Paul Watt Mitchell; Murray Nicol;
Keith Wilson Purdie; Sheena Alison Rae; Graham Stewart Reid; Angelene
Salkeld; Iain George Stewart; Claire Stuart; Lesley Winpenny; Peter Wai
Heng Wong. II:2 -- Kirsten Correne Crooks; Lesley Jane Forbes; Lisa
Gardshol; Tracy Jessiman; Jennifer Alison Livingstone; David Leslie
Maitland; Nicolas Terence Bernard Mcalister; David Milne; Gary Steven
Noble; Lynne Tracy Reid; James Reilly; Nikola Roach; Magnus Alexander
Smith; John Charles Warburton. III -- James Andrew Fawns.
European Business
Administration
with Languages
(Honours)
II:1 -- Karen Ann Boyd; Gregor James Robert Carle; Neil Murray
Darling; Sarah Anne Davidson-Lamb; Alison Mary Donnelly; George Gibb;
Richard Martin Mccrae; Alexis Mcleman; Lorna Elizabeth Muirhead; Scott
Carswell Prentice; Samantha Skelly; Rosalyn Patricia Tait; Victoria
Taylor; Gordon Walker Wishart. II:2 -- Tracey Helen Archibald; Iain Ross
Bennett; Lynne Brown; Pauline Anne Grant; Bryan David Henderson; Sandra
Gordon Hood; Colin Murray Mcmillan; Nicola Robertson; Julia Mary Ross;
Louise Ross.
BA in Business Studies
Roslyn Gail Aird; Craig Roy Anderson; Fiona Bills; Graeme John Clark;
Thomas Angus Crawford; Charalampos Delidakis; Louise Eggerton; Angela
Dorothy Henderson; Philip Hendrick; Brian Fairgrieve Hume; Iain
Alexander Jessiman; Katherine J Kerridge; John Stewart King; John Paul
Kirby; Steven James Logie; Alison Millar; Andrew Lachlan Morrison; David
Steven Randall; Sandra Edith Rankin; Claudia Reichel; Anita Margaret
Smith; Elza Buchan Stephen; Paul Robert Stewart; Heather Ann Walterson;
Andrew James Watt; Christopher Mark Weiniger; Denise Yeaman; Jane
Elizabeth Young.
BA in Commerce
Cheryl Sarah Balfour; Jonathan Ross Barnett; Tracey Buist; Alan Duncan
Cargill; Jennifer Margaret Chalmers; David Clerihew; Victoria Joanna
Toke Cobb; Lesley-Anne Connon; Simon Henry Dyer Cowie; Eilidh Anne
Cunningham; Caroline Anne Vallance Dickson; Paul William Dow; Amanda
Lesley Ferguson; Rachel Margaret Ferguson; Louise Margaret Glass; Julie
Annett Grant; Kim Diane Henderson; Suzanne Amanda Holmes; Alistair
Graeme Johnston; Elaine Katherine Laird; Andrew Neil Lyall; Sarah
Maitland; Kathleen Mcrobbie; June Effie Milne; Aileen Dawn Moncrieff;
Sandra Jane Mutch; Gillian Anne Park; William Michael Park; Hazel Helen
Pirie; Michele Elizabeth Ramsay; Diane Margaret Reid; Lesley Buchan
Reid; Louise Jane Scott; Pauline Jane Scott; Rosemary Cindy Smith;
Richard Warren Stevens; Alison Jane Taylor; Mark Robertson James
Thompson; Karen Tracy Whitehead; Alastair Mark Wilson.
BA in Business Administration
Fiona Brown; Neil Brown; Marion Gross; Mario Hipp; Paula Jane Leask;
Linda Catherine Murdoch; Jennifer Park; Karen Lee Smith; Greg Michael
Stephen; Susan Taggart; Pamela Margaret Wallace; Mandy Jayne Wilson.
SCHOOL OF
LIBRARIANSHIP &
INFORMATION STUDIES
MASTER OF ARTS
Fiona Murray Matheson; Wai Yuk Miriam Yeung.
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Information Analysis
Ian Mccann.
Librarianship &
Information Studies
Ioana Gabriela Robu.
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA
Information Analysis
Simon Matthew Burnett; Jacqueline Dinnes; Ursula Dorre; Steven
Drummond Geddes; Tony Robert Jones; Sandra Keith; Ross John Macdonald;
Iain Arnold Middleton; Susan Jane Mowbray; David Alexander Nicol; Graham
David Macdonald Ross; Allan James Sim; Margaret Ruth Webster; Philip
Anthony Wright.
Librarianship &
Information Studies
Morag Elizabeth Allan; Evangelia Bougatzeli; Colin James Brodie;
Claire Margaret Caution; Andrea Elizabeth Christie; Paula Helene Clark;
Shona Muriel Dunsmure; Michelle Belinda Jay Gait; Christine Jane
Gormley; Colin Graham; Julie Eileen Stewart Hogg; Shona Anne Liddle;
Lynne Mhairi Macfarlane; Donald Morrison Mackay; Helen Mackay; Paul
Mccabe; George Mckenzie; Eilidh Grace Mclean; Douglas Calum Milne; Donna
Noble; Catherine Bredin O'Brien; Melanie Evelyn Peffer; Jennifer
Marjorie Reid; Colin Rennie; Duncan John Service; Emily Anne Simpson;
Ailsa Margaret Thomson; Karin Thomson; Ritchie James Thomson; Joanna
Fraser Whiteford.
BACHELOR OF ARTS
(Honours)
Librarianship &
Information Studies
I -- Elizabeth-Ann Mackie; Christopher Milne; Susan Parker; Laura
Christine Spence. II:1 -- Jacqueline Anne Chalmers; Helen Ann Czeschel;
William Donald; Judith Proudfoot; Lucy Anne Shepherd; Amanda Jane Sword.
II:2 -- Jacqueline Mair; Ewan Smith; Emma Sara Watson. III -- Tanya Jane
Corsie; Anne Hogg; Debbie Mary Logan. Degree: Angela Craig Beattie;
Donna Booth; Carol Mary Dye; Anna Dyrda; Janet Farrell; Jennifer Laing;
Fraser Bruce Moran; David Russell Moreland; Christine Margaret Paton;
Cara Janet Spence; Melanie Elizabeth Stoner.
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION &
LAW
BACHELOR OF ARTS
(Honours)
Legal & Administrative Studies
I -- Stephen Mark Coy. II:1 -- David James Campbell; John Martin
Dyson; Rebecca Louise Lord; Stephen Maitland; Gillian Anne Milne; Isobel
Murray; Ian Nicol; Julia Mary Pepper; Steven Michael Rae; Mark Stewart;
Paul Symonds; David James Wood. II:2 -- Nicholas Kenneth Duckworth;
Charles Angus Duthie; Martin Charles Fraser; Nicholas Ronald Robert
Fraser; Joanne Elizabeth Haire; Richard Harris; Gillian Elizabeth
Mackenzie; Stephen Alan Francis Moore; Allan Robert Pollok-Morris;
Phiona Dorothy Rae; Jane Thomson Stobbs; Angela Styles; Keith William
Thomson. III -- Christopher Chan.
Public Policy & Management
II:1 -- Peter Graeme Anderson; Michael James Barclay; Matthew Thomas
Ashby Buckman; Christopher Peter Byiers; Jennifer Jane Cameron;
Alexander Wedderburn Clark; Myles Franklyn Fitt; Julie Kennedy Fraser;
Euan Russell Gillanders; Colin Mccombie Gordon; Brian David Gribbons;
Tracey Anne Lawson; Stephanie Helen Malcolm; Susan Jane Mcbain; Lindsay
Margaret Mcquillan; Carol Menzies; Stuart Ian Milton; Sally Fiona
Morrish; Iain Sutherland Morrison; Sandra Muldoon; Scott George Thomas
Rodger; Ruth Michelle Shun; Andrew Robert George Stephen; Judith Helen
Stephen; Louise Mary Welsh. II:2 -- Dino Angelo Carrara; Jennifer Linda
Duffy; Ronald George Mears; Paul Mulholland; John Richard Sharp; Carol
Jane Smith; Wendy Louise Strath; Jacqueline Tuckwell; Scott James
Webster. Degree: Dera Maire Butler; Sharon Jane Furye; Kevin James Reid;
Colin Andrew Wood.
DIPLOMA IN PURCHASING
AND SUPPLY
Brian Joseph Brown; Marilyn Davidson; Albert John Hamilton; Graeme
Christie Hutchison; Douglas Irvine; Dianne Mcdonald; James Walker
Mcgarrol; Michael Munro; Claire Reid; Treven Oneil Steele.
EDUCATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT UNIT
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE
Tertiary-level Teaching Methods
Sally Margaret Rolfe Lawton; Eleanor Noble; Alan Tulloch.
FACULTY OF HEALTH
AND FOOD
SCHOOL OF APPLIED
SOCIAL STUDIES
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Applied Social Studies
& Certificate of
Qualification in Social Work
Jane Isobel Angus; John Francis Barrett; Irene Brand; Caroline Maria
Cameron; Shirley Jane Cantlay; Karin Flavill; Maureen Forbes; Clare
Hannah; Elaine Elizabeth Jeffrey; Karen Mackay; Karen Margaret Martin;
Martina Mary Mcgarvey; Amanda Claire Mcleod; Tracey Anne Mcmillan; Ann
Mcshane; Elizabeth Marie Mills; Ann Murdoch; Angus Macgillivray Murray;
Lesley Nicol (Wilkinson); Gillian Noble; Anne Shaw; Neil John Spence;
Carol Anne Stewart; Suzanne Michelle Walker; Karen Margaret Watt; Susan
Wilken.
Diploma in Higher
Education/Social Work
Catherine Yvonne Arnold; Graham Arthur Findlay; Kathleen Margaret Anne
Grant; Jacqueline Kerr; Hughina Jane Leslie; Aileen Nicol; John Pearson;
Ilanora Margadale Unkles Sharp; Alison Ward Stewart; Lorna Elizabeth
Symon.
SCHOOL OF FOOD AND
CONSUMER STUDIES
POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE
FOR STATE REGISTRATION
IN DIETETICS
Tara Ann Mcleod Hegney; Sara Caroline Keay; Jacqueline Anne Love;
Aileen Evin Mcternan; Karen Pittis; Ailsa Jane Wildgoose.
BACHELOR OF ARTS
(Honours)
Hospitality Management
II:1 -- Phillip James Fleming; Katherine Mhairi Currie Gordon;
Caroline Esther Hull; Helen Catherine Livingstone; Lorna Marshall
Macleod; Alexandra Macphie; Katrina Mary Martin; Elaine Watson Quinn;
Alexandra Barbara Reid; Lisa Sian Worthington. II:2 -- Barry John Clark;
Karen Alison Forbes; Kettan Jill Morrison; Angela Reid Patterson;
William Paul Reynolds; Susan Margaret Walker.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(Honours)
Consumer Product Management
II:1 -- Jane Anne Edwards; Wendy Susan King; Carolyn Western.
Nutrition & Dietetics with
State Registration
(Honours)
II:2 -- Kathryn Helen Akerman; Alison Hood Beattie; Jennifer Isobel
Coutts; Louise Frances Farmer; Ciara Maeve Heverin; Louise Hunter; Clair
Helen Marwick; Marlyn Jayne Millar; Sarah Morris; Jillian Wendy Rigg;
Susan Mary Stirling.
BA in Hospitality Management
James Edward Abbott; Lesley Ann Aimers; Judith Kay Anderson; Kathryn
Margaret Annand; David Stephen Bain; Elaine Barclay; Jennifer Ann
Barclay; Lynn Barlow; Maia Forbes Beattie; Scott James Christie;
Michelle Alice Leslie Cordock; Monique Ellen Dijksma; Adrian Russell
Dingwall; Clare Elizabeth Drummond; Aghna Caitriona Flynn; Wendy Anne
Franklin; Laura Alexandra Geddes; Christie Clement Gray; David Alexander
Hall; Matthew Thomas Henderson; Carol Ann Higson; Roseanna Howley;
Francis Gerard Hughes; Alan John Kinnaird; Emma Lorraine Kirkland; Simon
Alexander Laidlaw; James John Logan Leckie; Carol Jane Lennon; Georgina
Louise Lepley; Bryan (Kwok Yan) Li; Kun-Hsien Lin; Allan Richard
Maclean; Callum Alexander Maclean; Hazel Vera Mcdonald; Gordon Murray
Mcpherson; Teresa Yvonne Mitchell; Jacqueline Kennedy Murray; William
Thomas Murray; Tracy Anne Peace; Alison Deborah Phillips; Camilla
Elizabeth Anne Pinches; Philip Reid; Lynda Jane Smith; Carole Dawn
Spence; Emily Louisa Stewart; Toby Charles Stichbury; Helen Mary Stokoe;
Ann Webster Telfer; Peter Scott Thomson; Graham Alexander Urquhart; Alan
Mark Whitehead; Margo Jane Wilson.
BSc in Consumer Product
Management
Vinita Bahl; Evelyn Brigid Bolger; Angela Christie; Carol Elizabeth
Christie; Louise Anne Elrick; Asha Kaloo; Susan Allison Lane; Anita
Lorna Lowson; Debbie Emmeline Milner; Hazel Keith Sinclair; Claire
Louise Wight.
HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA
Hospitality Management
Ngaire Jane Abbott; Barry John Anderson; Annita Queene Anthonymuthu;
Caroline Elizabeth Brock; Diane Buchan; Lorraine Clyne; Brian John
Coffey; Flo Jennifer Maureen Dannah; James Strachan Davidson; Fiona
Lesley Duncan; Caroline Mary Gannon; Matthew Giles; Stuart Philip
Gwynne; Amanda Jane Hay; Susanne Jane Hay; Michelle Johnson; Alison
Charlotte Lapsley; Alison Jane Mackay; Mairi Elizabeth Macleod; Duncan
Marjoribanks; Scott Neil Mclellan; Audrey Michie; Wendy Louise Milne;
Stuart Morrison; Marjorie Jackson Sneddon Nimmo; Scott Andrew Roberts;
Michelle Marian Sangster; Nicola Elizabeth Smith; Valerie Sarah
Strachan; Rhona Louise Swinton; John Alexander Taylor Gordon Watt; Lorna
Irene Watt; Lorraine Ad Wood; Amanda Jayne Yeats.
SCHOOL OF HEALTH
SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Health Studies
(Honours)
II:1 -- Gillian Budge; Jennifer Ingram; Susan Massie.
DIPLOMA IN MEDICAL
ULTRASOUND
Helen Coutts; Rose-Anne Davidson; Ilona Graham; Carol Elaine Ross.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Occupational Therapy
Lorraine Brown; Jill Bulman; Kate Mary Campbell; Paula Lesley Cartney;
Fiona Eileen Mary Deans; Fiona Anne Duthie; Claire Ferguson; Fiona Mary
Masson Grant; Jacqueline Doris Isabel Hay; Shona Johnston; Elizabeth
Davina Laing; Katherine Claude Lord; Fiona Katherine Mccallum; Wendy
Riddell Mcgregor; Jane Morton; Pamela Ostrowska; Iona Margaret
Parkinson; Shona Mhairi Robertson; Janet Anne Scott; Irene Agnes
Sommerville; Morna Jean Stephen; Lucy Stewart; Nicola Elizabeth
Sutherland; Tracy Marion Tait; Carolyn Emma Walker; Anne Catherine
Wotherspoon.
Physiotherapy
Amanda Louise Bennett; Fiona Mary Blaiklock; Lisa May Casey; Diane
Milne Cheyne; Kay Cooper (nee Westwood); Larissa Maia Drake; Pamela Moir
Ellington; Deborah Margaret Findlater; Lesley Fyfe; Anita Ghosh; Karen
Margaret Gordon; Joyce Ng Sum Ming Gossip; Eva Kristina Leach; Fiona
Maxton; Alison Janet Notman; Fiona Janet Paterson; Leanne Samuel;
Deborah Louise Sidgwick; Judith Louise Steel; Margrethe Traa; Pamela
Vassilikos.
DIPLOMA IN DIAGNOSTIC
RADIOGRAPHY
Lesley-Anne Cowper; Caroline Geddes; Pauline Marie Lilley; Shonah
Elizabeth Melton; Kathleen Palmer; Tracy Syme; Alice Louise Torrance.
SCHOOL OF
PHARMACY
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Iain Xiaojun Liu; James Zan Xing.
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA
Clinical Pharmacy
Elizabeth Kay Duff; Dorothy Shamatutu.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(Honours)
Pharmacy
I -- Neil Henwood (posthumous); Maree Mackenzie; Gail Joan Mckay;
Karen Elizabeth Milne; David Alan Milroy; Elizabeth Clark Morren;
Kathryn Elizabeth Shedden; Wendy Ann Corbett Thom; Lindsay Fraser
Cameron Weir. II:1 -- Ann Allen; Karen Michelle Astin; Elaine Pamela
Bowman; Rosemary Chada; Stephen Doyle; Pamela Anne Duncan; Ross Emerson;
Steven Richard Geddes; Yvonne Elizabeth Harvey; Scott Roland Falcon
Hill; Clare Mary Hughes; Catriona Elizabeth Johnston; Katherine Mary
Barr Johnston; Rachel Shelley Judith King; Joanne Mary Low; Elaine Anne
Macleod; Koreen Ann Macniven; Iain Stuart Mcbean; Karen Jane Mckessack;
Andrew Miller; Joyce Chama Mulenga Mwila; Karen Stephen Pirie; Heather
Ann Robb; Fiona Jane Ross; Jennifer Scott; Jaspall Singh Shan; Samantha
Anne Smith. II:2 -- Ajantha Robert Alagaratnam; Neil Andrew Stewart
Anderson; Nora Rosaleen Cafferkey; Craig Tweedie Carson; Isabelle
Mulubwa Chinthalima; Diane Louise Davidson; Clair Rose Elliott; Colette
Anne Ewins; Dana Mohammad Fathipour; Angela Kay Findlay; Carol Jane
Hamill; Fiona Mary Hammond; Kieran Leahy; Fiona Macmillan; Berty Matus;
Susan Allison Milne; Lynn Janet Morris; Maria Catherine O'Donnell;
Puvaneswary Raveenthiran; Siobheon Reid; Christine Mushe Zulu. III --
York Hun Chiew; David Andrew Dunn; Susan Chrystal Hendry; Sharon Elaine
Mckie; Glenda Nasampa Namukonda; Leonard Nzimba.
RGU SURVIVAL
CENTRE LTD
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY
Stuart Johnston Gauld.
CERTIFICATE IN OFFSHORE
SURVIVAL TECHNOLOGY
Hugh John Chisholm; Neil Cunningham Dobson.
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