28 June 2004
Graduation 2004
Five graduation ceremonies will take place in the Caird Hall this week when 3,200 students will
graduate from the University of Dundee with degrees (2,600), post graduate certificates and diplomas.
Ten distinguished people will be honoured by the University this week including Andrew Marr, the BBC's
political editor and Jane Tomlinson, who has just completed the cycle from Rome to Home while battling
terminal cancer.
Andrew Marr will follow in the footsteps of Seamus Heaney and deliver the University's annual Greatest
Minds lecture at 6.30pm on Friday 2 July. The lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets are
available from the University.
The programme of graduation festivities has been expanded this year with a Scottish Sensation event with
ceilidh for graduating students and their families and a reception for the families of international
students who have travelled a long way to graduation hosted by the University Principal Sir Alan
Langlands. The Scottish Sensation event is open to the public and tickets are available from the
University.
Details of the ceremonies and honorary graduates are as follows:
Photo opportunities with the honorary graduates will take place half an hour before each ceremony in the
Robing Room, City Chambers.
Wednesday 30 June
Photo opportunity 1.30pm, Robing Room, City Square, Dundee. Opportunity to photograph Catherine
Lockerbie and Duncan MacMillan.
2pm. Graduation ceremony for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University will confer honorary degrees upon:
Catherine Lockerbie, the fifth director of the Edinburgh book festival has made real difference to
Scotland. Under her leadership the Book Festival has been taken to a new level with high profile debates
and discussions. The Book Festival has made a reputation as a place for some of the most illuminating and
thought provoking discussions on issues of the day, 650 meet the author events each year and the highly
regarded children’s programme.
Professor Duncan Macmillan, an expert and admirer of Sir Patrick Geddes is being honoured in 2004, the
150th anniversary of Patrick Geddes’ birth. Macmillan is director of the Talbot Rice Gallery, Professor
of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Edinburgh and author of several works on Scottish Art
and artists. Scottish Art 1460-2000 by Professor Macmillan is a definitive account of Scottish art and
makes a seminal contribution to the history of Scottish art.
Thursday 1 July
Photo opportunity 9.30am, Robing Room, City Chambers, Dundee. Opportunity to photograph Colin Campbell
and Larry Rolland.
10am. Graduation ceremony for the Faculties of Law and Accountancy and Duncan of Jordanstone College of
Art and Design
The University will confer honorary degrees upon:
Colin Campbell QC is Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. A graduate of the University of Dundee, he has
been a part-time member of the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland since 1997. He was a Standing
Junior Counsel to the Scottish Office Development department from 1984-1990 and lecturer at Edinburgh
University earlier in his career.
Larry Rolland has been chair of University Court at the University of Dundee for the past six years. He
was born in Fife, schooled in Edinburgh and studied Architecture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
in Dundee. He is a former Senior Partner at Hurd Rolland Partnership, a national firm of architects from
1959-2002. He has many awards for housing in Royal Burghs and restorations of historic buildings and also
Times Conservation and Europa Nostra Awards for Rossend Castle. He was President of the Royal
Incorporation of Architects in Scotland from 1979-81 and President of Royal Institute of British
Architects from 1985-87.
Photo opportunity 1.30pm, Robing Room City Chambers, Dundee. Opportunity to photograph Gavin Brown and
Alison Goligher.
2pm. Graduation ceremony for the Faculties of Engineering & Physical Sciences and Life Sciences.
The University will confer honorary degrees upon:
Professor Gavin Brown, a distinguished mathematician, is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.
Awarded the Sir Edmund Whittaker memorial prize and the Australian Mathematical Society medal for his
work involving Fourier analysis, Professor Brown rose to become Vice-President of the Council of the
Australian Academy of Science and has been active in many other research bodies. Born in Lundin Links,
Fife, he is a graduate and honorary graduate of the University of St Andrews. He is now on the Executive
of the Association of Pacific Rim universities, the Business Higher Education Round Table, Australian
Vice Chancellors’ Committee and the Global Foundation.
Alison Goligher is a Managing Director of Schlumberger Oilfield Services, the world's largest oilfield
services company and one of only a handful of women in the UK to have risen to such a level in the
male-dominated oil business. A graduate of Heriot-Watt University she cut her teeth in industry as a
field engineer in Brunei. After various positions in the Far East, US and Norway she took up her current
role in Aberdeen in March 2001 assuming responsibility for all business segments of oilfield services in
the UK, Ireland and France.
Friday 2 July
Photo opportunity 9.30am, Robing Room, City Chambers, Dundee. Opportunity to photograph Andrew Marr and
Naren Patel.
10am Graduation ceremony for the Faculties of Medicine & Dentistry and Education & Social Work.
The University will confer honorary degrees upon:
Andrew Marr, the BBC's top political commentator started his journalistic career as a trainee reporter at
the Scotsman. Since then he has worked for the Independent, The Economist as political editor and
columnist for The Express and The Observer. He was appointed political editor of the BBC in May 2000.
Awards include Columnist of the Year, Journalist of the Year and the best individual contributor on
television. Andrew Marr attended Dundee High School for his early schooling and lived near the city as a
young boy.
Lord Naren Patel is an obstetrician of international standing specialising in the care of mothers in high
risk pregnancy. He studied at Queens College Dundee and is currently honorary Professor and Consultant at
the University of Dundee and Ninewells Hospital. Lord Patel has published widely; his many research
papers making a significant contribution to the area of premature labour, fetal growth retardation and
obstetric epidemiology. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and has
been Vice-President and President of the College. He is also Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Honorary Fellow of the College of Surgeons of England and
Edinburgh. He received a Knighthood in the Birthday Honours List in 1997.
Photo opportunity 1.30pm, Robing Room, City Chambers, Dundee. Opportunity to photograph Hamish MacInnes
and Jane Tomlinson.
2pm Graduation ceremony for Faculty of Nursing.
The University will confer honorary degrees upon:
Hamish MacInnes OBE BEM is a mountaineer, rescuer, designer, film consultant and author. Born in the
Borders in 1930 he was one of a small team to undertake the first winter traverse of the Cuillin Ridge in
Skye in 1965. He has climbed in the European Alps, Caucasus, New Zealand, South America and the
Himalayas, including three expeditions to Mount Everest. Writer of a number of books on travel, MacInnes
has also been a producer, advisor and safety expert with film producers such as Fred Zimmermann and David
Putnam and actors Sean Connery and Clint Eastwood. McInnes is a world leader on mountain safety and
rescue. He has designed rescue equipment and is a former leader of the Glencoe Mountain Rescue team.
Jane Tomlinson was nominated by the students for exceptional bravery and selflessness in the face of
adversity. When Jane was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2000 she decided to train for a 5km Race for
Life to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Since then she has run the London Marathon, London Triathlon
and the Great North Run raising a total of £451,000 for charities to date.
By Jenny Marra, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, j.m.marra@dundee.ac.uk | 
