Graduation ceremony 22

18 December 2025 at 4pm


Great Hall, University of Leeds

Mace party

Professor Kenneth McDowall 
Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Pam Macpherson Barrett
For Secretary

Opening address

The Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor will declare the congregation open

Celebration of degrees

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

To be presented by Professor Vanessa Kind

In the School of Education
Ghadah Fahad T Alqahtani
Joanne Callaghan
Hanaa Mustafa

To be presented by Professor Jonathan Pitches

In the School of Performance and Cultural Industries
Romain Daniel Burtin 
Tennae Alma Maki
Elizabeth Wendy Ridley

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS

To be presented by Professor Vanessa Kind

Childhood Studies
Asa Ismia Bunga Aisyahrani
Seddiqa Mohamed Ahmed Husain Alnamlaiti
Jiayi Chen
Chloe Lea Foxton
Long Bao Hoang Huynh
Marjan Ighani
Yang Li
Ziyi Liu
Xueyin Zhao

Deaf Education (Teacher of the Deaf Qualification)
Sarah Josephine Lister

Digital Education
Michael Banks

Education
Yaozi Chen
Yiqi Chen
Yu Cheng
Madina Dalabayeva
Xintong Dong
Nana Gelashvili
Yaqian Jin
Othman Zaid Malallah
Kayleigh Louise Stevens
Thi My Ngoc Trinh
Weixuan Wang
Wan Zulhelmi Bin Wan Kamaruzaman
Xinjia Yang
Yi Zhou
Mas Nur Zubaidah

Special Educational Needs
Nomcebo Brilliance Mhlanga

TESOL Studies
John David Aduri
Fangning Cao
Siyu Chen
Lihui Dai
Yushi Deng
Aixuan Dong
Yixuan Dong
Yuanzhuo Dong
Yaxin Duan
Xinyu Guan
Yushan Han
Xinyi He
Yingyan He
Chi-En Hsu
Mengyuan Li
Yihan Li
Anran Liu
Hengyu Liu
Jiexuan Liu
Weilun Liu
Yili Ou
Xiangzhu Pan
Xue Wang
Yili Wang
Wenyu Wu
Yufei Xia
Lu Yu
Wenlu Yuan
Yizhi Zhang
Ziyi Zhao

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
Sara Mahmood Al Balushi
Suci Amaliyah
Sirong Cai
Firda Fauziyah
Rong Gou
Yuehui He
Miao Hu
Zhuoyuan Lyu
Ye Ma
Yuko Saito
Jiaqiong Wang
Min Yan
Siya Zhao
Nentis

To be presented by Professor Jonathan Pitches

Applied Theatre and Intervention
Samuel James Hackney-Ring

Applied Theatre and Social Change
Abigail Joy Mercer
Fatma Abdelati Elshafie Mohamed
Phoebe Jayne Sanders
Yufan Wang
Yuqi Wang

Audiences, Engagement, Participation
Jingru Chen
Xiaoying Chen
Jinze Li
Lixintong Li
Jingyi Zhang
Manyan Zhuo

Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship
Xinyu Bao
Yinyin Cai
Zihan Cai
Aihua Chen
Yixuan Chen
Xinyi Cheng
Shuyuan Kang
Jinqiu Li
Handan Lu
Nanxi Luo
Meichen Wang
Yadi Wu
Xuan Yu
Zhihui Yu
Chen Yue
Wenyi Zhai
Dini Zhang
Yanshan Zhou

Global Performance and Cultural Industries
Yuhan Ding
Kaiqi Xiao

Performance Design
Chatuporn Aphornratana
Jiani Gong
Bianca Widyandini
Yundi Yan

Writing for Performance and Digital Media
Megan Kathleen Dale-Stokoe
Pasha Shari Amparo Hansen
Sasha Jane Hughes
Karina Jade Read Sykora

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA

To be presented by Professor Vanessa Kind

Deaf Education (Teacher of the Deaf Qualification)
Kate Elizabeth Barrett
Anna Catherine Blakey
Syeda Tasnia Fahin
Gemma Louise Gawthorpe
Rebecca Harper
Amy Harvey-Lucas
Simon John Herdman
Sharon Thornton
Debbie Maria Woods

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE

To be presented by Professor Vanessa Kind

Education Primary (SCITT)
Ellie Mae Haigh
Ella Jane Hilton-Buckley
Annabelle Claire Kelley
Lucy Keogh
Bryony Paige Watson

Education Secondary (SCITT)
Rebecca Marie Bailey
Amy Katherine Bennett
Anna Nikoniuk
Oliver Rhys Price

To be presented by Professor Jonathan Pitches

Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy
Marie Elise Moorwood
Sallie Louise Varnam

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

To be presented by Professor Vanessa Kind

Education
Ziyuan Sun

To be presented by Professor Jonathan Pitches

Global Creative Industries
Megan Espie
Eden Hope Morris
Wenxin Tu

Recession

The Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor will declare the congregation closed


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