Graduation | Wednesday 21 January am

Professor Natalie Armstrong joined City St George’s as Executive Dean of the School of Health & Medical Sciences in January 2025. Natalie is an internationally recognised health services researcher whose work uses ideas and methods from the social sciences to better understand, and seek to address, problems in the delivery of high quality healthcare.

Prior to joining City St George’s, Natalie was the Deputy Head of the College of Life Sciences at the University of Leicester, having previously been a Head of Department. As part of her role, Natalie was also the University-appointed Non-Executive Director to the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire Group.

Natalie is Professor of Health Services Research having completed a BSc (Hons) Politics & Sociology at the University of Warwick, an MSc in Medical Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, and her PhD at the University of Nottingham. Following postdoctoral positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Warwick, Natalie took up her first academic post in 2008 as Lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in 2014, and to Professor in 2017.

Natalie’s appointment as the inaugural Executive Dean of the School of Health & Medical Sciences at City St George’s, followed the completion of the merger between City, University of London and St George’s, University of London. As part of her role, Natalie is delighted to be the University-appointed Non-Executive Director to the St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group.

Professor Charles Lees was previously Dean (People and Resources) and Professor of Government in the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University, Australia (2017–2022) and Head of Department and Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath (2011–2017).

He writes on electoral behaviour, party systems, coalition government and environmental politics and policy, and has provided research and advice for the Centre for American Progress, Australian Labor Party, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, the UK House of Lords and the Scottish Executive amongst others.

He is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex and Associate Fellow in the Institute for German and European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of California San Diego, the Australian National University, the University of Sydney, the University of Bath, and Cardiff University.

Presiding Officer: Professor Ian Jacobs, Chair of Council, City St George’s, University of London

The procession will enter the Hall, accompanied by Marshals, in the following order:

1. Students’ Union Mace
2. Officers of the Students’ Union
3. Chaplains
4. Academic staff
5. Departmental presenters
6. Senate
7. Council
8. Executive Dean of School
9. Vice-President
10. Deputy President
11. University Mace
12. Chair of Council

Order of the ceremony

1. Incoming procession: accompanied by ‘Prelude to Te Deum’ by Charpentier
2. Opening address: Professor Elisabeth Hill, Deputy President, City St George’s, University of London
3. Officiating Dean’s speech: Professor Natalie Armstrong, Executive Dean, School of Health & Medical Sciences
4. Award of degrees (SHMS)
5. Officiating Dean’s speech: Professor Charlie Lees, Executive Dean, School of Policy & Global Affairs
6. Award of degrees (SPGA)
7. Closing address: Alessia Attina (MSc Financial Economics)
8. Outgoing procession: accompanied by ‘Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder’ by Daniel Speer

Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Presenter: Professor Julia Yates

Doctor of Philosophy

• Sarah Donald
• Anna Ubiali

Doctor of Psychology

• Yvette Anson
• Elizabeth Clare Booth
• Devanshi Arvind Desai
• Laura Harriet Darling Farley
• Nikita Naa Quarley Fofie
• Ruth Ellen-Louise Harris-Skillman
• David Hull
• Sofia Likhacheva
• Rachel Sian Thomas
• Isadora Violet Wainwright

Master of Science in Behavioural Economics

• Melina Bala
• Diego Andres Beltran
• Mattia Dotti
• Emma Duchin
• Tanvi Ganesh Gaikwad
• Matthias Jaidl
• Hussain Kagzi
• Hrushikesh Kalakandra
• Moto Nishikawa
• Christina Samara
• Michaela Paige Scott
• Ela Senbak
• Danya Sunil Subhas
• Firat Ekin Yavuz

Master of Science in Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience

• Israa Abdirahman
• Priyanshi Bansal
• Benur Buyukselcuk
• Maria De La Poza Sicilia
• Sanina Ferataj
• Lauren Fetzko
• Selin Guler
• Sheikh Nadira Hussain
• Sanya Fatema Issoufaly
• Binta Jalloh
• Rhea Javat
• Harini Kannan
• Ananya Khurana
• Zoe Amy McEvoy
• Tinevimbonashe Robertta Mtowo
• Ezilayda Oztaskin
• Jaydev Hasmukh Patel
• Luca Viragita Pilana Godakande Gamage
• Jairo Alejandro Toro
• Shobiny Vijayapaskaran
• Yesha Vora
• Alice Webb
• Hafiza Saira Younis
• Arina Yuldasheva

Master of Science in Organisational Psychology

• Archie Harry Allen
• Katherine McGinnis Allgaier
• Hannah Baldwin
• Katerina Breznenova
• Fausta Cibulskyte
• James Deleo
• Dilanaz Ercan
• Cem Erten
• Binish Fatima
• Benjamin Hedley Finbow
• Natalie Louise Giles
• Dela Glevey
• Lola Goldstein
• Thomas Morgan Hayward
• Dolores Moira Rose Hill
• James Matthew Michael Holden
• Abigail Sara John
• Tina Wissam Kamel
• Elena Konstantinidi
• Latisha Natasha Lewis
• Enya Brittany Miller
• Ellyn Denise Murakami
• Maria Alejandra Mussfeldt Rizzo
• Misha Nadeem
• Leanne Pinto
• Tasnim Rahman
• Lior Tweg
• Ghael Lunkunku Ndele Umba
• Alice Lilian Wallace
• Caroline Elizabeth White
• Paige Rebecca Williams

Master of Science in Psychological Therapy Studies

• Katie Charmian Broome

Master of Science in Psychology (Conversion)

• Rebecca Niamh Aichen
• Evan Glover Alston
• Anastasia Anisimova
• Mehreen Islam Babu
• Ines Violet Braddell
• Henry Nathaniel Briggs
• Lik Hang Chan
• Reichel Droznik
• Hannah Caroline Ephgrave
• Alexandra Yun Ling Heine
• Laura Grace Jeffers
• Ami Davina Ladwa
• Hamish Graham Robertson Lorimer
• Maria Del Pilar Matji Cabello
• Katarina Pacov
• Arnaud Alain Rognon
• Aimee Corinne Rose
• Grace Rebecca Scott
• Hannah Simms
• David Hugh Singeisen
• Sofia Virginia Spencer
• Nafeesa Afrah Ubaid
• Yekaterina Vitik

Bachelor of Science in Psychology

• Maria Abdi
• Sumeya Adan
• Aishah Adnan
• Salma Akter
• Nabila Alam
• Saif Ali
• Sevilay Aydin
• Nazifa Begum
• Alice Moira Clare Coulson
• Jacqueline Hong
• Fizzah Fatima Hussain
• Viktoriya Kyurkchieva
• Judy Lee
• Joy Bethel Serry-Best

Master of Science in Psychology of Health and Well-being

• Roya Abasova
• Rahaf Ali
• Gayatri Sanjiv Deshmukh
• Acia Veronica Gankin
• Hemangi Gupta
• Cagla Serife Gurbuz
• Harleen Kaur
• Ashley Lynn Larsen-Stewart
• Amun Malik
• Fatouh A A M Marafi
• Laila Falah Jaseem Mohammed Kalaf
• Hellen Mora Sanchez
• Hena Nasir
• Srishti Rawat
• Elizabeth Alana Cynthia Shanel Rodney
• Tessa Louise Senior
• Michelle Senn
• Iram Qaiser Sheikh
• Aswathy Sritharan
• Khushbeen Waraich

Bachelor of Science in Criminology & Psychology

• Fruzsina Flora Veszelak

Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Child Development)

• Sarah Shaikh

Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience)

• Julia Wiktoria Kawa
• Sanaa Rizwan
• Elena Shiun

Bachelor of Science in Psychology (Organisational Psychology & Behavioural Economics)

• Roshelle Rose Williams

Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Criminology

• Zarqa Khadija Hussain
• Lara Amy Pereira Levitt

Department of Population Health and Policy

Presenter: Dr Rebecca Wells

Master of Public Health

• Sharifa Abdisalam
• Marfia Alam
• Shifa Ali
• Rimal Awan
• Twinkle Francis
• Yasmien Ramez Hassan Abouzaid
• Mehvr Ismail
• Clement Jenner Johnson
• Simran Kalander
• Nisha Lohana
• Mohamed Malik
• Sagal Ducaale Maxamed
• Sreelakshmy Murali Menon
• Ashar Nazeer
• Nyakeh Ngobeh
• Cheta Ikemsinachi Ogbuzuru
• Sophie Ognjenovic
• Abigail Oluwabusola
• Kareen Naa Afoley Osa-Quaye
• Oluchi Hellen Ozonsi
• Jennet Anirudhan Palora Mootil
• Amia Reddy
• Saad Bin Sajid
• Samuel Adjei Sarfo
• Javeria Siddiqua
• Shireen Sylvester
• Chinemerem Nwabugwu Ude
• Tabinda Waqar
• Taha Shahid Zaheer

Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health

• Salman Ahmad
• Abdul Rehman Arshad
• Sashi Manohar Nimmagadda

Master of Research in Clinical Research

• Bradley James Begley
• Sophie Fionnuala Jones
• Mohammadghasem Kashanizadeh
• Bethany Anne Kenny
• Deepanshu Kumar
• David Thomas Nicklin
• Uchechukwu Amala Nkwonta
• Dolly Ramesh Pandit
• Leo Prince
• Ujjawal Rawat

Master of Science in Applied Nutrition

• Fatima Azimi
• Emily Joy Claydon-Brown
• Martina Di Rienzo
• Susan Ebehangberon Emuze
• Lucrezia Chloe Galli
• Callum Hutton
• Amelia Rosabel Milne
• Abenaya Rangarajah

Master of Science in Food Policy

• Raphael Carter Allerton
• Chloe Favre
• Flora Mary Garvey
• Hannah Lee Käufer
• Giorgia Mangone
• Manveetha Muddaluru
• Geraldine Oh
• Kristina Sazama
• Carly Trisk-Grove
• Kennedy Makai Wright
• Shuwen Xue

Postgraduate Diploma in Food Policy

• Andrea Eaves
• Hannah Leigh Frazier
• Suzanne Louise Liddell

Master of Science in Health Management

• Saadullah Aamir
• Ali Ahmed
• Lucia Valeria Besio
• Bilsaan Ali Bushry
• Aarya Avinash Deshmukh
• Kirstyn Lee Eastwood
• Mercy Missah Frimpong
• Disha Mohan Ghadge
• Polymnia Ioannidou
• Nitisha Kalia
• Raisah Khaliqa Khan
• Jahnavi Satya Lakshmi Koduri
• Alok Nilesh Kotecha
• Lilian Nyambura Munanu
• Tahera Mushtaque
• Shweta Harish Nair
• Johnpaul Ntomchukwu Nnakwe
• Henry Ifeanyi Okoye
• Pamela Andrea Ossandon Acuna
• Shweta Girish Panchal
• Hilsi Maricela Romellon
• Harshita Kishore Sastry
• Anna Somuyiwa
• Aishwarya Jeetendra Sonawane
• Raghavendra Srinivasan
• Atheeq Talapula
• Zohaib Mohammed Ziauddin

Postgraduate Diploma in Health Management

• Haddyjatou Sarr

Master of Science in Health Policy

• Anjoo Daulagupu

Postgraduate Diploma in Health Policy

• Michele Jayne Gardner

School of Policy & Global Affairs

Department of Economics

Presenter: Professor Emmanouil Mentzakis

Doctor of Philosophy

• Nayab Kanwal
• Sayuri Selina Rentschler

Master of Science in Economic Evaluation in Healthcare

• Sarah Maria Macklin
• Sharlene Lai Hung Ting

Master of Science in Economics

• Ely Baba
• Pong Ratasa Chhay
• Sabilus Saraf Fauzer
• Nima Hask
• Benedek Bolivar Hon-Balla
• Timothy Adin-Paul Jones
• Neha Nadeem
• Mikhail Poliakov
• Richard Jonathan David Potts
• Aziza Shykhalieva
• Seunghwan Song

Bachelor of Science in Economics

• Majhar Ahmed
• Muhammad Zain Ali
• Abdullah Saleh J Alnahdi
• Aaron Arunthavachelvam
• Naser Bakare
• Charlee Lambert Barr
• Mimoun Bezzaid
• Saif Nabil M Hifni
• Sonaina Hussain
• Sabah Imran Khan
• Neha Khatun
• Erjon Krasniqi
• Nihad Mahmudlu
• Anh Duc Nguyen
• Long Ngoc Bao Nguyen
• Leo Melong Ntankeu
• Jack James Thomas O'Callaghan
• Priyanka Partheepan
• Pirashana Pirabagaran
• Shayan Rostami
• Nayim Abdul Kadir Rouf
• Sam Sadig
• Samin Sattar
• Obada Yassin

Master of Science in Economics & Data Analytics

• Sagaanan Suntharalingam

Master of Science in Economics & Public Policy

• Yahya Nasser Mohamed Al Hajri
• Shahir Maher Subhi Alda'As

Master of Science in Financial Economics

• Andri Antoniades
• Alessia Attinà
• Gbanbele Aboubakar Coulibaly
• Yusuke Furihata
• Mohammadreza Heidari
• Mahmood Habeeb Hasan Jamalullail
• Cindy Kayihura
• Kenta Kitamura
• Andrey Maslenko
• Harsh Mittal
• Hanifi Berkay Yildiz

Bachelor of Science in Financial Economics

• Vinicius Semedo
• Ma Yiping

Master of Science in Health Economics & Policy

• Ummair Arshid
• Albert Joseph Quarcoopome

Master of Science in International Business Economics

• Ulkar Abasova
• San Cilingiroglu
• Dhruv Rajeev Kadam
• Muhammed Canpolat Kimcak
• Skander Mohamed Mellah
• Ahmet Emre Ordekcioglu
• Yahya Oumnassef
• Anushka Prashant Wagh
• Sefer Tan Zengin
• Yingying Zhou

Bachelor of Science in Economics (Economics and Econometrics)

• Devisha Pankaj Bhujbal
• Khushi Rashminbhai Desai
• Kirath Swarn Singh Matharu

Bachelor of Science in Economics with Accounting

• Samira Mohamed Adan
• Mahiruzzaman Ahmed
• Saad Ahmed
• Mohammad Wahaz Ali
• Muhammad Mohid Ali
• Muhammad Uthmaan Ali
• Nadirah Ali
• Tahsin Bari
• Mohamed El-Burki
• Sajid Haja-Mohideen
• Francis Kofi Akainam Hooper
• Amaan Hussain
• Maisha Jannat
• Anendeyen Jeyachanthiran
• Rima Hassan E Kabbani
• Daniel Kambali
• Reem Hassan Koshin
• Charu Kuganantharajah
• Heroshika Kuganeswaran
• Hani Mohomud
• Mustafe Abdilahi Qaalib
• Abid Rahman
• Minhaz Rahman
• Raakesh Rameesh
• Devanshi Ranavaya
• Andrew Seijohn Selvakumar
• Mishank Shah
• SyanFayen Hitenkumar Shah
• Parwan Singh
• Mohammed Abu Sufian
• Daiyan Ahmed Tafader
• Mahmoud Walyeldin Taher
• Ehsaan Tahir
• Safwan Uddin Chowdhury

Department of International Politics

Presenter: Dr Stefano Pagliari

Doctor of Philosophy

• Timo Koch
• Oluwole Patrick Ojo

Master of Arts in Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

• Fatima Ali Ismail Aziz Alshammari
• Innawa Rakayata Auceyane Bouba
• Matteo Celi
• Masma Fahradova
• Shams Jafarova
• Jean-Ralph Johanns Letendrie
• Pascal Nwaukoni
• Chiara Pirelli
• Alexander Charles Arthur Roper
• Austin A Ross
• Asenia Tsonkova

Master of Arts in Global Political Economy

• Fowse Abdiwali Mohamed
• Nawaf Amir Abdullah
• Mohammed Al Maktum
• Kayan E A Kh Alkhazam
• Jaber  Khalifa N A Alsabah
• Zarina Asadullayeva
• Senol Aydin
• Kiera Nicole Kofkin-Hansen
• Tristan John Simon Lovell
• Fateh Taghiyev
• Michael Alberto Tejeda Vargas
• Manussanun Tongsuk

Master of Arts in International Politics

• Sharif Faysal Hussein Zapen All Oun
• Benjamin George Bartholomew Baker
• Durga Sharni Hirma Jhurry
• Sophia McHachti
• Carlos Jesus Mendez
• Tadashi Teranishi
• Alexander Sheng-Yang Wang

Bachelor of Science in International Politics

• Arka Archishman
• Husnain Balagamwala
• Djavanshir Bashirov
• Matthew Cadwallader
• Renad Faiz A Jaha
• Ahmet Emir Keklik
• Maxymilian Kosierkiewicz
• Judith Lecompte
• Afruza Rahman
• Douaa Sellami Laamairi

Master of Arts in International Politics and Human Rights

• Sumana Baskaran
• Christina Zenia Bundziak
• Jenny Graham
• Larsa Haider
• Kristel Mouthaan
• Christiane Normandes Avila
• Lakshani Sivarajah

Bachelor of Arts in History and Politics

• Ismeal Abdourazak Ainan
• Pavle Jakic

Bachelor of Science in International Political Economy

• Duha Abdalla
• Luqman Abdullah
• Hassan Ahmed
• Adnan Abdukadir Ali
• Mehdi Musaddique Fazal
• Ali Firouz Pour
• Aranvir Kaur
• Kleand Kernaja
• Saad Nezzar
• Husnayn Nisar
• Om Shah
• Bosen Zhong

Bachelor of Science in Politics

• Muna Ahmed Omar
• Yiping Xiao

Department of Sociology and Criminology

Presenter: Professor Chris Rojek

Doctor of Philosophy

• Christos Balafoutis

Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Emily Anne Beynon
• Laura Natasha Corr
• Safwan Khalid Y Danish
• Hannah Trinidad Duenas
• Ussumane Embalo
• Sarah Jane Gorveatt
• Mattie Josephine Jones
• Elif Karasoylu
• Yusuke Kikuchi
• Rakshana Krishnakumar
• Rachel Mironchuk
• Michela Sinardi
• Damla Uyan

Bachelor of Science in Criminology

• Joud Sami M Alzaman
• Joseph Simon Fraser
• Frederico Felix Monteiro
• Abdikadar Hassan
• Fawziyah Islam
• Marie Kimberly Jolicoeur
• Loogethan Kamaleswaran
• Pinar Kartal
• Solange Leitao
• Isla Elizabeth McIlwraith
• Layla Mohab Naji Mufti
• Zohaib Naseer
• Isaac Seager
• Melanie Silva

Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Sociology

• Venora Ruth Akosoa Buachie
• Ridwan Mohammed Hussain
• Abdullah Mohammad
• Nida Zainab Nijabat
• Ikra Nairab Riaz
• Imaan Shah
• Salma Osman Sharif
• Antoni Piotr Zdziech

Bachelor of Science in Sociology

• Alison Gellman
• Fatma Mohamed
• Terry Tse Lok Hin

Bachelor of Science in Sociology with Data Analytics

• Shareq Ahnaf Subhan

Bachelor of Science in Sociology with Psychology

• Sabrina Abdullahi Abdi
• Aya Adel El-Khatib
• Emily Hartwig
• Saqib Abbas Shah
• Teegu Wang

Bachelor of Science in Sociology with Psychology and Data Analytics

• Malika Ejazahmad