HUW Edwards the chief anchor of BBC News at Ten, will join hundreds of graduates getting their degrees from York St John University today (Wednesday, November 20).

The journalist will receive an honorary degree from the university’s chancellor, Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York on the second day of three days of ceremonies held at York Minster.

Also receiving honorary degrees this year are John Godber, one of the country’s most popular playwrights and directors, and broadcast journalist Emma Crosby.

Vice Chancellor Prof Karen Stanton said: “I am delighted to be honouring these extraordinary individuals who have contributed so much to society.

“They are wonderful role models for our students who can draw inspiration from their success as they graduate from university with the confidence and resilience to take on the world.

“I look forward to welcoming them to our graduation celebrations.”

The degree ceremonies will also take place tomorrow.

York St John takes nominations for honourary degrees all year round and they are awarded to ‘persons of distinction’ who have made a major contribution and earned national and international distinction in their field, in activities concerning their profession, the advancement of learning, the arts or public affairs.

Nominees often, but not always, have an existing connection with York St John University or the local area and will be considered and approved by a university committee on honorary degrees and fellowships.

York St John University graduations 2019 Day 2

School of Health Sciences, School of Psychological & Social Sciences

Biomedical Science: Nadia Al-Tamimi, James Cameron, Lauren Champion, Joshua Clough, Sophie Dibb, Rosa Gatenby,

Charlotte Gibbens, Chloe Howell, Amber Hussain, Callum Pettit, Lauren Rial, Sophie Waddington,

Benjamin Wildgoose.

Biomedical Science with placement: James Astbury, Alexandra Ellwood, Hasan Rao.

Criminology: Syed Ahmed, Jessica Bairstow, Leigh Bamford, Meysa Beyazbayrak, Leah Cliff, Ebony Crump, Megan Davies, Katie Donnelly, Jessica Eddon, Imogen Guymer, Jennifer Hamilton, Natasha Harrison, April-Lee Howe, Jack Idle, Cherie Jamieson, Megan Kane, Levi Kay, Alexander Middlemas, Amy Nellis, Georgia Norman, Ellen Ord, Rebecca Reilly, Charlotte Scargall, Erin Sharp, Aimee Spaven, Charlie Spence, Georgia Stafford, Ruby Taylor, Rebekah Todd, Brittany Tomlinson, Kiera Wears, Sabrina Wu.

Counselling, Coaching and Mentoring: Katie Arrowsmith, Heather Brown, Rebecca Foster, Lydia Harrison, Grace Holland, Nicholas Hutton, Holly James, Chelsea Jobes, Georgina Kehoe, Yeomando Kriklanis, Keelie Mollan, Lydia O’Connor, Joshua Pursey, Emily Taylor, Savanna Thompson, Hannah Wood.

Counselling: Charlotte Baker, Kelly Benneworth-Gray, Josephine Kerr, Sally Mayfield, Susan Morris, Monique Stewart, Joanne Stickney, Charlotte Wells.

Occupational Therapy (Pre-Registration): Sarah Atkinson, Lucy Clarke, Julie Ferguson, Louise Guy, Meadhbh Keating, Kerryanne Rushton, Laura Smith, Sophie Weston.

Occupational Therapy: Emily Andrews, Emily Armitage, Julie Barlow, Rachel Barran, Rebecca Bond, Sarah Braithwaite, Anna Broadbent, Ruth Buckley, Jemma Coates, Amy Crisford, Rianna Dunn, Laura Edwards, Anna Fingleton, Alana Gallagher, Kaitlin Gallighan, Pauline Gapay Del Rosario, Elizabeth Gash, Alice Gibson, Zoe Goodeve, Georgia Green, Sheilah Gresham, Beth Griffin, Thomas Groombridge, Gemma Grove, Kerry Hannah, Lauren Hill, Emily Hodgson, Philippa Hollinshead, Mehreen Hussain, Nicola Hutchman, Medeeha Iqbal, Catrin Jones, Molly Kirven, Mairead Lancaster, Katy Livingstone, Victoria Lynas, Jack Mills, Kathryn Mitchell, Nicole Moore, James Morris, Georgia Nelson, Niki Nikolaou, Chelsea Nunn, Kay Parkin, Anisha Pathak, Rebecca Pearson, Holly Pickering, Beth Piercy, Sophia Razzaq, Michelle Recchia, Emily Rivers, Sarah Rooke, Alexandra Ryan-Moss, Ella Sadler-Andrews, Deborah Shortt, Louise

Skelton, Jennifer Smith, Rebecca Stapleton, Abigail Stubbings, Chloe Taylor, Grace Tinkler, Melissa Tracey, Maisie Tufton, Stephanie Watson, Deborah Wilson, Anna Winch, Holly Wright.

Psychology of Child and Adolescent Development: Rim Ajjour, Rosemary Doyle, Laura Johnson, Jules Soros, Sarah Wild, Jo Wong.

Professional Health and Social Care: Ruth Kay, Caroline Shaw.

Physiotherapy: Declan Acomb, Abigail Ainsworth, Heather Aitken, Michael Barratt, Charles Beaton, Gary Bennett, Alice Bernard, Danielle Booth, Rebecca Carson, Lucia Cicchirillo, Kayla Clark, Kym Cooper, William Evans, Sarah Everett, Suzanne Fitzhugh, Bradley Healey, Matthew Hick, Ameena Hussain, Georgia Kees, Nikita Khela, Reuben Kirsch, Casey Little, Pui Loc, Frances Nuttell, Katie Ogley, Hannah Peagram, Liberty Pearman-Hills, Joe Posthill, Rachael Prescott, Dylan Pughe, Imogen Richards, Emer Richardson, Eleanor Rossbotham, Aline Smith, Cameron Stillings, Megan Taylor, Henrietta Toone.

Physiotherapy (Pre-Registration): Jessica Bateman, David Beecham, Alexander Bentley, Jennifer Harrison, Kate Hext, Annie Love, Samantha Macfarlane, Eilidh Mcgregor, Ellis Porter, Elena Smyllie, Rachel Stevenson.

Psychology with Counselling: Rachel Bailey, Chloe Deyes, Holly Easterbrook, Jade Forster, Abbie Longley, Deanna Matheson, Emma Mccook, Stacey Mcdonnell, Olivia Scott.

Psychology: Jasminder Ahluwalia-Timmins, Martha Ash, Frances Atkin, Louise Atkins, Ellice Atkinson, Amy Austin, Helen Bairstow, Liam Baker, Amber Barnsley, Serena Benson, Libby Boynton, William Brampton, Kealey Brennan, Georgia Brooke- Hudson, William Bryan, Eleanor Burdall, Bethany Carter, Hannah Clarke, Emily Clubley, Katherine Coleman, Ellen Conroy, Poppy Corr, Laura Cossey, Jamie Coultas, Michelle Crawford, William Derry, Nicole Dodd, Tene Dowling, Amy Drakard, Mia Drury, Cassie-Jade Dunford, Amy Dykins, Matthew Earl, Sarah Edwards, Christina Epps, Samuel Foster, Danielle Franklin, Katie Godfrey, Ashleigh Gordon, Tylar Gore, Ronnie Gorman, Amy Grant, Chloe Greenwood, Molly Haddington, Hannah Haigh, Mary Haley, Dominic Hanmer, Maya Harris, Daniel Hoddinott, Sophie Holmes, Courtney Hopkins, Joshua Hudson, Eleanor Hunter, Joanne Jacques, Megan Jarrett, Harvey Jebson, Shannon Johnson, Alice Jones, Laura Jowett, Sidra Kauser, Rebecca Keetley, Maddison Kennedy, Bethany Kerrigan, Danielle Lannon-Simpson, Amy-Jane Leeming, Rebecca Letts, Ewan Lloyd, Matthew Lockett, Rebecca Lynch, Georgina Mahoney, Jessica Mason, Ellen Mcgibbon, Casey Merriman, Chloe Moir, Esme Mortimer, Megan Newton, Emily Parker, Sophie Parkinson, Lucy Peace, Charlotte Peers, Leigh Prestage, Sarah Qunibi, Hannah Reilly, Katie Richman, Phoebe Robson, Georgia Sanderson, Sophy Sanderson, Emily Schofield, Natasha Scott, Ayesha Shah-Simmons, Bethany Shanahan, Ainsley Shears, Amy Simpson, Charlotte Simpson, Shelby Skee, Jessica Slack, Sian Smith, Eleanor Stephen, Emma Stobbart, Jennifer Stockton, Katie Stubley, Alice Summers, Phoebe Surridge, Olivia Sutcliffe, Abby Symons, Emily Taylor, Amelia Taylor, Thomas Toft Freethy, Eleanor Urry, Heather Warburton, Alice West, Eleanor Whisker, Charlotte Williams, Sinead Willis, Thomas Wing, Chloe Winstanley, Rebecca Woodhead, Holly Woodward, Georgia York.

Sociology with Criminology: Hannah Allison, Rebecca Bluck, Ruby Bovo, Laura Chesterton, Phoebe Despard, Lucy Ellison, Abigail Gallon-Samson, Sophie Martindale, James Simpson, Evie Thatcher, Tom Walton-Davies.

Sociology: Ellie Atkinson, Jessica Bennett, Charlotte Bowden, Bethany Collingwood, Kimberly Grey, Michaela Harker, Caitlin Hunter, Mollie Jakob-Hall, Edward Kelsall, Susan King, Nicole Lawn, Poppy Leonard, Millie Mifflin, Hollie Owens, Ellen People, Danielle Scott, Kathryne Searle, Ellen Stevenson, Benjamin Taylor, Caitlin Veal.

Business Management: Marc Baty, Vjollca Berisha, Hannah Bosworth, Molly Burton, Megan Davison, William Fade, George Fingleton, Ashley Fox, Hannah Goodwin, Charlotte Grayson, Daniel Harvey, Pearce Hewitt, Thomas Hobson, Sian Houlihan, Harry Howell, Eleanor Hutchinson, Thomas Jackson, Jenson Joseph, Francis Kinsella, James Kydd, Jingyue Lu, Pippa Martin, Kate Oxtoby, Scott Parkins, Chantal Ramsden, Benjamin Rimmer, Oliver Robinson, Jenifer Sheppard, Alexander Smith, Emily-Jayne Stead, Daniel Stephenson, Lauren Stocker, Qi Tang, Emily Waite, Susan Walsh, Lucy Welch, Hattie Weller, Elias Westwood, Nicholas Young.

Business Management (top-up): Trisha Bhimani, Yashvi Chandan, Briana Chandiramani, Aashay Desai, Nishant Rajesh Jasani, Areesh Jungalwala, Nikhita Kapur, Zeenia Burzin Khan, Aaliya Suhail Khandwani, Qasim Mahimwala, Rahul Makhija, Rushat Sanghavi.

Business Information Technology: Alexander Kong, Andrew Morton-Jones, Jordan Proudlock, Jordan Taylor.

Business Management and Finance: Anna Boyes, Pooja Chamdal, Gideon Fairhall, Timothy Holmes, Shauna Hussain, Xinyan Li, Yueyuan Tan, Joseph Thompson, Lauren Thomson, Sam Walton, Weiqiao Zhao, Mengying Zou.

Business Management and Human Resource Management: Matthew Cattermole, Georgia Charlton, Lauren Gilroy, Andrew Nicholson, Megan Sutcliffe.

International Business Management: Aydin Aksel, Malik Cobb, Rudy Escutia Camacho, Caitlin Fairley, Marcos Garcia, Bryan Hernandez, Clare Jackson, Ian Maddox, Samuel Martinez, Kim Nowak, Katherine Orrah, Adetowo Oyewumi, Matthew Perez, Angy Reyes Martinez, Natalie Roberts.

Business Management and Language: Madalina Iosub, James Leonard.

Tourism Management and Marketing: Holly Blackborrow, Charlotte Jobling, James Parker, Jake Todhunter, Clarisha Jade Van Der Vegt.

Marketing Management: Danielle Cosgrove, Rexhep Ejupi, Georgina Green, Elizabeth Harper, Eleanor Lowes, Daniel Mckeever, Kylie Moody, Kamil Rzeszutek, Claudia Saxby, Anushka Shah, Daniel Stirling, Elliot Towlson.

Marketing Management (top-up): Daniel White.

Tourism Management: Christopher Heaton, Bethany Hutchinson.

Business Administration: Shaurya Agrawal, Sze Lee, David Lingwood, Mihir Malakiya.

Business Studies: Wenbin Hui, Zixuan Wang.

Leading Innovation and Change (RKC): Sandra Ahlers, Ilse Baxter, Asha Kamenge, Melanie Le Chene, Lilian Lee Yee Yung, Matthew Martin, Alaine Murray, Marlini Naidoo, Wilfried Niehüser, Boguslaw Petyniak, Ebru Pilav, Graham Shapiro, Dag Storli, Karen Templeton, Julie Tilke, Tony Wittcomb, Jialei Zhao, Sandra Zongwe.

International Business Management: Beatriz De La Rosa Ramírez, Ayushi Gala, Matthew Healey, Stuart Healy, Eing Lee, Olivier Ndongendeba, Devesh Chander Tejwani, Tongtong Wang, Mingyang Yan, Anqi Zhang.

Leadership and Management: Rhys Bootland, Sam Strickland, Jessica Whitehead, Elizabeth Williams.

International Marketing: Baby Amara Bandukada, Rebeka Forizs, Rebecca Formstone, Evangeline Harding, Sophie Howell, Nicholas Hudson, Molly Jackson, Georgina Melvin, Abbie Taylor, Stefanie Tröger, Nathan Wilson, Ziping Yan, Ningbo Zhang, Zexuan Zhou.