Graduates’ Ceremony 2025
Friday 3RD October 2025
Villa Marina, Douglas
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Graduates,
Today is about each of you – our graduates – and the journeys you have taken to reach this point. Whether this is your first step into higher learning, a career change, or a personal ambition fulfilled, you have shown commitment, resilience and passion. You should be deeply proud of what you have achieved.
This year is also a milestone in UCM’s story – these are a reminder of how far we have come. Alongside this proud history, we continue to look forward, with exciting developments in our curriculum, our estate, and our wider offering, ensuring we remain responsive to the needs of our students and our Island.
This year, we have also launched our new Values; to Belong, Grow and Thrive. They speak to who we are and who we want to be. I hope you leave with a feeling that at UCM you truly belonged, you were each given the individual support to grow in knowledge, skills and confidence, and of course thrive.
But graduation is not the end of the road. It is a stepping stone. The world is changing rapidly, and lifelong learning has never been more important. Whether you return to study with us through our adult learning programme, pursue new skills in the workplace, or simply continue to learn through the experiences of life, I encourage you to remain curious, open, and ready to adapt.
So, to you our graduates: take pride in this achievement, carry our values with you, and never stop learning. On behalf of all of us at UCM, congratulations. We wish you every success as you go forward to belong, grow, and thrive.
Congratulations
Jesamine Kelly
UCM Principal
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
Platform Party arrive
Graduands enter the Royal Hall
Opening speech by Minister for the Department of Education, Sport and Culture, Hon Daphne Caine MHK
Students congratulations video
Presentation of awards
Speech by Professor Paul Johnson, Dean of Academic Quality, University of Chester
Presentation of awards continues Research Award
2024 Student of the Year, Adam Drummond; ‘A year after graduating’
Presentation of the Liam Arrowsmith Higher Education Student of the Year Award 2025
Staff congratulations video
Closing speech by UCM Principal, Jesamine Kelly Manx National Anthem
Platform Party and Graduates to exit the Royal Hall (please can guests stay seated while we take the official photograph in the foyer).
ISLE OF MAN GRADUANDS 2025
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice with Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
Stacey Astill Helen Oliver
ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
BA (Hons) in History Alexander Ciappelli
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Postgraduate Certificate in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine in Clinical Education Emily Tate Katie Kneen
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
Postgraduate Certificate in Health Professions Education Sinead Parr
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM
Master of Science (Computer Science) Daniel Scott
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
Master of Public Health – Leadership Theresa Thornton
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
BSc (Hons) Midwifery Nicole Chadwick
HONORARY FELLOWS
Update from our 2024 Honorary Fellow - Dr Douglas Fox
Over the past year Dr Fox has been working with UCM and Biosphere IOM through contributing towards a research strategy for our biosphere. In particular, ideas for research that UCM students might want to consider as well as projects that would attract researchers from further afield. He will present his perspectives at this year’s UCM Reserarch Festival. Doug fell in love with the Isle of Man 25 years ago and has been spending his summers in Peel ever since. This last year has held some health challenges for Doug’s family, and he looks forward to continuing to support UCM and the Isle of Man in the coming years.
HONORARY FELLOWS
The UCM Honorary Fellow Scheme recognises individuals who have actively contributed to the work of UCM (and will continue to do so) and through their professional achievements, reflect the vision of UCM and the Isle of Man.
Dr Douglas Fox, 2024 Rachel Miles, 2023
Prof Ken Mills, 2022
Prof Peter Edge, 2020
Dr. John C Taylor, 2018
Dr. Peter Litman, 2021
Dr. Rachel Glover, 2019
Dr. Fiona Gell, 2017
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ISLE OF MAN GRADUANDS 2025
Higher National Certificate in General Engineering
Julian Callister
Cam Hughes
Kieran Kneale
Kristian Parlato
Alex Shimmin
Ben Shimmin
Introduction to Education and Training
Amy Callister
Valentina Elvezia
Roisin Grimshaw
Betty Laurincova
Steph Naylor
Certificate in Education
William Faulds
Carol Kinley-Smith
Kerry Quayle
Grant Shannon
Rob Slinger
Caroline Walter
Debbie Williamson
Paul Skillan
Mick Ventre
C&G ILM Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management
Steven Butler
Callum Burke
Grace Tu Cook
Rachel Crook
Agostina Turchetti Diez
Ana Dela Fuente
Julia Harrison
Andrea Ashbridge Heard
Fraser Heginson
David Heyes
Jorgina Manalo
Liza Nicholson
Karen O’Dell
Higher Education Certificate
Cerys Beale
Nicholas Patrick
Rebecca Gilardoni
Higher Education Diploma
Nathan Coyle
Claire Gibson
Annabelle Squires
Raafiya Yousuf
Dylan Kelly
Filip Podraza
Foundation Degree in Health and Society
Gabriella Hay
BSc (Hons) in Accounting and Finance
Emerald Mateo
Benjamin O’Rourke
BA (Hons) in Business Management
Harvey Douglas
Finloe Gelling
Amiel Guiking
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science
Zak Belbsir
Kaisha Desai
Ben Jones
BSc (Hons) in Cybersecurity
Thomas Giddins
Bailey Heyworth
Ethan Hignett
Charles Shefford
Luke Sherwood-Walker
Alex Wells- Merrilees
Fiona Pendleton
Sisi Zsoldos
Oliver Harrison
Elliot Revere
Nikodem Schymanski
Ella Patrick
Ross Woods
BA (Hons) In History & Heritage
Jethro Comish
Teagan Hannigan
Luke Hegarty
BSc (Hons) in Public Health
Eryn Byrne
Harry Mitchell Edan Shimmin-Munk
Lorna Cubbon Elena Dimsdale
WBIS
Certificate of HE Adult Social Care Studies Lois Hatton
BSc (Hons) Computing and Education Kayleigh Quilliam
Postgraduate Certificate Education Leadership Paula Kneen Laille Edgar
Postgraduate Certificate Yosafat Christian Browyn Ward
Postgraduate Diploma Victoria Bevan
MA Educational Leadership Will Wood
MA Business Compliance and Research Jannatul Rakhi
MA Sports Coaching and Development Andrew Gosnell
MSc Professional Health Practice Samantha Holmes
Bachelor of Nursing ( Hons) Adult
Karylle Agustin
Helena Allen
Charlotte Clancey
Shelley Crowe
Christine Green
Holly Hardinge
Carly Hinds
Niamh Huddleston
Marta Ludwig-Looney
Natasha May
Daniela Pemberton
Neve Posey
Jake Rumney
Jessica Stevens
Grace Straw
Leia Swindlehurst
Caitlin Watterson
Bachelor of Nursing (Hons) Mental Health
Scarlett Burnett
Charlotte Driver
Rhiannon Jackson
Alexandra May
Julia Przybyszewska
Master of Nursing (Mental Health & Adult)
Isabelle Trinder
Master of Science in Advanced Practice
Jennifer Brew Janette Qualtrough
Level 7 V300 Non-Medical Prescribing
Malgorzata Campbell
Rachel Convery
Phoebe Cowell
Andrew Edmond
Claire Hardman
Chloe James
Ian Kelly
Emily Lord
Shereen Lyle
Canan Moody
Alina Philips
Grace O’Hagan
Catherine Tracy
Victoria Watterson
Level 7 V300 Non-Medical Prescribing
Lynne Norton Florie Wedgwood
To be announced on the evening.
LIAM ARROWSMITH HIGHER EDUCATION
STUDENT OF THE YEAR 2025
To be announced on the evening.
Manx National Anthem (Arrane Ashoonagh dy Vannin)
O land of our birth
O gem of God’s earth
O Island so strong and so fair
Built firm as Barrule
Thy throne of Home Rule
Makes us free as thy sweet mountain air
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