{"id":985,"date":"2018-07-18T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=985"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T16:20:50","slug":"graduation-2018-two-days-of-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Graduation 2018: Two days of celebrations!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduation is a special day for tutors and, of course, students and their families and friends. In this blog the History\u00a0team at Portsmouth reflect on a day in which they celebrated the successes of\u00a0their undergraduate and postgraduate students as they graduated after completing their degrees.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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All set for the ceremony in Portsmouth Guildhall<\/p><\/div>\n

Graduation is\u00a0always a day\u00a0of\u00a0mixed emotions. While it is exciting to see our students graduate, it is also sad to see another year group\u00a0leave. We have\u00a0worked closely\u00a0with them over the course of their time here; guided them through the assignments they did;\u00a0helped them become critical and\u00a0reflective thinkers; and prepared them for whatever careers lay before them. While we are sorry to see them go, we are filled with pride as they cross the stage at the ceremony at Portsmouth Guildhall. It is truly a bittersweet moment.<\/p>\n

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L-R: Brad Beaven, Simon Smith, Rob James<\/p><\/div>\n

For the first time this year, graduation was split over two days. On Saturday 14 July all of our postgraduate students took to the stage at Portsmouth Guildhall. These included students undertaking our distance learning\u00a0MA Naval History<\/a> degree, the MRes in Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, and a PhD in History<\/a>. Taking centre stage today were Drs Hilary Morris and\u00a0Simon Smith, who were awarded doctorates for their respective\u00a0theses. Hilary’s thesis, ‘Empire, Quantification, and Public Health: British Military and Naval Medicine, 1700-1830\u2019, was supervised by Dr Karl Bell, Prof. Brad Beaven and Dr Rob James. Simon’s thesis,\u00a0“‘We sail the ocean blue’: British Sailors. Imperialism, Identity, Pride and Patriotism c. 1870 to 1939<\/a>“, was\u00a0supervised by\u00a0Brad Beaven and Rob James, and they were there to see them graduate, along with fellow PTUC<\/a>ers, Dr Mel Basset and Daniel Swan. Congratulations Dr Morris and Dr Smith!<\/p>\n

On Tuesday 17 July it was the turn of our undergraduate students<\/a> to celebrate their\u00a0successes. In the early afternoon students who had been awarded\u00a0the School\u00a0Prizes –\u00a0Francis van Berkel, Matthew Dentten, and Rory Herbert\u00a0– were invited to attend a prize-giving ceremony with their guests in the Freda Swain suite in Portsmouth Guildhall. As well as being presented with their prizes, attendees were treated to\u00a0a glass of wine\u00a0(or two) and a buffet lunch (with lots of lovely\u00a0cake!). Francis won the Robbie Gray Memorial Prize for Best Dissertation. Matthew was awarded the Stephens Prize for the Best Dissertation on Imperial and Maritime History in Early Modern Europe. Rory won the School Prize for the Student of the Year in History. Well done all of you!<\/p>\n

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Mathias Seiter with Francis van Berkel<\/p><\/div>\n

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James Thomas with Matthew Dentten<\/p><\/div>\n

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Katy Gibbons with Rory Herbert<\/p><\/div>\n

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Members of the History team waiting to make their way\u00a0to the stage<\/p><\/div>\n

Later in the afternoon all graduating students took to the stage in a packed (and very hot!) Guildhall to be congratulated on their achievements by the University Chancellor, Prof. Karen Blackett, and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Matthew Weait, while the History team (along with colleagues from English, International Relations, Journalism, Politics, and Sociology) sat on the stage cheering them on. It’s always a daunting prospect for students to cross that stage, and we always feel for them as they make their way across it. It’s really only a short walk, but we are told that it feels much longer when you are doing it! The rapturous applause – cheers, whoops and whistles – from the students’ families and friends helps them on their way, though, and we can happily report that all students made it across the stage without falling over!<\/p>\n

After the ceremony, students and their guests joined the History team\u00a0for a champagne reception in Ravelin Park.\u00a0By this point\u00a0the anxiety of taking part in the graduation procession has passed,\u00a0so our graduates and their families can chat with us in a more relaxed environment. It’s a final chance to congratulate them on their achievements, catch up on what they’ve been up to since the last teaching session, and\u00a0find out what they plan to do in the future. Oh, and there’s always time for more photos, including taking\u00a0part in the traditional\u00a0group photograph\u00a0(where hats are thrown in the air!).<\/p>\n

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Champagne reception in Ravelin Park: L-R: Emily Fryer, Rob James, Sam Tugwell (winner of the Josephine Butler Memorial Prize), and Francis van Berkel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Congratulations all! It’s been a pleasure working with you, and we wish you the very best for the future!<\/p>\n

The History\u00a0team<\/p>\n

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Graduates and tutors from the Schoold of Social, Historical and Literary Studies celebrating with the traditional ‘throwing of the hats’ in Ravelin Park<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduation is a special day for tutors and, of course, students and their families and friends. In this blog the History\u00a0team at Portsmouth reflect on a day in which they celebrated the successes of\u00a0their undergraduate and postgraduate students as they graduated after completing their degrees.\u00a0 Graduation is\u00a0always a day\u00a0of\u00a0mixed emotions. While it is exciting to see our students graduate, it is also sad to see another year group\u00a0leave. We have\u00a0worked closely\u00a0with them over the course of their time here; guided them through the assignments they did;\u00a0helped them become critical and\u00a0reflective thinkers; and prepared them for whatever careers lay before them. While we are sorry to see them go, we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[306,303,305,82,304,307],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-fhssgrad18","tag-graduation","tag-postgraduate","tag-students","tag-undergraduate","tag-uopgrad18"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Ravelin-Park-2-e1531929790628.jpg?fit=619%2C300","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-fT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}