Strathclyde Business School Newsletter
June 2022

Summer graduations 2022

Strathclyde Business School students graduated on June 30 and July 1 at the Barony and the Business School as a whole was delighted to see so many celebrating with friends and family on campus – and also celebrating their successes on social media. 

Around 700 Business School graduates and their families came from around the world to the Strathclyde campus to celebrate their success. 

Photo of the graduation ceremony

Alongside our undergraduate and postgraduate celebrations, Jim Hay, Rabinder Buttar and Janice Kirkpatrick all received honorary doctorates from the University at the Business School ceremonies. Jim Hay is founder of the JMH Group, a Dubai-based construction and luxury goods company. He previously studied at Strathclyde and worked for 27 years with BP. Rabinder Buttar is founder of research contractor Clintec International Ltd. She gained a PhD in Immunology from Strathclyde before working with three major pharmaceutical companies and, in 1997, forming Clintec. Janice Kirkpatrick is Creative Director and Co-founder of design consultancy Graven. The company has worked on projects in more than 40 countries; she is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and is a former chair of the Lighthouse, Scotland; centre for design and architecture.  

During the graduation period, Executive Dean of Strathclyde Business School Professor David Hillier also had the pleasure of presenting an honorary doctorate to Amar Latif. Amar is a traveller, entrepreneur, TV presenter and public speaker - Amar has an incurable eye condition which meant that by the age of 18, he had lost 95% of his sight but that didn’t stop him going on to found TravelEyes, the world's first commercial tour operator to specialise in holidays for blind and sighted travellers. He also became known to millions through the ground-breaking reality series, Beyond Boundaries, and a jungle endurance expedition across Central America.

You can find out about all the doctorates awarded here. Videos of all the graduation ceremonies are available on this webpage