Please note that the 2020 Summer graduations are not taking place due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Further information will follow when available.
Recipients of Honorary Degrees to be awarded in 2020.
| Professor Muffy Calder, OBE | Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow | Doctor of Science | Thursday 25 June 2020 | 11.00am |
| Professor Donna J Nelson | Professor of Chemistry, University of Oklahoma | Doctor of Science | Thursday 25 June 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Sister Aelred Timmins, RSM | Director of the Homeless Project (Edinburgh) | Doctor honoris causa | Friday 26 June 2020 | 11.00am |
| Professor Sarah Jean Broadie | Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews | Doctor of Letters | Friday 26 June 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Mrs Sarah Brown | Chair of children’s charity ‘Theirworld’ and Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education | Doctor honoris causa | Saturday 27 June 2020 | 11.00am |
| Professor John Ioannidis | Professor of Medicine and Director, Stanford Prevention Research Center | Doctor of Medicine | Saturday 27 June 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Lynda Myles | Retired producer/ writer/ curator/ festival director | Doctor of Letters | Monday 29 June 2020 | 11.00am |
| Reverend Professor Sir Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch | Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford | Doctor of Divinity | Monday 29 June 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Mr John Byrne | Artist and Playwright | Doctor honoris causa | Thursday 2 July 2020 | 11.00am |
| Mr Charles Esche | Director of VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven | Doctor honoris causa | Thursday 2 July 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Mr Joe Schaffers | Education Officer, District Six Museum, Cape Town | Doctor honoris causa | Friday 3 July 2020 | 11.00am |
| Mr Peter Thomson | United Nations Special Envoy for the Ocean and Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations | Doctor honoris causa | Friday 3 July 2020 | 11.00am |
| Professor Richard Jonathan Parker, CBE | Director of Research and Technology 2001-16, Rolls-Royce Group | Doctor of Science | Friday 3 July 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Ms Hilary Jones | Operations Director at Heidi Beers Ltd, WEST Brewery | Doctor of Science | Saturday 4 July 2020 | 11.00am |
| Dr Andrew Goodall Matthews | Retired Equine Opthalmologist | Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery | Saturday 4 July 2020 | 3.00pm |
| Emeritus Professor John Peter Scott, CBE | Sociologist | Doctor of Science in Social Science | Monday 6 July 2020 | 11.00am |
| Professor Carl Lindahl | Research Professor of English, University of Houston | Doctor honoris causa | November 2020 | |
| Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, CBE | Professor of Nursing Policy at King’s College London, President Royal College of Nursing (RCN) | Doctor honoris causa | November 2020 |
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