Students celebrate at the University of Southampton's Summer Graduation

Rob Blair, Jennifer Gaskell, Anna Weston, Gefion Thuermer and Jack Webster from the Web Science DTC/CDT received their Doctorates at the summer ceremony on 23 July 2019.

The graduates were from various cohorts of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Web Science Innovation, which offered a four year integrated iPhD programme in Web Science.

Their research covered a wide range of interdisciplinary areas, which can be seen in the final thesis titles here and have gone on to work in various difference areas of industry and academia.

Anna Weston	The DisENGAGE Framework: Exploring disengagement from health-based Digital Behaviour Change Interventions
Jack Webster	Music Recommender Systems & Data Mining in the Era of Digital Music Consumption: Conceptualising Socio-Technical Systems as Cultural Intermediaries
Gefion Thuermer	Differences in decision-making between web-native and non-web native political parties
Jennifer Gaskell	Conceptualising the Web in post-conflict reconstruction and governance building in fragile states
Robert Blair	Exploring Barriers To Use Of Social Media In Support Of Non-Formal Learning By Pupils Attending Secondary Education In The UK: A Mixed Method Approach