Information on this page is specific to the ceremony on Sunday 14 April 2024. Future ceremony information will be updated closer to the date.
Ceremony details
- Date: Sunday 14 April 2024
- Ceremony start time: 5:00pm
- Arrival and regalia: 4:00-4:30pm
- Graduands to be seated in the Cathedral: 4:40pm
- Venue: St George’s Cathedral, 38 St Georges Terrace, Perth WA 6000
Prior to the ceremony
Approximately three weeks prior to the ceremony, you will receive an email with information about regalia and inviting guests to join you at the ceremony. You will be asked to respond by 3 April.
On the day
When to arrive
When you arrive, make your way to the front entrance of the Cathedral where you will be directed to the area for registration and regalia (in Soldiers’ Chapel). Registration closes at 4:30pm promptly so allow time for delays in your transport.
Once in your regalia, you need to take your assigned seat in the Cathedral by 4:40pm.
The ceremony is part of the Cathedral’s regular service of Choral Evensong. The service will include hymns, prayers, readings from the bible, as well as the graduation ceremony.
Guests should arrive and be seated at least 15 minutes before the ceremony starts.
Children are welcome. Please park any prams on the side aisles, to leave the centre aisle clear.
After the ceremony, you and your guests are invited to greet each other over light refreshments in Upper Burt Memorial Hall.
Order of events
- Graduands register upon arrival, between 4:00pm and 4:30pm.
- Graduands collect and don regalia
- Graduands take their assigned seat in the Cathedral by 4:40pm.
- The service of Choral Evensong begins with a liturgical and academic procession at 5:00pm.
- The speaker gives an address/sermon.
- Graduands are presented to the Chancellor.
- The valedictory speakers give their addresses.
- The service concludes after approximately 80-90 minutes.
What to do on during the presentation
- A staff member will collect you from your seat and direct you to join the line at the side of the altar platform.
- When your name has been called, you will walk onto the altar platform (stage) towards the Chancellor. Turn to the Chancellor and bow. As you bow, touch your headwear (if your award requires one).
- Have your photograph taken with the Chancellor.
- Leave the altar platform (stage) via the central step.
Photos and video
By taking part in this event, you and your guests grant the University full rights to use images resulting from photography/video filming and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the University’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity and social media.
The ceremony will be livestreamed by the Cathedral with the link available on the University of Divinity website prior to the start of the ceremony. Family and friends who are not able to attend the ceremony in person would be most welcome to celebrate with you by watching live online.
Emergencies and running late
If your ability to be able to attend the ceremony changes, if you are running late, or unable to make the ceremony due to an emergency on the day, please contact the Graduation Manager as soon as possible by email on graduation@divinity.edu.au.