Image: Stephen Bean, University College Cork Cameraman.  Photo credit: Tomas Tyner. 

Stephen joined UCC (University College Cork) in 1999 and in that time has made over 1000 films for the University, taught on a master’s program and run two multiyear evening class Photography programs and one on Photographic Lighting for Adult Continuing Education (ACE). 

It has been a busy award season for IT Services. Some of our colleagues received their Long Service Award in November and Staff Recognition Awards in December.

Pictured above: IT Services staff at the UCC Staff Recognition Awards. Back left to right: Kilian Murphy, Eugene van den Hurk, Barry Foley and Barry O’Sullivan. Front left to right: Patrick Nagle, Ruth Butler, Sean O’Mahony and Christopher McElligott.

In conversation with Rosie Coffey, Head of Enterprise Solutions, IT Services. 

October is Cyber Security month, a global event with the aim of raising awareness of cyber security threats, to promote cyber security among organisations and the general public, and to provide resources to protect themselves online, through education and sharing of good practices.  

As you will be coming back to the office more, now is the time to think of mobile working. Have a laptop and a desktop in your office? Then you can recycle/repurpose the desktop pc in your office and we will provide you with a *Free Laptop Dock and peripherals instead to use with your existing laptop.

Our Sustainable Future

Remote working tools have demonstrated in the pandemic that there can be an effective alternative to travelling and therefore can help us reduce our carbon footprint. In addition to this overall commitment to helping us live more sustainably, IT Services is also actively making the following contribution to continuing UCC’s progress on sustainability.

As part of the IT Services Mobility Strategy “Stay Mobile! Stay Flexible!” we have been enabling staff to work from anywhere on any device during the pandemic and we want to continue this flexibility while working on campus. We realise there are issues with the WiFi service in some locations, which prompted us to publish a WiFi survey to all staff with the primary goal of identifying areas on campus with poor WiFi coverage. We used the output of this survey to inform an investment in our WiFi infrastructure for the academic year 2021/22.

Tomas joined UCC in 1990 and in that time has transitioned from traditional photography, with film, chemicals/darkroom to a hybrid model of photography when film was scanned, to now a fully digital era using cameras and phones. The one thing that’s a constant in Tomas’s work, is the aim to produce quality imagery that reflects UCC, it’s students and staff. Everything Tomas produces documents UCC for posterity. 

In March 2020 new staff were going to be commencing employment in UCC in a new way due to the pandemic. New staff no longer had access to an onboarding meeting on their first day, they were not going to meet their manager and colleagues in person, and they were not going to be able to physically come to UCC.

On the 14^th January 2020 Microsoft will end support for Windows 7