Universities and Remote Working

I work for a University: the University of Bath. However I actually work for a research group (UKOLN) based at the University of Bath and we do things a little differently sometimes. So take for example our home/remote working policies and my remote working contract, these come from UKOLN, not the University.

Despite my harping on about remote working in the academic sector for years I still think that reality is that most Universities, including Bath, prefer staff to physically come on to site for work.

Just out of interest I’ve been taking a look at University policies in this area. It’s apparent that though many HEIs have documentation on how to connect to the University network from home (something academics are expected to do fairly regularly) few have actual remote working policies online.

Below is a list of Russell Group Universities (for starters) and the nearest I could find to a ‘remote worker policy’.

University of Birmingham	Have a Travelling and Working Off Campus policy but need to log in to access
University of Bristol	Flexible working policy
University of Cambridge	Working from home
Cardiff University	Home Working Guidance
Durham University	IT Services: Remote
University of Edinburgh	Guidance on working from home
University of Exeter	Home working policy
University of Glasgow	Couldn’t find
Imperial College London	IT Services: Home working
King’s College London	Mobile working – remote working page coming soon
University of Leeds	Mobile and remote working policy
University of Liverpool	Couldn’t find
London School of Economics & Political Science	IT services: Working off campus
University of Manchester	IT Services: Working from Home (or whilst away)
Newcastle University	Remote Application Service (RAS)
University of Nottingham	Flexible Working
University of Oxford	IT Services: Remote Access Services
Queen Mary, University of London	Home working/ teleworking
Queen’s University Belfast	IT Services: remote access
University of Sheffield	IT Services: Working from Home or Off-Campus
University of Southampton	Flexible working policy
University College London	Remote working
University of Warwick	Couldn’t find
University of York	Flexible Working

If there are more relevant remote working pages available from any of these universities please do let me know.

I would also be really interested to hear back from people about whether or not their university supports or encourages remote working.

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