Come to the kitchen on the first floor of Regent Court with a mug. There are a few spare mugs in the kitchen cupboard should you forget to bring yours. A coffee from the coffee machine is 10p (20p for a double espresso). A money box is by the machine for payment. Instant coffee, tea bags, milk and sugar is free - these can be found in the kitchen.

Your UCard also serves as your library card. You should collect your UCard on your first day of work. You can collect your UCard from CICS (Corporate Information & Computing Services) at Building 134 on Hounsfield Road. It's the building with the ramp on it.

When you go to CICS for your UCard you are given a CICS computer account. You will also need a Departmental (DCS) account. To recieve your DCS account details please go to www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/password and click reset. Then you will need to enter your campus email address and you will recieve a verification code as well as your DCS account username.

You must complete the mandatory Health and Safety courses (Health and Safety Induction, Fire Safety, Display Screen Equipment and Out of Hours Hazards/Risk Awareness.) Once you have completed the aforementioned courses, you should raise a ticket through the TSR ticketing system with the Technical Support Team and they will be able to issue your keys.

In a pigeon hole in the photocopier room (First floor,turn left as you face reception, just before the corridor turns a corner). If you haven't been allocated a pigeon hole, please ask at reception.

You can hand in outgoing mail (internal and external) to reception. All mail is collected by the porters around 3.00pm each day. The university mail service is mainly for business use.

Please follow this link for information on the main staff group email addresses.

You can pick up pens, paper, folders, and generally any other stationery from reception. If they don't have something you need, you can have it ordered in for you.

Plain A4 paper is found in the photocopier room on the first floor next to the kitchen. If you need letterhead paper, please ask at reception. Letters on headed paper are normally produced by the Administration Team who use an approved template. Please email your request to dcs@sheffield.ac.uk

In room 126, the resources room.

All annual leave is recorded and managed through My Team. To access go into My Services and select My Job/MyTeam, annual leave. Select the dates and click on save and back and this will be sent to your line manager to authorise. You will receive an email notification to confirm whether this has been approved or rejected.

As long as your teaching duties are covered just email Jo Lawrence (j.l.lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk) with the dates.

Admin, Technical and Research Staff should report any absence due to ill health to their line manager (including the broad nature of the illness and the dates you are going to be away from work). Academics should report any absence due to ill health to Jo Lawrence (as HoD's nominee) directly. Jo (j.l.lawrence@sheffield.ac.uk) will need to know the broad nature of the illness and the dates you are going to be away from work.