CeR Annual Report 2020.pdf

2020 was, as we all know, a year of disruption. We

instructed all staff to work from home a few days before

the first lockdown was declared, so we were set up and

ready to go with our own remote working from the outset.

During those first few weeks of lockdown, hundreds of

researchers found themselves unable to access their data,

labs and computers. We moved into triage mode and began

offering daily drop-in sessions and workshops to researchers

(over zoom) to help with moving files, accessing remote

computational resources and navigating the University's

VPN client. We experienced very high demand during this

time, and kept the daily drop-in sessions going for an entire

month whilst the University's researchers adjusted to the

new normal of working from home.