Stuart Barkworth

Head of ICT Support

Customer Services

Telephone: (0114) 22 21141

email : s.a.barkworth@sheffield.ac.uk

Responsibilities

ICT Support

• Ucards and Registration
• Admin IT Support
• Liaison with Users

IT Support Team

• Telephone Helpdesk
• PC Workshop
• Drop-in Service
• On-Site visits

Voice and Data Support Team

• Telephone Network
• Switchboard
• Campus Data Network
• Campus Wireless Network

Biography

I attended the University of Hull and left with a degree in Biochemistry.

I began working at the University in 1988 as a Laboratory Superintendent in the Medical School. There was very little computing in the Medical School, but I did manage to get my hands on my first Macintosh! In 1996 I moved into the newly formed Corporate Information, which later became CiCS.

From 1985 to 1988 I worked as a Chief Research Technician at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre and spent the first two years setting up the Labs and establishing analytical techniques.

From 1978 to 1985 I worked as a Lab Technician at the Medical Research Council. This is where I first started working with micro-computers, learning enough to understand how computers worked and the basics of programming.

My first 'real' job after leaving University was as a Lab Technician at the University of Leeds, Division of Steroid Endocrinology from 1975 to 1978.

After leaving University I spent some time on a kibbutz, mostly milking cows and meeting wonderful people, both Israelis and Arabs.