IT support

The IT Support Team is your first point of contact for any requests, queries, or issues for all university-provided IT facilities and services.

You can visit our Technical Services desk on campus or get in touch with us online or by phone.

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How we can support you

Our friendly and approachable team will be ready to help you with any technical support you need throughout your time at university. We can assist you virtually, by phone, or by face-to-face support across both campuses.

We can help you with passwords, accessing a wide range of software like Office 365, connecting to the wi-fi, and any other technical issues you may experience.

You can find the answers to our most common queries in our help and advice section.

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Get in touch

We want to enable you to do your best work, so don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions, queries, or issues.

For urgent queries please call 0191 515 3333.

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