Financial Regulations 27.1 requires each Head of Department to ensure that procedures are in place to regulate the presence of visitors to their respective Department, including the signature of visitor agreements as necessary.

A Visitor's Agreement is required for anyone not employed by the University of Cambridge  visiting the department  for over one week in duration.   Fellows of Colleges working  in the department are also required to  sign an Agreement.  The implementation of Visitor's Agreements is University policy and the department  and our process can be subjected to audit.

Visitor's Agreements

For full details of the process and what hosts need to do please see Process for Academic Visitors- information  for Hosts

IT Arrangements for Visitors  

Wifi

eduroam and wifi is widely available both within and around the University. If visitor has  set up eduroam at home institution, it should work automatically.

Short-term visitors without eduroam settings for  home institution can use the UniOfCam-Guest wifi network. Visitor will need to register using an email account or social media account.

If additional IT services are required Academic Host decides what is needed from:

• University Email  -   only given in special circumstances and requires approval from HoD.
• University Account - also known as Raven.
• Maths Linux login - Host needs to provide details of why a login is required.
• Department web profile page -   only given in special circumstances and requires approval from HoD.

IT requirements  must be communicated by the Host to Department Administrative Office who will then liaise with IT.  

Access Cards

University Access Cards will only be available to those visiting for over 3 months otherwise a temporary  access card will be supplied.

Office Accommodation

Office space is scarce, if you do require office space for a longer term visitor please explicitly request this at the beginning of the process.