Bristol University moves to Gmail

Bristol University’s news pages have announced that email for staff and postgraduate research students at the University of Bristol moved to Gmail over the Easter weekend.

Most staff started to use the new service from Wednesday, 3rd April 2013. They joined 1,000 staff early adopters and 3 pilot departments, who provided very positive feedback on the new service. On 15 April staff and postgraduate research students will also start using Google Calendar.

For the past two years the University has been moving undergraduate students over to Gmail. The service brings benefits such as an email quota of 25 GB and easy access on mobile devices. Students will also be able to keep their Gmail accounts when they graduate, thus providing a lifelong link with Bristol University.

Nick Skelton, Assistant Director of IT Services said: “Google Apps gives us a modern suite of communications tools to meet the needs of staff and students. As the service is provided direct over the internet it will stay up to date with regular improvements and new features. Google makes it easy for our researchers to collaborate with both their colleagues at Bristol and their partners at other organisations, essential for a research-intensive global university such as Bristol.”