What is a preferred first name or preferred last name?
Your preferred first name and/or last name can now be recorded in addition to your legal names. For example, if your first name is 'Alphonsus', but you'd much rather be known as 'Alf', you can add that information to your records. For less formal communications, HR will use your preferred name. In time, this may also feed through into other IT systems or services such as email and Blackboard.
Changing your preferred last name may be useful if you are an academic or researcher wishing to be known by your previous surname for continuity on research outputs