Blog disclosure page

You should see what follows as a “full disclosure” to help you evaluate the information and resources on this blog.

1. Who runs this site?

I am Catherine Armstrong, a lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University. I am also a careers writer for the Career Development page on www.jobs.ac.uk

2. Who pays for this blog?

It’s hosted on jobs.ac.uk’s existing servers and is part of the wider running costs of the operation. It doesn’t cost much to run.

3. What is the purpose of the blog?

To talk about academic life and specifically the experiences of a lecturer in her first academic position.

The purpose of the blog is to provide advice, thoughts and comments on jobseeking in higher education and on issues of current concern in the U.K. and sometimes U.S. academic world.

4. Where does the information come from?

• Other blogs
• The Chronicle
• My experiences as a lecturer

Plus discussions with colleagues and peers.

5. What is the basis of the information?

My views should not be considered as ‘professional advice’ and you are advised to take other advice and information into account before acting upon anything contained in this blog.

6. How is the information selected?

Blogs are not edited and so the author is the sole selector of information. However, readers are more than welcome to correct or contest anything I write.

7. How current is the information?

I write a blog posting most weeks, and try as hard as I can to make sure the information I present is accurate.

8. How does the site choose links to other sites?

If I read a blog or site that I think will be useful to the readers of this blog, then I’ll link to it in the ‘Blogroll’ (in the right hand navigation).

You can access other sites via links from this blog. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

9. What information about you does the site collect, and why?

At jobs.ac.uk we use Google Analytics and Nedstats to track visitors to the site.

You can read what we do with this data by checking out our Privacy Policy.

10. How does the blog manage interactions with visitors?

I would encourage you, nay, beg you to comment on any of the posts on this blog. Nothing will be deleted unless it counts as spam, or contains abusive language in some way.

11. Where did I get the idea for a blog full disclosure page from?

I ‘borrowed’ the idea from Andrew Gordon’s Simply Better blog.