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Written by Catherine Armstrong

Dr Catherine Armstrong is a Senior Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University, specialising in North American History. She is a former teaching fellow in History at the University of Warwick and Oxford Brookes University. Catherine was also Director of Historical Studies in the Open Studies department at the University of Warwick. Her first book ‘Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century’ was published by Ashgate in June 2007. As a long-time jobseeker for an academic role herself, Catherine is in a unique position to understand and offer her knowledge and experience to those developing an academic career.

    End of my fourth year…what have I learned?!

    May 16, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    It’s coming up to the end of my fourth year working in the history department at MMU and I can’t believe where the time has gone! They say that ‘time…

    American History Teaching Resource

    May 11, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    Welcome to the first post on my American History blog. I am going to use this blog to post job/careers advice and to draw your attention to interesting resources in…

    Exams: the joy of invigilation and marking!

    May 9, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    At this time of year students are cramming for their exams but lecturers also suffer exam stress too! Of course it’s not as bad as actually sitting the exams, but…

    The value of networking

    May 4, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    A really useful post in this week’s Chronicle explains why networking is so important in academia. If you still think that networking is only relevant to those working in the…

    Private tutoring opportunities

    April 27, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    Like university students, school children are also beginning to panic at this time of year as exams approach. If you are a PhD student or recently finished post-doc struggling to…

    Research and work/life balance

    April 11, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    For most universities in the UK the long spring term is now over and we are into the holiday period. However, for many scholars, ‘holiday’ is a misnomer. These three…

    Higher Education on a global scale

    April 4, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    Sometimes it is easy to focus on the minutiae of day to day life as an academic without thinking of the broader picture. I like to visit the University World…

    Funding challenges in the arts

    March 28, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    I think everyone in the Higher Education sector is aware that funding cuts will affect our research and teaching experience over the next few years. So how can we go…

    How to end your career!

    March 14, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    In the UK this week there has been a lot of discussion of pensions in the university sector and some lecturers are planning strike action to defend their existing pension…

    Becoming a better teacher: plagiarism

    March 7, 2011 by Catherine Armstrong

    Every HE professor, lecturer and tutor has to deal with the issue of plagiarism at some point in his or her career and so it is worth working out early…

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