{"id":1724,"date":"2026-10-07T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:12:26","slug":"a-small-update-to-factor-email-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/2026\/10\/07\/a-small-update-to-factor-email-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"A small update to FACTOR email subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Friday, we\u2019re making a small change to the FACTOR site and its email updates.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What\u2019s changing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Talks and events<\/strong>: the content you know and love &#8211; our seminars, workshops, careers events, occasional conferences, summer schools, and other things you might want to attend<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jobs and opportunities<\/strong>: this is the new stuff &#8211; a weekly selection of relevant jobs, paid placements and internships, funded studentships and scholarships, paid work while studying, and other worthwhile opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Managing your subscription<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re already subscribed to FACTOR by email, WordPress has automatically subscribed you to both of these new categories. We would have preferred to leave <strong>Jobs and opportunities<\/strong> switched off initially so that each of you could choose to opt in, but new newsletter categories are automatically added to existing subscriptions and, quite rightly, we can&#8217;t edit your choices for you. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>If you&#8217;re happy to receive both<\/strong> you don&#8217;t need to do anything.<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you&#8217;d prefer <em>Talks and events<\/em> only<\/strong> use the <strong>Manage Subscription<\/strong> link at the bottom of any FACTOR email to switch off <em><strong>Jobs and opportunities<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Want to leave altogether?<\/strong> You can unsubscribe from FACTOR completely from the same place<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course, you can change your choices again at any time.<\/p>\n<h2>Easter egg<\/h2>\n<p>For reading this far, a little extra bonus: we&#8217;ve also created a <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/u\/0\/embed?src=4bf0c77212cff02bb5545208c7575dc79a38ab9233cb0a9d736e1e83255ea574@group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=Europe\/London\">FACTOR | Events<\/a> Google calendar. This is populated with events that we think are likely to be useful &#8211; or at least interesting &#8211; to students, academics, and practitioners in forensic linguists, forensic speech scientists, and adjacent areas. Feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/u\/0\/embed?src=4bf0c77212cff02bb5545208c7575dc79a38ab9233cb0a9d736e1e83255ea574@group.calendar.google.com&amp;ctz=Europe\/London\">preview<\/a> it first, and if it it looks relevant to your interests, you can subscribe by clicking &#8220;Add to Google Calendar&#8221; in the bottom left of the desktop website&#8217;s preview screen, or by using <a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/4bf0c77212cff02bb5545208c7575dc79a38ab9233cb0a9d736e1e83255ea574%40group.calendar.google.com\/public\/basic.ics\">the .ics link<\/a>. 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