Talk:Lecturer

message: I think there is a position in the US called Research Prof which is the same as a reader. Also, I don't think that the career progression via reader is linear. Indeed at the university I work at they are phasing out that position. 
---  Urr this is not true at all.  Research Professors do exist, but in most cases this refers to someone who is on soft money.
I would suggest that the table showing equivalent ranks of UK old and new, and US, academic ranks, is not correct. A US associate professor with tenure is not equivalent to a reader. Tenure as an associate professor is possible after 6 years, a reader will invariably be much more senior. A US associate professor, with or without tenure, is equivalent to a senior lecturer, and a professor is equivalent to a reader. A professor with a named chair in the US is equivalent to a UK professor.Ncox 21:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The scale is very approximate (as it says).  But I believe that anyone with tenure is roughly equivalent to a reader, because they have gone through the process of proving they can get funding and supervise strong PhD students, and they have at least 5 letters from external experts in their field saying that their research has changed their field.  It is true that there are far fewer readers than associate professors, and that some people prefer being readers to accepting chairs.  But I disagree that you can say that someone with tenure is like a sr. lecturer.  I think you should look for a way to add another sentence or two into the text saying how prestigious a readership is, although I've already tried to do that.--Jaibe 21:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: October 2006

message: Ncox edited this out as an incorrect assertion:
:One consequence of this is that UK academics can spend long careers as lecturers or senior lecturers without ever receiving promotion to professor.
Many UK academics retire in the position of senior lecturer after a full career as an academic.  In fact, I would say not admitting this runs contrary to the above argument that readerships are more prestigious than associate professorships.
This is not a consequence of the previous statement, though something which is quite true. The two sentences are not contingent. Ncox 22:59, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Senate of Imperial College London also examined the issue and rejected the change, citing that the current UK ranks were "well-understood", even in the US, and therefore any modifications would be unnecessary. Given that both Imperial and LSE have effectively now voted down using the American system and both Cambridge and Oxford are unlikely to move in that direction any time soon, I don't see how one can claim the trend is "gaining ground".200.177.192.118 11:22, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "incorrect assertion" 

message: Did you mean to say "naive or foreign academics" or is this a typo? Deadstar 09:17, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry - I just thought that maybe it was "native" indicating that even people from the country itself are confused by it. Thanks for the clarification. Deadstar 16:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ah!  yeah, it could have been a typo for "native", I hadn't thought of that :-)  If you think of a way to clarify it in the text, please do. --Jaibe 21:30, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naive?

message: What is the basis for this table. As far as I understood the system a senior lecturer in the UK, which is a tenured post, is equivalent to a US Full Professor. Where are the sources for this? Billlion (talk) 21:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: US/UK table

message: How do UK universities - particularly law faculties - assess the candidates for certain posts? I.e., is there a guideline requiring a certain number of publications for the post of a "reader" or "professor"? Besides, if such a guideline exists, do publications in foreign languages count?
Thanks a lot!
Tim.
171.66.60.147 (talk) 22:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Promotions policy varies by institution, so no there is no such guidelne that could be included in the article. Typically a university will have a list of promotion criteria, but these will be interpreted differently in each department. The contribution to the RAE is generally going to be a factor as well as research income in most areas.Billlion (talk) 07:20, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment factors for UK academics 

message: The opening statements are very misleading, for in them we are told that in the United Kingdom, lecturer is a title for those at university in their first "permanent" position. In fact, a lecturer may only hold a temporary or fixed term contract and would still be a lecturer. This opening was also rather patronising; the name "lecturer" is typically given to a teacher who teaches in a place other than a school and in the post-compulsory education sector, so this would include those who lecture at colleges of further education or at sixth form colleges. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "often holds a permanent position" Mootros (talk) 13:58, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening is misleading

message: Can we have a clarifying sentence about pre-1992 universities to be sure it is understood what this means? At least I am not sure about it.
--maye (talk) 18:30, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarify pre-1992 universities

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message: Reader and associate professor are not the same thing at Warwick.88.111.239.43 (talk) 15:45, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
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message: I do not like the picture (as of Jun 26th) and it should be replaced. Why is the lecturer surprised? --193.136.33.132 (talk) 16:57, 26 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not the only problem of the picture. The person is not a lecturer but a school teacher. I deleted the image. --Redrobsche (talk) 19:59, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the picture