Sort of.
It's Lecturer A, Lecturer B, Senior Lecturer, Reader (though noone knows exactly what that means), Professor.

Though some universities - notably Warwick - go with the US categorisation, to the general confusion.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 11:55, 2 replies)

yeah, but they are cunts, and will get what's coming ;)
I thought they had bottled that now anyway, because of confusion about job positions?

Edit - oh, I forgot, Reader helps because it used to be that departments or universities had a fixed number of chairs based on their size or some other measure, and effectively that meant if you stayed in one place you had to "inheret" your professorship with the previous incumbent's retirement, so if that was a long way off and you were good you got a readership.

Now, you can create as many bloody chairs as you like if you can justify and fund it. My department has 4 profs, one SL and 6 lecturers. Stable profile, do you think? ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:00, closed)

I know
a Reader, i'll ask!
(Psymon_Spark Jesus Saves! The rest of you take 4d6 damage, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:13, closed)

Or, y'know
You could accept that both Enzyme and I are lecturers at respected UK universities and that we might know what we are talking about ;)

Although, this being the internet, I don't blame you for checking .....
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:21, closed)

Only on B3ta could a post about flirting
start a conversational descent into a bitching match about the correct use of termilogy by which to refer to university lecturers.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:36, closed)

bitching?
wasn't meant to be.

anyway, it's VER IMPORTANT to be right, online, didn't you know?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 25 Feb 2010, 12:44, closed)