Reader (university professor)

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Reader referred to in the UK and some universities of countries of the Commonwealth of Nations an academic professional title for leading academic staff with an excellent international reputation in research and teaching. The reader ranks above the senior lecturer and below the professor . The UK reader appointment is similar to a full professorship : promotion from Senior Lecturer generally requires proof of outstanding performance. In most universities in Australia , New Zealand , South Africa , Ireland and some universities in Southeast Asia , the equivalent title is Associate Professor , which should not be confused with the North American use of this title, which corresponds to the title of Senior Lecturer .

The limited comparability of the ranking systems between English-speaking countries sometimes makes it difficult to classify individual ranks. The British interpretation of the rank can be viewed as professor without a chair , analogous to the division between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities or as professor and chaired professor in Hong Kong or professor B and chaired professor in Ireland . In Sweden the lecturer is regarded as analogous to the reader and is officially translated as such. Both Reader and Professor would be referred to as Professor in the United States .

The academic designation “reader” is no longer reassigned at some British universities ( University of Leeds , University of Oxford ), while other British universities are adapting to the US academic ranks and placing the reader between associate professor and full professor .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Promotion to Reader on the University of Newcastle website, accessed May 13, 2014.
  2. ^ University of London ( Memento of July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Lancaster University ( Memento of November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ ASPC Procedures 2010 for filling professorships and readerships on the Open University website, accessed on May 13, 2014.
  5. ↑ University for the Creative Arts ( Memento from August 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Graham Webb: Making the most of appraisal: career and professional development planning for lecturers . Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0-7494-1256-9 , p. 30.
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )