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The Backs at Cambridge. Academic ranks in the United Kingdom are the titles, relative seniority and responsibility of employees in universities. In general the country has three academic career pathways: one focused on research, [1] one on teaching, and one that combines the two.
Formerly BP Professor of Chemistry (1991–2019), Professor of Organic Chemistry (1943–1991) and Professor of Chemistry (1702–1943) Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy: Astronomy: Thomas Plume: 1704 Professor of Anatomy: Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience: 1707 Regius Professor of History: History: George I: 1724
The coat of arms of the University of Oxford. This is a list of professorships at the University of Oxford.During the early history of the university, the title of professor meant a doctor who taught.
There are four faculty ranks: lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. In engineering public universities, a lecturer requires an M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree and high academic standing in the field (e.g. gold medalist, among top 15 students of graduating class).
Reader is a professor without a chair, similar to the distinction between professor and chaired professor in Hong Kong and between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities. Readership is one/two rank(s) more prestigious than senior/permanent Lecturership, which translate to Associate/Assistant Professorship.
In British and Australian/New Zealand English, "faculty" usually refers to a sub-division of a university (usually a group of departments). In contrast, in North America "faculty" refers to the people who teach and research, and is distinguished from "staff", who are hired in administrative, operations, and support roles.
In most UK, New Zealand, Australian, Swiss and Israeli universities, there are ranks equivalent to senior lecturer (Oberassistent or Akademischer Oberrat in German, Chargé de cours in French, or מרצה בכיר in Hebrew), all being roughly comparable to the level of "associate professor" in North American universities, and "lecturer" is roughly equivalent to the North American "assistant ...
A. Academic ranks (Australia and New Zealand) Academic ranks (Portugal and Brazil) Academic ranks in Argentina; Academic ranks in Canada; Academic ranks in China