- published: 14 Nov 2014
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The title of Reader in the United Kingdom and some universities in the Commonwealth nations like Australia and New Zealand denotes an appointment for a senior academic with a distinguished international reputation in research or scholarship. It is an academic rank above Senior Lecturer (or Principal Lecturer in the New Universities), recognising a distinguished record of original research at a level of a full Professorship. In the British ranking, for some universities a Reader could be seen as a Professor without a Chair, similar to the distinction between professor extraordinarius and professor ordinarius at some European universities, Professor and Chaired Professor in Hong Kong and Professor B and Chaired Professor in Ireland. Both Readers and Professors in the UK would correspond to Professors in the US.
The promotion criteria applied to a Readership in the United Kingdom are similar to those applied to a Professorship: advancing from Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor in the United States and Hong Kong) to Reader requires evidence of a distinguished record of original research as well as a significant record of teaching excellence and service to the university.
Reader can mean a person who is reading a text, or a basal reader, a book used to teach reading. It may also refer to:
This list of academic ranks identifies the hierarchical ranking structure found amongst scholars in academia, whether tenured or non-tenured. The lists below refer specifically to colleges and universities throughout the world, although other institutions of higher learning may follow a similar schema.
Professors
Other professorships
Teaching auxiliaries or assistants
Teaching and Research Positions
Research Only Positions
Administrative ranks
Administrative ranks
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Honorary ranks
At the State Universities the academic rank system is:
In the Federal Universities the academic ranks receive other names:(In portuguese)
More information: (In portuguese)
Administrative ranks
Assistant Professor is the entry-level rank for non-tenured members of faculty.
Non-faculty teaching and research personnel
Administrative ranks
Principal faculty ranks in the mainland of PR China are:
Academic trainee ranks in the mainland of PR China are:
Academic title awards for certain purposes:
Administrative ranks