Lecturer

Lecturer is the name given to university teachers in most of the English-speaking world (but not at most universities in the US or Canada) who do not hold a professorship.

Australia and New Zealand

Universities in these nations are organized in a manner similar to the United Kingdom. Despite gradual changes in the promotion policies that seem to be moving institutions in these countries toward the United States' system, generally the rank and promotion policies resemble the traditional UK approach. One development however has the borrowing of the style "associate professor" from North America. Unlike the American usage, however, it is equivalent to reader - and thus a more senior position than an American associate professor, who would be a senior lecturer in Australia and New Zealand. Some universities use associate professor and reader, while others use associate professor alone. Few now use reader. The use of the associate professor title is unfortunately highly misleading and leads to confusion with the American system, to which it bears little relation.

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