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Lecturer: Lectures Public Speeches Academic Rank United Kingdom University Academic

A lecturer is an academic position held by someone who teaches and oversees research groups in the United Kingdom, usually early in their career. In North America, a lecturer is an expert who teaches full- or part-time at a university but does not have tenure and has few or no research responsibilities. The requirements for a lecturer position in most U.S. research universities is a doctorate or equivalent degree.

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Lecturer: Lectures Public Speeches Academic Rank United Kingdom University Academic

A lecturer is an academic position held by someone who teaches and oversees research groups in the United Kingdom, usually early in their career. In North America, a lecturer is an expert who teaches full- or part-time at a university but does not have tenure and has few or no research responsibilities. The requirements for a lecturer position in most U.S. research universities is a doctorate or equivalent degree.

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Lecturer

A lecturer is, in the broadest sense, a person who gives lectures or other public speeches.
However, this article concerns lecturer as an academic rank.
In the United Kingdom a lecturer is usually the holder of an open-ended position at a
university or similar institution, often an academic in an early career stage, who teaches
and also leads or oversees research groups.
his contrasts with the practice in !orth America" the United #tates, $anada and other
countries influenced by their educational systems, where the term is used differently. It
generally denotes academic e%perts without tenure in the university, who teach full- or
part-time but who have few or no research responsibilities within the institution where
they teach. In most research universities in the United #tates, the title of lecturer re&uires
a doctorate or e&uivalent degree.
In the $hurch of 'ngland, the position of lecturer can also refer to a (unior clergyman.

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