Academic ranks
Different countries adopt a different system for academic ranks. This posts show a mapping of academic ranks across Australian, NZ, UK & North American systems.
| Australia | Australia (Research focussed) |
New Zealand | North America | UK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Lecturer | Research Associate | Assistant Lecturer | ||
| Lecturer | Research Fellow | Lecturer | Assistant Professor | Lecturer |
| Senior Lecturer | Senior Research Fellow | Senior Lecturer (+over the bar) |
Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer |
| Associate Professor | Principal Research Fellow | Associate Professor | Professor | Reader/Principal Lecturer |
| Professor | Professor | Professor | Distinguished/Endowed Professor | Professor |
Information taken from these wikipedia articles: Academic ranks in Australian and New Zealand and Academic ranks in UK.