A professor working for a university of applied sciences would look at hours with almost no research obligations. I would suggest to compare this workload within your university and with those closest to your situation recently hires, salary, benefits etc. If this workload turns out to be same as everyone else's than accept it. Good luck with your job. I am a lecturer in the UK, and my teaching load is contact hours per year. I think this is higher than average in the UK because our university is post and quite teaching-oriented.
This is also supposedly lower than average in our university because I have an additional workload allowance for research. If you are worried that hours is excessive, being a lecturer may not be the right fit for you.
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Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 4 months ago. Active 1 year, 11 months ago. Viewed 19k times. Improve this question. Jeromy Anglim Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. There is a problem with this question in that the position is traditionally called "assistant professor" in the US system while "lecturer" in the US is a teaching position. Your position is not teaching only I understand.
From the description of the position it sounds like it's akin to a UK or Australian Lectureship - but as dilworth says, it would be useful to clarify what country it is in. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. StrongBad StrongBad k 28 28 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. We get 4 for a brand new course, 1 else even if you're taking over from someone else, which means you have to prep a lot yourself. JessicaB The question is: "What is included in prep time?
If it is only "read the text you will write at the black board once", then 8 hours is of course a little bit much RCUK grant applications usually regard a working year as 1, hours Amusingly I guess my reading of the OP was " credit hours", or say, 50 hours per week, and I thought "hmmm, seems somewhat excessive".
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Full time professors may get teaching load reduction for great research productivity. I'm non-permanent at a similar institution and have hours of lectures a year. Clearly, your place is more friendly. Many departments I know have a lighter load, that would imply close hours per year.
Martin Argerami Martin Argerami 4, 17 17 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. In which country and discipline, may I ask? Area, Math, but what I say applies with very small differences to any other area. I'm not so sure. I've 80 "blackboard hours" per year in Austria as a postdoc. This is about as good a deal as you will find is the US. It is understood that 1h of lecture is equivalent to 1. Therefore a professor presumably in extremely good standing with their department could theoretically teach h per year, assuming they focus on lectures and nothing else.
It is also understood that 1h of blackboard time corresponds to roughly 4h of total work time, including preparing the course, the exams, proctoring, grading, etc. Because French universities are dramatically underfunded, this also includes idiotic stuff like filling Excel tables with students' grades or booking lecture rooms yourself.
A Twitter argument about how many hours academics should work prompted Lucy Foulkes to seek out advice for early career researchers. It clearly hit a nerve on academic Twitter. This hit home with me. Now at the start of a lectureship, I feel a massive expectation from the wider academic system that my working hours will have to change.
Reading all the responses on Twitter was genuinely eye-opening: I just had no idea that so many successful academics clock in at hours a week. So I contacted lots of people who responded to the tweet to answer a simple question: How can you be a productive academic without working long hours?
Many people agreed that they worked in the evening or at weekends, some occasionally, some regularly. However, what was clear was that, typically, people work at these times because they are not at their desk during office hours, and so overall they spent a similar amount of time working. I had to be a bit flexible when my kids were little … but I tried really hard not to change the number of hours I worked in a typical day.
Jenni Rodd, reader in experimental psychology, UCL. Others said they started later in the day because they preferred to work in the evening or at night. Most people said they occasionally worked longer hours.
There may also be opportunities to help with labs or lectures. In some research student positions, teaching and administrative responsibilities are given as a condition of receiving a bursary.
Your main research experience will be your PhD thesis. Once completed, try and get this published as a book or series of articles in order to build up your research profile.
Take any opportunity to present papers to your peers at conferences, workshops and lectures to show you can broaden the reach of your research. Professional experience and industry contacts are increasingly important in HE, so any previous experience you have outside of academia will be useful, especially if applying to work at an institution which is keen to expand on its teaching excellence, student employability and graduate prospects.
Universities and further education FE colleges make up the largest proportion of employers. However, depending on your subject area, you may also be employed by specialist postgraduate institutions, such as law schools or business schools. Individual HE and FE institutions also list vacancies on their websites. Alternatively, you can find jobs in research journals related to your field of expertise, as well as on the websites and in job alerts from professional bodies. Networking is another valuable way of finding out about posts.
You can do this through attending conferences and seminars, working collaboratively with other institutions and joining relevant professional associations.
Once in post, if you haven't already completed a higher education teaching qualification, you will usually be expected to do so. Advance HE also provides a portfolio of workshops, toolkits, events and conferences for staff at all stages of their career. It's also possible to progress to a Masters in Higher Education. Some universities run enhanced teaching and academic leadership programmes for more experienced staff.
Your institution will usually support you if you wish to take a training course elsewhere, if the course is directly related to your work. Active membership of a professional body relevant to your area of expertise is also important in terms of your professional development. You're likely to concentrate on building up your teaching skills and experience and developing your research profile in the first few years.
Early responsibility is common and most lecturers are given a high degree of independence in their work very early on. As your career progresses, you can expect to take on further responsibility in teaching, research or administration and, in some cases, a combination of all three. Management responsibilities are also likely to increase. Promotion to more senior levels will depend on your willingness to undertake different roles and on the continued demonstration of an active research profile.
These senior levels may include posts such as senior lecturer and principal lecturer. If you continue to build up expertise after achieving these positions, you may be able to progress to the roles of reader, chair, professor or dean. Further career opportunities include working as an examiner or an academic author. Prospects for promotion vary and depend on a number of factors, including the financial position of your institution.
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